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Kevin Love Wants to Keep Going
A Hall of Fame career might be enough for some, but not for Love. He didn’t go to Miami to chase a ring—he’s chasing meaning, and an itch he just can’t scratch. "I don’t know if I’ll make it to 20 [seasons]," says Love, "but I’ve always had my eyes on that."
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The Curious Love Affair Between Jason Isbell and America’s Sportswriters
The singer-songwriter—and subject of the new Ringer Films HBO documentary ‘Running With Our Eyes Closed’—has carved out a space as the most popular musician this side of Springsteen to a certain subset of sports scribes. How do we explain this apparent phenomenon?
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The Final Top 125 of the Regular Season
Who have been the very best players this NBA season? Our NBA, Ranked committee has assembled its final order before the postseason begins.
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Picking Every Award (Except MVP) on the NBA’s 2022-23 Ballot
Jokic vs. Embiid isn’t the only awards race worth yelling about. From All-NBA to Clutch Player of the Year, we show some love to the other heated races and break down the non-MVP awards competitions.
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The Ringer’s NBA Odds Machine
The 2023 NBA season is entering its final week and the playoff picture remains in flux. Check out our updated odds for seeding, the draft lottery, and the NBA title.
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The Elephant in the Arena: How “Seven Nation Army” Became the Last Great Jock Jam
The White Stripes’ classic has become an unlikely staple at football matches and Baltimore Ravens blowouts over the past two decades. How do these sports sing-alongs get made—and why don’t there seem to be any new ones?
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Evan Mobley Is Putting It All Together
The Cavaliers’ burgeoning star has shown he can pick up just about anything. The 21-year-old, who has drawn comps to KG, Duncan, and Giannis, is already the Cavs’ most pivotal player, and it might not be long until he’s also their best. Says Mobley’s skills trainer: "He has the tools to do it all. Honestly, shit, he can be the face of the league."
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How ‘John Wick’ Pays Homage to the Kung Fu Masters and Stuntmen Who Came Before It
‘John Wick 4’ continues to revolutionize the world of action filmmaking. A big reason is director Chad Stahelski’s insistence on leaning on performers who revolutionized it in the past.
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Odds Machine: Can Minny Climb Out of the Play-in Muck?
The Timberwolves have won four in a row and moved into sixth in the West. How good are their chances to stay there?
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The Twins Who Went From “Best-Kept Secrets” to Likely NBA Lottery Picks
Amen and Ausar Thompson were relatively unknown high schoolers who blossomed into star two-way prospects with the fledgling Overtime Elite. Now, the pair are poised to be much more than consolation prizes for whichever teams miss out on Victor Wembanyama in June’s NBA draft.
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“It’s a Lot of Suffering”: The Audacious Filmmaking Behind ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’
The latest ‘John Wick’ might be the most entertaining chapter yet—and one of the best action films in recent memory. It required the creative minds behind the assassin to up the ante in every way imaginable—while also laying the groundwork for the future of the Wick universe, with or without Keanu Reeves.
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A Ranking of the Best Effing F-words in ‘Succession’ History
Over the course of 29 episodes, the HBO drama has made the word "fuck" its MVP. Before Season 4 premieres, here are the 100 best deployments of the word.
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2023 NBA Mock Draft 4.0: What If the Blazers Pick First?
How would Victor Wembanyama fit next to Dame? We play out a lottery hypothetical and update draft stocks after the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament.
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Jaylen Brown Is Trying to Find a Balance
Celtics star Jaylen Brown wants to be known for more than just basketball, even as he tries to help Boston to a repeat NBA Finals bid. But recent missteps, largely stemming from his affiliation with Kyrie Irving and Ye, have shown just how difficult that may be.
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The Making of Tom Wambsgans
In the wake of Sunday’s finale, we’re resurfacing this piece from before the season breaking down the creation and expansion of the most unlikely power player on ‘Succession’
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Zach Edey Is Just Different
Purdue’s 7-foot-4 center might be college basketball’s biggest lightning rod, but Zach Edey’s learned how to harness the hate, turning him into arguably the best big man in the country. "I play better when I’m pissed off," he says.
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The Ringer’s Updated Top 125 NBA Player Rankings
As the playoffs approach, we’ve expanded our list of basketball’s best players. Who is on the rise, and who is on the decline?
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The Life of the Party on the Raptors’ Sidelines
The story of how a little-known Division I basketball coach became Canada’s least likely basketball icon
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NFL Mock Draft: Who Will the Panthers Take at No. 1?
Carolina made a bold decision to take control of the draft. Now they have to decide what they are looking for in their QB of the future.
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Greg Oden’s Long Walk Home
Basketball gave Greg Oden everything. Then took it all away. No one would blame the former no. 1 pick for walking away from a game that brought him so much pain, but Oden simply can’t quit basketball. He still, miraculously, loves it. Now he’s back home again in Indiana, searching for purpose on the sidelines at Butler.
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Turnstile Broke Hardcore. Now What?
With a breakout album and crossover appeal, the Baltimore band took hardcore music to places previously thought unimaginable. Does that mean the next wave of punk’s most misanthropic subgenre is ready for the spotlight?
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The Updated League Pass Player Rankings
Who is the most captivating watch in the NBA? Who brings the razzle-dazzle? We ranked the players you simply have to tune in for.
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Jonathan Majors’s Time Is Now
Just two months into 2023, Majors has already come crashing into franchises like ‘Creed’ and ‘Ant-Man’—as well as Sundance, for good measure. And in each role the actor shines with tools he says he’s gained from poetry, his family, and yes, even clown class.
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All You Touch and All You See: ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ at 50
A half-century ago, Pink Floyd unleashed a classic that still lingers on the Billboard charts and in college dorms to this day. But what’s the legacy of the blockbuster album? What’s legacy, anyway?
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How the Cocaine Bear Was Brought to Life
Bringing one of 2023’s most ridiculous movies to the big screen took sick imagination, deft stunt work, and plenty of commitment from a host of seasoned actors. (And cocaine, obviously.)
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The Nets Are Ready to Move Forward
There’s a reason Brooklyn is taking the glass-half-full approach in the wake of Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving. He’s a 6-foot-11 positionless defender who leads the league in blocks and field goal percentage. "I think that I’m the only person in the league that can do that," Nic Claxton says.
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Are We Having Fun Yet?!: The Oral History of ‘Party Down’
As the Starz comedy makes an unlikely return to air, its creators look back on creating a unique inside-Hollywood workplace sitcom, scrapping through a difficult development period, and getting gold from Adam Scott, Ken Marino, and Jane Lynch
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The Balkans Boom
How did such a small region in Europe produce so many NBA players—including two-time MVP Nikola Jokic and potential future MVP Luka Doncic? One reporter went there to peel back the layers to the rise and sustained success of the Balkan "basketball school."
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The Everlasting Appeal of Agatha Christie
The author’s signature whodunits are everywhere, from Kenneth Branagh’s Hercule Poirot to ‘Glass Onion’ to the latest season of ‘You.’ What is it about the genre that attracts storytellers over and over again?
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The Updated NBA All In-dex
With the trade deadline in the rearview mirror, we analyzed all 30 teams to determine which are the most "all in" for the 2022-23 title and which are accumulating draft picks and planning for the long term
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Frenemies, Fathers, and Failures: How Netflix’s ‘Full Swing’ Illuminates the Golf Universe
The streaming service’s forthcoming docuseries aims to find the highs and lows of golf—and it largely succeeds
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A Phenom’s Résumé and an Underdog’s Story: The Journey of Jalen Hurts
The QB’s breakout has been one of the stories of the Eagles’ Super Bowl run. But for those who’ve witnessed Hurts’s quiet confidence and hunger along the way, there’s nothing surprising about his emergence.