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The Oklahoma City Thunder, the youngest team to reach the NBA Finals in 48 years, got 71 points from their prolific backcourt combination of Jalen Williams, who had a playoff career-high 40 points, and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, who scored 31 points and had 10 assists and four blocked shots, the first player in NBA Finals history with a 30-10-4 game, to go along with stifling team defense to turn back the Indiana Pacers 120-109 in game five of the NBA Finals. The win moved the home team to a 3-2 advantage in the best-of-seven series. 

One day, someone will write a book about the extraordinary life of Baileigh Sinamin-Daniel, the 22-year-old, 5’7”, one-armed junior guard for Leslie University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Five Boston high schools entered the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association young men’s basketball playoff competition; one remains. The one remaining is the Bulldogs of Dr. Albert D. Holland High School of Technology.

You would need to write a book to thoroughly tell the story of Ernie Floyd, a former basketball star at Boston English High School and the College of the Holy Cross. For this moment in time, let’s summarize this young man’s remarkable life journey.

The Ivy basketball season was well underway this past weekend. The Harvard men’s team lost their initial league match of the year at home to Princeton, 68-64. The Harvard women’s team played in their second Ivy contest, a heart breaking 52-50 loss to Princeton in New Jersey.

The inevitable conclusion to this incredible gift of life is death. Every human being faces this conclusion. We all wonder when, where and how our lives will end.

The New York Liberty and Minnesota Lynx find themselves locked at one win apiece in their best of five Women’s National Basketball Association Championship series.

“It is my honor to now announce that with the next pick in the 2021 NBA draft, the NBA selects Terrence Clarke from the University of Kentucky.” Those words by current NBA Commissioner Adam Silver echoed through the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, on July 29, 2021.

The U.S.A. women’s basketball team rallied from a 10-point deficit to squeeze past the host French team by a final score of 67-66 in the Olympic gold medal game before a delirious sellout crowd at the Bercy Arena.

You read so many stories about professional athletes giving back to the neighborhoods from which they came. I know there are many stories I see regularly, checking in on these fantastic men and women who remember their roots and give their time and money to try and improve the lives of the people they grew up with. Shabazz Napier is one of those special people.

While the sports world focuses on the Olympic Games in Paris, France, a notable local sporting competition deserves mention — the 9th National Urban Sports Classic.

As of this writing, Michael Anthony Rubin, former headmaster and basketball coach of East Boston High School, is fighting medical issues that threaten his life.