18 h. ago Tatum’s Celtics season over with torn achilles in bitter blow to defending NBA champions

Six-time All-Star was injured during playoff loss to Knicks27-year-old’s 2025-26 season in doubt after injuryBoston Celtics star Jayson Tatum has undergone surgery to repair a ruptured right achilles tendon that will sideline him for the remainder of the playoffs, the team announced on Tuesday.The Celtics announced the extent of Tatum’s injury and the surgery a day after the six-time All-Star went down in the Celtics’ 121-113 Game 4 loss to the New York Knicks. Tatum was in clear pain after the injury and was later seen with his head in his hands as he was taken to the locker room in a wheelchair. Continue reading...

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37 h. ago NBA playoffs: Knicks put champs Celtics on brink of elimination as Tatum collapses

New York 3-1 up in best-of-seven series after comeback Boston star scores 42 but limps off after worrying injuryJalen Brunson had 39 points and 12 assists, and the New York Knicks moved a win away from their first Eastern Conference finals appearance in 25 years and pushed the defending champion Boston Celtics to the brink of elimination with a 121-113 victory Monday night in Game 4.The Celtics will have to make just the 14th comeback from a 3-1 deficit in NBA history to extend their title reign and may have to do it without All-Star Jayson Tatum, who was carried off the court with a leg injury in the final minutes. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Gregg Popovich: the NBA truth teller who held Trump, and the US, to account

The coach is stepping away from a role in which he won five championships with the Spurs. He will be hard to replace, on and off the courtRaise a glass to Gregg Popovich, the gruff teddy bear who lifted the San Antonio Spurs into the NBA’s elite. After three decades on the Spurs’ sideline, he is stepping back from coaching to become the team’s president of basketball operations. It’s a back-to-the-future move for the 76-year-old: he was the Spurs’ general manager for eight years before he became the team’s coach. (“I’m no longer the coach, I’m El Jefe,” Popovich jokingly declared this week before unveiling a T-shirt with that Spanish title.) Altogether, Pop won five NBA championships from 1999 through 2014, a run that puts him among the greatest coaches in league history. But when it came to being the NBA’s unflinching statesman, he was in a league all by himself.Popovich wasn’t just the NBA’s backbone. He was, perhaps, the most fearless truth teller in all of sport. Certainly no on...

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1 week ago Gregg Popovich steps down as San Antonio Spurs boss after 29 seasons

The 76-year-old won five NBA championships.

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1 week ago Legendary Gregg Popovich steps down as San Antonio Spurs head coach after 29 years

Popovich led San Antonio Spurs to five NBA championships during his near-three-decade spell

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2 w. ago European football: Inter’s Serie A title hopes suffer setback with Roma defeat

Matías Soulé scores first-half winner at San SiroInter fall to third straight defeat in a weekInter’s Serie A title hopes took a massive blow when the defending champions lost 1-0 at home to Roma, giving Napoli the chance to open up a three-point gap at the top when they host Torino later on Sunday.Inter, who bowed out of the Coppa Italia on Wednesday with a 3-0 semi-final second leg defeat by Milan, suffered their third loss in a week as their treble-bid risks coming apart. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Manchester United suffer injury blow with key defender set to miss rest of season

Diogo Dalot may not feature again in this campaign

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3 w. ago Manchester United head to Wembley to defend FA Cup crown as Man City suffer major injury blow

Marc Skinner's side were victorious over Manchester rivals City to gain a place in the FA Cup final while City star suffers injury woe

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