Michael Jordan is now a billionaire. In February, my colleague and the Dean of athlete earnings, Kurt Badenhausen, pegged Jordan’s annual earnings at $90 million and his net worth at $750 million. But I have learned from sources familiar with the Charlotte Hornets that the former NBA great has increased his stake in his basketball team to 89.5% from 80% during the past several months.

Five years after his retirement, one of the greatest shot-blockers in NBA history is as visible as ever, thanks to a trademark finger-wag that helped him become an icon and clear a path for the league’s globalization.

Heat guard Dwyane Wade flopped against Spurs guard Manu Ginobili during Game 2 of the NBA Finals at the AT&T Center on Sunday.

When Miami Heat forward Lebron James was forced to leave the court last night at the end of game one of the NBA Finals due to a leg cramp, it predictably elicited a chorus of jeers from diehard Lebron haters. Gatorade, meanwhile, saw it as a time to extoll the hydrating virtues of its product. One man’s misfortune is another’s real-time marketing opportunity, apparently.

Donald Sterling has agreed to the sale of the Los Angeles Clippers to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Sterling's attorney, Maxwell Blecher, told CNN.

A few weeks ago, I asked y'all a question: How will the NBA end? In order to respond, I requested that you also write me a poem about the eventual fate of the NBA. Over 600 of you were kind enough to weigh in. There was no consensus, really, but the most popular answer was, "it will end with societal collapse."

Pacers’ Lance Stephenson blows in LeBron James’ ear during Game 5 vs. Heat

The Pas courthouse in the backwoods of Manitoba sits near the local jail, set back from the road by a quarter-mile of rolling green lawn. It’s a nondescript, one-story brick building that serves the small communities in the upper reaches of Canada’s Keystone province, where land disputes, petty theft and public drunkenness charges are brought before provincial judges and usually resolved with a handshake and a finger-wag.

Embattled Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is planning to sue the National Basketball League after he was forced to relinquish control of the team, NBC News has learned. A source close to Sterling says that he will file a lawsuit this afternoon seeking damages in excess of $1 billion

Former Microsoft MSFT +0.82% CEO Steve Ballmer has offered $1.8 billion for the Los Angeles Clippers, according to a person familiar with Ballmer’s interest in the NBA team. Ballmer, who retired as Microsoft’s CEO four months ago, has a net worth of $20 billion. Another source, with intimate knowledge of the bids that Rochelle Sterling has thus far received for the basketball team, said offers have come in between $1 billion and $2 billion and that the Ballmer package is strong.

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer reportedly met with the wife of the owner of the NBA's Clippers on Sunday to discuss buying the team.

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.”

Fabergear is sports blog with videos of NBA basketball slam dunks and sporting highlights, we cover interesting news and events in MMA, UFC, tennis, soccer.

SI.com has learned that Clippers owner Donald Sterling has hired prominent antitrust litigator Maxwell Blecher, who has written a letter to NBA executive vice president and general counsel Rick Buchanan threatening to sue the NBA. The letter, sources tell SI.com, claims that Sterling has done nothing wrong and that "no punishment is warranted" for Sterling.

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.

The sheer volume of bile spewing from the mouth of the Clippers owner, Donald Sterling, is staggering. But just as awe-inducing, and stomach-churning, is the unrestrained breadth of its variety, which makes putting the offenses in order — if one were inclined to — nearly impossible.

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!

Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling says he's sorry but feels he was "baited" to make racist comments, nearly two weeks after the NBA fined him and banned him for life for his remarks in a recorded conversation. "When I listen to that tape, I don't even know how I can say words like that. ... I don't know why the girl had me say those things," he told CNN's Anderson Cooper in an exclusive interview set to air on Monday.