Len Werle

The Atlanta Hawks have spent December looking like a team stuck between timelines; too talented to punt the season, too flawed to pretend the current roster is a finished product. …

28 years ago today, on December 29, 1997, Dallas Mavericks player Bubba Wells etched his name into the record books by recording six personal fouls in just three minutes during …

Giannis Antetokounmpo didn’t just finish the game in Chicago. He punctuated it. With the Milwaukee Bucks up 110–103 and the final seconds melting away at the United Center on Saturday, …

The shoves started like so many midseason skirmishes do: a hard screen, a smaller guard trying to wriggle through it, a big man holding his ground, and a whistle that …

LeBron James has long been the offensive engine wherever he has played. With age catching up as he turns 41, he naturally no longer needs to carry that load. With …

NBC Sports is adding a pop-culture jolt to its NBA presentation in early January, and it’s doing it in the most NBC way possible: by handing the headset to Snoop …

Nikola Jokić turned Denver’s Christmas night into his personal showcase, and he did it in a way the NBA record book simply didn’t have a slot for. In a 142–138 …

Beating a good team once can be noise. Beating it three times in a compressed window is a pattern. In the span of roughly 12 days, the San Antonio Spurs …

Jimmy Butler has never been particularly interested in basketball that looks calm. He prefers conflict, confrontation, and the kind of internal friction that only exists on teams that actually expect …