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On this day 11 years ago, the Lakers beat the Nuggets in Game 6 of the Western Conference Finals, 119-92, to clinch the series and knock...

New York City and basketball go together like pandemics and $1,200 checks. It is the unquestioned mecca -- especially for point guards....

A few days ago, this year-old Reddit post resurfaced. It asked, simply, and ingeniously: “Serious question: why can’t 4 Warriors...

As a player, Michael Jordan had too many memorable moments to count. As an owner/executive for the Wizards and then the Bobnets/Horcats,...

We have good news. We’ve created a simple but foolproof equation for deciphering the 10 best NBA players of all-time. Here it is: A...

Biggie Smalls would have been 48 yesterday. The great rapper didn’t have much connection to the NBA -- not that that’s stopped today’s...

On this day 14 years ago, one of the great second-round series ever wrapped up, with the Mavericks defeating the Spurs in San Antonio in...

A great barometer for how popular an NBA player is can be answered in one simple metric: Has he been name-dropped in a hip hop song? For...

The 1998 NBA Finals was memorable enough that it often overshadows the 1997 NBA Finals, which also featured a six-game series between the...

The reason Michael Jordan will always be the Greatest of All-Time is because he had a sense of the moment that no one in the history of...

Sunday’s episodes of “The Last Dance” covered Michael Jordan’s foray into baseball after his first retirement. Decades later, this...

Adam Silver had a conference call last night with all of the important people, which went pretty well, according to Woj: “Owners and...

The NBA version of Dr. J (1976-’87) had glimpses of his mystique, like the dunk above, but the ABA version of Dr. J (1971-’76), fresh off...

Three years after the Knicks won their second title, in 1973, New York basketball won another title, when the ABA’s New York Nets beat...

In an interview on the Dan Patrick Show earlier this week, “The Last Dance” director Jason Hehir said this, about episodes seven and...

GIF’d above is the game-winner Toni Kucoč hit in Game 3 of the 1994 Eastern Conference Semifinals against the Knicks, in the first...

We’ve almost made it to Week 2 of “The Last Dance,” or as we like to call it, “Week 2 of content-wringing from ‘The Last Dance.’” At one...

The shot alone is a worthy candidate for greatest buzzer-beater, but the surrounding circumstances elevate it to another level. Four...

(A screenshot from the time James Dolan promised a “successful offseason,” then signed four power forwards instead of Kyrie Irving and...

The first and second episodes of "The Last Dance" premiered on ESPN last night. [WATCH: Episode 1|Episode 2] Though a little bit...