Rick Adelman coached 29 seasons in the NBA, leading the Trail Blazers, Warriors, Rockets, Timberwolves and most famously the Sacramento Kings.

The National Basketball Association, or NBA, is a professional basketball league comprised of 30 teams across North America featuring the best basketball players in the world. How many teams are there in the NBA?

During the first basketball game played in 1891, players dunked balls and scored points in a basket normally used to collect peaches. To keep his students engaged, James Naismith, a 31-year-old graduate student teaching physical education at the school ...

After a 2025-26 season in which he won the NBA’s Hustle Award, Diabaté stands to be one of the biggest bargains in basketball next season. His contract for next season is worth just over $2.46 million,

Ryan Robertson, who played college basketball at Kansas, played one game for the 1999-2000 Sacramento Kings. Illustration: Dan Goldfarb / The Athletic; Rocky Widner / Getty Images This story is part of Peak, The Athletic’s desk covering the mental side ...

NBC Sports has found its basketball equivalent to Carrie Underwood. The company announced Monday that Lenny Kravitz will perform the introduction anthem music for Sunday Night Basketball, which will debut in February. “I have been a fan of basketball and ...

Atlanta Hawks star Jonathan Kuminga improbably made the sixth-longest basket in NBA history during the third quarter of the team’s 135-120 win over the Dallas Mavericks on Wednesday at the American Airlines Center. Kuminga, 23, snared a rebound under his ...

AJ Dybantsa dunks in a game. College basketball came back from the dead. The product has never been better. Chris Gardner / Getty Images It was only three seasons ago, before the beginning of the 2023-24 season, that I worried, in the pages of another ...

Few sports combine speed, agility and teamwork quite like basketball. Its blend of strategy, synergy and quick gameplay has made it one of the world’s most popular sports, which boasts roughly 2.2 billion fans and more than 600 million active players ...

Coach Jon Scheyer's Duke basketball staff is growing. The Blue Devils announced on Tuesday, June 2 the additions of KJ Conklin as assistant coach and Alexander Powell as executive director of basketball. Conklin, a native of Rock Falls, Illinois, joins ...

The Duke basketball program has made a few new hires to its staff under head coach Jon Scheyer for the 2026-27 season. Scheyer lost assistant coach Evan Bradds this offseason, as Bradds left Durham to take over as the new men's basketball head coach at his ...

Four 2026 NBA Draft prospects flying under the radar who could have big years in fantasy basketball in their rookie seasons.