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

There is no shortage of imitation in basketball. So why is the most successful shot of all time extinct? Shaun Powell Around the NBA, players and coaches have historically embraced stealing, or to ...

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 ...

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar turns 79 on April 16, 2026, and while most people know the 7’2″ athlete as a basketball legend with the Milwaukee Bucks and the Los Angeles Lakers, he has also formed a pretty ...

(CNN) — Here is a look at the life of philanthropist, best-selling author and NBA Hall of Fame center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Member of three UCLA Bruins national championship teams, 1967, 1968 and 1969.

Stop me if you've heard this one before: LeBron James has set a new NBA record. On Tuesday night, James and the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers, 127-113. Between the regular season ...

Nicknames have become few and far between in hoops, aside from the ones Basketball Reference lists and no one actually uses -- apologies to those who call Julius Randle "Don Julio," "Goosebumps" or ...

NCAA Tournament viewers had a hard time taking their eyes off the guy with the goggles on Thursday night, March 19, when Georgia basketball played the Saint Louis Billikens in the first round of March ...

No. 9 seed Saint Louis men's basketball crushed No. 8 seed Georgia 102-77 in the first round of the NCAA tournament on Thursday evening. Saint Louis center Robbie Avila was a jack-of-all-trades with ...

After he broke yet another NBA record, the Los Angeles Lakers honored LeBron James on Sunday. Ahead of the team's matchup against the New York Knicks, the Lakers played a highlight video for James to ...

The arena buzzed with anticipation on Thursday night as LeBron James once again surpassed Los Angeles Lakers legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in the history books. James hit a turnaround fadeaway jumper on ...