Linked by Alaska and connected by generational talent, the basketball careers of Alissa Pili and Ruthy Hebard have run parallel to each other for years. Both were three-time Gatorade Alaska Player of the Year selections and 2,000-point scorers in high school. Both...
Alissa Pili’s day started at the Empire State Building and ended on Cloud 9 after she was selected eighth in Monday’s WNBA Draft in New York City. The two-time All-American out of the University of Utah became the fifth Alaskan to be drafted, the third to go in the...
Let him cook. It took until the final game of the 82-game regular season, but the Charlotte Hornets finally fit 21-year-old JT Thor of Anchorage with a chef’s hat. Given space to operate on Sunday, he used that leeway to leverage his breakthrough NBA performance with...
Anchorage’s JT Thor helped bring the Charlotte Hornets back from a 15-point fourth-quarter deficit Wednesday and made some personal history as well. The 6-foot-10 forward threw down a dunk and finished with six points in 18 minutes off the bench in a 115-114 victory...
Seeing the East Anchorage boys basketball team winning state championships with a head coach named Chuck is a scene that’s played out in Alaska since 1970. For decades it was Chuck White, now it’s Chuck Martin. Two coaches with a similar name and similar styles who’ve...
Wasilla High's Mylee Anderson and Nome-Beltz High's Finn Gregg turned in command performances on Alaska's grandest basketball stage to lead their respective teams to state titles. The basketball standouts are our Alaska Athlete of the Week co-winners. Anderson, a...
In a season defined by records, Alissa Pili’s final bucket was the chef’s kiss. The University of Utah women’s basketball team’s two-time All-American out of Anchorage drilled a 3-pointer in the final seconds of Monday’s 77-66 loss to Gonzaga in the second round of...
There were lots of games this season when the East boys basketball team was carried by Muhammed Sabally and plenty more when Akeem Sulaiman did the heavy lifting. Saturday night, they shared the workload and helped the T-birds hoist another trophy. Sabally produced 23...
In its 10th year, the Alaska Airlines Center not also housing hockey is well known regardless of your personal sports fandom. Yet, on the facility’s basketball court Saturday night, Savannah Kroon gloriously withstood the kind of body check puck heads adore. No harm....
Don’t think, just shoot. And keep shooting. That was the advice Nome-Beltz boys basketball player Orson Hoogendorn heard before Saturday’s Class 3A boys state title game and again at crunch time. That constant support pumped confidence back into him before he pumped...
After riding shotgun to the Gatorade Alaska Player of the Year for much of the season, Ella Boerger took the wheel and drove the Grace Christian girls basketball team to a championship Saturday. Boerger had 14 of her team’s first 20 points in the first half and then...