Vince Carter scored 24 points, Dwight Howard had 17 points and 12 rebounds and the Orlando Magic won their fifth straight game, ...

Each week, USA TODAY selects four of the NBA's top performers for our Player of the Week reader ballot. This week's nominees ...

Kobe Bryant scored 26 points, including an astonishing basket from behind the backboard, and the Los Angeles Lakers cruised to ...

Dwyane Wade was trapped, so Udonis Haslem took over. Wade had 31 points, and Haslem banked in a jumper with 15.4 seconds left ...

Thirty years after their NCAA battle reshaped college basketball, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson were inducted into the National ...

Paul Pierce carried the Celtics all game while the rest of the Big Three struggled.

Carmelo Anthony scored 30 points and Chauncey Billups had 21, leading the Denver Nuggets to a 112-93 victory over the Chicago ...

No matter how bleak things look for the Knicks, they can take comfort knowing worse basketball is being played 10 miles away.

Clippers longtime play-by-play announcer Ralph Lawler and color analyst Michael Smith were suspended one game by the Fox Sports ...

Vince Carter scored 26 points, Rashard Lewis had 16 points and 10 rebounds, and the Orlando Magic beat the Boston Celtics 83-78 ...

Josh Smith soared through the lane to drop in a missed shot with 0.7 seconds remaining and the Atlanta Hawks won their seventh ...

The Sacramento Monarchs folded on Friday, a shocking and disappointing development for the WNBA and one of its original eight ...

The New York Knicks have decided not to pursue Allen Iverson. Team president Donnie Walsh says the team has decided not to make ...

Retired NBA star Jayson Williams will not be in a New Jersey courtroom Friday to enter a plea in the 2002 shooting death of a ...

Until Thursday night, Pau Gasol had made more appearances this fall on "CSI: Miami" than in the Los Angeles Lakers' starting ...