“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.

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.