Earl Lloyd, First Black Player In NBA, Dies At 86
Lloyd made his NBA debut in 1950 for the Washington Capitals, just before fellow black players Sweetwater Clifton and Chuck Cooper played their first games.
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Lloyd made his NBA debut in 1950 for the Washington Capitals, just before fellow black players Sweetwater Clifton and Chuck Cooper played their first games.
In one night, Lionel Hollins and the Nets undid all those feel-good stories from their modest two-game winning streak coming out of the All-Star break.
The Chicago Bulls star will have surgery on his right knee for the second straight season, casting doubt on whether the once dynamic point guard will ever be the same after a series of injuries.
"I actually spoke to him (Monday)," Antoine Mason told AL.com. "He can't talk yet, but he can hear things and respond by blinking and shaking his head and things like that."
We're in the midst of one of the coldest months on record throughout the country.
Here come the small-ball lovers. "See--the Nets won two in a row by taking a page out of Kidd's playbook. What irony!" Except they don't realize that it can't be sustained.
Robinson was waived Sunday by the Denver Nuggets, who had acquired him from Portland on Thursday at the trade deadline.
One would hope that the owner of a professional sports franchise would take the high road, or at least say nothing at all.
The partnership that had so much promise but such limited success lasted just four years before the high-scoring forwards went in separate directions: Amar'e to Dallas, Anthony to the operating table.
The Phoenix point guard has made it clear there is no way he would re-sign with the Suns: "I don't trust them anymore."
The NBA trade deadline looms on Thursday, but it's been quiet over the past couple of years and figures to be again this season. Let's take a look back at some of the biggest (though not always the best) trades made on deadline day in league history.
Stoudemire asked out of his contract because he wants to make a run at a title. The veteran has apparently decided Dallas is the place to spend the rest of this season chasing his first title.
Russell Westbrook scored 41 points, one shy of the NBA All-Star Game record, and the Western Conference beat the East 163-158 on Sunday night.
Here are the top five moments from this year's game and a few that weren't so great.
NBA officials say counterfeit merchandise is popping up and released several photos of the fake goods.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said Saturday that he is determined to make a schedule that keeps NBA players fresher, and he is willing to discuss starting the season earlier or ending later.
Little League phenom Mo'ne Davis was so impressive on a basketball court she momentarily silenced trash-talking "Wedding Ringer" star Kevin Hart.
Some of the dunks were impressive — all four contestants in Saturday's slam dunk contest were in Friday's game — but the play was spotty.
After years of performing only in warm-weather cities in the South and West, the midseason spectacle has come back to the bitterly cold Big Apple.
Knicks star Carmelo Anthony says he'd like to play in Sunday's All-Star Game, even if it's just short enough for a hi-how-ya-doing to the home crowd. But the optics aren't good.
The Golden State Warriors' guard might be the man of the weekend, and even he can't believe how quickly it's happened after he was an All-Star snub just two years ago.
The Knicks fan favorite isn't out of the woods yet, but his condition has reportedly been upgraded from "moment to moment" to "day to day."
Grant Hill joined Boomer and Craig in the Allstate Studio Friday morning to wrap up what was a great week of basketball guests on the radio program.
Clyde 'The Glide' Drexler was in town Friday for this weekend's NBA All-Star festivities, so the Hall of Famer was sure to stop by the Allstate Studio to pay Boomer and Craig a visit.
The Knicks community is rallying around Anthony Mason after the former bruising forward reportedly suffered a major heart attack.
