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There is an Israeli track called "Popovich" by an Israeli rap duo named Arik Henig and X, and the Spurs head coach has made good use of the video. From Dan McCarney of the San Antonio Express-News relays the story from Stephen Jackson and other Spurs...

Mike Ehrmann/NBAE/Getty ImagesIn 28 games this season, Avery Johnson couldn't point the Nets in the right direction. The buzzards had been circling in Brooklyn over Avery Johnson for the better part of two weeks. After finishing November at 11-4, th...

Pop Quiz: Who is the NBA's leader in corner-3 accuracy (minimum of 30 attempts)? (A) Paul George (B) Ray Allen (C) Wes Matthews (D) Shane Battier (E) Klay Thompson. You'll find the correct answer is at the bottom of the post. Dwight Howard says the...

Getty ImagesWorking on Christmas: Deron Williams, Kevin Durant and Carmelo Anthony. A third of the NBA will be in action on Christmas Day, as fans will be treated to 14 consecutive hours of basketball featuring the league's top four teams and seven ...

Welcome to the knockout phase of the Olympic basketball event. The NBA game affords teams a two-week chess match in each playoff round, during which a team can slip up, adjust, then eventually figure it out. That's not the case in London, where o...

Once he sees some wins, Mo Williams will be OK with his role on the Clippers.

Kyle Weidie of Truth About It offers up a multimedia presentation of how Deron Williams tied the Wizards in knots with ball screens. The Heat posted unsightly numbers against the Celtics' zone on Tuesday night but, as Zach Lowe of The Point Forward...

A look at how the Clippers performed against the Lakers.

Classmates of Kim Jong Il's son, Kim Jong-un, testify that the presumed successor in North Korea wasn't all that interested in politics when he was at school in Switzerland. What really got him going was basketball. "He worshipped basketball players ...

After Blake Griffin landed in the Los Angeles Clippers' lap in the summer of 2009 after a disastrous 19-63 season, the organization gradually committed itself to a rebuilding blueprint. This later became known to Clippers fans as "the Oklahoma City t...

Disclaimer of interest. Competitive balance. David Boies. The Northern District Court of California. The mid-level exception. Lost games. Anthony Tolliver, Ben Gordon, Caron Butler and Derrick Williams vs. the NBA. Join Henry Abbott, Marc Stein an...

Melissa Majchrzak/NBAE/Getty Images A new study says a Chris Paul-for-Deron Williams trade would've helped both New Orleans and Utah. Before Allan Maymin, Philip Maymin, and Eugene Shen introduce their new basketball metric, "Skills Plus Minus," th...

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- If there's one guy who isn't sweating the prospect of a missed paycheck, it's Minnesota Timberwolves rookie Derrick Williams. "I'm good," Williams said. "I don't have any money yet anyway." Williams is one of more than a d...

LeBron James' "just finishing our breakfast" quip -- a nod to Jay-Z's "Success" and/or a flip insult to the Philadelphia 76ers -- has launched an endless stream of breakfast metaphors over the last 24 hours. Kate Fagan reported that Lou Williams went...

Luminary journalist Gay Talese tells the Miami New Times that, if he were LeBron James, he would have pursued the same course of action this summer. Talese also takes a shot or two at the New York press corps. The Star Tribune's Jerry Zgoda caught ...

Wizards owner Ted Leonsis: "Last night there was a pick-up game played at Verizon Center on our practice court. There were many NBA players in attendance and a few NBA All-Stars played as well. I stumbled into watching purely by accident. Gilbert Are...