Charlotte’s turn as All-Star Game host wasn’t perfect, but the Queen City did itself proud while avoiding any major disasters on a weekend full of dunks and diversions.
After all the attention paid to where Zion Williamson is this season, the night arrived where all the attention was paid to where he wasn’t. He wasn’t in Charlotte for the NBA All-Star Game, where he was as much a topic of conversation Saturday as any of the actual all-stars and he was on the bench for a big chunk of Duke’s 94-78 win over N.C. State but still scored 32 points.
Steph Curry won the battle of the brothers in the NBA’s three-point shooting contest on All-Star Weekend Saturday night, but Brooklyn’s Joe Harris beat both Currys and everyone else.
LeBron James, the biggest star in basketball, opened up Saturday in a news conference about all sorts of topics on the eve of the NBA All-Star Game in Charlotte.
It’s hard to imagine where the Carolina Hurricanes would be without Curtis McElhinney, who arrived on waivers before opening night and continued to shine by stopping 40 shots Friday in a 3-1 win over the Edmonton Oilers.
David Guthrie, who will be one of three officials in Sunday’s NBA All-Star Game in Charlotte, has deep ties to the area. A former NC State baseball player who married a former NC State tennis player from Charlotte, Guthrie is also a once and future Charlotte resident.
The NBA All-Star Game returns to Charlotte this weekend for the first time since 1991. Hosted by Charlotte Hornets owner Michael Jordan, it promises to be quite a party and a grand celebration of basketball.
When Carolina Hurricanes center Jordan Staal pulled himself from a game in San Jose in December, he never expected to miss more than two months (and counting) recovering from a concussion.
Dell Curry was an original Charlotte Hornet and remains involved with the team as its TV color analyst. But for the NBA’s All-Star Weekend, he will be a dad, cheering on his sons Steph and Seth as they compete in Saturday’s 3-point shootout.
Virginia’s 69-61 comeback win at North Carolina on Monday was a reminder that while the ACC may be a one-team league at the top, there are still two teams ahead of everyone else.
News & Observer sports columnist Luke DeCock is serving as an Associated Press Top 25 basketball poll voter for the 2018-19 basketball season. This is his ballot for February 11, 2019.
Carl Scheer, the inventor of the dunk contest at the NBA All-Star game and the first general manager of the Charlotte Hornets, is battling dementia. The dementia affects his memory, thinking and social abilities, but his legacy is intact.
Carolina Hurricanes president Don Waddell said the structure of the team’s PNC Arena lease, which expires in 2024, has to change. “The economics of the deal have to change in our favor,” Waddell said.
There’s no question that Julius Peppers, who played 17 seasons, was a great draft pick. The question apparently is this: who among the Carolina Panthers’ brain trust made the call to draft him?
If this was Luke Maye’s final game against N.C. State, it was a fitting culmination to two years of personal domination in the rivalry. Even in a season when not everything has gone as planned for the North Carolina senior, it has for him against N.C. State.
The New England Patriots defeated the Los Angeles Rams 13-3 Sunday night in the lowest-scoring Super Bowl in history. From an entertainment standpoint, it was also one of the worst.
News & Observer sports columnist Luke DeCock is serving as an Associated Press Top 25 basketball poll voter for the 2018-19 basketball season. This is his ballot for February 4, 2019.
Several of the players the Hurricanes traded are having great years, including Elias Lindholm, who scored against Carolina for the Calgary Flames on Sunday. But in almost every case, the Hurricanes are better off without them.
