Through the NBA Social Justice Champion Award, which honors NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, players making an impact in ...

The skyhook was developed by Abdul-Jabbar early in his basketball journey, when he was still known as Lew Alcindor. It came ...

When Alcindor - soon to be known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, or “Lewis Kareem” to his legendary UCLA coach John Wooden - went off ...

Long before the era of billion-dollar TV deals and nine-figure max contracts, professional athletes were already magnets for opportunists. The bigger the name, the bigger the target and few names in ...

The Nike SB Dunk Low “Muni Fast Pass” is officially here in a striking “Lightning” and “Denim Turquoise” colorway, offering a strict exercise in high-contrast color-blocking. The physical mechanics of ...

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By the time Patrick Ewing entered the NBA as the top overall pick of the New York Knicks in 1985, Los Angeles Lakers legend ...

The former Los Angeles Sparks player Lisa Leslie will be honored with a statue outside the city’s Crypto.com Arena. The Compton-born basketball star, who was the first ever to dunk in a WNBA game, ...

Few players in NBA history have entered the league with as much hype as Victor Wembanyama. And somehow, some way, the giant Frenchman continues to exceed even the wildest expectations. Late on Monday ...

Victor Wembanyama delivered a performance for the ages Monday night, powering the San Antonio Spurs to a 122-115 double-overtime victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 1 of the Western ...

Kareem Rahma used to keep a Post-it note in his home office that read: “The secret to doing things is doing them.” At 33, he abandoned a career in media in the hopes of becoming a famous comedian. (“A ...

Bam Adebayo earns the trophy, with Harrison Barnes, Jaylen Brown, Tobias Harris & Larry Nance Jr. the other finalists for 2025-26. Official release Bam Adebayo (Miami Heat) emerged as the 2026 NBA ...