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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. March Madness’ Elite Eight have emerged. Among them are the Gonzaga Bulldogs and the UConn Huskies, two top-seeded teams set to face off today for a spot in …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. As always, March Madness is delivering some incredible basketball — and we’re just a few days in. The tournament’s biggest story so far was No. 13 Furman’s upset …

In June of 2022, someone on Twitter asked NBA star Ja Morant why he was “thuggin” on Twitter and he replied, “Cuz da money won’t ever change me. been on dat, still on dat, forever on dat, won’t ever speak on it.” To those familiar with Morant’s middle-class upbringing, the …

Mere hours after LeBron James broke the NBA’s all-time scoring record, one held for decades by the great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the two-part documentary Bill Russell: Legend debuted on Netflix. Directed by Sam Pollard (MLK/FBI), it’s a three-hour-plus survey of the life and career of the basketball legend, civil rights icon, …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. For many of us basketball fans, the NBA’s Christmas games are better than any gifts under the tree. Every year we get a string of huge matchups featuring …

In basketball’s garden of aesthetic delights, few are more cherished than the sweet-passing big man. We see the big man as non-athlete, in a way ​​— a big, lumbering wall meant for devouring rebounds, setting bone-crushing screens and throwing down dunks over smaller, weaker players. “Get down there and dominate, …

Matthew McConaughey, an alum of the University of Texas at Austin, delivered a new music video celebrating the men’s basketball team. The video was revealed in partnership with the Moody Center before a game between the Longhorns and the Gonzaga Bulldogs from Washington’s Gonzaga University. In the video produced by …

Hours before another Brooklyn Nets loss on Thursday, noted “free-thinker” and basketball player Kyrie Irving took to Twitter to boost a movie and book, Hebrews to Negroes, stuffed with antisemitic tropes. The 2018 film was directed by Ronald Dalton, Jr., and based upon his 2015 book of the same name. …

Stephen Curry will celebrate the stories of some of the biggest figures in sports with a new graphic novel series, Stephen Curry Presents: Sports Superheroes. As The Associated Press reports, the series will launch in fall 2024, starting with an installment on Curry’s journey to NBA superstardom. The Curry graphic …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Puma just found a way to give the WNBA some much-deserved visibility: a signature shoe with one of the league’s top players. Today, Puma Hoops dropped Brenna Stewart’s …