THE AFRO — Sports conglomerate ESPN recently released its rankings on most influential NBA player to ever play and ranked brand new Los Angeles Lakers forward...
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(Time) – When I started playing basketball as a freshman at UCLA, coach John Wooden told us a bunch of crazy ideas about useless drills we...
Lucy McCalmont, THE HUFFINGTON POST GOLETA, Calif. (Huffington Post) — When you’re the best, you’re the best. Michael Jordan showed everyone he still has skills...
Rick Freeman, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — Anthony Mason, the rugged power forward who was a defensive force in the NBA from the 1990s...
Richard Goldstein, THE NEW YORK TIMES DETROIT (The New York Times)—Earl Lloyd, who became the first black player to appear in an N.B.A. game when he...
(USA Today) – LeBron James Jr. is already showing signs of following in his father’s phenomenal footsteps. He’s led his team to an AAU national...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist Each year in mid-February, the NBA All-Star Game plants itself in a different American city and takes over for a...
Doug Feinberg, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — Little League phenom Mo’ne Davis was so impressive on a basketball court she momentarily silenced trash-talking “Wedding...
Aaron Beard, ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP)—Dean Smith accomplished so much on and off the court during his time as North Carolina’s coach, leaving a lasting influence both...
Kevin Ding, BLEACHER REPORT CLEVELAND (BleacherReport.com)— For everything that didn’t happen for Kevin Love in Minnesota, starting and ending with the lack of winning, most people...
Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY (USA Today)—In a short time, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has established himself as the players’ commissioner, the owners’ commissioner, the people’s...
Michael Lee, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—When Kobe Bryant made his first public comments after signing a two-year extension in November 2013, the Los...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cleveland closed out its road trip with a sweep of Los Angeles’ teams in a hint of a turnaround for a...
Joe Vardon, NORTHEAST OHIO MEDIA GROUP SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Cleveland.com)–Barring a setback, LeBron James will participate in practice on Monday in Phoenix as he inches closes...
Terry Wallace, ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS (AP) — Roy Tarpley, the former Dallas Mavericks star center whose NBA career was cut short by drug abuse, died...
Brian Windhorst and Marc Stein, ESPN (ESPN.com)—There is a growing level of worry within the Cleveland Cavaliers’ organization about first-year coach David Blatt and his ability...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist During the month of July, the NBA Player’s Association elected Attorney Michele Roberts as their first African-American female executive director, putting...
Justin Terranova, THE NEW YORK POST (The New York Post)—The never-ending soap opera surrounding Bulls star Derrick Rose continued on Thursday, and it has nothing...
By Everett L. Glenn NNPA Guest Columnist There’s a runninng debate in basketball that Michael Jordan made winners out of the players around him in Chicago,...
(Grantland) – A couple of weeks ago, my wife and the baby and I were at the YMCA near our home in Houston. We’d gone there to go swimming, but...
Brian Mahoney, ASSOCIATED PRESS BILBAO, Spain (AP) — They figured it would be simple, that they would just beat up on Turkey like they did...
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) — The Detroit Pistons are counting on Stan Van Gundy to bring some much-needed stability to a struggling franchise. They’re certainly...
[ESPN] Kobe Bryant signed a two-year contract extension with the Los Angeles Lakers on Monday. The Lakers did not announce financial terms, but a source told ESPNLosAngeles.com’s Ramona Shelburne...
[ESPN] EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Kobe Bryant continued to inch closer to a return, practicing at full speed in five-on-five drills for the first time Tuesday and saying...
