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Live, up-to-the-minute NBA basketball scores on ESPN.com....

Up-to-the-minute WNBA scores on ESPN.com...

The NBA Awards Watch is a constantly updated list of potential candidates for the MVP, Rookie of the Year, Coach of the Year, and Player of the Week: Defense and Improved....

ESPN's NBA Playoff Predictor allows you to drag and drop teams to desired seedings and produces winning probabilities based on AccuScore simulations....

Constantly updated first-round matchup scenarios for the NBA Playoffs....

Dr. James Naismith (1861-1939) was a Canadian-born educator and coach who invented the game of basketball in 1891 while teaching physical education at the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Mass. Naismith did not finish high school until the age of...

A concussion is a common type of traumatic brain injury, frequently suffered in contact sports, such as football. As more serious long-term effects of concussions have been revealed through medical studies, some professional sports leagues have revis...

Phil Jackson is a retired NBA player and coach, who was most recently the coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. Jackson played 13 seasons in the NBA, winning two NBA championships in 1970 and 1973 as a member of the New York Knicks. Jackson was also the h...

Alphabetical listing by school of all NBA prospects, both drafted and undrafted....

The NBA Playoff Bracket features automatic updates for every matchup during each round of the NBA playoffs....

Complete schedule of NBA basketball games....

The NBA Slam Dunk Contest is a special event held annually at the NBA's All-Star Weekend, usually as the nightcap to All-Star Saturday....

The National Basketball Association (NBA) All-Star Game is an annual mid-season exhibition contest held to showcase the professional league's top performers, pitting players from the Eastern Conference against their counterparts from the Western Conf...

Kobe Bryant was asked a tough question on 710 ESPN's "Max & Marcellus Show" on Wednesday: If he could pick any player in the league to join him to create the sport's top duo, who would that player be? His response: LeBron James. "It's a toug...

Haters Wish LeBron James is not the Incredible Hulk or Tupac. He does not thrive on hate. He is not fueled by rage. I don't think he's fueled by love, either. He plays basketball like an Apache helicopter and bites his nails. We're not going to know...

Kendrick Perkins joined the Jim Rome Show on Wednesday afternoon and talked more about the infamous LeBron tweet, expanding on his words in a Yahoo! Sports report. (Hat tip to Daily Thunder's Royce Young and The Oklahoman's Darnell Mayberry for the l...