Editor's note: This is a part of an occasional USA TODAY Sports series on the best moments, teams, players and figures in sports over the last 25 years. There's a long legacy of Hall of Famers ...

Between the aprons decimating rosters, the ever-present threat of injuries and the impossibly high bar each postseason sets for who is and is not playable on the biggest stage, we have officially ...

As soon as he learned the NBA was returning to China, diehard fan Buke Liu scrambled to get his hands on tickets, paying almost a thousand dollars – a price you might expect for an NBA Finals game – ...

Editor's note: This is a part of an occasional USA TODAY Sports series on the best moments, teams, players and figures in sports over the last 25 years. Cooper Flagg has a lot to live up to after the ...

The NBA is vibrant and complex as ever, but viewer access has never been so expensive. Alonzo Adams / Imagn Images The NBA will look and sound different this season. Watching it will also cost more ...

Reed Sheppard is one of several second-year players who need to take the leap this season. Alex Slitz / Getty Images The Bounce Newsletter | This is The Athletic’s daily NBA newsletter. Sign up here ...

Basketball keeps getting more global. The NBA season opens Tuesday, and the league’s opening night rosters show a record 135 players who were born outside the U.S. They come from 43 countries — tying ...

MACAU (Reuters) -The National Basketball Association (NBA) returned to China on Thursday for the first time since a controversial parting of ways in 2019, staging two games in Macau and announcing a ...

San Antonio Spurs phenom Victor Wembanyama was already tall. But, if the latest official measurements released by the team are to be trusted, he actually got taller. Wembanyama came into the NBA two ...

Oklahoma City fell short of a title last season. No, not the Larry O'Brien—they won that, and for the first time in franchise history. But before they got there, the Thunder couldn't quite close the ...

Tony Bradley is one of three players on non-guaranteed deals with two roster spots open: 'I know what's at stake' Bradley has been focusing on extending the range on his jump shot to complement his ...