Inside the Clippers’ Billion-Dollar Play for LA November 01, 2024
On a warm day earlier this summer, I met Gillian Zucker, the CEO of Halo Sports and Entertainment, parent company of the Los Angeles Clippers, in the cool of the loading dock beneath the Intuit Dome, the team’s then-in-construction arena in Inglewood...
Why I Still Can’t Quit the Los Angeles Clippers August 27, 2024
All of us—NBA fanatics, analysts, casual onlookers—absorb the league with a soft spot that occasionally doubles as an irredeemable flaw. Bear traps of belief. For the past five years, mine was the Los Angeles Clippers, a convulsing roller-coaster rid...
A Romp Back Through an N.B.A. Racism Scandal July 05, 2024
One upshot of the current glut of streaming platforms is a flood of programming to fill them: something for every attention span, something to plug every potential gap of viewer inactivity that might render a certain streaming service irrelevant whil...