Ranking the top ten NBA Most Valuable Player candidates

Sometimes you forget what you are looking at in Jayson Tatum, a sinewy 6-foot-8, 205-pound forward with a scorer’s touch. You forget that he’s 20, a year removed from playing in the NCAA tournament, two years from high school, when he was a math-taking student with a pair of Air Jordans — or whatever

New York — The Knicks have found an unlikely source of hope in rookie center Mitchell Robinson, who is putting up historic rim-protection numbers. The 2018 second-round pick is protecting the rim from both traditional and unconventional spots on the floor. Since 1946, only Manute Bol has finished a rookie

Vanderbilt freshman Simisola Shittu is entering the NBA draft. Shittu wrote Wednesday on Twitter that ”for as long as I can remember, my dream was to someday play in the NBA.” The forward and center said that ”now it is time for me to take the next step in that pursuit’