Sophomore forward Cade Phillips is making 71.1% of his shots this season for top-ranked Tennessee. Dunks have a way of helping such accuracy. The 6-foot-9, 216-pounder from Jacksonville, Alabama, is ...

Vince Carter won't be staying away from the game for long. In fact, the just-retired dunking legend is headed to ESPN as an NBA analyst, according to Andrew Marchand of the New York Post. Carter, 43, ...

A look at The Times’ top 25 boys’ basketball rankings for the Southland after Week 2. 1. SIERRA CANYON (4-0): Brandon McCoy is a dunk machine this season; 1 2. SANTA MARGARITA (6-0): Six-foot-eight ...

The Brooklyn Nets acquired six-time NBA All-Star Blake Griffin after he was bought out by the Detroit Pistons earlier in the season, and he has been a big part of their team since the acquisition.

For a team boasting Anthony Davis and LeBron James at the forefront of its roster, the Los Angeles Lakers were quiet this offseason. Outside of drafting Bronny James and Dalton Knecht, they’ve avoided ...

Kon Knueppel is stepping into the NBA with something a lot of rookies take years to figure out and it is a rock-solid sense of who he is as a player. He’s not trying to hide behind flashy highlights ...

Braxton Meah is 7-foot-1. But in the first month of his lone season at Nebraska, he needed to take baby steps. “It took a minute trying to understand everything,” Meah said. “There’s a lot coach (Fred ...

The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill. Matt Daniels, The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill. Not as the high-flying, athletic-dunking machine he was as a player when he teamed up with Kevin Garnett ...

LINCOLN — Braxton Meah stands more than seven feet. But in the early stages of his lone season at Nebraska, baby steps were required. “It took a minute trying to understand everything,” Meah said.