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Tony Parker swore he didn't want to leave the Spurs, and he has a new contract to finally prove it. The Spurs signed Parker to a multiyear extension Saturday that preserves their three-time NBA champion core of Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili and the star point guard, and puts an ...
Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers and Carmelo Anthony of the Denver Nuggets top the Western Conference, while LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers and Dwyane Wade of the Miami Heat lead the Eastern Conference in the fourth returns of 2010 NBA All-Star Balloting presented by T-Mobile. Bryant, a ...
Yao Ming's broken foot is not healed and the Houston Rockets said Wednesday the All-Star center is out indefinitely. Yao suffered a hairline fracture in his left foot in the Rockets' second-round playoff loss to the Lakers on May 8. The team initially said Yao would miss eight to 12 weeks, ...

Michael Jordan wanted to put on his shorts and play one final time. The decorated NBA champion and MVP already had two failed retirements, so what was one more return to the ...
Shaq danced, Kobe dazzled. And just like the good ol' days, they won again. Bryant led all scorers with 27 points, O'Neal partied his way back onto the All-Star stage with 17 in just 11 minutes, and the Western ...
Forget David vs. Goliath or Kryptonite vs. Superman. The only dunk reference you can make to describe Nate Robinson's clinching jam in the final round of the 2009 Sprite Slam Dunk is Vince Carter vs. the posterized Olympian, Frederick Weis. If ...
So much for the for the 3-point threepeat. Daequan Cook ended Jason Kapono's two-year reign as the NBA's best exhibition sharpshooter Saturday night. The Miami Heat guard needed overtime to do it, besting Orlando's Rashard Lewis in a Foot Locker Three-Point ...
Last June, Derrick Rose was the first player selected in the 2008 Draft. On All-Star Saturday Night, Rose was first again. Finishing off his winning time of 35.3 seconds with an emphatic double-pump reverse dunk, the Chicago Bulls guard became the ...
It's a good thing that Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant has a 7-foot-5-inch wingspan, because he had eight other second-year players and a six-game winning streak to take under his wing in the T-Mobile Rookie Challenge. Durant scored a Rookie Challenge record ...