A long-dormant police investigation gives the case new life.

The improbable rise of Dallas Wings star Liz Cambage.

A profile of Jordan at 50.

A basketball player cares for his addicted sister.

On Montana’s Flathead Indian Reservation, basketball is about much more than winning.

A profile of UConn basketball coach Geno Auriemma, who has not found peace despite unprecedented success.

On mental health and professional sports.

In the 1980s, Billy Ray Bates, once dubbed “the Legend,” drank himself out of the NBA and ended up playing in the Philippines. For a few wild years, his legend grew—both on the court and in the bars.

He was the consensus #1 pick in last year’s NBA draft. Then, seemingly overnight, he forgot how to shoot.

The psychology, interactions, and sadness of a fringe NBA player.

“You got the DNA of a motherfucking go-getter.”

Kobe Bryant knows who he is, and he’s happy to tell you all about it.

How a bootleg prep school profited by ripping off teens with NBA dreams.

Why didn’t visionary baller Joe Caldwell become a star?

On former Knicks savior Stephon Marbury and his post-NBA life playing in China.

The NBA’s greatest draft bust, Darko Milicic is now an enthusiastic farmer of cherries in his native Serbia.

In 1993, his rookie season, more than 1,700 boys were named after Shaquille O’Neal. Now they’ve grown up.

On being—and playing for—Lady Vols basketball coach Pat Summitt.

The NBA’s most “irrationally confident” player tells his story.

He has been in the NBA for 50 years. He’s won nine championships. And he can’t walk away.

He’s got 50,000 Instagram followers. He’s been offered several college scholarships. He just played his first high school basketball game.

A profile of the Oklahoma City point guard, who is averaging a triple-double in his first season without Kevin Durant.

How the 1983 assassination of his father, the president of American University of Beirut, shaped the Golden State Warriors basketball coach.

Mykal Riley’s last-second three-pointer kept thousands of fans out of the path of a tornado. Just as remarkable? That Riley was there to take the shot in the first place.

An NBA lottery pick and drug addict tries to rebuild his life.