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.

Former basketball star Dennis Rodman says North Korean leader Kim Jong Un did not execute his uncle Jang Song Thaek. In fact, Rodman says he saw Thaek on one of his famous trips to North Korea. North Korean state media confirmed in December 2013 Thaek was purged on allegations of corruption, drug use and a long list of other "anti-state" acts. Reports from North Korean state media claimed he was executed.

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.

The hero in the Donald Sterling story, insofar as there is one, is the woman best known by a single letter, whose audio recordings of his unbelievably racist rantings took Sterling's history of discrimination from an inconvenient fact well known in sports circles to the biggest story in the country.

Ex-NBA star Shaquille O'Neal has apologized to a Detroit man with a rare disorder for making fun of his appearance in an online post. Best known as Shaq, the former professional basketball player announced the apology in a Twitter message Tuesday. "Made a new friend today when I called and apologized to Jahmel Binion.

Several luminaries from sports and show business, Oprah Winfrey among them, signaled interest on Wednesday in buying the Los Angeles Clippers as the NBA set a first meeting to weigh removing Donald Sterling as owner over racist remarks attributed to him.

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.

As president of the NCAA, Mark Emmert has $1.7 million a year riding on the premise that college sports are integral to the mission of higher education in general, a number that frankly lends a certain insight to his cause. Sympathy, even. After all, if you made that kind of money, you'd probably find that preserving the integrity of the beleaguered "student-athlete" was one of your "core values," too.

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.

Rihanna turned up to support her beloved team the Brooklyn Nets for game 3 of their playoff series against Toronto Raptors.

L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling told his GF he does NOT want her bringing black people to his games ... including Magic Johnson ... and it's ALL on tape. TMZ Sports has obtained audio of Sterling making the racist declaration during a heated argument on April 9th with V. Stiviano ... after she posted a photo on Instagram posing with Magic.

With time winding down and the Thunder down, Kevin Durant hits a falling three to bring the Thunder within a point of the Grizzlies lead.

LeBron James is a physical freak. He is the best basketball player of his generation.

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.

Charles Barkley was struggling to stay awake on TNT's Inside the NBA while watching the woeful Lakers lose to Oklahoma City Thunder 131-102.