Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, the Oklahoma City Thunder guard, is having a career season as one of the N.B.A.’s top scorers. He’s had a little help from his childhood friends.
Category: Content Type: Personal Profile
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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Brings His Friends on Ride to NBA Stardom
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Pele’s TV Breakthrough Gave Soccer a Black Star
The New York Times – Sports:Pelé’s reign atop the most popular sport on earth began in an era defined by political struggles against colonialism and racial inequity around the world.
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She’s Building a Little Jewish Magazine On Big Ideas
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:After a rebellious youth and years spent on an unpublished novel, Arielle Angel, the editor of Jewish Currents, has carved out a role for herself as someone who questions entrenched ideas.
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Sedona Prince Has a Good Feeling About the Next Era
The New York Times – Sports:For many, the basketball player’s TikTok was a before-and-after marker of how society talks about modern women’s sports. For Prince, there’s much to celebrate, more to be done and a W.N.B.A. roster spot to secure.
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A Music Historian Takes a Top Job at the New York Public Library
The New York Times – Music:Brent Reidy, the new director of Research Libraries, said he hoped to help democratize the 127-year-old library by reaching a younger generation.
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The Unstoppable, Unsinkable, Uninhibited Margo Price
The New York Times – Music:Country songs are often filled with tragedy and hard times. Price has detailed her own catalog of traumas in a memoir and her music, but also turns her lens outward on a new LP, “Strays.”
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Minnesota’s Rudy Gobert Talks, Criticism, Covid and Donovan Mitchell
The New York Times – Sports:Gobert had a dominant run in Utah, but now he and the Minnesota Timberwolves are struggling to find their fit together. He hears the chatter — and ignores it.
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Ashleigh Barty Is Comfortable in a Life Outside Tennis
The New York Times – Sports:Barty retired from the sport at age 25 while ranked No. 1, but she says she has “slipped quite seamlessly into this life that’s just like everyone else.”
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A Musical Modernist’s Newly Polished, Smiling Guise
The New York Times – Music:A three-CD set of music by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, released by the Wergo label, backs up a more expansive view of the artist and is among the standouts of 2022.
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For Oz Pearlman, It’s Mind Over Muscle, and Mind Over Other Minds
The New York Times – Sports:As an ultrarunner, Oz Pearlman took on a challenge he had contemplated for 12 years: running from Montauk to Manhattan. As a mentalist, he took on N.F.L. locker rooms.
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Bobsledder Kaillie Humphries Gets Back to Her Long-Term Goals
The New York Times – Sports:For the bobsledder Kaillie Humphries, finally being free of stressing over her citizenship has meant trying to figure out how to “start a family and then also continue the career path.”