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BOSTON (AP) — Tommy Heinsohn, who as a Boston Celtics player, coach and broadcaster over more than 60 years was with the team for all 17 of its NBA championships, died Tuesday. He was 86.

On Monday, NBA star LeBron James officially endorsed Joe Biden for president in a last-ditch effort to push Joe over the finish line.

Supporters of President Donald Trump chanted “LeBron James Sucks!” as the president spoke about the NBA in Pennsylvania.

Attendees at one of Donald Trump’s final rallies in Pennsylvania broke out in a chant of “LeBron James Sucks” on Monday. The chant broke out as the president began his rip on the woke NBA. “How about basketball? How about

China was gleeful when Daryl Morey stepped down from his position with the Houston Rockets, but now it appears that Morey is narrowing in on a deal to join the Philadelphia 76ers’ front office.

LeBron James has declined to endorse a particular candidate during the 2020 election. Though, that doesn’t mean he won’t try to influence the outcome by sitting down with his “president” just before the election.

Lakers superstar LeBron James will not remain idle after winning an NBA championship. Instead, the nation’s premier social justice athlete will join forces with CNN to create a new documentary about the 1921 Tulsa Massacre.

According to a report, the second half of the NBA’s 2020 season in the Disney Resort “bubble,” saved the league from a $1.5 billion loss.

This week, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin posted a really cool picture on Instagram, taking us back in time to the NBA we once knew and loved. The pic is from 1996 and features Palin with her sister Molly, having a blast at a Seattle SuperSonics game.

A Morning Consult poll found that many fans are itching to return to in-person attendance at games, but they are also still worried about their safety from the coronavirus.

LeBron James is a social justice advocate who cares passionately about the issues confronting the black community, and America. That is, unless he has an opportunity to speak to the man who could actually do something about the issues he cares so passionately about.

Game 1 of Major League Baseball’s “Fall Classic” turned out to be a ratings classic, in that it was classically awful.

Ratings for Game 7 of the NLCS and the Georgia-Alabama college football game individually beat every one of the six NBA Finals games, Outkick the Coverage reports.

Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey may say that he’s leaving his post to pursue other opportunities, but China’s official state broadcaster says otherwise.

Rockets GM Daryl Morey has resigned only a year after earning the ire of the NBA for supporting the democracy movement in Hong Kong.

So here many of us still are, locked in our homes, or at least more afraid to go out than ever before, and just like the disastrous NBA Finals, all of these celebrity-filled awards shows, which were once no-brainer ratings winners, are still getting killed in the ratings.

Legendary sports broadcaster Bob Costas recently cited the NBA’s decision to “thrust” social justice messaging “into everyone’s face,” for getting in the way of the business of earning viewers and fans.

In a Tuesday appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Outkick’s Jason Whitlock weighed in on the low NBA Finals ratings.

It was easy to tell from the initial game-by-game viewership numbers for the 2020 NBA Finals, that the league was headed for historic ratings futility. Though, it’s still incredible that it ever go this bad.

Dallas Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban condemned human rights abuses wherever they occur but is “OK doing business with China.”

On a night when the NBA broadcasts its most important game, you would think that the league would own the night. That, once again, turned out to not be the case.

Fans and rioters flooded downtown Los Angeles Sunday leaving a trail of property damage in the wake of the NBA Finals victory.

Los Angeles Lakers fans partied outside the Staples Center in downtown L.A. on Sunday night, with no social distancing and few masks, after their team won its first NBA title in ten years.

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — The ultimate anguish. The ultimate joy.

The NBA was hoping for a Finals to remember, as league executives foresaw a supposedly sports-starved population turning to the Association for desperately needed entertainment relief.

President Donald Trump called L.A. Lakers star LeBron James a “hater,” on Rush Limbaugh’s radio townhall broadcast on Friday.

Outkick’s Jason Whitlock penned a monstrous takedown of LeBron James, raking the L.A. Laker star over the coals for being not just the worst possible representative of the NBA, but a “puppet for a global corporation and Democratic politicians.”

The NBA’s American audience has all but disappeared over the course of the first four games of the NBA Finals. However! Not to fear, the NBA’s Chinese business partners are stepping-up to bail the league out.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver says he thinks all the social justice messaging and paeans to Black Lives Matter will come to an end next season.

Dallas Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban launched into name-calling after Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz posted several tweets about the NBA’s historically low TV ratings.

Instead of a methodical seven game march towards an NBA championship, the 2020 NBA Finals have turned into a methodical march to the historic depths of television watching futility.

Judging by the ratings, no one is really watching the NBA Finals anyway. However, those few who are got to watch “King James” get dethroned for a night, as well as a chance to see his highness leave the court early in frustration.

The NBA Finals between the L.A. Lakers and the Miami Heat have suffered the worst ratings crash in the league’s entire TV broadcast history.

NBA player Rudy Gobert of the Utah Jazz posted a message on social media Thursday in support of ethnic Uyghur people, currently facing the attempted erasure of their culture and identity under communist China.

One would think that having the American sports world’s most popular athlete playing in Game 1 of the NBA Finals, would equal impressive ratings.

LeBron James has committed himself to being “More than an Athlete,” and the small army of poll volunteers he’s assembled to work the election in November is the latest sign that he’s doing just that.