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The Phoenix Mercury announced that Skylar Diggins-Smith will miss the final two games of the year due to “personal reasons.” The Phoenix Mercury have announced that guard Skylar Diggins-Smith will miss the team’s final two regular season games due to personal reasons. The team intends to sign a replacement player…

Luka Doncic and Goran Dragic will be teammates on the Slovenian national team playing in the upcoming 2022 Eurobasket tournament. The tournament will be another chance for the Slovenian countryman to team up and for Dragic to take a backseat to one of the most dominant basketball forces in the…

Last week a Russian judge found WNBA star and Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner guilty of drug charges and sentenced her to nine years in prison. On Thursday, Russia confirmed that negotiations were underway between Washington D.C. and Moscow on a possible prisoner swap. The United States proposed a deal…

Michigan State has extended Coach Tom Izzo’s contract for the next five seasons and will make $5.92 million per year with a five-year rollover making him a Spartan for life. Since 1995, Izzo and the Spartans have made the NCAA tournament in all but two seasons as head coach. Izzo…

Draymond Green recently posted a mailbag episode of his podcast, the Draymond Green Show, where he answered questions sent from fans. One question that Green was asked was what player he thought reminded him the most of himself. The four-time champ gave a unique and unexpected answer, revealing that he…

The National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) and the Athletic Development Group (ADG) are pleased to announce ADG MONEYBALL, an amateur basketball showcase including financial literacy and Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) workshops. The inaugural event launches in Washington D.C. from August 12-14, 2022, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center….

This story appears in SLAM 239. Get your copy here. Title IX filled a void—the gaping hole in the fabric of the Civil Rights Act (1964) to be exact: Title VII ended workplace discrimination on the basis of sex, while Title IV prohibited discrimination in federally funded entities, but failed…