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Rocky Widner/NBAE/Getty ImagesVinny Del Negro: When affability isn't enough. The Los Angeles Clippers lost the most successful coach by winning percentage in the franchise's history when they dismissed Vinny Del Negro, whose contract was due to expi...

With Larry Drew likely done as head coach of the Atlanta Hawks, general manager Danny Ferry has made Stan Van Gundy his top target to take over the team, Yahoo! Sports reported on Friday.

Making adjustments in the playoffs is like any art form, in that inspiration is derived from experience. As coaches navigate the gauntlet of playoff basketball, they rely heavily on the situations they've already seen. When a coach makes a brilliant,...

Future football Hall of Famer Tony Gonzalez isn't just bragging when he says he could play in the NBA. In fact, he did. In 2002, Gonzalez, who was in a contract dispute with the Kansas City Chiefs, was invited by the Miami Heat to take part in ...

To know someone is usually to empathize with them. They cease to be a skin-wrapped tumbleweed, and morph into something beyond flesh and movement -- a man with tendencies and tribulations that you can recognize in yourself. The more you learn of the ...

In the war of words between Dwight Howard and his former Orlando Magic teammates, one significant voice weighed in on the side of the Lakers center.

LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles Lakers might have been the only NBA team without a representative at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston over the weekend, but general manager Mitch Kupchak says that will change in the future. "We ha...

The Stan Van Gundy Show "First, I'd like to thank David Stern for allowing Stan [Van Gundy] to be here today." -- John Buccigross, ESPN sportscaster "In coaching, you're trying to create a style of play and a culture. Every time you make an ex...

For the second time this week, Dwight Howard found himself responding to someone else's unwanted opinion about his situation with the Los Angeles Lakers.

Stan Van Gundy says Dwight Howard's back surgery is a definite factor in the center's performance curve with the Lakers.

I can't believe it. No one can. Who could ever imagine that the Mike Brown era would be anything other than one giant decadelong championship parade, with their vaunted starting five remaining in perfect health for years -- Nash, Bryant and Gasol all...

This summer, after he was fired by the Orlando Magic, Stan Van Gundy, a man who'd spent the previous three decades keeping a basketball coach's long hours, suddenly found himself with a lot of time on his hands. After his Orlando exit, Van Gundy ...

DEERFIELD, Ill. -- Apparently no one told the Orlando Magic they are supposed to be rebuilding after the departure of star center Dwight Howard. He's gone -- as is coach Stan Van Gundy -- but the Magic, under rookie coach Jacque Vaughn, are off to...

Jeff Van Gundy, the lead game analyst for ESPN's and ABC's coverage of the NBA, implies that his brother Stan's deal to join the network did not work out because the league blocked the move.

Earlier today, Brian posted the edited version of Ric Bucher's Sunday Conversation with Dwight Howard for SportsCenter. But for those folks with a hankering to hear even more from Superman, the whole enchilada has also been posted. A lot of ground wa...

Lakers center Dwight Howard joined Ric Bucher for SportsCenter's Sunday Conversation this week. In a wide-ranging interview, Howard talked about the pain in his back pushing him to surgery, his rehab and recovery, what it means to join the Lakers,...