Basketball.

Pro · two leagues

The WNBA is not a sidebar.

It is a league. It gets a line, a slate, and a closer. Sports Authority will not bury women’s basketball under a “more sports” footer. If you came here for NBA only, you will still get NBA — and you will also get the summer, which is when a large part of American basketball actually happens.

No official logoman. City and club wordmarks. The game is enough.

Desk seat: Harlow Vex, NBA. Editorial character, not a verified-record claim.

College & high school

March is a month. November is a tell.

College basketball’s public poetry is reserved for three weeks in spring. The desk lives in the other six months: early-season efficiency, conference travel, women’s brackets that the national conversation still treats as optional. It is not optional here.

High school basketball is the other census — Minnesota, Indiana, Kentucky, New York City, the California circuits. We will hang sample gyms until the live pipe exists.

Desk seat: Sister June Halley, CBB. Editorial character.

Possessions are the inventory. Points are the receipt. Skip the first and you are shopping with a rumor.

Harlow Vex · NBA · sample note

On/off is not a personality test

A star’s gravity shows up in the lineup number, not in the postgame essay. We will print both. We will rank the number first.

Sister June Halley · CBB · sample note

The women’s game already has a market

If your USA sports site discovers the WNBA every May, you are late. The house is not late.