The 2010-2011 NBA season was unkind to a few teams, but no team more than the Cleveland Cavaliers. They lost their biggest star in LeBron James, and etched their names in the record books with a ...

The Dallas Mavericks are in the Western Conference Finals for the first time since 2006. To get here, they had to go through two difficult teams—the Portland Trail Blazers and Los Angeles Lakers.

The 2011 NBA Draft has widely been regarded as a down year for talent, but it offers a chance for GMs to prove themselves, the perfect draft to find that needle in a haystack. We liked the drafts by ...

Tyson Chandler was an instrumental part to the Dallas Mavericks winning the 2011 NBA championship, anchording the defense on the interior. Dallas traded for him prior to that season, but if things had ...

The 2011 NBA draft wound up having a good amount of high-level talent in it, though it came from places not many were expecting. Overall, that class has had seven players turn into All-Stars, but ...

T-Wolves GM David Kahn tried to create a market for this pick, but our guess is he will wind up making it. The best news for Minnesota fans? At least it won't be another point guard. Some late ...

DALLAS — The Dallas Mavericks are on the cusp of greatness as they aim to close out the Minnesota Timberwolves in Game 5 of the Western Conference Finals. The Mavs had the chance to sweep the ...

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• The most hated player in the NBA (it's not Kobe) NIL has changed the calculus, with college basketball’s top underclassmen now routinely returning to school rather than entering the NBA Draft. The ...