Adam Zagoria is a Basketball Insider who covers basketball at all levels. A contributor to The New York Times and SportsNet New York (SNY), he is also the author of two books and is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker. His articles have appeared in ESPN The Magazine, SLAM, Sheridan Hoops, Basketball Times and in newspapers nationwide. He also won an Emmy award for his work on the SNY mini-documentary on Syracuse guard Tyus Battle.
A veteran Ultimate Frisbee player, he has competed in numerous National and World Championships and, perhaps more importantly, his teams won the Westchester Summer League (WSL) championships in 2011 and 2013.
He lives in Manhattan with his wife and children.
DETROIT — Wayne Ellington knows the Michigan State basketball team is inspired by a cause.
When the Spartans take the court for tonight’s NCAA championship game at Ford Field before more than 72,000 mostly green-clad Michigan State fans, they will be playing to lift the spirits of this economically depressed city, one that has come to symbolize America’s troubled economic times.
But Ellington and his North Carolina teammates can’t worry about that.
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