How coach Gregg Popovich’s love of fine wine led to a 20-year run of success in the NBA.

The former NBA player is forever linked to the murder of his girlfriend.

The rise and fall of basketball player Daniel “Gus” Gerard.

“I know that, as a white man, I have to hold my fellow white men accountable.”

Childhood, basketball, getting lost.

In 2017, the Hall of Fame Louisville coach’s career collapsed under a string of scandals, leading to his firing from the school he had coached for 16 years. Now, Pitino is finding himself in Greece, coaching Panathinaikos, working for a self-styled Bond villain, and enjoying a new chapter of his life.

I’m a 36-year-old grown-ass man, and I’m about to start crying on the plane coming back from Game 4. That’s how bad I want it.

An oral history of Garry Shandling’s secret pickup basketball game.

The inspiring life and mysterious death of NBA player Bison Dele.

The 26-year-old is many things: New York Knicks center, devout Muslim, star of #NBATwitter, and enemy of the Turkish state.

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.