NBA

Michael Jordan has a crazy array of legendary playoff performances under his belt, one of which took place 40 years ago today, and made Larry Bird believe something biblical had …

Every player has a moment when the league stops feeling like an ambition and starts feeling real. For Fred VanVleet, that moment apparently arrived in layers. First came the sight …

The Los Angeles Lakers won Game 1 of their first-round series against Houston, but Shannon Sharpe’s takeaway was less about the scoreboard than about the warning signs buried underneath it. …

The Boston Celtics began their postseason the way top seeds imagine it: with control, with force, and with very little suspense by the end. In Game 1 of their first-round …

The San Antonio Spurs are no longer treating their most animated fan section as a fun experiment. They are formalizing it. Applications are now open for next season’s version of …

Charles Barkley has always understood that Inside the NBA works best when it sounds slightly ungovernable, even when a sponsor is sitting right in the middle of the desk. That …

For decades, Nike’s grip on basketball felt close to cultural law. That is what makes the current conversation around the company so striking. Nike’s stock has been battered over the …

The most revealing thing about a defending champion is often not how loudly it talks about the title it already owns, but how carefully it talks about the one it …

The Los Angeles Lakers opened their first-round series by looking far steadier than a wounded team had any right to. Missing both Luka Dončić and Austin Reaves, the Lakers still …