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The NBA has imposed new COVID-19 restrictions for its players as the new season is shaken by an increase in cases. Flip Media’s Eric Mitchell breaks down what to expect as the league gets its new season underway outside the bubble.

The 2021 Division 1 Men’s Basketball Championship will be played entirely within Indiana. The tournament known as “March Madness” was canceled last year due to the pandemic.

Becky Hammon became the first woman to coach an NBA team, taking over the San Antonio Spurs after coach Gregg Popovich was ejected in a 121-107 loss to LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday night.

Author Ivy Claire was shocked when she received an out-of-the-blue call from the late NBA great Kobe Bryant asking her to co-write a series of YA books with him. Now as their second and final book, “Epoca: The River of the Sand,” is published nearly a year after his death, she remembers her close collaboration with Bryant and what he...

John Wall was back on the floor for the first time in nearly two years

The NCAA says it plans to hold the entire 2021 men’s college basketball tournament in one location to mitigate the risks of the coronavirus

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.

Former Philadelphia 76ers coach Brett Brown has quit as head coach of the Australian men’s basketball team for the Tokyo Olympics.

Late Monday night, Gov. Phil Murphy signed an executive order that allows for medium- and high-risk sports like basketball, hockey, wrestling and cheerleading to resume amid coronavirus with 25% capacity limits in place.

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…

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.

Before the Sixers play the Celtics in Game 4 on Sunday afternoon and try to avoid being swept for the first time in over 20 years, here’s what you need to know.

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?

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.

Athletes have had to adjust their training for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics amid the coronavirus pandemic. Philly Live’s Aunyea Lachelle talks to Steve Serio, U.S. Paralympian and Team Toyota Athlete in wheelchair basketball about his training regiment gearing up for Tokyo.