Named 'LeBron James' Home Court', the institution was established in Akron, in the US state of Ohio, where one of basketball's greatest players was born. It is housed in the House Three Thirty practical vocational training centre, founded by the LeBron James Family Foundation (LJFF).more
Jeremy Sochan scored eight points for the San Antonio Spurs, and his team defeated the Phoenix Suns 115-114 away in an NBA league match in amazing circumstances. The Texas basketball players were losing by five points with less than a minute before the end of the match.more
"Olympic gold is the only trophy I haven't won yet." - stressed Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors during the NBA teams' media day. He is another star player in the league who has expressed interest in playing in next year's Games in Paris.more
U.S. newspaper The Athletic reported yesterday that the famous LeBron James is interested in playing in the Olympics again and would like to fight with the U.S. national team for another Olympic gold. He was also already said to be in contact with other basketball players for a star team to play in Paris.more
Vanessa Bryant - Kobe Bryant's wife - announced that a monument to her husband will soon be unveiled in front of the Los Angeles Lakers arena. This will happen on February 8, 2024. The date is not accidental. 8 and 24 - these are the jersey numbers with which Bryant played, and 2 (like February) is the number that accompanied his daughter, Gianna, during her junior career.more
Lithuania, Estonia and North Macedonia are the group rivals of the Polish national basketball team in the qualifiers for the 2025 European Championships. As co-hosts of the event in two years' time, the red and white are assured of participation, but will participate in the qualifiers.more
"Take me, I look like Mbappe" - this is how NBA basketball player Giannis Antetokounmpo referred to the offer of the Saudi football club Al-Hilal, which offered a record €300 million for the French striker Paris Saint-Germain.more
The legendary basketball player, four-time NBA champion LeBron James (currently Los Angeles Lakers) will be the starter of the jubilee, 100th edition of the famous 24-hour car race in Le Mans on the Circuit de la Sarthe track. The competition will start on Saturday.more
Former NBA player Dwight Howard has become the latest international sports star to be caught in the crosshairs of Chinese nationalist wrath after he referred to Taiwan as a “country” in a promotional video alongside the democratic island’s vice president.more
Michael Jordan's shoes, worn by the legendary basketball player in the 1998 NBA Finals, have sold at auction for a record $2.2 million. This is 800,000 more than was paid in 2021 for the footwear of this athlete from his debut season.more
Michael Jordan is preparing to sell the Charlotte Hornets. Jordan is engaged in serious talks to sell a controlling portion of the franchise to an ownership group led by current minority owner Gabe Plotkin and Atlanta Hawks minority owner Rick Schnall, according to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.more
Police in Colorado are investigating Memphis Grizzlies All-Star Ja Morant over an incident in which he allegedly brandished a gun at a nightclub during an Instagram Live post Saturday morning.
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A court has awarded the family of the late NBA star Kobe Bryant nearly $29 million in damages over the unauthorized release of photos from the crash site that killed the basketball player.more
Slovene Luka Doncic, among others thanks to the 56th in the career of the so-called A triple-double and two three-pointers at key moments, he led the Dallas Mavericks to a two-overtime away win over the Los Angeles Lakers 119-115 in the NBA.more
One of the former stars of the NBA basketball league, Shaquille O'Neal, the 1996 Olympic champion, once again took care of himself, specifically his body, and went on a diet. He boasted that he had lost 18 kg and is not going to stop there.more
Phoenix Suns and NBA All-Star Chris Paul has reached his 19-year goal of graduating from college. As a souvenir, the basketball player paid $ 2,500 to the account of all his friends from the year.more
The basketball players of Śląsk Wrocław will fight on Wednesday in London against the local Lions for their first victory in the European Cup competition. After five rounds, the national champion remains without a win, and in the last one succumbed to Promitheas Patras (76:78) after a last-second shot by the rivals.more
One of Michael Jordan's 2002-2003 Washington Wizards shooting shirts was sold in a private sale for $900,000, Sotheby's announced Friday. The auction house said that specific shirt was the same one Jordan wore when leaving the court for the last time in his NBA career on April 16, 2003. more
LeBron James has set the terms to extend his contract with the Los Angeles Lakers until the end of the 2024/25 season. The current contract of the NBA basketball star expires in June, and in the next two years he will receive 97.1 million dollars, his agent Rich Paul said.more
LeBron James–18-time NBA all-star, 4-time NBA champion, 2-time Olympic gold medalist–has hit yet another milestone, this time doing something no other NBA player has ever done.more
Tony Parker, the four-time NBA league champion, has a chance to become sports minister in the French government, media on the Seine have reported, including the sports daily "L'Equipe". The nearly 40-year-old former basketball player is one of several candidates.more
The widow of famous NBA basketball player Kobe Bryant, who died in a helicopter crash in January 2020, has signed a new contract with Nike to produce shoes and clothes signed with her husband's name. The previous contract concluded by the basketball player expired nearly a year ago.more
The Los Angeles Lakers have signed guard Darren Collison and forward Stanley Johnson to 10-day contracts pursuant to the NBA Hardship Exception provisions, it was announced today.more
In yesterday's only NBA game to go into overtime, the Indiana Pacers lost to the Los Angeles Lakers 116:124. The Lakers were led to victory by LeBron James, who scored 39 points, including eight in extra time.more
