The Miami Heat destroyed the Indiana Pacers Monday night. It's a huge victory for the NBA — the extent of the blowout left absolutely zero room for conspiracy theorists to say that it was fixed.

Donald Sterling is no longer the controlling owner of the Los Angeles Clippers ... TMZ Sports has learned he just surrendered control to his estranged wife, Shelly Sterling, and she is now secretly negotiating with the NBA to sell the team ... ON HER TERMS.

The Charlotte Bobcats officially adopted the “Hornets” moniker on Tuesday, launching a new website and social media accounts to reflect the name change. The organization’s new website, Hornets.com, sports the team’s new teal-and-purple color scheme and includes the tagline: “From the heart of our history comes the fierce soul of our future.”

If you were watching closely, you might've seen Kevin Johnson, the former NBA guard who's now mayor of Sacramento, sitting courtside at Staples Center during Game 4 of the Clippers-Thunder series. His arm was around his wife, Michelle Rhee, and the two seemed to preside over the action, conspicuous by design—their very presence in the fancy seats a further rebuke to the man whom Johnson had recently helped to oust from the NBA, Clippers owner Donald Sterling.

During the NBA 3X streetball event in Bilbao, Spain, one of our artists Botond Dajka came up with a really crazy idea! What if he jumped on the rim, stepped on top of the backboard and dunked with a backflip! This is the result... Enjoy!

Basketball legend Michael Jordan says that he considered himself a racist when he was a teenager and was “against all white people.” The confession comes from a new book, “Michael Jordan: The Life,” by Ronald Lazenby.

The National Basketball Association named former Time Warner Chairman Richard Parsons on Friday as interim chief executive officer of the Los Angeles Clippers to oversee management of the team while the league prepares the franchise for sale, the NBA said. Parson's appointment comes three days after the league announced an indefinite leave of absence for the top lieutenant of the Clippers' owner, Donald Sterling.

Oklahoma City Thunder star Kevin Durant, as expected, is the NBA's 2013-14 MVP. The NBA announced the results on Tuesday, with Durant capturing 119 of 125 first-place votes (and 1,232 voting points) after this season in which he won the league's scoring title for the fourth time in five seasons (32 points per game) while doing so much more than scoring.

NBA Playoffs Free Pick, Prediction Odds & Lines Wizards vs Pacers   Washington Wizards (44-38, 22-19 away) @ Indiana Pacers (56-26, 35-6 away) 05/05- 7:00PM EST Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, IN   EASTERN CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS: Game 1   Line: IND -4.0 Over/Under: 183.5   After a quick start to begin the 2013-14 NBA season, expectations …

Doc Rivers summed up a wild week culminating in a Game 7 win, writes J.A. Adande

Jamal Crawford ’s eyes grew wide when he was asked if he had a comment about V. Stiviano's claim during a television interview on Friday night that Donald Sterling wasn’t a racist.

Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling will be banned for life and fined $2.5 million for racist comments, NBA commissioner Adam Silver announced Tuesday...

Nearly every company listed as a sponsor for the Los Angeles Clippers have ended or suspended their sponsorship of the team following Donald Sterling’s alleged racist remarks. Mandalay Bay Resort has yet to weigh in.

Or at least, that's what the ESPN announcers think is happening. While the Miami Heat were playing the Charlotte Bobcats Saturday, LeBron James just might have thrown some shade at — gasp! — Michael Jordan.

you are too overconfident!

Not only does he think his own net is the opponents, he also can't sink the ball if his life depended on it.

This 7-foot-5 high school junior is taller than every NBA player and already a monster on the court. But is it fair to the other kids?

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Connecticut sophomore Breanna Stewart not only became the sixth UConn player to win the Naismith Trophy presented by AT&T, but she joined some stellar company in becoming just the seventh player to win the Naismith Trophy in both high school and college. Former Huskies star Maya Moore was the last to achieve that feat -- having won the Naismith Trophy twice in high school (2006, 2007) and twice in college (2009, 2011).

The screen at the ATT stadium is huge! The screen runs 72 feet high and 160 feet wide; for comparisons sake, you would need 4,920 regular 52-inch televisions to equal the size. All four screens run beautiful 1080p HD video, so there shouldn't be any doubt on replays. The board needs 30,000 light bulbs to run weighs 1.2 million tons.

Russian billionaire businessman Mikhail Prokhorov, owner of the Brooklyn Nets basketball franchise, said Monday he was transferring its ownership to Russia. As one of the richest Russians with assets abroad, Prokhorov could be vulnerable if the Western powers escalate economic sanctions against Russia over its takeover of Crimea.