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Contact tracing for the coronavirus has its limits when basketball games are involved, as the Wizards and the NBA have found.

Another three NBA games were postponed Friday, including one in Minnesota only a couple hours before game time, as the league’s struggle with increasing coronavirus numbers continued

The NBA has imposed new COVID-19 restrictions for its players as the new season is shaken by an increase in cases. Flip Media’s Eric Mitchell breaks down what to expect as the league gets its new season underway outside the bubble.

James Harden is heading to Brooklyn, joining old teammate Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving to give the Nets a potent trio featuring some of the NBA’s highest scorers.

Solitude and loneliness have been hallmarks of NBA road trips already this season during a still-raging coronavirus pandemic

With five games called off this week already and more teams dealing with virus-related issues, the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association have enacted additional rules in the hope of keeping the season going safely

The Boston Celtics and Miami Heat walked off the court before their scheduled game in Miami. In a statement, the teams attributed the decision to a Wisconsin prosecutor’s choice not to charge the officer who shot Jacob Blake in Kenosha, as well as the riot at the U.S. Capitol that broke out Wednesday in Washington. “2021 is a new...

The Hall of Fame basketball player Paul Westphal has died

Becky Hammon became the first woman to coach an NBA team, taking over the San Antonio Spurs after coach Gregg Popovich was ejected in a 121-107 loss to LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday night.

The first coach of many athletes is often their mother, who shows them the path toward their promise and teaches them that their successes are bigger than them. News4’s Tracee Wilkins spoke to Wanda Durant, mother of NBA star Kevin Durant in a special broadcast of “Inequality in America” on Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020.

Marveling once again, Stephen Curry made 105 straight 3-pointers from the same baseline spot to finish practice Saturday leading into Golden State’s game Sunday game at Chicago.

Houston’s season opener against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Wednesday night has been postponed after coronavirus cases and James Harden’s violation of the NBA’s COVID-19 protocols left the Rockets without the league-mandated eight players available for the game

The Los Angeles Lakers are continuing to recognize Kobe Bryant’s role in inspiring the team’s special season by incorporating his memory into the design of their championship rings.

Author Ivy Claire was shocked when she received an out-of-the-blue call from the late NBA great Kobe Bryant asking her to co-write a series of YA books with him. Now as their second and final book, “Epoca: The River of the Sand,” is published nearly a year after his death, she remembers her close collaboration with Bryant and what he...

John Wall was back on the floor for the first time in nearly two years

“Am I going to lose a lot of money this year? Yes,” billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban says about Covid’s affect on the upcoming NBA season.

As part of the endorsement deal, the NBA star will be featured in new Gatorade TV advertisement starting this month.

For the Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat, it was the shortest offseason ever

Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett will finally enter the Basketball Hall of Fame in May 2021.

“I lost a lot of money in the get-rich-quick schemes,” former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal said on CNBC’s “Power Lunch.”