Cleveland playoff rookies pass first road test in Boston.
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The method doesn't always matter. Sometimes it's only the result that counts.
DeMarre Carroll brings toughness, defence and personality to the No. 1-seeded Hawks' lineup.
ATLANTA — He did everything he could to keep his emotions from getting the best of him.
Brook Lopez knows better than to step into the mess.
Having been there a time or two themselves, the Atlanta Hawks are well aware of the folly involved with taking the Brooklyn Nets lightly.
In serving all season as the best player on the league's top team, Golden State's Stephen Curry made our choice easy.
Golden State's season-long excellence may be the factor that helps push Stephen Curry past Houston's James Harden.
Atlanta Hawks All-Star forward Paul Millsap will miss two games with a sprained right shoulder.
James Harden and Stephen Curry stand out most as season nears its end.
Russell Westbrook has been the driving force behind keeping the new-look Thunder in the playoff hunt.
Defending champs show mettle as Atlanta now on three-game skid.
The debates about Steve Nash‘s place in the history of the NBA can officially begin now that the two-time MVP has officially announced his retirement.
Game after game, James Harden continues to point out just how valuable he is as a player.
LeBron James' play, leadership and savvy have changed the Cavaliers from NBA afterthought to legit contenders.
In the 16-team field, only a handful are true Finals contenders.
Houston and Atlanta are poised to make deep playoff runs.
Harden takes over top spot as LeBron, Westbrook turn up the heat on Sekou Smith's MVP ladder.
MVP Rankings: Wesbrook makes a big climb; Lowry, Aldridge return to the bunch
They didn’t need the big stage, the bright lights and noise of the building dubbed the “Highlight Factory” in another life.
They all have one. All-Stars, Olympians, champions, MVPs and the like. They've all been there at one time or another, doubted by someone.
Dallas Mavericks point guard Rajon Rondo is out for the foreseeable future with an orbital fracture to his left eye and a nasal fracture. He suffered the injury during Saturday’s game against the Orlando Magic.
NBA coaches, the men charged with selecting the reserves for the All-Star Game, don't enjoy the one luxury we depend on most when evaluating the credentials of MVP candidates throughout the course of the season.
Golden State Warriors guard Klay Thompson dropped jaws with his spectacular scoring showcase over the weekend, his NBA-record 37-point quarter will not soon be forgotten.
Wherever the Portland Trail Blazers go the next 6-8 weeks, they’ll have to do it without star power forward LaMarcus Aldridge. The Trail Blazers’ backbone will miss the next 6-8 weeks after surgery to repair a torn ligament in his left thumb, the team announced Thursday night.
Harden, Teague join Curry in our Top 3 on the MVP ladder while Davis, Gasol, Wall take a tumble.
Jeff Teague breaks into Sekou Smith's Top 10 MVP rankings as Lowry and James keep tumbling.
Following OKC’s shootaround in Phoenix, coach Scott Brooks has confirmed that Kevin Durant will play tonight against the Suns.
Struggling Cleveland needs its star's title experience, guidance more than ever.
Perception and reality have collided in Cleveland in ways that neither LeBron James nor David Blatt are fond of, given the fact that they are the two men in the crosshairs right now.
The reward for a team playing at the level the Atlanta Hawks have so far this season is not only reflected in the standings but also in the way individual players are being recognised around the league.
Denver Nuggets forward Danilo Gallinari will have surgery for a torn meniscus in his right knee and could miss as many as three weeks, per multiple reports.
They'd take it all back now if they could.
ATLANTA — For any other player, completing in and finishing 11 straight games from late November through early December would qualify as nothing more than going to work every day.
The Rockets have thrived despite Dwight Howard's absence because of the elevated play of James Harden.
You knew the finger-pointing was coming in New York. We all did.
The question had to be asked.
Kyle Lowry's relentless style of play puts him in MVP conversation.
The adventure that has become the season of Derrick Rose‘s tender ankles took another twist and fall late Thursday night in the Chicago Bulls’ win over the Toronto Raptors.
We haven’t seen him in a couple of years, the smiling big guy who wore the cape and leaped over all things.
The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth is what you always get from Stan Van Gundy, for better or worse.
It’s as American as apple pie, the deep-seeded need to be the best. For USA Basketball, gold has always been the goal.
Any team with designs on knocking off the U.S. National Team before it gets to Madrid and collects gold here at the FIBA World Cup better be ready for the wave.
Basketball fans around the world aren’t the only ones upset they won’t get a chance to see the U.S. National Team and their counterparts from Spain in Sunday’s gold medal game of the FIBA World Cup.
Playing the underdog is one thing.
A hard fall late in a September game a year ago would have been just a part of the deal for Kyrie Irving, nothing out of the norm for an NBA player getting ready for the upcoming season.
One thing the U.S. National Team never has to worry about in international competition is confidence. The continuous destruction of the competition has a way of fortifying that quality in a group, no matter the parts.
The nuances of the international game and the NBA are vastly different, particularly for big men like DeMarcus Cousins.
Stop measuring Derrick Rose‘s return with any conventional tools or methods that come to mind. They don’t apply. Not to a player whose every move and facial expression is being read for signs that he either is or is not back to the form that made him the MVP of the NBA early in his career.
This was more like it, what the U.S. National Team was after. Complete control over a clearly overmatched opponent.
Ukraine coach Mike Fratello said it best hours before the U.S. team got its first scare of the FIBA World Cup.
An early wake up call isn't necessarily what the U.S. was looking for on Day 2 of the FIBA Basketball World Cup.
Forget the defections and the no-shows. The stars gathered here on the U.S. Men’s Senior National Team already have. They did that in the lead up to the FIBA World Cup, sorting through different roles and a tweaked style of play that has been tailored to this group.
