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LX News caught up with NBA All-Star Andre Drummond of the Cleveland Cavaliers on the NBA’s successful bubble approach to its season, his partnership with Sports Hi to provide student scholarships, and his #EpicMilkDunk challenge.

The Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Miami Heat, 106-93, in Game 6 of the NBA Finals to claim their record-tying 17th NBA Championship in team history.

In 2013, Indiana Pacers head coach Frank Vogel had his team one win away from reaching the NBA Finals. Instead, he was thwarted by then-Miami Heat forward LeBron James and never reached his dream of coaching in the Finals. Seven years later, Vogel is now the head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, and instead of staying up all night…

Arike Ogunbowale scored 26 points, and her three-point play with 12.4 seconds left helped carry Dallas past the New York Liberty 82-79 on Sunday, keeping the Wings’ playoff hopes alive.

A small number of protesters carrying signs and shouting into megaphones blocked at least two buses chartered by the NBA from briefly from entering the Walt Disney World campus on Saturday night, with the group saying it wanted LeBron James, Russell Westbrook and other top players to take notice

The college basketball coaching great John Thompson of Georgetown has died

Former Georgetown University basketball coach John Thompson, Jr. has died at the age of 78.

Nobody had ever scored as much as Luka Doncic in an NBA playoff debut.

A pandemic. A social justice movement. A nationwide call for change. Small businesses in America are operating during unprecedented times – but they aren’t letting COVID-19 stop them. How are they doing it?

Luke Walton was trying to motivate his Sacramento Kings to play hard until the end of this season.

Texas Tech fired women’s basketball coach Marlene Stollings on Thursday, a day after a scathing newspaper report alleging a culture of abuse in her program.

So far, so good.

Alex Taylor is the founder and captain of Hoop York City, a New York City organization that gives female basketball players an empowering space to play the game. Taylor’s mission is to inspire woman to become entrepreneurs and help shift the perspective of a sport that often favors men.

Players and coaches from the New Orleans Pelicans, Utah Jazz, Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers knelt alongside one another before the first games of the NBA restart.

WNBA star A’ja Wilson discusses the passing of Rep. John Lewis and how his loss is a reminder to her to use her platform to make change.

NBA and MLB are both gearing up for modified seasons, but reports that players have tested positive for COVID-19 are raising concerns that the precautions to keep players and staff safe won’t be enough. So will sports fans actually get to watch professional baseball and basketball this year? Sports injury expert Will Carroll weighs in.

It’s not socialism, just smart business. The NBA figured out long ago its best team was only as strong as its weakest. It’s a lesson the United States could stand to learn in the fight to end inequality.

NBA players have until June 24 to commit to playing in the upcoming basketball restart. Players who choose to participate in the upcoming season will be subject to strict coronavirus guidelines.

Longtime Midwestern State women’s basketball coach Noel Johnson, the point guard for Texas Tech’s 1993 national championship team, has died. She was 47.