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NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the latest athlete to partner with Sesame Street. Abdul-Jabbar is appearing Thursday, teaming up Big Bird to teach viewers about the word "subtraction."...

Jamie Dixon won't use the word "unexpected" while describing the abrupt departures of freshman center Steven Adams and junior guard Trey Zeigler.

The numbers were hard to miss. On the white board in a back corner of the Knicks' locker room, "50" was written in blue marker, big enough for everyone to see. Under the number was the word "goal" -- written in big blue letters. Nothing s...

This Knicks season has forever cemented the word "soreness" as a much bigger cause for concern among New York fans. That's because what Amar'e Stoudemire has been through will never escape their thoughts. After the power forward experienced a s...

AP Photo/Alan DiazIs 13 straight on the horizon for Dwyane Wade and the Heat? MIAMI -- Streak? What streak? Apparently for the Miami Heat, the word is synonymous with "repeat." And Coach Erik Spoelstra wants to ban any mention of the phrase fr...

The New Orleans Hornets are prepared to announce they are changing their name to the New Orleans Pelicans, effective in the 2013-14 season, according to a Yahoo! Sports report.

Tom Carpenter recaps Monday in the NBA, including Dion Waiters' big night against the Sacramento Kings.

The word "indefinite" has become the go-to recovery-time descriptor for NBA teams understandably wary of providing a specific timeline, and it is a very scary word. But it can mean almost literally anything; fans went bonkers when the Kings slapped D...

Former basketball player Sam Bowie had a difficult career, marked by injuries in college and the NBA and overshadowed by his draft placement.

At some point the question of pride -- or the lack of it -- has to be addressed. Not as an issue among many, but possibly as the Lakers' first, foremost and only issue.

LOS ANGELES -- The word Bernie Bickerstaff used was "consented." Not exactly a verb of enthusiasm, but then again there was nothing to be enthusiastic about from his perspective when Mitch Kupchak asked him to coach Friday's game against Golden State...

WALTHAM, Mass. -- The buzzword at Celtics practice on Monday afternoon was "concern" as coach Doc Rivers and his players were asked to gauge the uneasiness level after a 1-2 start to the season. Rivers, in fact, used the word "concern" seven times in...

He was a coach and a mentor. A trusted advisor. A mover in the college hoops scene. But when his financial scams caught up with him, David Salinas had nowhere to go but down, writes Scott Eded in ESPN The Magazine's College Basketball preview.

Chris Broussard examines how the Knicks' lukewarm courtship affected their ability to bring Lin back.

After their stock fell in the 2012 draft, two players show their stuff.

Flopping has become a very big topic in the NBA lately. For years the toughest anti-flopping rhetoric has come from Jeff Van Gundy. But these days, NBA Commissioner David Stern is giving the ESPN commentator a run for his money. (To Stern, the word "...