Drazen Petrovic and Willow Bay stand, the Statue of Liberty behind them, in Hoboken, N.J. circa 1991. (Bruce Bennett-NBAE-Getty Images) Petrovic played little in the first half after picking up two ...

In a quiet moment during the Slovenian national team training camp before last summer's Eurobasket championship run, the team's coach, Igor Kokoskov, pulled aside Luka Doncic, his star prospect, for a ...

Dirk Nowitzki was crowned the MVP even though Germany lost to Greece in the European Championship in Serbia back in 2005. His performance throughout the tournament not only impressed the organizers ...

Basketball stars often like to pay tribute to their favorite players in small or major ways. It can take the form of a public shoutout, a more formal tribute, or even just a plain old meet-and-greet.

On the outside, an NBA player's life looks like a dream. In addition to earning a king's ransom to play basketball, players enjoy access to world-class training facilities, being waited on from head ...

In today's NBA, teams' decision-makers and executives no longer have a problem putting the fate of their respective franchises in the hands of European players. From Luka Doncic of the Los Angeles ...

"Clyde would give me 20 at practice, and I couldn't figure it out" - Drazen Petrovic recalls being schooled by Drexler in his first year originally appeared on Basketball Network. When we talk about ...

Regret is a heavy load to carry. For NBA players, it can be a missed shot, a botched pass, or a missed defensive assignment that costs them a game or, worse, the Larry O'Brien trophy. However, for ...

Welcome to the NBA 75, The Athletic’s countdown of the 75 best players in NBA history, in honor of the league’s diamond anniversary. We also will run features such as this one to complement certain ...

You would have thought that the apex of stories about young Stephen Curry's adventures in the NBA while his dad, Dell Curry, was playing for the Hornets and Raptors was the video of Muggsy Bougues ...

The year was 1980, and Digger Phelps was working a coaching clinic in the former Yugoslavia. The Notre Dame coach brought players on the floor for a demonstration, and one of them caught his eye.