Topic: Basketball

Sports teams can make or break a city’s soul. Wednesday night’s loss was a historic collapse, but there’s one way the Sixers can save us from our angst tonight in Atlanta

The St. Christopher’s pediatrician is constantly finding new ways to uplift Philly youth. His latest endeavor: Need-a-Net Philly, a grassroots movement to repair basketball hoops—and restore dignity to neighborhoods.

With March Madness back on this year, we face a perennial dilemma: Can we be fans of winning games while also winning at education?

After last year’s Ideas We Should Steal Festival, The Citizen awarded $50,000 to pilot a basketball-based gun violence reduction program in Philly. Its long journey has just begun.

Our dysfunctional pro team’s problems have nothing to do with basketball

The Citizen’s 2020 Jeremy Nowak Urban Innovation Award will go to a program fighting gun violence and incarceration through basketball. Here, one of the organizers explains what it means to him—and for young black men in Philly

In a world without sports, players step up

The Citizen’s executive editor and Sixers chief operating officer talked about the key to helping women get ahead: Being a champion

Villanova basketball coach Jay Wright’s Zen coaching may be the only antidote to the Sixers’ dysfunction

A Philly native in L.A. reflects on the personal growth and complexity of the late NBA star