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1,000 Interviews to Pick No. 1: Inside the Timberwolves’ N.B.A. Draft Prep

Gersson Rosas and his staff had spent five months working remotely by the time the N.B.A. draft lottery was staged on Aug. 20 to determine the order of the top picks. As the president of basketball operations for the Minnesota Timberwolves, Rosas saw it as an opportunity to do something

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2020 Nov, 18

The N.B.A. Draft Steal ‘People Sort of Forgot’

There is a story about Isaiah Stewart that sounds apocryphal now that he is on the cusp of entering the N.B.A., but his father, Dela, vouched for its authenticity. It goes something like this: When Isaiah was a fifth grader in Rochester, N.Y., he received late notice that one of his

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2020 Nov, 17

Dustin Johnson Wins 2020 Masters in Record Fashion

AUGUSTA, Ga. — For 10 years, Dustin Johnson’s chase for career-defining, major championship titles was tinged with ruthless angst, misfortune and calamitous setbacks. He grounded a club in an unobserved bunker at the 2010 P.G.A. Championship to earn a heartless penalty that bounced him from a playoff for the victory. Five

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2020 Nov, 15

The 2020 Masters: Dustin Johnson Sets Scoring Record

Dustin Johnson won the 2020 Masters and set a scoring record at 20 under par, two strokes better than the former record, held jointly by Tiger Woods and Jordan Spieth. Johnson, who grew up an hour away, in South Carolina, became the first world No. 1 to win the event

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2020 Nov, 15

Arsène Wenger and the Gift of Time

Those mornings, there was never enough time. For years, you could set your watch by Arsène Wenger. Punctuality is a rare trait in soccer, but Wenger was fastidious about it. His weekly news conference at Colney, Arsenal’s training facility just outside London, always started at 9 a.m. And it started

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2020 Nov, 13

Tom Brady and the Buccaneers Were Blown Out. Was It an Antonio Brown Curse?

The matchup had been anticipated all season: Tom Brady and Drew Brees, two sure-shot Hall of Fame quarterbacks nearing the ends of their careers, facing off in prime time on Sunday. The fact that their teams, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the New Orleans Saints, are battling for control of

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2020 Nov, 09