Basketball

The new Kings majority owner, Vivek Ranadive, has said he wants to make DeMarcus Cousins an international superstar.

The Toronto Raptors named Bobby Webster as vice president of basketball management and strategy, the team announced Wednesday. Webster worked for the NBA in New York for the past seven years. His most recent position was associate director of salary cap management. “I am delighted to have Bobby join our basketball operations team,” Raptors president and general [...]

Here is our regular look around the NBA — links to stories worth reading and notes to check out (stuff that did not get its own post here at PBT) — done in bullet point form. Because bloggers love bullet points. • The Philadelphia 76ers coaching search could go on until after Summer League in…

The Shot That Changed Everything found the perfect hands. Nobody who ever played basketball has made more three-point baskets than Ray Allen, after all. You know how shooters say they are sure the moment the ball leaves their hands if the shot is good? That they know it by instinct and feel?

“Perspective is dead.”

David Thorpe says if he were Gregg Popovich he'd prepare his team for Game 7 with the message "we're better than them." What he'd tell the Heat, what...

The Spurs have never trailed in a Finals series, and this road Game 7 against the NBA's best team in the regular season qualifies as their most perilous predicament, J.A. Adande writes.

Game 6 of the 2013 NBA Finals served us all with a reminder that Tim Duncan and LeBron James are two of the best players of the league has had to offer in recent seasons. Truthfully, it should come as no surprise given their respective bodies of work, but the way they carried their teams [...]

When the lights go down at Bankers Life Fieldhouse and the 300 Violin Orchestra begins to blare, tip time is near and the Pacers home-court advantage begins reaching a fever pitch. The Pacers had a 15-game home winning streak and ended the regular season with a 31-11 record at the Fieldhouse. Then in the playoffs the Pacers were 8-1 in front of the wild sell-out crowds throughout their run to Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals. Music plays a big role in firing up the Fieldhouse faithful and while the tunes played throughout the game vary from year-to-year, tapping into popular songs, the pre-game duo of 300 Violin Orchestra followed by 7 Nation Army as the team daps it up and the starters make their way out to the center circle gets everyone on their feet and ready to rock. During the game the new, monster HD scoreboard helps make stars out of fans dancing to tunes, like this little kid ripping up Run-DMC in the stands. What tunes do you enjoy hearing the most at the Fieldhouse. Which songs would you like to suggest the Pacers include whether for time out entertainment or firing up the crowd. Last year (2012) during the playoffs, I caught a little of that pre-game experience as the players went through their rituals before the tip. Check it out.

After 17 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), San Antonio Spurs evergreen power forward Tim Duncan has already seen it all. The 37-year has scaled the heights of the NBA, winning four titles and two league Most Valuable Player awards, and nothing fazes him, not even the prospect of facing the top-seeded Miami Heat in [...]