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LeBron and Bronny James become NBA's first father-son duo to play together

LeBron James and Bronny James became the first father and son to play in the NBA together Tuesday night during the Los Angeles Lakers ' season opener. LeBron and Bronny checked into the game together with four minutes left in the second quarter, prompting a big ovation from a home crowd aware of the enormity of the milestone. The 39-year-old LeBron had already started the game and played 13 minutes before he teamed up with his 20-year-old son to make history. LeBron James is the top scorer in NBA history, while LeBron James Jr. was a second-round pick by the Lakers last summer. They are the first father and son to play in the world's top basketball league at the same time, let alone on the same team. Y'all ready? You see the intensity, right? Just play carefree, though, father told son on the bench before they checked in, an exchange captured by the TNT cameras and microphones. Don't worry about mistakes. Just go out and play hard. LeBron and Bronny played 2 1/2 minutes on court ..

Reddit strikes deals with sports leagues to attract more ad revenue

Reddit, which was at the center of the 2021 meme-stock frenzy, had reported a 48% jump in its first-quarter revenue in May and said it could post an adjusted profit in the second quarter

Djokovic named Balkan athlete of the year record 8th time ahead of Jokic

Novak Djokovic was named the Best Balkan Athlete of the year on Monday for a record eighth time, ahead of NBA star Nikola Jokic. The 36-year-old Djokovic won three Grand Slam titles in 2023 to take his record tally to 24, while Jokic was named the NBA Finals MVP after leading the Denver Nuggets to the title. Both are from Serbia. The results of the annual poll were published by the Bulgarian News Agency. A total of 58 athletes received votes in the poll this year, with Bulgarian basketball player Alexandar Vezenkov coming third. Long jumpers Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece and Ivana Spanovic of Serbia, who won the men's and women's world championship titles last year, were fourth and fifth, respectively. This was the 50th anniversary edition of the Balkan poll, which is traditionally conducted by the national news agencies of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Turkey. This year, organizers also expanded the vote to .

NBA star LeBron James' son James hospitalised in cardiac arrest, now stable

Bronny James, son of NBA star LeBron James, experienced a heart attack during a workout in Los Angeles. He is presently in stable condition and at this point not in ICU

NBA Finals: Denver Nuggets beat Miami Hea, lift thier first-ever NBA title

Denver Nuggets won their maiden NBA Championship trophy defeating Miami Heat 94-89 in Game 5 of the NBA Final held on Tuesday at the Ball Arena in Denver

Paul Silas, three-time NBA champion, longtime coach, dies at 79

Paul Silas, a member of three NBA championship teams as a player and LeBron James' first coach in the league, has died, his family announced Sunday. He was 79. The family revealed the death through the Houston Rockets, for whom Silas' son, Stephen, is a second-generation head coach. The Boston Globe first reported Silas' death, and no official cause was immediately announced. Our heartfelt thoughts are with Stephen and his family during this difficult time, the Rockets said in a statement. Paul Silas began his career as a head coach with a three-year stint leading the then-San Diego Clippers starting in 1980. After spending more than a decade as an assistant, he returned to being a head coach and spent time with the Charlotte Hornets, the New Orleans Hornets, the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Charlotte Bobcats. He took four of those teams to the playoffs, winning exactly 400 games 387 in the regular season, 13 more in the postseason. Paul made a huge contribution to the game of .

NBA, Reliance Retail launch extensive range of merchandise in India

The National Basketball Association and Reliance Retail announced a multi-year collaboration to launch an extensive range of NBA merchandise in India

Fit but fat: The problem with BMI

By definition, the BMI has to be inaccurate if it classifies a wide range of top athletes as overweight

NBA Covid-19 cases still rising, expanded testing for players begins

The numbers in the NBA indeed keep getting higher and may continue that way for the foreseeable future

NBA ropes in Viacom18 for multi-year broadcasting partnership

The NBA and private broadcasting group Viacom18 on Friday entered into a multi-year partnership to live-broadcast NBA games and programming across television and over-the-top streaming

Former President Barack Obama buys stake in NBA's Africa business

Former US President Barack Obama has bought a stake in the NBA's Africa business through his foundation, the NBA said Tuesday. Obama will have a minority equity stake in NBA Africa, a new entity set up this year to run all the league's business on the continent. The NBA said Obama would use any profits to fund the Obama Foundation's youth and leadership programs in Africa. Obama has been linked to the NBA's Africa operations since 2019, although it wasn't clear until Tuesday exactly what his involvement would be. NBA Africa and world body FIBA combined to set up the first pro basketball league in Africa. The Basketball Africa League held its inaugural season in May after being delayed for a year by the coronavirus pandemic. It featured the top teams from 12 African countries.

Basketball trailblazer Bhamara handed two-year doping ban by NADA

Satnam Singh Bhamara, the first Indian player to be drafted into an NBA team in 2015, has been handed a two-year ban by the NADA disciplinary panel for failing a dope test last year

NBA hails BARC's suspension of weekly ratings, calls for systemic overhaul

NBA hailed as a "bold step" the decision of the BARC to temporary suspend weekly ratings of news channels, and urged the ratings agency to completely overhaul its systems

Nine more NBA players test positive for Covid-19, tally goes up to 25

In tests conducted of 884 team staff between June 23-29, 10 have tested positive for the coronavirus, says NBA in a statement

The Last Dance is a very watchable docu on Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls

There's a new ESPN documentary out on the Chicago Bulls of the 1990s and, of course, its superstar, Michael Jordan. Watch it, says Dhruv Munjal

Women NBA season not to start from May 15 over coronavirus pandemic

The league announced Friday it will delay the season for an indefinite period. Training camps were to open on April 26 and the regular season on May 15.

What do we do? Fans wonder after sports events postponed over Covid-19

Before the coronavirus crisis caused mass cancellations and postponements in the last three days, March was to be a busy sports month

NBA suspends season after Utah Jazz player tests positive for Coronavirus

The move came only hours after majority of the league's owners were leaning toward playing games without fans in arenas

NBA legend Kobe Bryant, daughter killed in California helicopter crash

The aircraft went down in a remote field off Las Virgenes around 10 a.m. Nobody on the ground was hurt

The soft power myth

Soft power is supposed to be about the ability to project values.