Mike Vorkunov
National NBA Reporter at The Athletic
Writer at Freelance
National NBA/basketball business reporter @TheAthletic. Co-founder @30newsletter. Daily Targum/WRSU alum. @mikevorkunov.bsky.social [email protected]
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4 days ago |
nytimes.com | Mike Vorkunov
NEW YORK - As the Indiana Pacers celebrated on their home court Saturday night, having pushed their way into the NBA Finals, the conventional wisdom was that a collective groan went out at the league's Manhattan headquarters at the very same time. The Pacers' win meant that two small-market teams - Indianapolis is the 25th-largest media market in the country and Oklahoma City is No. 47 - would now face each other in the league's marquee event.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Mike Vorkunov
New Orleans Pelicans star Zion Williamson has been accused of rape and domestic violence in a civil lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court late Thursday by a woman who said she dated him for almost five years, beginning when he was a freshman at Duke. The woman, identified as Jane Doe in the lawsuit, is seeking an unspecified amount in damages from Williamson.
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2 weeks ago |
spokesman.com | Mike Vorkunov
Every year, an NBA draft prospect finds himself compared to a player or two already in the league. It’s how most of us find ourselves making sense of the draft and of the dozens of players in it. It might be a little lazy, but it can also be instructive. It allows us to create models in our heads of how to think of players and who they can ultimately become. That can be based on play style, size or similar skill sets. But here’s the big reveal: NBA scouts and executives do it, too. So do the players.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Mike Vorkunov
NEW YORK - The silence inside Madison Square Garden was inescapable. It will endure as long as this night haunts the New York Knicks and their battered fan base. Thousands of people all in one place, under one roof, barely able to utter a word. It was a wake in real time for a loss that felt so unexpected and so painful it could only be met by that ineffable feeling of a broken heart, tongues tied by fatigue and incredulity.
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2 weeks ago |
nba.com | Mike Vorkunov
Every year, an NBA draft prospect finds himself compared to a player or two already in the league. It’s how most of us find ourselves making sense of the draft and of the dozens of players in it. It might be a little lazy, but it can also be instructive. It allows us to create models in our heads of how to think of players and who they can ultimately become. That can be based on play style, size or similar skill sets. But here’s the big reveal: NBA scouts and executives do it, too. So do the players.
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