The Tony Awards: Exactly Like the NBA's Western Conference -- Vulture -- Entertainment & Culture Blog -- New York Magazine

"TRACY MCGRADY, AS EVERYONE KNOWS, IS THE CARYL CHURCHILL OF THE NBA": Or so claims this New York magazine mashup of the contenders for the NBA Western Conference crown and the Tony nominations in the Best Play categories:

MACBETH -- NBA counterpart: Phoenix Suns
As Mike D'Antoni's Suns do to the NBA, BAM's production of Macbeth brings a teensy touch of the European avant-garde to Broadway. And the addition to each's roster of a bald-headed monster — Patrick Stewart's Macbeth and Shaquille O'Neal — might have seemed like folly at first but now feels like genius.

In other basketball coverage in the magazine, Jeff Coplon writes a definitive eulogy for the Knickerbockers.