The Oregon native scored 18 points in the fourth quarter alone.

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Things are going great for Kevin Durant, who became the eighth player in NBA history to reach 31,000 career points while helping the Houston Rockets to a 117-98 win over the Phoenix Suns.

Oklahoma City keeps rolling without its MVP as a historically dominant start stirs debate over whether this team can chase basketball’s greatest season.

Across decades of NBA scoring evolution, few benchmarks carry the weight of a 40-point game. Only a handful of players have reached that threshold often enough to define eras, styles, and legacies. Using StatMuse’s numbers,

An NBA insider shut down former NBA center Kendrick Perkins after the latter linked All-Star center Anthony Davis to the East.

Chris Paul is a top-five point guard in NBA history We have convened a Hall of Fame panel, made up entirely by me, to officially determine whether Chris Paul, a.k.a. The Point God, will retire at season's end as one of the five greatest point guards in history.

A big reason for that is the Mavericks' rookie tandem of Cooper Flagg and Ryan Nembhard. They ended up on the team in different ways, as the Mavs lucked into the first overall pick to select Flagg, while Nembhard somehow slipped out of the draft and they picked him up on a two-way contract soon afterwards. And they've been dynamite as of late.

All eight teams left in the running for the NBA Cup are now playing for a shot at going to Las Vegas for the tournament semifinals, along with a chance of picking up more than $500,000 per player as a reward for claiming the title.

Hachimura’s buzzer-beater sends Lakers over Raptors, LeBron’s NBA-record scoring streak ends TORONTO — Rui Hachimura made a 3-pointer off a pass from LeBron James as time expired to give the Los Angeles Lakers a 123-120 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Thursday night.