National Basketball Association

National Basketball Association

NBA | Power Rankings | NBA Scores | Schedule | Stats | Standings | Tickets

Get the latest NBA basketball news, scores, stats, standings, and more on ESPN.com.

More: 2009 NBA Preview | Players | NBA Draft | NBA Rumors | ESPN 360

20 Results for nba

The NBA Rookie Pay Scale on Wall Street?

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...writes on Seeking Alpha: President Obama's administration could learn a lot about salary caps from the NBA and NFL and in the process can help America turn on the innovation engine that America really...

Blog | October 21, 2009

"If I wanted to, I could quit basketball and play in the NFL."

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

LeBron James, messing around as a wide receiver, assures the cameras he won't really do that. I'm no football expert, but does anybody think h...

Blog | October 07, 2009

Thursday Bullets

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...of stuff about it, so you don't have to! The skinny: It could affect the NBA in various profound ways. At issue is whether a major sports league like the NFL or the...

Blog | September 24, 2009

First Cup: Friday

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

Buck Harvey of the San Antonio Express-News: "Bruce Bowen may have been dirty to the other 29 franchises, but not to league officials. By 2007, a...

Blog | September 04, 2009

First Cup: Monday

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...That's how his commanding officer finally found out SPC Tim James used to be an NBA millionaire. Byron is not easily impressed, but he finds the fact that James didn't tell...

Blog | August 31, 2009

25 Things I Learned at MIT

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...healthier. 2. Sporting events are comforting! Brightly colored uniforms. Effort. And a forum without financial news. The NBA has been trotting out numbers saying that attendance is not bad, which seemed to defy the broader...

Blog | March 13, 2009

Regarding LeBron James, with Love from Cleveland

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

On Monday, on TrueHoop, I invited fans of the Cleveland Cavaliers to e-mail. The idea was: The dialogue in the media about the summer of 2010 has a bi...

Blog | February 04, 2009

LeBron James' Football Commercial

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

I wrote about this yesterday, and linked to some still photos from the ad in which the NBA's biggest star joins the NFL. Now, with the blessing of State Farm, here is the...

Blog | January 17, 2009

Lots of Smart People in Boston

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...Sloan Sports Business Conference in Boston. It is a multi-faceted one-day conference with a heavy NBA (and especially Celtics) presence -- because one of the founders of the conference is former Celtics executive, and...

Blog | February 10, 2008

Is the League in Jeopardy?

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

I have heard worries that the Tim Donaghy scandal could actually put the existence of the NBA in a certain jeopardy. Really? This morning I emailed a ton of people who think a lot...

Blog | July 25, 2007

Rolling With Leandro: Gregory Dole's Barbosa File, Part Seven

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...to a lesser extent, William Wesley). In the spring and summer of 2003, before and after the NBA draft, Dole was Leandro Barbosa's translator. In the hopes of landing a book deal, Dole is...

Blog | May 22, 2007

Jason Whitlock Raised Some Hackles

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...about what a raging success All-Star Weekend was. The city is desperately trying to attract an NBA franchise, and, I guess, there was no reason to let a few bloody bodies get in the...

Blog | February 27, 2007

Portland Fans: This is Serious

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...business competition on the way. One of the things that has always made Portland such an attractive NBA city is the fact that it's the only game in town. No major league baseball, no...

Blog | January 12, 2007

Dave Krieger says "Sports Journalism" is Almost an Oxymoron

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...ll find they're much closer to the teams they cover than to their newsrooms. As an NBA writer I was never in my newsroom but I was around the coaches and players constantly. You...

Blog | December 07, 2006

Dwight Jaynes: Teams Shouldn't Put Home Games on TV So Much

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

Jaynes makes a case that for a team like Portland, where he writes, that doesn't sell out a lot of games, having lots of home games on local TV hurts ...

Blog | September 15, 2006