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LaMarcus Aldridge has retired from the NBA after saying he experienced an irregular heartbeat during his final game with the Brooklyn Nets

Michael Jordan will present Kobe Bryant for induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame next month.

USA Women’s basketball point guard Sue Bird has helped earn her team a gold medal in the last four Olympic Games. Tokyo will likely be her last attempt before she retires.

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…

One year after a tragic helicopter crash took the lives of Kobe Bryant, his daughter, Gianna, and seven other people on board, we reflect back on the year that was and the legacy he leaves behind.

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.

Texas Tech is promoting top assistant and school alumnus Mark Adams to replace Chris Beard as head coach.

Cade Cunningham announced Thursday that he will enter the NBA draft after a dynamic freshman season that saw him named a first-team AP All-American.

It’s not like anyone’s going to the office anyway

NCAA Vice President of Women’s Basketball Lynn Holzman has apologized after a video on social media showed the small stack of weights provided to the women’s teams in San Antonio in comparison to the spacious weight room for the men’s teams in Indianapolis.

With 68 teams competing in the NCAA men’s tournament, anyone who says they can predict the Final Four is a liar. So says ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith, who mixed it up with LX News host Ashley Holt about his March Madness favorites and his action figure, Mini Stephen A.

As challenging as the past year has been for college basketball players and fans, it’s been equally challenging for broadcasters, who have navigated empty stadiums, remote video feeds and, on occasion, iffy internet connections to call games this season. And while most of us have dealt with the annoying Zoom glitch here and there during the pandemic, a split second...

How popular was Michael Jordan? At the height of his fame, the greatest player in NBA history was asked for autographs everywhere. We mean everywhere. Jordan’s former teammate Will Perdue recounts the story of a fan’s flagrant foul.

March Madness will look and sound very different this year — not just for fans and players, but also for broadcasters who have navigated empty stadiums, remote video feeds and, on occasion, iffy internet connections to call games for fans at home this season.  “It’s not like anything I’ve ever been through before,” said Dave Eanet, who has been...

You have better odds of winning Powerball and Mega Millions in the same week than you do of filling out a perfect bracket.

These athletes have eight Olympic gold medals, four WNBA Championship titles and two World Cup wins between them, but Alex Morgan, Chloe Kim, Simone Manuel and Sue Bird noticed something they’re lacking. It’s actually something the entire world lacks — adequate coverage of women in sports. But rather than simply complain about it, this quartet of athletic icons from...

Every year we predict our March Madness winners, hoping for the ultimate prize: a perfect NCAA bracket. We know the odds are slim, but how slim are they? We broke it down.

The University of Texas at Arlington Movin’ Mavs won their ninth National Wheelchair Basketball Association championship, defeating Alabama 66-51 for the title.

An announcer for a live stream of an Oklahoma girls high school basketball game cursed and called one team by a racial epithet as the players kneeled during the national anthem

Gonzaga’s bid to go wire-to-wire No. 1 is in its final week.