Zaccharie Risacher est le 5e joueur français à inscrire au moins 36 points dans  un match  NBA  après Tony Parker, Rodrigue Beaubois, Evan Fournier et Victor Wembanyama. Auteur de 36 points dimanche, son record NBA, finit la saison en trombe et peut rebattre les cartes dans la course au trophée de meilleur débutant. 1 Apr 2025 - L'Équipe MAXIME AUBIN et SAMI SADIK Un parfum de campagne électorale flottait dimanche au Fiserv Forum de Milwaukee. À deux semaines de la fin de saison régulière, date à laquelle les 100 journalistes appelés à voter pour les trophées NBA (dont le correspondant de L’Équipe) rendront leur suffrage, Zaccharie Risacher a fait passer un message sur les planches. En 34 minutes, le jeune ailier (19 ans) a planté 36 points et mené Atlanta vers la victoire (145124). Son meneur all-star Trae Young s’est chargé de la traduction après le match, en échangeant un sourire complice avec le Français : « C’est lui le rookie de l’année ! »  «Quand j’étais bles...

MAN FOR THE AGES:  Knick legend Walt “Clyde” Frazier has been an icon on the court (right),  on the MSG broadcast team with Rebecca Haarlow  and Mike Breen (above), and on the fashion scene (left). 30 Mar 2025 - New York Post Knicks legend, fashion icon and MSG color commentator Walt Frazier —the man known as “Clyde” — turned 80 years old Saturday. He takes a timeout for some birthday Q&A with Post columnist Steve Serby. Q: Why is it so hard for you to believe that you’re 80? A: I guess because my routines are still the same, I still try to work out three, four days a week and stay active, still traveling with the team . ... People will be saying, “Oh man, you look great!” but I know it just takes me all day to get to this point, man (laugh). Q: They used to say life begins at 40. How about life begins at 80? A: That’s where I am. I’m actually viewing life differently, it’s no longer about how long I live but also how I live . I’m in uncharted waters, not too many peo...

ICONIC: Before he became known for his trademark suits  while broadcasting  Knicks games, Clyde Frazier was a style icon during his playing days. NEVER GOING OUT OF STYLE Clyde Frazier, NYC legend, turns 80 today Clyde will forever be timess part of the New York City fabric 29 Mar 2025 - Ne w York Post An appreciation by Mike Vaccaro - Mvaccaro@nypost.com HE has been a part of our lives since March 9, 1967 . We didn’t realize it in the moment, of course. The papers that day all featured pictures of No. 52 for the Southern Illinois Salukis, the best team in what was then called the “college division” of NCAA basketball. The Salukis would’ve been a shoo-in to win the college division tournament. They’d already won 22 games, already beaten defending Division I champ Texas Western and burgeoning D-I power Louisville that year, and craved the biggest stage and the best competition. So when the NIT came calling, Southern Illinois jumped at the chance. “We would’ve walked from Carbo...

Adam Silver (ci-contre) le 23 janvier à l’Accor Arena lors du Paris Games 2025  avec la première victoire des Spurs de Victor Wembanyama (140-110)  contre les Indiana Pacers (photo de droite), le même jour. Adam Silver, le patron de la Ligue américaine, a officialisé hier à New York son projet de nouvelle compétition européenne en partenariat avec la Fédération internationale de basket. Si tous les détails ne sont pas encore connus, les premiers contours ont émergé. 28 Mar 2025 - L'Équipe MAXIME AUBIN (avec S. S. et A. H.) NEW YORK (USA) – La NBA n’aurait pas pu trouver meilleur endroit que l’hôtel St. Regis de Manhattan, luxueux établissement au charme européen avec ses moulures et ses chandeliers rutilants, pour annoncer son nouveau projet de ligue de basket sur le Vieux Continent. « Nous sommes prêts à passer un cap et explorer la création d'une ligue en Europe en partenariat avec la FIBA », a confirmé son grand patron Adam Silver, hier, à l’issue d’une réunion avec les tre...

(Top photo: Stephanie Lecocq / Reuters via USA Today Network via Imagn Images) https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6234659/2025/03/27/nba-adam-silver-europe-basketball-league/ By The Athletic NBA Staff March 27, 2025 Updated March 28, 2025 3:34 pm GMT+1 By Joe Vardon, Adam Crafton and Mike Vorkunov NEW YORK — The NBA will explore starting a new pro basketball league in Europe with FIBA — the international governing body for basketball — as its partner, NBA commissioner Adam Silver said Thursday. The Athletic reported Wednesday that Silver planned to pitch the NBA board of governors his early sketches of building a new European league as early as 2026. On Thursday, Silver further detailed those plans and said he anticipates the new league would have 16 teams, with 12 of them permanent clubs. The league is also expected to include deep-pocketed investors, some defectors from the established EuroLeague and new franchises in major markets like Paris and London. Silver’s presentation in New Yo...

https://vault.si.com/vault/1976/02/23/slicks-his-nameand-his-game SEATTLE'S NIFTY GUARD WOULD BE A SHOO-IN IN A POPULARITY CONTEST, TOO JOHN PAPANEK Sports Illustrated -  FEBRUARY 23, 1976 TABLE OF CONTENTS ORIGINAL LAYOUT Whether or not Slick Watts is the most popular athlete ever to perform in the state of Washington is no longer in question. Forget Hugh McElhenny, Elgin Baylor and Lenny Wilkens . The question now is: Why do Washingtonians regard a totally bald six-foot, 24-year-old black backcourtman as the most popular person ever to live in the state? What about Judy Collins? Bing Crosby? That celebrated pick and roll artist Jimi Hendrix ? The next President of the United States, Henry (Scoop) Jackson ? Watts, who plays for the Seattle Super-Sonics, isn't even close to being a superstar . He's a very good player and getting better, and he leads the young Sonics with boundless optimism and energy. He also leads the universe in color on court and off. Watts emerged 2½ y...

Slick Watts in 1976 in his signature headband. In the 1975-76 season, he became the first player to lead the N.B.A. in both assists and steals.Credit...George Gojkovich/Getty Images https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/obituaries/slick-watts-dead.html An undrafted, 6-foot-1 point guard with patchy hair, he made an enduring fashion statement and became seen as the ultimate Seattle SuperSonic . By Alex Traub Published March 16, 2025Updated March 18, 2025 Slick Watts, an unheralded, undersized, patchy-haired point guard who turned his obstacles into springboards, endearing himself to fans of the Seattle SuperSonics long past the team’s existence and helping to invent the headband as a basketball fashion signature, has died. He was 73. His son Donald announced the death on social media on Saturday in a statement that did not provide further details. In 2021, Watts had a major stroke, and he spent recent years dealing with lung sarcoidosis, an inflammatory condition. Watts played for the Sup...

1 of 13 | Slick Watts, in 1978, was named to the Sonics’ 40th anniversary team before the team being moved to Oklahoma City. He was such a Seattle institution, the Blue Scholars,  a local hip-hop group, named a song after him. (Seattle Supersonics) https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/sonics/sonics-legend-slick-watts-dies-at-73/ March 15, 2025 at 12:26 pm  Updated March 15, 2025 at 1:46 pm 2 of 13 | Slick Watts arrives before the 76th Annual Sports Star of the year  banquet held at Benaroya Hall in 2011. (Jim Bates / The Seattle Times) By  Tim Booth Seattle Times staff reporter Slick Watts, the baldheaded point guard known for his colorful headbands as a player and his role as an ambassador of Seattle basketball following the conclusion of his NBA career, died Saturday morning at the age of 73. Watts was a generational figure in the Seattle hoops scene, first as a starter for the SuperSonics in the mid-1970s as a young guard from Mississippi before becoming one of ...

https://www.basketballnetwork.net/latest-news/shawn-kemp-admits-dennis-rodman-should-have-won-1996-finals-mvp?fbclid=IwY2xjawI9Q6FleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHY5YfuWrG_CtAdcyG-UFSXwF1uSFLOuIWTq7M026HDf0xxAqNNjWvaZYEA_aem_wpUqCANzF0CfAawBsleE-A Dennis was doing all the silent and dirty work. SHANE GARRY ACEDERA MAR 10, 2025 12:34 PM EDT CHICAGO BULLS 1COMMENT Former Seattle SuperSonics star Shawn Kemp has never been shy in giving Dennis Rodman his flowers for "The Worm's" performance in the 1996 NBA Finals. Kemp has always said that Rodman was the key to the Bulls winning that championship series. However, during a recent interview, Shawn took Dennis's praise to the next level, saying that the power forward should've won the hardware that went to Michael Jordan 's trophy case. "To play against him, he's simply one of the best," Kemp said of the two-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year winner. "And what I mean that he is, we played against him in ...