Russell won 11 championships with the Boston Celtics

Marcus Smart was one of three Celtics players topping 20 points in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals as Boston defeated the Heat in Miami on Sunday, sealing a spot in the NBA Finals against the Golden State Warriors.

Across the NBA, consultants are teaching players and coaches how to see the game through the eyes of referees to gain an edge on their opponents.

Former Lakers executive Jerry West has demanded a retraction and an apology for what he called "a baseless and malicious assault" on his character in the HBO series "Winning Time."

ESPN has identified at least one former and 17 current NBA players who maintain contracts with four Chinese brands accused of abetting China's human rights abuses in Xinjiang.

Covid-19 outbreaks are sweeping through the NFL, NBA and NHL, sidelining dozens of players this week including some of the leagues’ biggest stars.

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Eighteen former NBA players have been arrested on charges alleging they defrauded the league's health and welfare benefit plan out of about $4 million, according to an indictment Thursday

A U.S. congressional commission on Tuesday called on American basketball stars to end endorsements of Chinese sportswear firms that use cotton grown in China's Xinjiang region, warning against complicity in forced labor they say takes place there.

From gravity-defying dunks and in-air acrobatics to an unquenchable thirst for dominance and an overt disdain for anything shy of excellence, Kobe Bryant spent much of his life following in the footsteps left by Michael Jordan's iconic Nike sneakers.

“I don’t know if even the guards could play in this time right here. It’s saucy. ”

The NBA chose not to test players for marijuana use in the Orlando restart bubble, now that will continue into the new 2020-21 season.

The NBA, which was the first pro league to suspend play amid the COVID-19 pandemic, made $1.5 billion less than it projected last season due to the pandemic and other factors, according to an Associated Press report.

How worried should the NBA be about Lakers-Heat drawing the fewest viewers ever for the NBA Finals?

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Decades before the Milwaukee Bucks' walkout brought the playoffs to a halt, a few NBA pioneers took a similarly brave stand against racial injustice.

Toronto Raptors head coach Nick Nurse has been named the NBA coach of the year.

China is under fire worldwide for its repression of ethnic Uighurs and other minorities, mostly Muslims, in Xinjiang.

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The NBA and players' association said Monday that COVID-19 tests of 346 players at the league's bubble campus in Orlando since July 13 have yielded zero positives.