PHILADELPHIA — Steve Gansey was playing with his son a few weeks ago, as ESPN hummed in the background, when he heard something unusual. It was Kendrick Perkins, talking to his "NBA Today" co-hosts, about a photo that recently went viral.

It was taken in 2000, and was on the front page of the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s sports section. Ten ...Read more

MIAMI — Typically, the spirit of altruism is an after-the-fact sentiment when it comes to the transactional world of the NBA.

Understood.

Still, in the days and now weeks since the Miami Heat completed the Giannis Antetokounmpo trade with the Milwaukee Bucks, both sides spoke of how throughout the process there was an attempt by Milwaukee to...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Given the historical levels of success of Kentucky men’s basketball vs. UK football, what follows will qualify as a major upset:

For the 2026-27 school year, there will be more former Wildcat players serving as NCAA Division I football head coaches than there will be ex-Cats working as D-I men’s basketball head men.

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MIAMI — The balls have stopped bouncing, but with one ball still up in the air for the Miami Heat.

Having completed their eight-game summer-league schedule late Friday night, the waiting game remains for Pat Riley’s team regarding the free agency of LeBron James.

The final tally for the Heat in the combined outings at the California ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — On Oct. 28, 2003, the Philadelphia 76ers opened their regular season at home — the arena was called the Wachovia Center then — with an 89-74 victory over the Miami Heat. It was the first game of Randy Ayers’ head coaching career, a career that would last just 52 games before he was fired. The Sixers’ starting lineup that...Read more

LeBron James continues to weigh his options in free agency and still hasn’t made a decision on which team he will join for next season. But the future Basketball Hall of Famer has dropped a few clues during the past few days about what will influence that decision.

During a two-day run at Fanatics Fest NYC and an appearance at CNBC Sport x ...Read more

Sacramento State this week released its 2026-27 men’s basketball schedule that includes the program’s first year in the Big West Conference — as well as an update on coach Mike Bibby and his staff, the returning players and newcomers and the return of Shaquille O’Neal as the program’s general manager.

Bibby, the former Sacramento ...Read more

LeBron James didn't have a speech prepared.

"I'm just speaking to y'all from the heart," the NBA's all-time leading scorer told the audience Thursday night at the Time 100 Sports gala in New York.

In James' heart and on his mind at that moment was his oldest son, Bronny James, who nearly three years ago suffered sudden cardiac arrest as an 18-...Read more

Mitchell Robinson is gone. So are Ariel Hukporti and Jeremy Sochan. But for the most part, fresh off their 2026 NBA championship run, the New York Knicks are running it back.

The Knicks didn’t need to exceed the $222 million second apron to keep the spirit of last season’s title run alive. The starting five of Jalen Brunson, Karl-Anthony ...Read more

TCU men’s basketball will take a preseason trip to Costa Rica, the program announced Friday.

The Horned Frogs will play in two exhibition games in Playa Hermosa and San Jose during the trip July 31-Aug. 5. It’s TCU’s first international trip since 2024, when the Horned Frogs played in London and Paris.

The opponents have not been ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Monday’s announcement that Tubby Smith will be inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2026 extends the commonwealth of Kentucky’s expansive presence in the Kansas City-based venue.

The former Kentucky head man will be the eighth person who either worked in our state or who is from the ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — When the question was asked, Adam Silver seemed to light up.

The commissioner of the NBA was asked Tuesday night about the robust amount of interest Las Vegas has generated in the league’s expansion conversations amid the backdrop of another successful year of the NBA Summer League being played on the UNLV campus.

Four ...Read more

MIAMI — Why Miami? Why this community?

Is it because South Florida’s a popular landing spot for international transplants to settle in North America?

Why this team, this franchise?

Was Giannis Antetokounmpo, the Greek Freak, drawn to Miami because of Heat culture?

“Those years I was playing [professional] basketball the Miami Heat was ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — Rosters for this month’s WNBA All-Star Game were revealed on Wednesday, as legends Teresa Weatherspoon and Cynthia Cooper each drafted teams for the game on July 25.

Cooper and Weatherspoon were named special general managers for the game as part of the league’s 30th season celebration.

Cooper went to college at USC, ...Read more

MIAMI — The NBA is moving on from Tyler Herro v. Bam Adebayo, with the league issuing a statement Thursday that there will be no disciplinary action regarding last week’s practice-court kerfuffle between former Heat guard Tyler Herro and Heat captain Bam Adebayo:

“After discussing with the players involved and the NBPA, everyone would ...Read more

MIAMI — While closure was achieved with the Miami Heat introducing Giannis Antetokounmpo on Thursday at Kaseya Center, the LeBron James waiting game apparently will continue.

In New York at Fanatics Fest, where he recorded a live podcast, James teased about his ongoing free agency without announcing a decision.

The Heat are among the teams ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — It’s not that he didn’t say anything. In fact, Adam Silver probably gave more of an inside look at potential NBA expansion than he has. But the commissioner still didn’t play any major hands Tuesday when it came to Las Vegas potentially landing a team.

And maybe that’s because there aren’t many to expose right now.

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LAS VEGAS — Perhaps it is posturing. Perhaps it’s a way to try and draw up competition where it seems there’s none.

But if you take NBA commissioner Adam Silver at face value, his words Tuesday night make it seem like the pathway toward an NBA expansion team in Seattle is anything but straightforward.

Speaking after the latest NBA Board ...Read more

Mike Dunleavy Jr. may not be able to say exactly what he’s thinking at all times, but he looked to be telling the truth Tuesday night.

The Warriors’ general manager was interviewed by ESPN’s Dave McMeniman on the sidelines of the team’s summer league loss to the Memphis Grizzlies in Las Vegas, and at the end of the chat, McMeniman ...Read more