Basketball News

Pascal Siakam and Christian Koloko of the Toronto Raptors made history Monday night in Miami, marking the first time that two players from Cameroon started a game together in the NBA.

Heat small forward Caleb Martin said he called Raptors forward Christian Koloko to apologize and promised him a future dinner after their scuffle over the weekend resulted in sanctions for both.

Patrick Williams is a key defensive piece for a Chicago Bulls squad intent on making consecutive trips to the playoffs for the first time since 2016 and 2017. The beginning of this year’s campaign marked Williams’ re...

Brandon Ingram is in the NBA's concussion protocol but Zion Williamson and Herb Jones might be able to play in Tuesday's game against the Mavericks.

The Los Angeles Lakers are 0-3 to start the new season as a byproduct of their struggling shooting performances. Players across the board can’t buy a shot even if they could, as the team has shot 40.7 percent from the ...

The Miami Heat finished last season as the first seed in the Eastern Conference and was one errant Jimmy Butler three-pointer from a trip to the NBA Finals. Most of their roster returned to South Beach for this year’s ...

André Snellings pinpoints five low-rostered players who can provide a boost to fantasy lineups, including Milwaukee's veteran center.

Both teams are packed with young talent and that has stood out in the opening week of the season.

This story appears in SLAM 240. Get your copy here. On June 30, the night NBA free agency began, a black SUV with tinted windows rolled up to Udonis Haslem's vacation home in Orlando, FL.  "That s**t almost got shot up,...

The NBA and National Basketball Players Association announced the "Respect for the Game" initiative Tuesday to encourage more respectful behavior within basketball at all levels.

Allisha Gray and NaLyssa Smith headline the newest additions to the Athletes Unlimited Basketball roster for the 2023 season. Gray, a gold medalist, and Smith, the No. 2 pick in the 2022 WNBA Draft and an All-Rookie sele...

Before the Memphis Grizzlies and Brooklyn Nets faced off on Monday night, nine-time All-Star Kevin Durant called his opponent Ja Morant “the face of our League going forward.” Morant doesn’t remind Durant of any ot...

Ben Simmons has had a rough start to his return season with the Brooklyn Nets. Simmons has played in three games and fouled out of two of them. The latter was last night in a 134-124 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies. Simmon...

Brittney Griner reportedly lost her appeal hearing after a Russian court upheld her nine-year sentence for drug smuggling, per multiple reports. Griner can be sent to a penal colony unless the U.S. and Russian government...

After putting up a historic 37-point performance in an overtime win against the Washington Wizards, Donovan Mitchell pulled up to his postgame press conference rocking an icy, gold-encrusted chain with a gigantic “C”...

Poor shooting nights, social media mockery and media criticism. The Lakers are 0-3 and it's already time to evaluate in this week's The Hoop Collective where they go from here.

Nets swingman Ben Simmons aired his frustrations with the officiating in Memphis after fouling out for the second time in three games, while Grizzlies star Ja Morant explained how he baited Simmons into his sixth foul.

Andrew Wiggins has been BALLING! The former No. 1 overall pick capped off his first All-Star season with an NBA championship and signed a four-year extension the weekend before the 2022-23 season started. Wiggins’ impr...

Los Angeles Lakers team doctors have diagnosed two-way forward Cole Swider with a navicular stress reaction of the right foot. Swider will be reevaluated in approximately four weeks, and further updates will be provided ...

The Miami Heat have a 1-2 record to start the 2022-2023 season, with all three of their games thus far being at home. One of the glaring weaknesses for the team that had just competed in last season’s Eastern Conferenc...

Millions of NBA fans want a League expansion towards big market cities such as Seattle, Las Vegas, Vancouver, and plenty more. Although commissioner Adam Silver is in unison with the thought of bringing new teams, contra...

Isaiah Stewart is playing his third season with the Pistons, and the former 2020 NBA Draft pick has embraced his role as the “heart and soul” of the rising Detroit Pistons. Stewart is the kind of blue-collar, hard ha...