Basketball

5/18/2026 |  Iowa Athletics Purchases Elite Eight Court for Carver-Hawkeye Arena (Athletic Business) The University of Iowa Athletics Department is bringing a piece of Iowa basketball history to Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
According to Hawkeye Sports, the athletics department has purchased the court from this year’s NCAA Houston Regional Elite Eight men’s game. The maple-wood court, manufactured by Connor Sports, will arrive at Carver-Hawkeye Arena on May 18th. 

5/18/2026 |  Ex-Players, Parents Say Stanford Women's Basketball Coach Created Toxic Culture (Athletic Business) Two former women's basketball players and four parents of players who spent the 2025-26 season with Stanford University allege that second-year coach Kate Paye has fostered a dysfunctional and toxic environment, in which coaches intimidate and threaten players.

5/18/2026 |  Seven trends that could decide historic Thunder-Spurs series (ESPN) The Oklahoma City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs have been on a collision course ever since a fateful meeting in the NBA Cup semifinals.
At the time, the defending champion Thunder were 24-1, seemingly poised not only to repeat but to set the single-season wins record, too. Then they ran into Victor Wembanyama and the upstart Spurs in Las Vegas last December.

5/18/2026 |  Jamal Crawford has to tone down his excitement while calling games for NBC (NBC Sports) What Jamal Crawford is about to tell you, he hasn’t even told his broadcast partners Mike Tirico and Reggie Miller yet.

5/18/2026 |  Tom Dundon: Blazers’ Hotel Controversy Wasn’t About Money (Yahoo Sports) New Blazers owner Tom Dundon has been accused of being overly cheap by many people in NBA circles, and he has now pushed back on at least one of those specific narratives.