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With the February 6 NBA trade deadline two weeks away, the Brooklyn Nets are one of the most intriguing of the league’s 30 teams as they have attractive players that playoff contenders may be seeking. The Nets already traded point guard Dennis Schröder to the Golden State Warriors, primarily for draft capital, and forward Dorian Finney-Smith and guard Shake Milton to the Los Angeles Lakers for guard D’Angelo Russell to add to their hefty stock of draft picks. At the top of the list of Brooklyn’s assets is small forward Cam Johnson, who is statistically having the best season of...

Departing Pres. Joe Biden hit the latest buzzer beater at Rucker Park, signing a bill to historically designate the Harlem “basketball mecca” as a National Commemorative site earlier this month.The honor celebrates the playground’s role in American history with an official plaque and opens the door for local organizations to partner with the U.S. Department of the Interior. Rucker Park boasts arguably the most famous outdoor basketball court in the world, the Greg Marius Court, which hosted high-profile streetball tournaments and featured appearances by the sport’s biggest stars...

Allene Washington prepared to celebrate fifty years in her Altadena home on Feb. 1. While she enjoyed an idyllic childhood growing up in nearby Pasadena, Calif., her hometown was redlined for where Black Angelenos could reside. Washington later moved to Altadena, where the racist practice did not exist and the Black middle-class dream thrived. When she and her husband Leon needed more room, a realtor showed them nearby homes.“She took us up into the Rubio Highlands — [the] house was for sale — and I fell in love with it immediately,” said the 85-year-old Washington over the phone....

The tennis courts at the Jackie Robinson Park Playground in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn are locked and residents want to know why they can’t access them.A coalition of Bed-Stuy residents recently posted a Change.org petition urging Brooklyn Borough Parks Commissioner Martin Maher to clarify why they lack the same access to their tennis courts as those who use the borough’s other walk-on tennis court facilities. According to NYC Parks Department regulations, the public is required to have access to parks, and “outdoor tennis courts are open daily, weather permitting, except when under...

After two years of an increase in arrivals of migrants and asylum seekers to New York City, migration funding and policies were already a sore spot between Mayor Eric Adams and City Council. Well before President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, words were said, fears were stoked — and people were right to be worried.At Trump’s second inaugural address, on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, he announced executive orders to reinstate the Remain in Mexico policy, redeploy the military to the southern border, designate criminal cartels and organizations as Foreign Terrorist...