On this day in Boston Celtics history, former head coach and team president Rick Pitino was hired as head coach and general manager of the team in 1997. He had previously coached at the NBA level as a ...

It was April 5, 1968, the day after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on the Lorraine Motel balcony in Memphis, when Oscar Robertson, head of the National Basketball Players Association, ...

In the 1968-69 season, the NBA continued to grow its footprint across the United States. As part of that growth, the league added a new franchise in the midwest: the Milwaukee Bucks. On Jan. 22, 1968, ...

Bill Russell celebrates his second season doubling as a player-coach with an NBA championship, as the Boston Celtics defeat the Los Angeles Lakers, four games to two, with a 124-109 victory in Game 6.

Celebrating key Black players, coaches and referees who helped propel the sport of basketball and the NBA. From NBA.com Staff NBA’s 1st Black starting five in 1964: No. 24 Sam Jones, No. 25 K. C.

I am so proud of the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association for following the lead of the Milwaukee Bucks in deciding not to play Wednesday’s playoff game against the Orlando Magic ...

Luka Doncic, forward-guard for the Dallas Mavericks, recently rolled up to an NBA game from behind the wheel of a custom-wrapped 1968 Chevy Camaro, turning heads long before he hit the court. The ...