MIAMI -- This wasn't Justise Winslow throwing down the gauntlet, issuing challenges to either Erik Spoelstra or Goran Dragic, making demands of the Miami Heat brain trust. This was Justise Winslow being true to himself.

"I'm looking forward to playing point guard this season," Winslow said Sunday on a sun-splashed deck of the Carnival Horizon, ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Michael Jordan has agreed to sell a large piece of the Charlotte Hornets to two New York-based investors, a sale expected to close in the next few weeks that was first reported by the Observer.

A source familiar with the deal said it does not involve the former NBA Most Valuable Player giving up majority ownership of the NBA ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- The fall recruiting period is still less than a week old, and the early signing period for high school basketball prospects is still two months away, but John Calipari isn't wasting any time.

On Saturday afternoon, the Kentucky coach landed the biggest addition yet for what is shaping up to be his next No. 1-ranked recruiting ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- Charles Barkley wasn't playing to the crowd when talking about how much he believes in the current 76ers. On the day that he became the eighth former Sixer to have a sculpture unveiled in his honor at the team's practice facility, Barkley let it be known that he has the highest expectations for this coming season.

"I already ...Read more

CHICAGO -- A wide-eyed visitor wandered through the Bears locker room Friday, checking out the new facilities and getting a behind-the-scenes glimpse at his favorite NFL team.

Chicago native, lifelong Bears fan and current University of Michigan basketball coach Juwan Howard was thrilled to be a guest at Halas Hall, taking advantage of an ...Read more

Draymond Green to the rescue.

The Warriors' high energy dynamo is well aware that the U.S. men's basketball team is currently going down for the count at the FIBA World Cup. Coming off back-to-back losses to France and Serbia, the U.S. team is down to its last game -- Saturday against Poland in the seventh-place tilt.

Thursday, during an ...Read more

Shaun Livingston got it right when he said upon his retirement from the NBA on Friday that "I wasn't supposed to be here."

A point guard with tremendous size, length, smarts and potential, Livingston was just coming into his own with the Clippers when he suffered a horrific knee injury on Feb. 26, 2007, later detailed in a 2016 story on ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Kings point guard De'Aaron Fox somehow attracted a little bit of the backlash after Team USA suffered consecutive losses to France and Serbia at the FIBA World Cup. One respected sports commentator went so far as to suggest USA Basketball managing director Jerry Colangelo would never allow Fox to represent the United States...Read more

DETROIT -- Joe Johnson has agreed to a one-year deal with the Detroit Pistons, the Free Press confirmed Thursday.

The team had room to add a player because forward Michael Beasley never signed a contract with the Pistons, according to a source with knowledge of the situation. The Free Press reported in August that Beasley and the Pistons were "...Read more

SEATTLE -- With 144 players in the WNBA, the selection of players to choose from is almost overwhelming.

But for Storm All-Star forward Natasha Howard, the choice is simple: She just wants to play as herself.

"It's going to be fun and to actually look like ourselves too, like our hair and our tattoos, especially me looking at myself too," she ...Read more

MIAMI -- The name game has caught up to the Miami Heat.

After spending the last 20 years playing along Biscayne Bay at a facility that has only carried the name of AmericanAirlines Arena, the team's home will have a new title sponsor at midseason.

With American Airlines confirming that it will not renew its naming rights, the Heat will have ...Read more

DETROIT -- Longtime Detroit sportscaster Fred McLeod died late Monday night at the age of 67, the Cleveland Cavaliers announced Tuesday.

McLeod was a fixture on Detroit television in the 1980s and '90s, where he spent 24 years working for Channel 2 and Channel 4 and more than two decades as the play-by-play announcer for the Detroit Pistons.

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RALEIGH, N.C. -- Former Adidas consultant T.J. Gassnola was sentenced to a one-year term of supervised release on Tuesday in a federal court in New York for his role in the sneaker company's pay-for-play scandal, which has ensnared N.C. State's basketball program in an NCAA probe.

Gassnola cooperated as a government witness and had previously ...Read more

MIAMI -- By the end of last season, the question was whether 7-Eleven would be back in business for the Miami Heat, after injuries held Dion Waiters and Goran Dragic out of the lineup for extended stretches.

The drama continued with the Heat apparently attempting to trade Dragic to the Dallas Mavericks in the complex June machinations that ...Read more