Tania Ganguli

Damon Jones is among more than 30 people who were charged last fall in two sweeping indictments that targeted illegal gambling involving current and former N.B.A. players.

The superstar is part of group that has bought a basketball team in Italy, with a plan to move the club to Rome in hopes of making it part of a new league.

Charles Oakley, the 1990s Knicks star, hasn’t been to a game at Madison Square Garden in nearly a decade because of a legal battle.

Tennis is a solitary sport, but with new fertility benefits, a sisterhood of egg freezers is emerging in locker rooms and players’ lounges.

Mr. Trump is the first sitting president to attend an N.B.A. finals game. He smiled as he heard the reception from the crowd at Madison Square Garden.

Mr. Wembanyama has had to keep a low profile while in New York to try and win the N.B.A. finals, but on visits there, he has always resisted hiding in hotel rooms and private cars.

The N.B.A. and the N.C.A.A. have been rocked by indictments accusing players and others of fixing bets and playing in rigged poker games. Shane Hennen is named in each one.

Companies — including some with no ties to New York or basketball — have posted memes, changed their avatars to Knicks blue and orange, and cheered the team in their captions.

Prosecutors have tied Shane Hennen to rigged outcomes in high-stakes poker as well as in the N.B.A. and N.C.A.A.

This week’s deal for the Los Angeles Lakers, which valued the team at a record $12.5 billion, was the latest in a pattern of skyrocketing prices.