Sports
Pro basketball: Player receives one-year league ban after Warriors terminate contract for insubordination.
Dec. 5, 1997
It is not major news that an overpaid basketball player is sorry he assaulted his coach.
Dec. 13, 1997
Sports: Player indicates he will appeal NBA’s one-year ban. Union chief also lends support at news conference.
Dec. 10, 1997
Latrell Sprewell’s 21.4 points per game aren’t among the Golden State Warriors’ statistics in the team’s pregame notes.
Dec. 19, 1997
I was very pleased to see the Warriors and NBA take swift action in terminating Latrell Sprewell’s contract and suspending him from the league for a year after his vicious assault on Coach P.J.
Dec. 6, 1997
Concluding the penalty phase of an incident that damaged everyone it touched, an arbitrator reinstated Golden State Warrior star Latrell Sprewell’s contract Wednesday and trimmed his suspension back to July 1.
March 5, 1998
The NBA says it has been told that Latrell Sprewell plans to file a lawsuit seeking damages stemming from his suspension for choking Golden State Warrior Coach P.J.
May 19, 1998
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Jonathan Kirsch (Commentary, Dec. 14) proves that even one with his perspicacity can miss badly.
Dec. 17, 1997
Motor racing: DeVries, a neophyte in IRL, races for Sprewell-backed team at Fontana and, he hopes, at Indy.
March 23, 2002
Pro basketball: Knicks’ star fined $250,000 for failing to disclose broken hand reportedly suffered when he threw a punch.
Oct. 8, 2002