The San Antonio Spurs finished off a dominant run to their fifth NBA championship Sunday, ending the Miami Heat's two-year title reign with a 104-87 victory that wrapped up the series in five games.
In his first significant move since taking over as the Los Angeles Clippers' new owner this month, Steve Ballmer has persuaded head coach Doc Rivers to remain with the team for another five years.
Jaws dropped when Yao Ming strolled across the main square of the Youth Olympic Village on Monday. The youth Olympians could not stop staring at the towering basketball legend, one of the best-known sportsmen in China.
When training camp begins in October, he'll be trying to block and deflect shots in the NBA. On Monday, No 1 overall draft pick Andrew Wiggins was deflecting questions about precisely where he'll be playing.
Steve Ballmer, the former head of Microsoft, has completed his $2 billion purchase of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team, ending a saga that began when former team owner Donald Sterling was heard making racist remarks to his girlfriend on a tape recording.
Steve Ballmer officially became the new owner of the Los Angeles Clippers on Tuesday.
Cavaliers reach agreement with T-Wolves on package deal that includes Wiggins
Former NBA commissioner David Stern prefers to look at the sale of the Los Angeles Clippers for a record $2 billion and not the decades of Donald Sterling's "interesting" ownership that came before it.
Kevin Durant withdrew Thursday from the US national team, the biggest loss yet for a weakening American squad that will go to Spain without the leading scorer on its past two gold medal winners.
Following the recent earthquake in Zhaotong, Yunnan province, NBA China will donate 1 million yuan to the China Youth Development Foundation (CYDF) through the league's global social responsibility program, NBA Cares, to aid victims and their families in disaster relief and rebuilding efforts.
Ex-NBA star Metta World Peace ends rampant speculation about his name, confirming it is "The Pandas Friend" as the topic reaches 86 million hits on social media.
Tickets for NBA Global Games China 2014 presented by ZTE featuring the Brooklyn Nets and Sacramento Kings will go on sale on August 12.