The FIBA U17 World Cup is always a chance to see young players, and in this year’s edition, that’s more true than ever. Most Duke fans had no idea just how good Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje is because he ...

Over in Turkey, the FIBA U17 World Cup rolls on, and the U.S. finished up group play by just gobsmacking Italy, 131-80, and now moves on to the knockout round. We don’t know beans about Italy’s team, ...

Monday night, Michigan captured the 2026 NCAA championship with a gritty display of tough-minded basketball. They needed every bit of it, because UConn matched them stride for stride in hard-nosed ...

If you buy something from a link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Cameron Boozer and his fellow rookie teammates, Karim Lopez and Richie Saunders, have been introduced to ...

New York Knicks legend Willis Reed is most famous for courageously taking the court in Game 7 of the 1970 Finals despite a very serious leg injury, and scoring the first two baskets. However, there ...

We’ve said for a long time that it’s probably better to be drafted later by a team with a great culture than it is to be taken earlier by a team with a lesser culture. So we were really excited for ...

So the draft is over, and what does it mean for the many tentacles of the Brotherhood? Let’s look at it. Well, some of them, anyway. There’s a lot of sifting and sorting to be done yet. First, this ...

This is a pretty great article from The Athletic about Duke Basketball in the ‘90s. Those who were around for the early part of the Krzyzewski era will remember that for a while, it was a real uphill ...

There are a lot of uncertainties still, but Maliq Brown was taken with the #44 pick by the San Antonio Spurs, and that could be a huge break. First, the Spurs have been a model franchise in most ways, ...

When Larry Bird entered the NBA, he had plenty of doubters. He didn’t pass the eye test: he was slow, couldn’t jump, and was ghostly white. Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan figured it out quickly.