On the lost pickup basketball games in D.C. between Wilt Chamberlain and Elgin Baylor, then both still in college, during the summer of 1957.

One man’s stories from the early days of the NBA.

An investigation into the true identity of a high school basketball player.

An oral history of the Pacers/Pistons melee in 2004.

On the “unfair significance” of Jeremy Lin.

The story of a high school star who died minutes after hitting a game-winner to end an undefeated season, and the family and friends he left behind.

On Clifton “Pop” Herring, the then-26-year-old high school basketball coach who famously left Jordan off the varsity squad as a sophomore.

Bill Russell, race, and the NBA of the 1960s.

On the death of a high school basketball star in New York City.

Rick Barry has a problem. He would like people to regard him with love and affection, as they do Jerry West and John Havlicek. They do not.

On the battle between Shaquille O’Neal and his former IT guy, who’s in control of much of O’Neal’s archived (and often damning) correspondence.

What happens to 7-footers when they step off the basketball court?