The midrange shot has largely faded out of NBA basketball in recent years. But this season, Jaylen Brown has leaned on it heavily as part of his efforts to lead the Celtics to an elite offense: “The a ...

The 2023-24 team that made the NBA Finals with a pretty similar group of players went 23-9. It may not be fully random, but ...

Has more pace in NBA games meant more injuries? In the first 12 games in '23-24, stars played in 87.2% of games. This season? 67.6%.

The Suns once again came up short, falling to the Dallas Mavericks in seven. Before that conference semifinals series, Paul pulled off another epic closer performance, scoring 33 points to become the ...

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When the Minnesota Timberwolves traded for Rudy Gobert in the 2022 offseason, the team's identity naturally shifted toward ...

On his résumé, Nico Harrison can tout runs to the 2022 Western Conference finals and 2024 NBA Finals among his exploits during slightly more than four seasons as ...

The Dallas Mavericks have fired general manager Nico Harrison, an admission nine months later that the widely criticized trade of Luka Doncic backfired on the franchise.

Basketball has grown into a truly global game, with players from every corner of the world now filling NBA rosters. But the league's American roots still run deep — and many of its top scorers got ...

The 2025-26 NBA season is barely a week old, but there are already some narratives forming. Victor Wembanyama is leveling up at a terrifying rate early in the season and might be the best player in ...

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