Shauntel Lowe

Johnson said the Celtics great was his idol. Jordan called him a pioneer. Jaylen Brown called him one of the greatest athletes ever.

Fowles, who played through pain in her final season with the Lynx, said she wanted to “step away and debrief a little bit.”

Bird, 41, the Seattle Storm guard, had said she would retire after this season. The Storm fell to the Las Vegas Aces in the W.N.B.A. semifinals on Tuesday.

Green, the Golden State forward, said he was a “flawed human being.” A leaked video of the fight between the teammates went viral Friday.

“If you are promoting or soliciting or saying harmful things to any community that harm people, then I don’t respect it,” LeBron James said. “I don’t condone it.”

The W.N.B.A.’s players and fans pushed furiously for Brittney Griner’s release from a Russian penal colony, but her plight also highlighted gender inequities in sports.

Green, the Golden State forward, who stepped on Sacramento center Domantas Sabonis in Game 2 Monday, was suspended in part because of a “history of unsportsmanlike acts,” the N.B.A. said.

Miles Bridges, the former Hornets forward, was credited 20 games toward a suspension for domestic violence. Silver said he felt the move seemed fair since Bridges had not played this season.

Bridges will rejoin the team on a one-year contract after completing a suspension that will sideline him for the first 10 games of the season.

A reporter and a visual journalist followed the Aguilar Ortega family during a dangerous journey to the United States.