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Bishop Gorman center Stephen Zimmerman has chosen to continue his basketball career at UNLV. Zimmerman announced his decision on Twitter earlier tonight.
The NBA will begin testing for human growth hormone next season, the league and National Basketball Players Association announced Thursday.
The New Orleans Pelicans charged into the postseason in style. The Brooklyn Nets, meanwhile, needed some help, but they sneaked into the playoff field, too.
NBA player Thabo Sefolosha says police caused his season-ending leg injury when he was arrested last week after leaving a nightclub in New York.
Donald Sterling’s racist remarks cost him an NBA team last year. But now it’s his former female companion who has lost big.
When it comes to NBA jersey sales, LeBron James is still the King. James’ return to Cleveland from Miami before this season didn’t impact the popularity of the Cavaliers forward, whose jersey is the top seller for the sixth straight year.
Pepsi said Monday that it had signed a new marketing deal with the National Basketball Association as the league’s exclusive food and beverage sponsor, replacing Coke, which held the sponsorship for 28 years.
Roscoe Smith and Khem Birch are good enough to eventually find an NBA home. But it’s impossible to guarantee either will, because what the former UNLV players are discovering is that making it is as much about timing and opportunity as skill and upside.
Chris Jans, fired last week after one year as coach at Bowling Green, apologized Friday for the “inappropriate” behavior that led to his dismissal.
Lauren Hill, the Indiana native who scored the first basket of the Mount St. Joseph University women’s basketball season in November while suffering from a rare inoperable brain cancer, died on Friday at age 19, officials said.
Roscoe Smith was named D-League rookie of the year by a website, with former UNLV teammate Khem Birch finishing second.
Duke freshman Jahlil Okafor surprised virtually no one on Thursday when he announced that he’ll enter the 2015 NBA Draft.
It took six months for Kentucky to lose its first basketball game during the 2014-15 season. Five days later, the Wildcats lost seven players from the roster to the NBA draft.
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