Kobe Bryant pours in 36 to help Lakers secure needed win  Kobe Bryant scored 36 points with an MVP-worthy performance, Sasha Vujacic added 20 points and the Lakers, teetering on the brink of falling ...

Mike Krzyzewski won five national titles as the head coach at Duke, including back-to-back titles in 1991 and 1992.

There are lots of important conversations to have about looming NBA expansion. Conference realignment, schedule changes, the literal billions of dollars each team will bring in from their sale — you ...

Former NBA player Rashad McCants said the late great Kobe Bryant could've had much more than the 83 points Bam Adebayo scored on Tuesday.

Image Courtesy of The NBA. By Sam Bergstrom In the National Basketball Association—and, professional sports in general—there are instances where teams fall out of playoff contention for multiple years ...

The Thunder and Celtics have won the last two NBA titles in a an era of parity. Alonzo Adams / Imagn Images The Bounce Newsletter | This is The Athletic’s daily NBA newsletter. Sign up here to receive ...

WWE Hall of Famer Lita has had some incredible matches, including during her full-time career that ended in 2006, to her recent matches with the women of today.

Wade, who has been retired since the end of the 2018-19 season, might have helped fuel Adebayo’s historic night during a podcast discussion with former Heat teammate Shaquille O’Neal when he cited the ...

Brian Ching, who led the Dynamo to a pair of titles, joins former Texans star J.J. Watt in the 2026 Class of the Houston Sports Hall of Fame.

More than 20 years after Kobe Bryant delivered a career-defining 81-point performance against the Toronto Raptors, Bam Adebayo went two points better on Tuesday night in a crushing win over the ...

The only NBA players who scored more than 31 points in any quarter since the 1996-97 season are Klay Thompson (37-point third quarter on Jan. 23, 2015), Kevin Love (34-point first quarter on Nov. 23, ...