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The home for the NBA’s Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers, the NHL’s Los Angeles Kings, and the WNBA’s Los Angeles Sparks is getting a new name. The landmark Staples Center to be renamed the Crypto.com Arena, sources told Front Office Sports. The Singapore-based cryptocurrency investment platform will pay more than $700 million to the […]
Alex Rodriguez and former Walmart CEO Marc Lore are working together to buy the NBA Minnesota Timberwolves. The agreement, which also includes the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx, opens a 30-day window for negotiations to be finalized. If accountants and attorneys for both sides agree, the deal would then need to be approved by the league. The reported […]
Vicki Johnson has been hired by the Dallas Wings to be their new head coach, making her the first and only Black woman currently holding the title in the entire WNBA, which is made up of 70% Black players. The turnaround comes after coach Brian Agler couldn’t take the Wings to the playoffs last season […]
The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame has finally announced that basketball legends Kevin Garnett, Kobe Bryant and Tim Duncan will be inducted in May 2021. The induction was originally supposed to take place in August, but since COVID-19 has stuck around for so long, it kept getting postponed. Now ESPN is reporting that the […]
A moment in sports history took place on Wednesday in the NBA. The Milwaukee Bucks players refused to leave the locker room to take the floor for Game 5 of their first-round series against the Orlando Magic. Why? Jacob Blake. That’s why. Another act of police violence against a Black person, this time in their […]
When WNBA Atlanta Dream co-owner Kelly Loeffler wrote a letter to WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert, not happy about the league’s decision to honor the Black Lives Matter movement. That’s when WNBA Players called for change, wanting Loeffler out as co-owner of the Dream. Loeffler is still a co-owner, but another title could change. This week WNBA […]
WNBA Minnesota Lynx star Maya Moore put her basketball career on hold, to fight for Jonathan Irons, a man wrongfully convicted of burglary and assault. Irons was sentenced to 50 years in prison for burglary and shooting Stanley Stotler. With no witnesses or physical evidenc, Stotler testified in court that Irons (16 at the time) had […]
ESPN Announced Wednesday that it will continue to support the Black Lives Matter movement when the 2019-2020 season picks back up at the end of July. The courts in Orlando that the season will take place on will all have a Black Lives Matter mural painted on both sidelines. The WNBA will be doing the […]
The WNBA Minnesota Lynx has selected Cierra Dillard as their 20th pick tonight.