Chuck Cooper, Nathaniel “Sweetwater” Clifton and Earl Lloyd, the league’s first Black players, will be celebrated in 2025-26. Official release The NBA plans to pay tribute to (from left) Chuck Cooper, ...

The NBA is celebrating its 75th anniversary season and 4,000-plus players, and it is dramatically different from the debut of the Basketball Association of America in 1946, before it merged with the ...

The NBA postseason has reached the semifinals. After a dramatic Sunday featuring two Game 7s, the next round tips off Tuesday. Attention will soon shift to the NBA Draft Lottery and the league’s ...

When LeBron James entered the NBA as the top pick in the 2003 draft, he did so in the face of seemingly impossible expectations. James already had graced a Sports Illustrated cover with the headline ...