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During a 20-year stretch from 1993-2012, 42 percent of McDonald's All American selections wound up playing fewer than 25 career NBA games.

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Damian Lillard is flying home to witness the birth of his first child and will miss Wednesday's game against the Grizzlies, he said after scoring 41 points in Tuesday's win over the Pelicans.

For the second time in a week, Sacramento Kings officials locked down the entrance to Golden One Center because of city-wide protests following the shooting death of Stephon Clark. Here we go again. Golden 1 Center has c...

San Antonio Spurs star LaMarcus Aldridge left the Spurs' game against the Washingon Wizards on Tuesday night with a left knee contusion and will not return.

LeBron James unveiled a new version of the Nike LeBron 15 just ahead of tonight’s Cavaliers/Heat matchup in Miami. The “South Beach” Nike LeBron 15 honors the “South Beach” LeBron 8 and the four years that Jame...

San Antonio star LaMarcus Aldridge has a left knee contusion and is questionable for Thursday's game against Oklahoma City.

Cavaliers big man Kevin Love has been placed in the concussion protocol, the team announced: STATUS UPDATE: Kevin Love has been placed in the NBA concussion protocol and is OUT tonight in Charlotte. DETAILS: -- Clevela...

On the set of Kevin Garnett’s Area 21, a debate about who is the greatest basketball player of all time, LeBron James or Michael Jordan, broke out. Media guests Casey Stern, Jemele Hill, Shams Charania and Rosalyn Gold...

Hassan Whiteside could be back in uniform and on the court for the Miami Heat when it hosts the Chicago Bulls on Thursday night. …

Little-known fact: Loyola-Chicago isn't the only team in the Final Four without an NCAA basketball title. In fact, the Ramblers did win a National Championship 55 years ago, when they beat Cincinnati. That victory and ap...

Kevin Love, who suffered a front tooth subluxation after inadvertently being elbowed by Miami center Jordan Mickey on Tuesday, has been placed in the concussion protocol.

Hassan Whiteside could be back in uniform and on the court for the Miami Heat when it hosts the Chicago Bulls on Thursday night. Whiteside has missed the past nine …

As a guest on The Bill Simmons Podcast, Kevin Durant revealed the time he realized just how good Kyrie Irving is. It was during last year’s NBA Finals, when Durant says the Warriors had to be completely locked in to ov...

Dwyane Wade's off-court work with the community of Parkland and the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the aftermath of last month's mass shooting has earned him a …

LeBron James believes this year's Most Valuable Player is the man in the mirror.

Isaiah Thomas will have arthroscopic surgery on his right hip, the Lakers announced on Wednesday. The procedure will “clean up” inflammatory debris related to the injury that caused him to sit out for seven months, p...

Isaiah Thomas will undergo arthroscopic surgery to his right hip Thursday.

Medical examiner Dr. Stephen Cohle has determined that G League player Zeke Upshaw suffered a “sudden cardiac death” after collapsing on the court this past weekend. The investigation will reportedly continue for a f...

New cover(s) alert! SLAM 215 spotlights the coolest MFer in the NBA (Klay Thompson), the leader of the most dangerous Raptors team in franchise history (DeMar DeRozan), the rookie who is stealing the show out in Utah (Do...

Forward Miles Bridges, who averaged 17.1 points and 7.0 rebounds as a sophomore, is leaving Michigan State to enter the NBA draft.