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The story of how Leandro Barbosa got from Brazilian poverty to NBA riches is chronicled in one of my favorite things that has ever been on TrueHoop, Gregory Dole's 11-part "Rolling with Leandro" series. Now that Barbosa is a millionaire, he's going t...

Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE/Getty Images Nobody has done better at it than the Cleveland Cavaliers, but even they don't swear by the lottery. It's a weird kind of party, the NBA draft lottery. The 2013 version began on the Good Morning America's re...

He's 6-5. He shoots like Ray Allen. He dunks on people. He's a candidate to be the top overall pick in the 2013 NBA draft. And yet, he still gets confused, now and again, with that guy who raps about thrift stores....

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Teams typically like to use high picks on players with good size. But if you ignore that, things tend to work out beautifully. ...

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Another story of some macho college basketball coach allegedly crossing the line in heinous ways. (Via J.A. Adande's Twitter feed.) That it happens sometimes does not shock me. It's an industry with little oversight and huge stakes that attracts and ...

Tony Gaskins is a former college football player and current Christian motivational speaker who preaches, among other things, about the perils of pre-marital sex. He stood before a room of 60-or-so players at the NBA Rookie Transition Program on Sund...

Some very interesting research suggests race does not appear to play a role in draft position. Also at the same link, with capsule descriptions of papers from the Western Economic Association: Evidence that NBA stars play huge minutes right up until ...

Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images The Thunder's Perry Jones with a rare moment of rookie trickery. Tuesday the rookies are all in the gym of the Knicks' practice facility in Tarrytown, New York having their photos taken for their first trad...

NBAE/Getty ImagesNBA rookies Austin Rivers, left, and Anthony Davis, second from left, at the Rookie Transition Program in New Jersey. The road from being a young boy with a hoops dream to an NBA player takes many twists and turns. For the 2012 d...

The NBA's Board of Governors is meeting in Las Vegas on Thursday, and a source with knowledge of the talks told ESPN.com the agenda includes votes on several rule changes, especially expanding the use of instant replay.

Brad Townsend of The Dallas Morning News: The revamping Mavericks agreed to contract terms Monday night with free agent guard O.J. Mayo, the third pick of the 2008 draft. Mayo, 24, tweeted the news at about 10:30 p.m., saying "I will be signing with ...

From ESPN.com news services: PHILADELPHIA -- The Philadelphia 76ers have agreed to a $6 million, two-year contract with former No. 1 overall draft pick Kwame Brown. Agent Mark Bartelstein announced the move Friday. Brown will be reunited wit...

As selections were made in Thursday's NBA draft, rookies met the media, and had a lot to say. Here are ten quotes from ten top NBA rookies. See if you can figure out who said each one. Answers at @TrueHoop on Twitter. "All the talk about my no...

LISTEN TO THE NBA TODAY PODCAST WITH DAVID THORPE AND WARREN LEGARIE. David Thorpe has strong feelings about how the draft went down. He is unsettled by the Rockets moves. Shocked Harrison Barnes didn't go higher. Shocked Dion Waiters went fourth....