How To Beat The Heat

Baseball belongs to young power arms, the most fascinating of which is the Mets' Matt Harvey. Armed with four plus pitches-and a small chip on his shoulder from a draft slight six years ago-he might just end up owning a Yankees town.

SI's 10th annual list of the most highly compensated athletes in the U.S. is headlined by a boxer but dominated by baseball players, who occupy exactly half the spots.

For seven days SI went behind the scenes with Memphis as the western conference contenders improvised a game plan for the Thunder, bounced back from a grueling defeat-and got their hair cut just right.