CHICAGO -- Stephen Bardo's recent international basketball travels started with a DNA test.

Curious about his heritage a few years ago, the former Illinois basketball star and current college basketball analyst submitted a swab to Ancestry.com. Hoping for more specific information, he followed up with AfricanAncestry.com, which showed his ...Read more

CHICAGO -- The Chicago Sky waived guards Alexis Prince and Japreece Dean and announced forward Kiah Gillespie won't play the 2020 season in advance of Tuesday's WNBA roster deadline.

The WNBA and its players union set the deadline for teams to get under the salary cap so players would begin to be paid June 1, the Associated Press reported. That...Read more

The opportunity to play point guard factored into University of Southern California transfer Elijah Weaver's decision to commit to the Dayton Flyers on Monday, his former coach Kenny Gillion said.

Gillion coached Weaver for two seasons with Team Breakdown on the Under Armour circuit. Weaver and Anfernee Simons, who now plays for the Portland ...Read more

Two years after Ed Stefanski was hired as senior adviser, the Detroit Pistons are looking to hire a general manager to work under him.

Per an NBA source, the organization is looking outside to make the hire. However, the source didn't rule out the possibility of an internal hire.

Here are five candidates who make sense, in alphabetical order: ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- About midway through a wide-ranging podcast interview, Jeanie Buss was asked about Kobe Bryant -- about how proud she must be of the way the Los Angeles Lakers franchise handled his sudden death and how the team responded to it.

"I would give anything to go back and have Jan. 26 never take place," the Lakers' governor and ...Read more

Jamie Dixon remembers approaching Eddie Sutton inside a gift shop at the Final Four as an aspiring young basketball coach in the early 1990s.

As a player at TCU, Dixon had faced Sutton's Arkansas teams in Southwest Conference matchups as a freshman and sophomore in the 1983-84 and 1984-85 seasons. TCU just won one of those four games, a 72-66 ...Read more

The NBA confirmed what's been reported on and speculated about for the past week -- that the league, along with the players union -- are in discussions to restart the NBA season in Orlando, Fla., later this summer.

In a statement Saturday morning, NBA spokesman Mike Bass said the league and players are engaged in "exploratory conversations" ...Read more

CHICAGO -- There was no singular reason for the dissolution of the Bulls dynasty. Michael Jordan's retirement, Scottie Pippen's health and Dennis Rodman's commitment were all concerns entering the 1997-98 season.

But ESPN's "The Last Dance" documentary, a 10-part series that ended Sunday, has highlighted the strained relationship between coach ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Soon, Mayo Clinic hopes to have a reliable antibody test that would detect if the body has developed defenses to the coronavirus with just the prick of a patient's finger.

To further enhance the accuracy of that test, Mayo has enlisted the help of the NBA, including the Timberwolves, who have all become part of the clinic's ...Read more

A proposed rule that some say would lead to an unheard-of number of transfers in college basketball and football will not be implemented for the upcoming 2020-21 school year.

Instead, it's possible -- maybe even likely -- players will be allowed to transfer without sitting out a season's worth of games as early as the 2021-22 academic year.

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The top high school basketball prospect in the class of 2021 has his eye on moving to 2020 and playing in college -- or, perhaps, the pros -- next season, and Kentucky is on his new list of finalists.

Jonathan Kuminga -- a highly versatile 6-foot-8 forward from Congo, now playing for a high school in New Jersey -- announced Friday that he has ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Kelly Raimon doesn't consider herself a tech-savvy person, but when her first job in the WNBA required her to master scouting software, there she was, teaching herself through YouTube videos, editing and splicing together scouting reports, even filling in once for the team's video coordinator.

Learning on the fly as she did ...Read more

Kansas Athletics' current infractions case -- which includes the allegation of five Level I violations within the men's basketball program -- has left many fans searching for clarity about the process and a timeline for a resolution.

For help with these answers, The Star spoke Wednesday with Naima Stevenson Starks, the NCAA's VP of Hearing ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Spencer Dinwiddie, the Brooklyn Nets guard who has become one of the most vocal players in the league during the COVID-19 pandemic, tweeted a date -- July 15 -- that's been bandied about privately as a possible return date for the NBA.

For weeks, the mid-July return has been buzzed about in league circles, with optimism about a ...Read more

First Las Vegas was believed to the leading candidate to host NBA teams in a" campus-like" atmosphere. Then on May 8, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver told players it would one or two locations -- Las Vegas and Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla. -- with no fans. But The Athletic reported Wednesday that Disney World was in serious discussions with ...Read more