NBA

On May 16, 1980, Los Angeles Lakers rookie guard Magic Johnson filled in at center for the injured Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in Game 6 of the 1980 NBA Finals. Magic was …

The Cleveland Cavaliers had a ticket to the Eastern Conference Finals in their hands. One home win, one clean closeout, one mature performance, and the series would be over. Instead, …

Kenny Smith cut through the noise with the kind of perspective few people can honestly claim. In college, he shared a locker room with Michael Jordan at North Carolina. In …

Fred VanVleet has seen superstar life from close range. He has lived beside Kawhi Leonard during a championship run, and he has shared a locker room with Kevin Durant during …

Steve Kerr has won championships, managed superstars, survived Draymond Green news cycles, and answered approximately one billion questions about ball movement. But his most unexpected coaching achievement may have come …

The strangest stories in the NBA are not always about missed shots, broken coverages or playoff collapses. Sometimes they are about clocks. Practice clocks. Film-session clocks. Plane clocks. The quiet …

Before the triple-doubles, before the MVP, before the fashion tunnel became a runway and before Russell Westbrook’s NBA career turned into one of the fiercest individual storms of his generation, …

24 years ago today, Allen Iverson was named the NBA’s Most Valuable Player for the 2000-01 season, at 6-foot and 165 pounds becoming the shortest and lightest MVP in league …

The Lakers’ game-ball controversy was already a strange little window into the politics of greatness. Then Gilbert Arenas got involved, and the whole thing became something louder, funnier and far …