Cavaliers point guard Kyrie Irving wants what LeBron James has — a couple of NBA championship rings and a pair of Olympic gold medals — and may get them with James back in Cleveland. But he’s focused on Team USA now.
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When NBA commissioner Adam Silver floated the idea of playing a mid-season tournament in Las Vegas, the media reacted as if it was a harebrained idea. Here’s one vote for Silver’s proposal.
The UNLV men’s basketball team will be spending New Year’s Eve in Laramie, Wyo.
A ruptured 93-year-old water main left the UCLA campus awash in 8 million gallons of water in the middle of California’s worst drought in decades, stranding people in parking garages and flooding the school’s storied basketball court less than two years after a major renovation.
The Chicago Bulls’ star guard is trying to regain his elite form playing for USA Basketball this summer after knee injuries have kept him sidelined for the better part of the last three seasons. So far, no problems for Rose after two days of training camp at UNLV’s Mendenhall Center.
The Los Angeles Lakers confirmed Byron Scott is their new coach Monday night.
The Oklahoma City Thunder star and USA Basketball veteran will be asked to lead — both on and off the court — as the Americans prepare for next month’s FIBA World Cup in Spain. Durant has won gold medals in the last two international competitions — the 2010 FIBA World Championships and the 2012 Olympics in London.
A judge ruled against Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling on Monday in his attempt to block the $2 billion sale of the Los Angeles Clippers to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
Michael Jordan has weighed in on LeBron James announcing that he will again wear No. 23 for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
The run-up to the start of USA Basketball’s Las Vegas training camp has been about the players who decided not to participate.
Using a coy smile like a child might do with a parent to get something he wants, Chase Jeter looked up at AAU Dream Vision coach Clay Williams after the championship game of the adidas Super 64 on Sunday and said he was keeping his jersey.
Day 4 of my AAU Tournament coverage, as I conclude my live blogging from the two biggest 17-and-under events taking place this week – adidas’ Super 64 and the Las Vegas Fab 48. Be sure to check back throughout the day, or follow me on Twitter on @AP_WG, as I’ll be updating frequently and tweeting live.
On two occasions in the second half Saturday, an exhausted Horace Spencer walked to a spot near the baseline, grabbed the bottom of his shorts and looked up at his teammate in anticipation of an inbounds pass.
Everything you need to know about day three of the AAU basketball tournaments in Las Vegas.
With no idea where he will be playing in the NBA next season, Kevin Love is the latest All-Star to pull out of Team USA, which begins its training camp in Las Vegas next week to prepare for the FIBA World Cup in Spain.