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One Potential Key to Knicks’ Season: Friendship

NY Times (Tania Ganguli) — Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart and Donte DiVincenzo have been buddies since college, a situation that those who study the workplace say can foster success.
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An Overlooked Championship Team’s Final Stop: The White House

NY Times: NYTimes: Pro Basketball (Remy Tumin and Sopan Deb) — The all-Black Tennessee A&I basketball team won three back-to-back national championships at the height of the Jim Crow era, but were never invited to the White House. That changed on Friday.
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LSU’s Kim Mulkey Courts Controversy in Style

NY Times: NYTimes: Pro Basketball (Vanessa Friedman) — Inside the coach’s winning fashion playbook.
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What’s It Like to Be Cinderella in March? These Schools Know.

NY Times: NYTimes: Pro Basketball (Santul Nerkar) — As administrators at universities like St. Peter’s, Fairleigh Dickinson and Florida Gulf Coast can attest, upset victories bring attention, alumni donations and a lot of work.
  • 28 days ago
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A Big Year for Women’s College Basketball in New York

NY Times: NYTimes: Pro Basketball (James Barron) — Both the Columbia and N.Y.U. women’s teams made it to postseason tournaments.
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For Women’s Basketball, Caitlin Clark’s Lasting Impact May Be Economic

NY Times: NYTimes: Pro Basketball (Santul Nerkar) — People have flocked to watch the Iowa star on TV and in person at a time when her sport is more valuable than it ever was before.
  • 30 days ago
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Max Hardy, 40, Dies; Helped Bring Chef-Driven Cuisine to Detroit

NY Times: NYTimes: Pro Basketball (Clay Risen) — With his unique blend of Lowcountry and Caribbean influences, he ranked among the best of a new generation of Black culinary wizards.
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Dawn Staley Is More Than a Basketball Coach for Her Players

NY Times: NYTimes: Pro Basketball (Liz Robbins) — For the veteran women’s coach at the college and Olympic levels, honesty and discipline are central to leadership.
  • 44 days ago
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How to Sit Courtside at Madison Square Garden

NY Times: NYTimes: Pro Basketball (Annie Hamilton) — Close to the action at a Knicks game, a writer gets some advice from Kenan Thompson of “Saturday Night Live.”
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Annie Hamilton’s Courtside Adventure at Madison Square Garden

NY Times (Annie Hamilton) — For a fleeting moment, she was the queen of Madison Square Garden.
  • 54 days ago
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Lefty Driesell, Hall of Fame College Basketball Coach, Dies at 92

NY Times: NYTimes: Pro Basketball (Richard Goldstein) — He built Maryland into a national powerhouse and became the first coach to win more than 100 games at each of four major college programs.
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Dartmouth Players Are Employees Who Can Unionize, U.S. Official Says

NY Times: NYTimes: Pro Basketball (Santul Nerkar) — A regional director for the National Labor Relations Board cleared the way for the collegiate men’s basketball team to hold a vote.
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N.C.A.A. Inquiry Takes On Growing Role of Booster Groups

NY Times: NYTimes: Pro Basketball (Michael S. Schmidt, David A. Fahrenthold and Billy Witz) — The University of Tennessee’s football program is under investigation for recruiting violations involving a donor collective, signaling an effort to rein in the role of outside money in college sports.
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Joel Embiid Wants the African Diaspora to Flourish Onscreen

NY Times: NYTimes: Pro Basketball (Emmanuel Morgan) — “I’ve always been passionate about storytelling,” said the N.B.A. star, whose production studio will create a documentary about Memphis Depay’s success on the Dutch soccer team.
  • 80 days ago
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My Rick Pitino Story

NY Times: NYTimes: Pro Basketball (Vincent M. Mallozzi) — A basketball coach’s persistence has a newly retired journalist reminiscing about newsgathering in a different era.
  • 88 days ago
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