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.

On the mysterious death of a high school basketball star in Dallas.

A former Ohio National Guardsman recalls being dunked on by LeBron James as a teenager — and how the James helped get him through the Iraq War.

Just before his first NBA game, an 18-year-old LeBron James was asked about the pressure of controlling the combined fortunes of a city, major corporations, and the league. “I can handle it,” he said.

Mini-Currys and the future of basketball.

“The pitch meeting kicked off with one Nike official accidentally addressing Stephen as 'Steph-on.' ... It got worse from there. A PowerPoint slide featured Kevin Durant's name, presumably left on by accident, presumably residue from repurposed materials.”

Kobe Bryant in twilight.

How the Caltech basketball team, losers of 310 straight conference games, figured out a formula for winning.

What happened after the first openly gay player in Division I men’s basketball came out.

Investigating the unsolved murder of a former NBA player.

A profile of James Harden, the Houston Rockets shooting guard that just signed a $200 million endorsement deal with Adidas.

The story of a sudden death amid a high school recruiting scandal in Texas.

‘‘Just imagine what it was like to be him,’’ Walton added. ‘‘It was 50 years of him being 18 inches taller than everyone and having the brain that he had. Imagine being this jazz head coming up during black power. This is just a dude who has a different head.’’

A 42-year-old man with small hands and a dream.

A story of growth, regression, and divergent paths.

"But mostly, Joan sat for hours in her favorite spot of their old living room couch where she breastfed Phil. It felt sometimes like he was resting in the crook of her arm. And other times, her breasts would drip milk and she’d sit with a throbbing ache in her chest. Her husband returned twice a week, a different person each time as if trying on new identities: laughing, angry, sedate, stoic. Sometimes he brought the rocks with him. Sometimes Joan would have to go out on her own looking for them."

The mysterious death of one of college basketball’s most promising coaches.

Bill Bradley was a Rhodes scholar, a three-term U.S. Senator and a presidential candidate. But before all that, he was the best college basketball player in the country.

The death of Bobby Phills, an NBA player who made one terrible mistake.

For a few weeks a few years ago, Jeremy Lin was on top of the basketball world. Now he’s riding the bench, being taunted by Kobe Bryant, and trying to figure out what the hell happened.

What happened to one of the most hated basketball players in NCAA history after playing a single season at Georgetown.

The team’s grand, analytics-driven experiment led by a business school grad who won the GM job after giving a “PowerPoint presentation that Sixers executives now recall as an ‘investment thesis.’”

The pecking order of All-Star Weekend sex-with-basketball-player-or-rapper hopefuls.

On former North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith, who died Saturday, and his battle with dementia.