Bigs

The marquee matchup between Joel Embiid and Anthony Davis ultimately lived up to expectations. Davis has arguably been the best player in the NBA over the past three weeks but was expected to be in a dogfight against Embiid. After the…

NEW ORLEANS — David McCormack and his Kansas teammates were trailing by 15 points at halftime of the national championship game, but he was smiling just the same.“They thought I was crazy,” McCormack said in a television interview.He told…

Jack Kruger was about to start a season with yet another minor league baseball team, the Salt Lake Bees, a Class AAA team in Utah, when his cellphone rang.Get on the first plane to Los Angeles, his manager said.The Angels, Salt Lake’s…

Auburn’s Jabari SmithImage: Getty ImagesGlance around the basketball landscape and you’ll see skyscrapers cast a shadow over the courts again. A whole new host of bigs are on the verge of challenging the convention that the NBA is a guard’s…

Not many (laughs). I think there are qualities in him that I admire that I wish I had more of that I just played on. I mentioned an objectivity and an ability to—hold on, let me turn this music off. He has more of an equilibrium, which I…