Basketball News · LatestTuesday, May 26, 2026

Boston's Joe Mazzulla was named NBA Coach of the Year over finalists J.B. Bickerstaff and Mitch Johnson on Tuesday night, officially wrapping up the league's end-of-season awards schedule.

Jamahl Mosley sat comfortably at the end of a conference table at New Orleans Pelicans headquarters on Tuesday and suggested that his recent downfall in Orlando stemmed in no small part from how he handled success. Mosley proved in five years with the Magic that he can take a collection of young players in a relatively small market and mold them into a playoff team. As New Orleans' new coach, he'll be expected to do that — and more.

Joe Mazzulla of the Boston Celtics was asked a couple months ago about the possibility of winning the Coach of the Year award this season, and his answer was succinct. “I think it's a stupid award.” On Tuesday, Mazzulla won a stupid award.

Longtime Connecticut sports anchor and reporter Gabrielle Lucivero doesn’t have to go very far for her next gig. After nearly nine years at NBC Connecticut, Lucivero announced that she was leaving the station, but would be heading to Bristol, where she’ll cover WNBA and other sports for ESPN. “11 years and 11 days since I…

Joe Mazzulla has won Coach of the Year for the 2025-26 season after leading the Celtics to 56 wins and the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference.

A three-game losing streak put the Liberty below .500 for the first time in three seasons. It’s an area not familiar in Stew York City — the Liberty spent just one game with a negative record since the 2023 roster overhaul that brought in Breanna Stewart and Jonquel Jones. But under the tutelage of new head coach Chris DeMarco, the Liberty are showing growing pains. It’s very early in the ...

After years of finishing as a runner-up, Joe Mazzulla has his first Coach of the Year award.

Current Knicks coach and former Warriors assistant Mike Brown cited Steph Curry as an premier comparison for Jalen Brunson's leadership in the NBA.

Even before the New York Knicks won the Eastern Conference title, some of their fans took to the streets of Manhattan with a message. The Knicks have done their part, getting to the NBA Finals. Before Game 5 of the Spurs-Thunder series on Tuesday night, San Antonio coach Mitch Johnson was asked if he has heard about the chants from those Knicks fans.

No team in the history of the NBA has ever accomplished this feat.

After a dominant victory, sometimes you need a little something to wine-d down.

Kevin Harvick opens up about his relationship and rivalry with Kyle Busch in the latest episode of Kevin Harvick's Happy Hour."

The six — among thousands of Knicks diehards who partied like it was 1999 outside The Mecca — were issued summonses for disorderly conduct and processed at the NYPD’s Midtown South Precinct, authorities said.

USMNT coach Mauricio Pochettino said that he included midfielder Gio Reyna on his World Cup roster because of the player's "amazing talent."

Aces coach Becky Hammon didn't completely back down from her assertion that a player of Jalen Brunson's stature could lead a team to an NBA title, saying Brunson will have to prove her wrong.

Following the reveal of the United States men's national team 26-man roster, manager Mauricio Pochettino shared one question ahead of the FIFA World Cup.

Brooke Rose captured a candid moment of some of the Knicks' WAGs, and diehard fan, Timothée Chalamet, after the New York’s Eastern Conference finals sweep of the Cavaliers on Monday night.

Las Vegas Aces coach Becky Hammon didn't completely back down from her assertion a small player can't lead his team to the NBA championship now that Jalen Brunson has taken the New York Knicks to the NBA Finals. Hammon made her initial comments on ESPN in December 2023, saying the Knicks couldn't win the championship if the 6-foot-2 Brunson was their best player.

Just as soon as the Eastern Conference Finals began for the Cleveland Cavaliers, it ended. The Cavaliers were swept by the Knicks in the Eastern Conference Finals. Now they begin...

Clyde Frazier and John Starks were among the Knicks legends in Cleveland to celebrate New York's first NBA Finals berth since 1999.

The Connecticut Sun are on the right track, or the wrong track, depending on how you look at it.

How much will it cost to get into MSG for the NBA Finals?

Jonquel Jones‘ No. 35 will soon hang from the rafters at Mohegan Sun Arena, as the Connecticut Sun honor the former WNBA MVP and five-time All-Star. Jones will be honored before the Sun’s home game against her current team, the New York Liberty, on June 8 at 7 p.m. She’s one of six players and coaches who will be honored as a ‘Sun Legend’ during the team’s final season in Connecticut. “This ...

Coco Gauff was involved in a car accident on the way to Roland Garros for the first match of her French Open title defense on Tuesday.

Rounding up all Warriors and NBA related news for Tuesday, May 26th.

Phoenix keeps appearing in offseason fantasy trades that fail to match the team’s actual direction.

"The city deserves a ring, and we just, we just got to keep going.”

Los Angeles is wasting no time trying to fill for their front office positions.

The Los Angeles Lakers have hired Rohan Ramadas as their assistant general manager of strategy and data systems, making the first major move of their offseason to bolster their front office under new ownership. The Lakers announced the decision Tuesday to add Ramadas, who spent the past nine years working with the New Orleans Pelicans, including the past two as their vice president of strategy and basketball operations.

The 2026 NBA Finals and the FIFA World Cup could clash in New York and New Jersey for some commuters.