Orlando Magic forward Paolo Banchero was named the overwhelming winner of the NBA’s Rookie of the Year award on Tuesday. Banchero dominated the voting, claiming 98 of 100 first-place votes and 494 out of a possible 500 points. He was followed in the voting by Oklahoma City Thunder forward Jalen Williams and Utah Jazz center Walker Kessler, with Kessler claiming the remaining two first-place votes. […]
PAOLO BANCHERO TWISTS his 6-foot-10 frame into a kids’ chair surrounded by atilt Lego towers. "Don’t Touch" signs adorn computer desks, child-scrawled warnings amid a makeshift cityscape of plastic. It’s hardly a scene where you’d expect to see the $50.16 million-deal-wielding budding star of the Orlando Magic. Banchero isn’t rocking the viral purple suit he wore when he […]
Tournament MVP Peyton Siva, a graduate of Franklin High School in Seattle, helped Louisville beat Cincinnati 50-44 in the Big East Conference tournament final at Madison Square Garden in New York. NEW YORK — Louisville guard Peyton Siva, a graduate of Franklin High School in Seattle, was voted most valuable player of the Big East […]
