Basketball in the late '90s and early 2000s was a different battlefield. It was physical and gritty. Defenders had an extra weapon — the ability to guide offensive players with their hands.

The NBA rewired its entire rhythm during its era shift. Somewhere between the bruising '90s and the run-and-gun 2010s, the league outlawed one of its most defining defensive tools, the hand checking.

There was a time when the NBA's hardwood was a warzone of elbows, sweat and pride. Defense ruled and guards learned to survive under the pressure of a palm pressed into their ribs every trip down the ...

For anyone who has followed the NBA for a long time, the most contentious, famous and widely discussed rule change is hand checking. It's hard to pinpoint exactly why it has become the barometer by ...

Syracuse's Brandon Triche tries to muscle his way into the lane past Louisville's Chane Behanan in second half action Saturday in the finals of Big East Championships at Madison Square Garden.

The NBA's struggle with viewership has been a growing concern. Recent reports from ESPN highlighted a staggering 28 percent decline in ratings for the current season. This dip is part of a broader ...

The 2022 MLB season is only a month in but we’ve already had tons of content to cover here at Mediaite. And Wednesday is no different, what with Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Madison Bumgarner ...

Welcome back to the Hot Take Cannon! Thank y'all for rocking with yerboi for another week. It has been an absolutely wild week in the NBA from players complaining about things to players actually kind ...

GAYLORD – Sometimes Cambrie Smith gets really nervous before running cross-country meets, so she writes words of inspiration on her left hand that she can read to herself leading up to race time. “I ...