It’s been a roller-coaster journey for the Knicks point-of-attack and perimeter defense this season.
And it’s an area that will be pivotal to reaching the finals.
Both the Cavaliers and Pistons — who square off in Game 7 Sunday night in Detroit — present dangerous threats at guard.
If it’s the Pistons, Cade Cunningham is a matchup headache and foundational to everything they do offensively.
If it’s the Cavaliers, they have a two-headed attack with Donovan Mitchell and James Harden.
As those guards go, their teams go.
Offensively, everything runs through them.
“It’s huge,” Miles McBride said. “Obviously, every round gets tougher. Different opponents, different challenges, so having a great point-of-attack [defense] on the perimeter is super important. And then trusting our guys at the rim to make plays or rotations. But it’s about energy and effort and just the whole team locking in.”
The Knicks struggled in that department for the first half of the year, in a unique scheme that emphasized forcing ball handlers into the middle of the court.
Their defense was getting broken down too frequently, resulting in open shots for opponents.
Midway through the year, they switched that scheme to a much more traditional one — forcing ball handlers to the sideline and baseline and placing an emphasis on keeping them out of the middle of the court and the paint.
The results were much better.
Mikal Bridges defends during the Knicks’ May 10 playoff game against the 76ers. Imagn ImagesIn the first round against the Hawks, they did a strong job on Jalen Johnson (who is not a guard but is a perimeter scorer), though CJ McCollum torched them the first three games of the series.
Then, after switching Josh Hart onto him, the Knicks made McCollum a nonfactor and cruised into the second round.
Mikal Bridges — along with McBride at times — did a terrific job stifling Tyrese Maxey in the second round against the 76ers.
Hart neutralized VJ Edgecombe.
The offensive transformation by the Knicks gets most of the attention.
But their defensive dominance — especially on the perimeter — has been key to this seven-game winning streak and the unprecedented blowouts.
Miles McBride defends during the Knicks’ May 8 playoff game against the 76ers. Getty Images“We have to make sure that at the point of attack, there’s ball pressure with a little bit of physicality, but without fouling, without sending a guy to the free-throw line,” coach Mike Brown said. “And then knowing it’s not just the guy that’s at the point of attack, but it’s all five guys guarding the basketball. And whenever the ball moves, all five guys have to move with it. And then lastly, mixing up your coverages but being able to understand the different coverages and being able to go back and forth between them pretty seamlessly.”
If it’s the Cavaliers, it’s more straightforward.
Bridges and Hart — and McBride off the bench — would likely match up with Mitchell and Harden, though OG Anunoby could be an option as well.
Cunningham and the Pistons would be a bit trickier.
His size and strength are uncommon for most guards, a big reason he has risen to superstar status.
\n\t\t\tKnicks Merch Shop\t\tBridges does not always handle stronger opponents as well as he does the smaller, quicker ones.
Last year, the Knicks primarily had Anunoby guard Cunningham.
“It starts with defense,” Bridges said. “I think that’s the biggest key. Just do what my coaches ask and play hard, knowing the scout [report]. Just me personally, just trying to do the right things and then always knowing I got four guys behind me. Such a team defense that we’re [playing] and everybody just knowing what we’re supposed to be doing and playing on a string.”
The effort on the perimeter has a domino effect on the Knicks bigs as well.
Karl-Anthony Towns, in particular, improved defensively in the second half of the regular season.
It’s no coincidence it aligned with their schematic change and improved perimeter defense.
“Point of attack is important, it’s the most important thing,” Towns said. “To have our wings and our guards playing defense at the perimeter at a high level, it makes my job easier but also makes our team better. Shout-out to them.”
Right now, the Knicks perimeter defense certainly deserves a shout-out.
But it’s about to get its biggest test yet.
","guid":"d90a5921-8122-326f-9a95-68b8ce672b25","pubDate":"Sat, 16 May 2026 22:28:33 GMT","whenReceived":"Sun, 17 May 2026 02:59:54 GMT","whenUpdated":"Sun, 17 May 2026 02:59:54 GMT","metadata":{},"feedLink":"https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/","feedDescription":"Comprehensive National Basketball Association news, scores, standings, fantasy games, rumors...","feedUrl":"https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/rss/"} {"title":"Mikal Bridges rewarding Mike Brown for his continued Knicks ‘trust’ after benching questions","link":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/mikal-bridges-rewarding-mike-brown-223816653.html","description":"Mikal Bridges drives to the basket during the Knicks' May 6 playoff game against the 76ers.Mike Brown kept his faith in Mikal Bridges.
And Bridges has since rewarded him.
After the first three games of the first round against the Hawks, Brown faced a litany of questions about whether he would take Bridges out of the starting lineup.
Bridges had largely been benched late in games and had been uninvolved offensively.
Brown acknowledged that “everything is on the table,” but supported Bridges and opted against shaking up the starting unit.
“It’s always great when your coach has got trust in you,” Bridges said after practice Saturday. “Yeah, that’s great. And teammates staying with it, keeping me confident, as well. I think we all know the end goal is just trying to win games and do whatever it takes to win. Even in my mistakes, just try to do whatever it takes and know that I just gotta bounce back and learn from them.”
Mikal Bridges drives to the basket during the Knicks’ May 6 playoff game against the 76ers. Charles WenzelbergBridges thrived in the second round against the 76ers, averaging 17.5 points per game on 63.8 percent shooting from the field and 38.5 percent shooting from 3-point range.
That was a big jump up from the 10.0 points per game he averaged in the first round and more than the 14.4 points per game he averaged in the regular season.
He helped fill the scoring void with OG Anunoby missing Games 3 and 4 due to a right hamstring strain.
And his defense on Tyrese Maxey was terrific.
“I was just telling the truth,” Brown said Saturday. “He can play, he’s been in this situation before, we’ve had success with him. So I was just basically answering the questions regarding him. He’s earned the right to be there. He’s earned the right to do a lot of different things. And I was just reiterating it. He’s definitely an important piece of what we’re trying to do.”
It’s become a bit of a recurring theme for Bridges, now in his second season with the Knicks.
Last year, he had a rocky regular season before elevating in the postseason and delivering some of the most consequential plays of the run to the Eastern Conference finals.
\n\t\t\tKnicks Merch Shop\t\tThis year’s regular season again left a lot to be desired and raised persistent questions about his impact.
But right now, he’s playing some of his best basketball.
“Just continue to play,” Bridges said. “I think that’s really what it is. You can’t look at the past. You learn from it, but just be present and do what you gotta do to get better. I think that’s really it. Just learn from each game and try to get better every single game. And that’s really it. I always try to play to help [the team] win and just keep trying to get better. That’s been the outcome.”
","guid":"232b284a-5733-3ac2-a471-d4e08b680813","pubDate":"Sat, 16 May 2026 22:38:16 GMT","whenReceived":"Sun, 17 May 2026 03:28:47 GMT","whenUpdated":"Sun, 17 May 2026 03:28:47 GMT","metadata":{},"feedLink":"https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/","feedDescription":"Comprehensive National Basketball Association news, scores, standings, fantasy games, rumors...","feedUrl":"https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/rss/"} {"title":"‘I had to make a statement’: Wembanyama’s Spurs knock Timberwolves out of NBA playoffs","link":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/had-statement-wembanyama-spurs-knock-125854895.html","description":"Victor Wembanyama and Stephon Castle led the way as the Spurs advanced to their first Western Conference finals since 2017.Photograph: Abbie Parr/APThe San Antonio Spurs were well on their way to the Western Conference finals in the fourth quarter when Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards went down to their bench to briefly offer his congratulations. The young Spurs left no doubt they’re already a serious NBA title contender.
Victor Wembanyama and the Spurs romped past the Timberwolves 139-109 on Friday night in Minneapolis to finish in the second-round series in six games and reach the conference finals for the first time since 2017. Stephon Castle had 32 points and 11 rebounds in another dominant performance from the backcourt.
The Spurs will face defending champion Oklahoma City in Game 1 on Monday night. The Thunder swept their first two series.
\n Highlights from Spurs-Timberwolves Game 6\nWembanyama was well guarded by the Wolves in Game 6. He had 19 points, six rebounds and three assists in 27 minutes. But he still served as a constant defensive deterrent in the paint – handling Minnesota’s physical play days after his stunning ejection in Game 4 for elbowing Naz Reid in the face – and he dutifully joined the Spurs in transition whenever they had the opportunity to run.
“I had to make a statement coming back,” Wembanyama told Amazon Prime’s postgame broadcast. “I knew there was going to be a certain narrative, but I felt like if I gave in to the physicality and the dirtiness, that would have helped them, and I knew I couldn’t go over the edge again, so I had to beat them by playing basketball.”
The size, smarts and shooting touch of the Spurs guards were too much for the Wolves, who predictably had their hands full with the 7ft 4in Wembanyama.
De’Aaron Fox added 21 points and nine assists and rookie Dylan Harper had 15 points off the bench for the Spurs, who set their franchise postseason record for three-pointers made by going 18 for 38.
“I just tip my hat to them,” Edwards said. “They were just the better team.”
The Spurs outscored the Wolves by a whopping 97 points in the series and never once trailed by double digits. The Spurs breezed by the Portland Trail Blazers in five games in the first round.
“Of course we’re confident, but we need to keep the right confidence level,” Wembanyama said. “Right now, I’m not even thinking about it. I’m just thinking about recovering.”
Edwards had 24 points on 9-for-26 shooting for the Wolves, who got another spark from reserves Terrence Shannon (21 points) and Naz Reid (18 points) but were again flustered by the Spurs and their relentless switch-heavy defense.
“Defensively, man, he’s incredible,” Edwards said of Wembanyama. “He changes every shot at the rim, he goes to the rim every time after every block, whether it’s goaltending or not, he’s going to go up and challenge it. It’s tough.”
This no-show in the elimination game might’ve felt familiar to Wolves fans, who have otherwise enjoyed an unprecedented run of success in the playoffs over the last three years.
Minnesota trailed by 33 points at half-time in a 30-point loss at Oklahoma City in the Game 5 ouster in the Western Conference finals last year and were down by 29 points at the break to Dallas in losing the Western Conference finals in 2024 in a 21-point loss in Game 5.
Cleveland Cavaliers 94-115 Detroit PistonsCade Cunningham scored 21 points and the top-seeded Detroit Pistons dominated the second half, beating the Cavaliers 115-94 in Cleveland to force a Game 7 in their Eastern Conference second-round series. The decisive game is Sunday in Detroit.
Jalen Duren had 15 points and 11 rebounds while Daniss Jenkins also scored 15 for the Pistons, who have won four games this postseason when facing elimination. They were down 3-1 to Orlando before winning the last three to advance out of the first round.
James Harden scored 23 points for Cleveland, who suffered their first home loss of the postseason. Donovan Mitchell and Evan Mobley scored 18 apiece.
","guid":"98194f65-bd01-3e3e-a2f9-8ca9348b819d","pubDate":"Sat, 16 May 2026 12:58:54 GMT","whenReceived":"Sun, 17 May 2026 03:59:02 GMT","whenUpdated":"Sun, 17 May 2026 03:59:02 GMT","metadata":{},"feedLink":"https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/","feedDescription":"Comprehensive National Basketball Association news, scores, standings, fantasy games, rumors...","feedUrl":"https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/rss/"} {"title":"The “young” Spurs are halfway there","link":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/young-spurs-halfway-020000010.html","description":"May 15, 2026; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; San Antonio Spurs forward Victor Wembanyama (1) shakes hands with San Antonio Spurs guard Dylan Harper (2) against the Minnesota Timberwolves in the second half during game six of the second round of the 2026 NBA Playoffs at Target Center. Mandatory Credit: Jesse Johnson-Imagn Images | Jesse Johnson-Imagn Images\tTo win an NBA championship, a team needs to win 16 playoff games. The majority of the players on the Spurs entered these playoffs without ever playing in an NBA playoff game, let alone winning one, or 16. The Spurs coach is also essentially a rookie, with just over one year of being a head coach — and no NBA playoff experience as either head or assistant coach.
However, the Spurs’ best player had faced the pressure of playing in an Olympic gold-medal game, at home, against a USA team filled with former MVPs and numerous previous gold medals. The Spurs’ second best player ran the table during his one college season, winning the six intense March Madness games necessary to win the NCAA championship. Of course, that is putting the best possible spin on the fact that Victor Wembanyama is only 22, while Stephon Castle is 21. The Spurs third guard, rookie Dylan Harper, is 20, while key bench contributor Carter Bryant, also a rookie, is 20 and looks 16. How young is Bryant? This is how he described Gregg Popovich:
“It’s funny because you hear the stories about him being tough on guys and, obviously, he’s not my head coach, so I don’t kind of get that same experience,” Bryant said. “But I’m like, ‘What are you talking about?’ This dude is the sweetest, nicest guy. He’s dope.”
Yes, Bryant became the first person in history to describe Pop as “dope”. Bryant is also one of the few 20-year-olds sent in the game specifically to cover a player as good as Anthony Edwards — and he loves the assignment.
And look at this picture from Game 6 in Minnesota, with the Spurs about to go up 54-27 (yes, 54-27) after Victor made this free throw:
The five Spurs in that photo were on the floor on the road in a crucial playoff game. Their ages? 20, 20, 21, 22 and 25 (Devin Vassel is the ancient one). I asked AI if those were the youngest five players to be on the floor together in an NBA playoff game. AI gave me this response:
“Oops, something went wrong.”
Thanks, AI. I guess you won’t be taking over the world quite yet. I think I can answer my question: ‘”Yes.” If anyone can prove me wrong, go for it.
My quick research indicates that the youngest starting unit to win a playoff game may have been this year’s Houston Rockets. The Rockets starters were Reed Shephard (21), Jabari Smith (23), Amen Thompson (23), Alperen Sengun (23) and Tari Eason (25). The Spurs group referenced above calls that Rockets team “the old guys”, like that group of older players on the court as you are calling “winners” so you can blow them off the court in the next game. (I am on that old guy team.)
And now the young inexperienced Spurs get just what they wanted on their latest young birthdays: a chance to go to the NBA Finals. All they need to do is win four games against the best NBA team over the last two seasons, and the best team since the Death Star Warriors. As young Carter Bryant would say: that would be dope.
Whoever the Knicks face in the Eastern Conference finals, whether it is the Pistons or Cavaliers, will be a team coming off back-to-back seven-game series.
Both teams went the distance in the opening round and the two will meet Sunday night in a winner-take-all Game 7 in Detroit.
The Knicks, meanwhile, will have a nine-day layoff between games by the time the next series begins Tuesday night.
Is that an advantage?
Coach Mike Brown isn’t certain.
“I’ve been in both situations, playing while a team’s waiting and I’ve been waiting while a team’s playing,” the Knicks coach said after practice Saturday. “You can say a lot theoretically. You can say they’re going to be tired, but you can also say they have a competitive edge because they’ve been going at it for seven games and we’ve been off.
“You keep trying to do different things during the course of the downtime to keep them sharp, keep them focused and try to keep their competitive edge up as much as you can.”
Mike Brown addresses reporters during his May 16 press conference. Charles WenzelbergThe break has given the Knicks a chance to get healthy, especially OG Anunoby, who has been dealing with a mild right hamstring strain.
“I know you’re eager to go out there and play, but I think it’s just good to rest, get the body right and just keep working on your craft and working on what we have to do,” Mikal Bridges said. “So, obviously there’s positives, negatives in this situation, but I just try to look at the positives.”
Josh Hart isn’t backing down from his claim that he no longer considers Philadelphia a sports town after Knicks fans took over Xfinity Mobile Arena during the Eastern Conference semifinal series.
\n\t\t\tKnicks Merch Shop\t\t“You can’t be a sports town if another team’s fan base takes over your arena,” Hart said during the latest episode of “The Roommates Show.”
“You cannot be a sports town if that happens. Boston? Sports town.”
He also took a shot at Joel Embiid, who implored 76ers fans to show up prior to the start of the series.
“You will never see Jaylen Brown, Jayson Tatum sitting there saying, ‘fans, we need y’all to come out because if y’all don’t the Knicks are gonna take over.’ They’re never gonna say that because they don’t have to,” Hart said. “Because that’s one of the places that’s a sports town, and you will not take over that arena. I don’t think you’re gonna take over the arena in New York.”
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Nepo babies provoke a unique brand of ire. Fittingly, they seem to bring out the toddler in many of us; a foot-stamping tantrum sense of but that’s not fair. These privileged golden children are born into guaranteed luxury and opportunity they haven’t worked for, and – we are convinced, despite never having met them – do not deserve.
Some nepo babies attract fury by lazing around on constant holidays, or securing starring roles far beyond their skill set, others because they indulge in wild-eyed, consequence-free party lifestyles. Brooklyn Beckham does it by making sandwiches.
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You wake up later than planned, so it’s a rush to get everything sorted out ahead of the school run. While you’re waiting for the toaster, idiotically, you check your phone. Something has happened, and your timeline is a scalding-hot mess of the worst takes imaginable. One of your children has left their shoes somewhere unfathomable, and there’s an envelope on your doormat scolding you for driving in a bus lane.
You’re undeniably stressed, and your body’s likely to respond by ramping up the same biological systems that evolved to deal with inter-tribe disputes and mammoth attacks. But is there a downside to being stressed – and having these systems switched on – all the time? Take a calming breath, and let’s dig into the science.
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There is little doubt that Stockholm is a city of sauna-goers. All year round, from early morning to late into the night, the city’s residents can be seen emerging from wooden huts, a trail of woodsmoke coming from the chimney, and lowering themselves into the deep brackish waters of the Swedish capital’s shoreline.
But, for locals and visitors alike, getting access to one of these saunas can be a bit like getting into the world’s most exclusive private members’ clubs: the most popular waterside venues have years-long waiting lists of thousands and when new places open up they disappear in minutes. While a proportion of spots are sometimes bookable to non-members, they are difficult to come by.
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A US Senate official on Saturday removed security funding that could be used for Donald Trump’s planned $400m White House ballroom from a massive spending package, Democratic lawmakers said, imperiling Republican efforts to devote taxpayer money to the contentious project.
The decision by the Senate’s parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, deals a blow to Trump and his administration, which has sought the money for security purposes related to the ballroom.
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At the grand, biblical age of 102, Sonja Ibermann Cowan has zero interest in wasting her time. There are delicious great-grandbabies to be serenaded, uproarious meals to share with her three beloved daughters, and meaningful celebrations of the high holidays to mark with her Melbourne rabbi, who makes house calls. Five years ago, she decided to invest some of that precious time in what became a friendship with me, across the world in Berlin, her birthplace.
The boredom of the pandemic certainly played a part. Cooped up at home under much stricter Covid-19 restrictions than we had in Germany – Sonja joked about being “eingesperrt” (locked up) – she and her extended close-knit family started turning their attention to the past. Her grandson Benjamin Preiss, a journalist at the Australian newspaper The Age, embarked on an ambitious research project to uncover the mysteries of Sonja’s life and her mother’s and sister’s murders in the Holocaust.
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The Republican senator Bill Cassidy lost his primary on Saturday, as voters in Louisiana opted instead to advance two challengers to a runoff election after an extraordinary intervention by Donald Trump to oust the incumbent.
Cassidy’s bid to win the Republican party’s nomination for a third term in the deep-red state was imperiled by his decision to vote in favor of Trump’s conviction after the January 6 insurrection. In what was widely seen as an effort to rehabilitate his standing with the president, Cassidy last year cast the deciding vote to advance vaccine skeptic Robert F Kennedy Jr’s nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, flying in the face of the senator’s support for immunizations and training as a physician.
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A passenger has been banned from future Qantas travel after a plane travelling on a long haul flight from Australia to the US was diverted over the weekend after the man allegedly bit a flight attendant.
The QF21 flight left Melbourne at 2.30pm on Friday en route to Dallas and was diverted to Papeete on the island of Tahiti seven hours later after the behaviour of the disruptive passenger forced it to temporarily land.
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They were times in which prime ministers seemed to be on their way out as soon as they’d arrived. The big strategic decisions the country faced were ducked or postponed. The public finances repeatedly wobbled, yet efforts to rationalise the tax system faltered in the face of vested interests, including farmers. Reforms to social security were trumpeted before being diluted. The whole business of politics was animated by rancour and rivalry, rather than practical action. All the while, populists waited in the wings.
This is not a sneak peak into a future history book about today’s Britain, but a description of the French fourth republic, which staggered after a difficult birth in 1946 until 1958, when the exhausted regime ceded the authority to create a new order to Gen Charles de Gaulle, effectively putting itself out of its misery.
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They were times in which prime ministers seemed to be on their way out as soon as they’d arrived. The big strategic decisions the country faced were ducked or postponed. The public finances repeatedly wobbled, yet efforts to rationalise the tax system faltered in the face of vested interests, including farmers. Reforms to social security were trumpeted before being diluted. The whole business of politics was animated by rancour and rivalry, rather than practical action. All the while, populists waited in the wings.
This is not a sneak peak into a future history book about today’s Britain, but a description of the French fourth republic, which staggered after a difficult birth in 1946 until 1958, when the exhausted regime ceded the authority to create a new order to Gen Charles de Gaulle, effectively putting itself out of its misery.
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An intense and prolonged heatwave has been causing misery for millions across Pakistan and India.
In southern Pakistan throughout April and May, temperatures have risen far above seasonal norms. In Sindh, daytime temperatures have frequently crossed 44C to 46C, forcing residents indoors during peak afternoon hours and severely affecting outdoor labourers, transport workers and farming communities.
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When Ángel Linares heard a strange buzz followed by an explosion, his first thought was that neighbours were setting off fireworks to celebrate the new year.
Then his windows shattered, the building’s walls shook and its facade was ripped off, sending him flying on to the ground of an apartment suddenly reduced to rubble. His 85-year-old mother, Jesucita, feared Venezuela’s northern coast had been devastated by an earthquake, like the one she remembers from 1967.
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Auguste, a brand spanking new Italian restaurant in Hackney, east London, is named, loosely, after a clown. The Edward Hopper painting Soir Bleu hangs on the wall, depicting a tragic sort in a whiteface mask sitting forlornly in a cafe surrounded by hipsters. The clown’s light veneer of calm, it seems, masks his bare tolerance of both his life and his fellow customers. Hopper painted it in 1914, and now, more than a century later, this same sad clown feels more than a little symbolic of all those who have chosen a life in hospitality at this time. Paint on a smile! Get out there! Make the crowds happy! If only business rates could be paid with a bucketload of glitter …
Auguste’s owners, chef Mike Bagnall and general manager Dylan Walters, have taken over the 32-seater premises formerly known as Papi, which recently upped sticks and moved on to a much larger site at The Golden Tooth in Newington Green. The space has been transformed from its Papi days as an extremely hip, European-influenced, irreverent, small plates, low-intervention wine and hyper-cool spot, to its new incarnation as, well, an extremely hip, Abruzzo-influenced, irreverent, small plates, low-intervention wine and hyper-cool spot. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose, you might be thinking, but pas exactement! The room now has white tablecloths and the big draw on Auguste’s menu are its skewers or, to be precise, arrosticini. Think tiny mini kebabs with the meat cut into 1cm cubes, then grilled over something called a furnacella. The live-fire craze among London hospitality’s menfolk shows no signs of abating. Man make fire. Fire good.
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For years, it has fallen to me and my sister to take my mother on holiday. Now, she has a big birthday coming up and wants me to arrange a trip abroad. I have three other siblings, who have never taken her on holiday, so to prod them into action I spoke with one of my brothers, who expressed disbelief at my mum’s request and told me I was a fool for going along with it.
I can’t decide if he’s being mean (our father died a few years ago and she doesn’t have friends to go with) or if I am the fool in the family. I have young kids and a tight budget, but our holiday has to be arranged to suit “Granny”, so it ends up being a less adventurous, more expensive trip than my siblings take with their kids.
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Feeling depressed about the state of the world? Worried about the future? You’re not alone. Pessimism about politics is the new normal among the peoples of the west. Major conflicts in Europe and the Middle East and the harms caused by right-left extremism, stagnating economies, inequality, corruption, terrorism, racism, big tech, mass extinctions and the climate crisis make for shared nightmares.
Growing numbers of people simply refuse to personally engage with current events via the news media, finding them too anxiety-inducing (so they probably won’t be reading this). In a Reuters Institute survey last year, 40% of respondents in about 50 countries said they sometimes or often avoid the news altogether, a rise of 29% on 2017.
Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign affairs commentator
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A man has been arrested in London after an incident in Birmingham in which a man was run over by a van after flags were removed from lamp-posts.
Officers arrested the suspect at Euston station near the meeting point of the “unite the kingdom” march. Another man was arrested on suspicion of encouraging people to attack a police officer.
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8.15pm, BBC One
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Jaguar Land Rover and General Motors are considering an expansion into UK defence via a £900m military contract, as carmakers seek to exploit a spending boom by Nato countries racing to rearm.
The manufacturers are among a group of automotive firms vying to make thousands of 4x4s for the armed forces to replace an ageing fleet of Land Rovers that have been out of production since 2016.
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This week, Stephen Butler completed a collection that he started almost 60 years ago. With the final piece in place, it’s now worth thousands of pounds, but he has no interest in selling it.
Butler was moving house five years ago when he stumbled across a box in the loft that he had not thought about in years. Inside was his old school cap, some exercise books, photos and, in the middle of it all, a 1970 Panini World Cup sticker book.
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Local councils should “rip up asphalt” to build community gardens so young people can grow vegetables, a co-founder of the Eden Project has said.
Tim Smit, who opened the giant biomes in Cornwall in 2000, has designed an “edimental” garden for the Chelsea flower show with the landscape designers Harry Holding and Alex Michaelis. The concept behind it is that plants such as cabbages and strawberries are beautiful but edible and should be placed alongside traditional bedding plants.
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Ken Loach has accused Your Party of squandering an opportunity to unite the left in the fight against the far right after the upstart socialist movement founded by the former Labour figures Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana became mired in infighting.
“There was great hope when Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana joined forces; 800,000 people expressed interest – that’s three times the size of a political party,” he said. “But I’m afraid some of the behaviours were very poor and they lost a historic opportunity.”
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Detroit; Sunday, 8 p.m. EDT
LINE: Pistons -4.5; over/under is 206.5
EASTERN CONFERENCE SECOND ROUND: Series tied 3-3
BOTTOM LINE: The Detroit Pistons host the Cleveland Cavaliers in game seven of the Eastern Conference second round. The Pistons defeated the Cavaliers 115-94 in the last matchup on Friday. Cade Cunningham led the Pistons with 21 points, and James Harden led the Cavaliers with 23.
The Pistons are 12-4 against division opponents. Detroit is the top team in the Eastern Conference with 57.9 points in the paint led by Jalen Duren averaging 14.6.
The Cavaliers are 11-5 against the rest of the division. Cleveland ranks fifth in the Eastern Conference with 28.3 assists per game led by Harden averaging 8.0.
The Pistons score 117.8 points per game, 2.4 more points than the 115.4 the Cavaliers allow. The Cavaliers average 9.9 more points per game (119.5) than the Pistons allow (109.6).
TOP PERFORMERS: Duren is averaging 19.5 points and 10.5 rebounds for the Pistons. Cunningham is averaging 28.8 points over the last 10 games.
Donovan Mitchell is scoring 27.9 points per game with 4.5 rebounds and 5.7 assists for the Cavaliers. Harden is averaging 20.4 points and 5.7 rebounds while shooting 40.7% over the past 10 games.
LAST 10 GAMES: Pistons: 6-4, averaging 107.1 points, 43.6 rebounds, 22.7 assists, 9.1 steals and 6.8 blocks per game while shooting 46.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 101.3 points per game.
Cavaliers: 5-5, averaging 107.5 points, 43.0 rebounds, 20.9 assists, 7.2 steals and 6.0 blocks per game while shooting 44.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 108.5 points.
INJURIES: Pistons: Caris LeVert: day to day (heel), Kevin Huerter: day to day (adductor), Duncan Robinson: day to day (back).
Cavaliers: Larry Nance Jr.: day to day (illness).
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
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Oklahoma City; Monday, 8:30 p.m. EDT
LINE: Thunder -6.5; over/under is 219.5
WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: Thunder host first series matchup
BOTTOM LINE: The Oklahoma City Thunder host the San Antonio Spurs to begin the Western Conference finals. San Antonio went 4-1 against Oklahoma City during the regular season. The Spurs won the last regular season matchup 116-106 on Thursday, Feb. 5 led by 25 points from Keldon Johnson, while Kenrich Williams scored 25 points for the Thunder.
The Thunder are 41-11 in conference games. Oklahoma City is 5-6 in one-possession games.
The Spurs are 36-16 in Western Conference play. San Antonio is second in the Western Conference scoring 119.8 points per game and is shooting 48.3%.
The 119.0 points per game the Thunder average are 7.5 more points than the Spurs give up (111.5). The Spurs average 11.9 more points per game (119.8) than the Thunder give up to opponents (107.9).
TOP PERFORMERS: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is averaging 31.1 points and 6.6 assists for the Thunder. Ajay Mitchell is averaging 15 points and 3.9 assists over the last 10 games.
Victor Wembanyama is scoring 25.0 points per game and averaging 11.5 rebounds for the Spurs. Julian Champagnie is averaging 2.6 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.
LAST 10 GAMES: Thunder: 8-2, averaging 118.0 points, 41.1 rebounds, 26.4 assists, 10.2 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 49.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.9 points per game.
Spurs: 7-3, averaging 117.5 points, 47.8 rebounds, 25.4 assists, 8.6 steals and 8.5 blocks per game while shooting 49.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 102.9 points.
INJURIES: Thunder: Jalen Williams: out (hamstring), Thomas Sorber: out for season (knee).
Spurs: David Jones Garcia: out for season (ankle).
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
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Ken Loach has accused Your Party of squandering an opportunity to unite the left in the fight against the far right after the upstart socialist movement founded by the former Labour figures Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana became mired in infighting.
“There was great hope when Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana joined forces; 800,000 people expressed interest – that’s three times the size of a political party,” he said. “But I’m afraid some of the behaviours were very poor and they lost a historic opportunity.”
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Local councils should “rip up asphalt” to build community gardens so young people can grow vegetables, a co-founder of the Eden Project has said.
Tim Smit, who opened the giant biomes in Cornwall in 2000, has designed an “edimental” garden for the Chelsea flower show with the landscape designers Harry Holding and Alex Michaelis. The concept behind it is that plants such as cabbages and strawberries are beautiful but edible and should be placed alongside traditional bedding plants.
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Jaguar Land Rover and General Motors are considering an expansion into UK defence via a £900m military contract, as carmakers seek to exploit a spending boom by Nato countries racing to rearm.
The manufacturers are among a group of automotive firms vying to make thousands of 4x4s for the armed forces to replace an ageing fleet of Land Rovers that have been out of production since 2016.
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Andy Burnham has suggested that a programme of mass renationalisation would be at the centre of his policy platform if he succeeds Keir Starmer as prime minister.
The Greater Manchester mayor is seeking a return to Westminster via a byelection in Makerfield. He has been widely expected to challenge Starmer for the Labour leadership if elected and is seen as the favoured candidate of the party’s soft left.
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This week, Stephen Butler completed a collection that he started almost 60 years ago. With the final piece in place, it’s now worth thousands of pounds, but he has no interest in selling it.
Butler was moving house five years ago when he stumbled across a box in the loft that he had not thought about in years. Inside was his old school cap, some exercise books, photos and, in the middle of it all, a 1970 Panini World Cup sticker book.
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You want to save money whenever you can so when you see the usual brand of flea treatment for your cat listed at half the normal price, you click “buy”.
It arrives and you apply it to your pet, but they fall ill and you have to rush to the vet for treatment.
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Yvette Cooper wrote a newspaper column about Palestine Action despite prosecutors warning it could prejudice criminal proceedings against six activists from the group, it can be revealed.
The then-home secretary wrote the column justifying Palestine Action’s proscription even though the Crown Prosecution Service advised it might unfairly impact a trial concerning a 2024 break-in at an Israeli arms manufacturer’s factory.
Continue reading...","guid":"https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/17/yvette-cooper-palestine-action-article-despite-cps-warning-trial","pubDate":"Sun, 17 May 2026 07:00:32 GMT","whenReceived":"Sun, 17 May 2026 07:20:37 GMT","whenUpdated":"Sun, 17 May 2026 07:20:37 GMT","enclosure":{"url":"https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8c7a8cade58e1d23f73891c18a9aac0bb96d2333/442_11_4071_3256/master/4071.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=000af57a8e5f25dcf4f2798e9df9cce7"},"metadata":{},"feedTitle":"UK news | The Guardian","feedLink":"https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news","feedDescription":"Latest news, breaking news and current affairs coverage from across the UK from theguardian.com","feedUrl":"http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/rss"} {"title":"‘It was always the way to vote Labour here’: party’s proud Welsh heartland makes a clean break of it","link":"https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/17/it-was-always-the-way-to-vote-labour-here-partys-proud-welsh-heartland-makes-a-clean-break-of-it","description":"Labour’s sometime safest seat in the UK, birthplace of Aneurin Bevan and Neil Kinnock, last week sent no Labour delegates to the new Senedd
Reminders of the Labour movement’s roots are inescapable in Tredegar, south Wales: murals pay tribute to party giants Aneurin Bevan and Neil Kinnock, both of whom were born here.
The Workmen’s Hall Library is long gone, replaced by a car park, but the Cambrian Inn, which hosted early trade unions and Chartist groups, survives. The Tredegar Medical Aid Society, which Bevan used as a model for the NHS, was across the road; today it is a heritage centre paying tribute to the public health pioneers and the area’s coal-mining and steel-making past.
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Reminders of the Labour movement’s roots are inescapable in Tredegar, south Wales: murals pay tribute to party giants Aneurin Bevan and Neil Kinnock, both of whom were born here.
The Workmen’s Hall Library is long gone, replaced by a car park, but the Cambrian Inn, which hosted early trade unions and Chartist groups, survives. The Tredegar Medical Aid Society, which Bevan used as a model for the NHS, was across the road; today it is a heritage centre paying tribute to the public health pioneers and the area’s coal-mining and steel-making past.
Continue reading...","guid":"https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/17/it-was-always-the-way-to-vote-labour-here-partys-proud-welsh-heartland-makes-a-clean-break-of-it","pubDate":"Sun, 17 May 2026 07:00:32 GMT","whenReceived":"Sun, 17 May 2026 07:21:38 GMT","whenUpdated":"Sun, 17 May 2026 07:21:38 GMT","enclosure":{"url":"https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d41815465c92c9e963f1847be4a5187ab3155065/0_0_6714_5375/master/6714.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e10821cb53154d1777230e8ef33958f3"},"metadata":{},"feedTitle":"The Guardian","feedLink":"https://www.theguardian.com/uk","feedDescription":"Latest news, sport, business, comment, analysis and reviews from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice","feedUrl":"https://www.theguardian.com/rss"} {"title":"Plaid Cymru has forged a brand of inclusive nationalism. That's why it beat Reform in Wales | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett","link":"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/17/plaid-cymru-inclusive-nationalism-reform-wales-senedd","description":"Growing up in Gwynedd, I was made to feel not ‘Welsh enough’. But things have changed – and the Senedd victory shows the politics of exclusion has no answer
Plaid Cymru and its leader, Rhun ap Iorwerth, made political history this month: they won the Senedd. For the first time ever, Wales now has a progressive majority that is not dependent on Labour. Polls had put Plaid and Reform UK neck and neck. In the run-up to the election, some of my Welsh friends were panicking. They were relieved that Reform came second.
I was never convinced that Reform’s brand of essentially English ethno-nationalism was ever going to triumph in Wales. The party seemed to think it could transpose its tactics from next door and that they’d work in the same way. Yet unlike Plaid, Reform UK has no story to tell about what it means to be Welsh.
Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett is a Guardian columnist
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Yvette Cooper wrote a newspaper column about Palestine Action despite prosecutors warning it could prejudice criminal proceedings against six activists from the group, it can be revealed.
The then-home secretary wrote the column justifying Palestine Action’s proscription even though the Crown Prosecution Service advised it might unfairly impact a trial concerning a 2024 break-in at an Israeli arms manufacturer’s factory.
Continue reading...","guid":"https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/17/yvette-cooper-palestine-action-article-despite-cps-warning-trial","pubDate":"Sun, 17 May 2026 07:00:32 GMT","whenReceived":"Sun, 17 May 2026 07:50:16 GMT","whenUpdated":"Sun, 17 May 2026 07:50:16 GMT","enclosure":{"url":"https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8c7a8cade58e1d23f73891c18a9aac0bb96d2333/442_11_4071_3256/master/4071.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=000af57a8e5f25dcf4f2798e9df9cce7"},"metadata":{},"feedTitle":"The Guardian","feedLink":"https://www.theguardian.com/uk","feedDescription":"Latest news, sport, business, comment, analysis and reviews from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice","feedUrl":"https://www.theguardian.com/rss"} {"title":"Premier League buildup, Celtic v Hearts fallout, FA Cup final reaction, and more – matchday live","link":"https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2026/may/17/fa-cup-final-scottish-premiership-wsl-reaction-premier-league-buildup-matchday-live","description":"⚽ Reaction and buildup on another busy Sunday
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It has never been so dangerous to be a journalist than now, and the threat keeps growing. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) recorded 129 deaths of reporters and other media workers in 2025, the most it has ever recorded, and five more than the previous record, which was last year.
I have worked for the Guardian for more than three decades and covered some brutal wars, but journalists are now in the crosshairs, actively targeted, in a way I have never seen before.
Continue reading...","guid":"https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2026/may/17/journalism-has-never-been-a-more-dangerous-pursuit","pubDate":"Sun, 17 May 2026 07:00:31 GMT","whenReceived":"Sun, 17 May 2026 07:50:16 GMT","whenUpdated":"Sun, 17 May 2026 07:50:16 GMT","enclosure":{"url":"https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/352ab385a55df2288c0e86b6e74c65be4e7c6d32/336_0_3360_2688/master/3360.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8fde336a9a4851dfa36ae9ab98f4d2cd"},"metadata":{},"feedTitle":"The Guardian","feedLink":"https://www.theguardian.com/uk","feedDescription":"Latest news, sport, business, comment, analysis and reviews from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice","feedUrl":"https://www.theguardian.com/rss"} {"title":"Rui Hachimura says he loves Lakers organization, hasn’t yet thought about free agency","link":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/rui-hachimura-says-loves-lakers-055336184.html","description":"HOUSTON, TEXAS - MAY 01: Rui Hachimura #28 of the Los Angeles Lakers smile prior to Game Six against the Houston Rockets in the First Round of the NBA Western Conference Playoffs at Toyota Center on May 01, 2026 in Houston, Texas. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Kenneth Richmond/Getty Images) | Getty Images\tWhen the Lakers traded for Rui Hachimura in 2023, they were acquiring a disgruntled wing, upset that the Wizards were not willing to commit to him long-term.
The player who helped them to the second round of the 2026 playoffs years later had changed drastically, embracing his role on a team and franchise that has spent multiple years developing him and reaping the benefits.
With the Lakers, Rui has become one of the best long-range shooters in the league and blossomed into a vital role player for a team with title-contending aspirations each year. His incredible performance in the postseason couldn’t have come at a better time for him personally as he’s set to enter free agency this summer.
After the team’s Game 4 loss to the Thunder to end the season, Rui was asked about his impending free agency. As free-agents-to-be always say, he noted he had not thought about it, but did speak about the joy of playing for the Lakers.
“I love this team,” Hachimura said. “I love this organization since I got here. This is my fourth season here. Start from [President of Basketball Operations] Rob [Pelinka], everybody. The owners, Jeanie [Buss] and now new owner Mark [Walter]. I just like them. I just like how they operate everything.
“I really appreciate them for what they’ve done for me. They did a lot for me. I love it here, but at the end of the day, I’m not the one negotiating. My agent is negotiator. I’m not a good negotiator. I put everything on my agents.”
You can understand why he isn’t doing the negotiating because he did a lot to show his hand in this answer. He clearly enjoys a lot of things about playing for the Lakers, including being part of a franchise that committed to his future.
Even outside of this quote from Hachimura, reports indicated that the expectation around the league is Rui will return to the Lakers. The price will be an interesting aspect of that.
At around $14-15 million, any team could compete for Rui’s services with the mid-level exception. However, that’d be a pay cut compared to his current deal, and given how well he’s performed, it feels unlikely that will be the case.
In that event, realistically, only the Lakers, Nets and Bulls can afford to bring him back. And, at his age, it seems unlikely he’d go to rebuilding teams in Brooklyn or Chicago. It puts the Lakers in the driver’s seat, if they want him back.
And based on how he played in the postseason and the commitment they’ve made for him, it’d be a surprise if they didn’t.
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The culture secretary pointed out she “did try to fix that” when she put her name forward for the leadership of the party in 2019.
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Lisa Nandy told Trevor Phillips the leadership crisis in the Labour party was “really winding” her up, during her morning interview on Sky News.
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Chelsea have confirmed the appointment of Xabi Alonso as their new manager. The Spaniard has signed a four-year deal and will start work in pre season. He becomes the sixth permanent manager of the BlueCo era.
The former Real Madrid head coach will take charge of the Blues from 1 July in what is his first managerial role in the Premier League.
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I hear Jack Thorne before I see him. We’re meeting in a quiet cafe in Hampstead, north London, to discuss his very first love story for TV, Falling. I catch snatches of him chatting with various waiters – “Thank you, good sir” and “Lovely, lovely” – before he appears in front of me, all smiles but a little nervous, too. Which is surprising given this is the writer who had a hand in hits such as Skins, Shameless and the This Is England trilogy, co-created a cluster of brilliant adaptations (His Dark Materials, Lord of the Flies, Enola Holmes) and is steadily building up a vast canon of work inspired by disturbing but fascinating real-life stories (National Treasure, Toxic Town, The Hack). Most notably, he also co-created the Netflix series Adolescence, winner of endless awards, including and viewed by 140 million people and counting.
The ridiculous thing is that Thorne’s theatre career is as illustrious as his TV work. There’s the small matter of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on stage (an experience that Thorne found rewarding but, with all eyes on him, “not always a lot of fun”); plus his takes on A Christmas Carol and the chilling Let the Right One In. He drew on his family’s own experiences with IVF for the screenplay to the movie Joy, and is currently co-writing Sam Mendes’s highly publicised but super-secret four-film series about the Beatles (“I’m not allowed to talk about that”).
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