Kevin Durant signs with Golden State. Nothing changes.Durant’s move feels momentous, but it doesn’t really matter—it’s merely The Decision 3.0, a reaffirmation of NBA’s recent history
Newsmaker: Tristan Thompson, the Cavaliers’ Canadian engineTristan Thompson of the Cleveland Cavaliers steps up his game on basketball’s biggest stage
Canadian basketball players lack effort? Wrong.Jason Whitlock ignores history when he says Canadian NBA players like Andrew Wiggins lack drive. But Canadians are guilty of this kind of thinking, too
LeBron James’s new (old) home and new legacyThe best basketball player on the planet returns to Cleveland and single-handedly fixes his legacy
Losers: the down and outFrom Sarah Palin’s presidential bid to dire visions of the apocalypse–everything that didn’t turn out in 2011
Play ball! Soccer, that is.Some wealthy Americans are starting to take interest in the Beautiful Game
NewsmakersSkeletons in Princess Victoria’s closet, Dick Cheney meets his match, and LeBron James goes home