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Statue of Kobe Bryant and daughter unveiled at site of fatal helicopter crash

NBA legend and daughter Gigi died in hillside crash in 2020Pedestal shows names of nine victims in fatal incidentA sculpture of the NBA great Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna “Gigi” Bryant was brought on Wednesday to the helicopter crash site where they died alongside seven others on a hillside near Los Angeles two years ago.

Welcome to Britain’s newest televised pro league: wheelchair basketball

The Women’s Premier League launches this weekend and live BBC coverage provides a huge boost for the sport’s future

The Bulls are back: How Chicago went from Last Dance to Next Chance

The new-look Chicago Bulls are top of the Eastern Conference standings and bona fide title contenders again for the first time since the 1990s heyday of Jordan and Pippen

Ja Morant is showing he should have been the No 1 draft pick all along | Andrew Lawrence

Forget the NBA’s top five point guards. Right now the Memphis Grizzlies’ young star looks like a top-five player who should have been the No 1 pick over Zion Williamson in the first place

Ja Morant is showing he should have been the No 1 draft pick all along

Forget the NBA’s top five point guards. Right now the Memphis Grizzlies’ young star looks like a top-five player who should have been the No 1 pick over Zion Williamson in the first place

‘I thought everyone should be as obsessive as I was’: Eddie Jones on 5am alarms and staying hungry

The England head coach believes he is still maturing in the role at the age of 61, as he explains in Leadership, his new book

Eddie Jones: ‘I thought everyone should be as obsessive as I was’

The England head coach believes he is still maturing in the role at the age of 61, as he explains in Leadership, his new book

Steve Kerr named USA men’s basketball coach through 2024 Paris Olympics

USA Basketball announces Kerr as next Olympic men’s coachKerr served as assistant under Gregg Popovich at Tokyo 2020Steve Kerr saw everything that Gregg Popovich went through as coach of the US men’s national team, saw exactly how difficult it was last summer for the Americans to emerge from the Tokyo Olympics with another gold medal.

The elite East African runners whose American dreams hang in the balance

East African runners are known worldwide, but competition for the elusive sponsorships that will help them compete and support their families is fiercer than ever in the age of Covid

Did Enes Kanter Freedom really hop the Fox News ‘shut up and dribble’ bandwagon? I asked him

The Boston Celtics center received plenty of criticism after his appearance on Tucker Carlson Tonight. But his views are a little more nuanced than some perceive

MLS Cup final 2021: Portland Timbers v New York City FC

Portland host New York City FC in MLS Cup finalTweet Beau at @duresport or email himFor TV viewers in the US: The good news is that Connecticut’s dominant women’s basketball team, often an annoyance for other teams who think it’d be nice if someone else won for a change, has pulled away from UCLA, which means the game preceding our broadcast is likely to end on time.

‘Why didn’t you tell me?’: Anthony Ianni’s journey through sports with autism

A former Michigan State athlete has written a memoir about his time playing with autism in one of college basketball’s most venerable programs

Scottie Pippen opens up on bitter rivalry with Michael Jordan in memoir

The former Chicago Bulls star renews his criticism of Jordan, which first emerged in response to Netflix’s The Last Dance

‘This is such an important moment’: how stem cell research is transforming medicine

A new documentary shines a light on the breakthroughs that are being made or are close to being made in finding cures to previously incurable diseases

Ending Disease review – a powerful case for the miracle cure

In focusing on the stories of recovery this documentary, following patients participating in stem cell research trials in the US, allows the optimism to outshine the controversy

Kobe Bryant’s widow will not have to undergo mental examination over crash photos

Vanessa Bryant is suing over shared photos of crash siteJudge says she will not have to be tested for mental distressKobe Bryant’s widow won’t have to undergo psychiatric testing for her lawsuit over graphic photos of the 2020 helicopter crash that killed the basketball star, the couple’s 13-year-old daughter and seven others, a federal judge ruled on Monday.

‘A massive asset’: 7ft 5in Liu Chuanxing tipped to hit heights in Australian basketball

The Chinese player will become the tallest in NBL history when he makes his Brisbane Bullets debut

Odell Beckham to the Saints? NFL trades that should happen but won’t

Teams have traditionally been conservative around the trade deadline. But we can always imagine what could happen if general managers were more bold

‘What does this say about where we’re at?’: how America deals with school shootings

Bulletproof, a new documentary on US schools in the era of mass shootings, traces a horrific, absurd, and mundane status quo

Kobe Bryant widow first heard of basketball star’s death via phone alerts

‘RIP Kobe’ notifications informed Vanessa Bryant of husband’s death in air crash, according to court documents

Tom Morello: ‘We came within a baby’s breath of a fascist coup in the US’

Lockdown and ‘looking after the grandmas’ may have kept the Rage Against the Machine guitarist away from recent protests – but he refuses to be silenced

How Ben Simmons went from Philly’s next big thing to an outcast

The Australian guard was compared to LeBron James when the 76ers drafted him No 1 overall in 2016. But an ugly divorce between team and player awaits

The NBA’s vaccine problem is bigger than a few high-profile holdouts

The NBA’s failure to get ahead of its vaccination crisis shows that the ostensibly progressive league still has work to do

ParalympicsGB player-coach Choudhry leads team to basketball bronze

Gaz Choudhry praised after wheelchair basketball win over SpainKrysten Coombs also claims bronze in the SH6 class badmintonOn the final day of competition at the Tokyo Paralympics, there was time for one more British hero to take centre stage: Gaz Choudhry.

Was ESPN scammed by a fake high school? The real scandal goes much deeper

Bishop Sycamore’s appearance on television – and actual existence – has come under scrutiny. It also raises questions about the rise of high school sports

Why women and social media stars are becoming college sports’ big winners

New rules means college athletes can now make money from their name and likeness. But it is not the football and basketball stars’ lives who will change the most

Tokyo 2020 Paralympics day 7: road cycling, athletics, basketball and more – live!

Results | Medal table | Full coverageSign up for the Guardian’s daily Paralympics briefingEmail, tweet @GeoffLemonSport or comment below the line 9.01am BST

Tokyo 2020 Paralympics briefing: 27th heaven for Perales, first Sri Lanka gold

Tokyo 2020 Paralympics briefing: 27th heaven for Perales, first Sri Lanka gold

Perfection from imperfection: Paralympics are showing you can still find a way | Ade Adepitan

Tokyo Games offer a powerful message but it is vital that the IPC and disability sport reach out to inspire global change

Tokyo Paralympics 2020: day three – in pictures

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Patty Mills: ‘I don’t consider my actions to be political activism’ | Mike Hytner

The face of Australian basketball just does what he was brought up to do: give back to his community and help those in need

Tokyo 2020 Paralympics briefing: two more weeks of glory and despair

Tokyo 2020 Paralympics briefing: two more weeks of glory and despair

Coaches charged with murder over US teenage player’s heatstroke death

16-year-old Imani Bell collapsed during practice in 2019Students were training during high temperaturesA grand jury has charged two coaches with murder and child cruelty in the death of a Georgia high school basketball player who suffered a heat stroke after practicing outdoors in nearly 100F (38C) weather, an attorney for the player’s family said Tuesday.

Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Thompson-Herah completes double in 200m – live!

Simone Biles takes bronze in balance beam finalGames schedule | Results | Medal table | Full coverageEmail Paul, tweet or comment below the line 3.36pm BST

Boomers beat Argentina to set up Olympic basketball clash with USA

Men’s basketball quarter-final: Australia 97-59 ArgentinaPatty Mills top scores for Aussies with 18 pointsFor so long, an Olympic medal has eluded the Australian men’s basketball team, the Boomers.

Tokyo 2020 Olympics: China top medal table, Covid worries build – live!

Games schedule | Results | Medal table | Full coverageSunisa Lee steps up in Biles’s absence to take gymnastics glorySign up for the Guardian’s daily Olympic briefingEmail Simon, tweet @Simon_Burnton or comment BTL 8.19pm BST

Space Jam: A New Legacy review – garish and soulless sequel is a stinker

Follow-up to the much-loved 90s basketball adventure becomes a bizarre piece of commercial propaganda for Warner Bros

Scottie Pippen’s latest bridge-burning tour is a reminder that hurt people hurt people | Andrew Lawrence

Still miffed by the ‘best sidekick ever’ millstone, the Bulls icon spared no one in a scorched-earth GQ interview. None of it comes as a shock, nor should the fact he keeps taking the bait

Majority of Channel 4’s Paralympics presenters will have disability

Broadcaster reveals plans for its Games coverage, with Ade Adepitan to host highlights show in Tokyo

Chris Paul: after 16 NBA seasons of bad luck has Point God’s time finally come?

The Phoenix Suns star has been as unlucky as he has been brilliant during his long career. But now he has an great chance to finally win a championship

‘Father Time takes its toll’: LeBron James’s Olympic career almost certainly over

USA Basketball chief says star unlikely to add to two goldsKevin Durant heads up US team for Tokyo OlympicsLeBron James is unlikely to add a third Olympic gold medal to his long list of career achievements, according to USA Basketball managing director Jerry Colangelo.

Ben Simmons pulls out of Australia’s Olympic basketball team to focus on skills development

Philadelphia player to remain in US during NBA off-season Boomers coach Brian Goorjian says player has his backingBen Simmons has pulled out of the Tokyo Olympics, the under siege Australian basketball star to instead spend his NBA off-season working on his skills.

How Len Bias’s death helped launch the US’s unjust war on drugs

The college basketball star became a symbol of the fight against drugs in the 1980s. But it ended up ushering in a discriminatory legal system

‘Erase those memories’: Ben Simmons urged not to quit Australian basketball team’s Olympics tilt

Simmons criticised over inglorious end to NBA seasonAustralian set to put ‘skill development’ before TokyoAndrew Gaze has recommended Boomers therapy for Ben Simmons as doubts grow over the maligned NBA All-Star’s desire to join the team’s push for a maiden Olympic medal.

Big-time US college sport still favors profits over victims of sexual abuse

Michigan team doctor Robert Anderson abused hundreds of athletes under his care. But there are serious allegations that senior figures enabled him

One in a Thousand review – Argentinian teen’s hoop dreams, hanging out and hoping

Clarisa Navas’s film is a confident, visually engaging romance conjuring a world of teenage waiting and wanting

One in a Thousand review – hoop dreams, hanging out and hoping

Clarisa Navas’s film is a confident, visually engaging romance conjuring a world of teenage waiting and wanting

Coach v the White House: inside Steve Kerr’s extraordinary feud with Donald Trump

In a new book about the Golden State Warriors coach, Scott Howard-Cooper explores how the NBA, China and the US president combined for an explosive mix

World champions USA fail to qualify for Olympic men’s basketball 3x3

Americans eliminated by Netherlands in qualifying tournamentUSA women’s team, headlined by WNBA stars, sail throughThe US men’s 3x3 team has failed to qualify for this summer’s Olympics, marking the first time a Team USA basketball has missed out on a Games they have entered.

WNBA coach suspended after making comment about Liz Cambage’s weight

Australian basketball star accuses Curt Miller of disrespectConnecticut Sun coach fined $10,000 and suspended The coach who made an “inappropriate and offensive” comment about Liz Cambage’s weight during a WNBA game has been fined and suspended after the Las Vegas Aces star accused him of disrespecting her.

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