basketball

The defending champion Milwaukee Bucks and resurgent Golden State Warriors completed 4-1 series victories to advance to the second round of the NBA playoffs on Wednesday. In Milwaukee, Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 33 points as the Bucks…

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the withdrawal of Nigeria from all International basketball competitions for a period of two years, with immediate effect. This is due to the unending crisis that have crippled the development of…

The Milwaukee Bucks erased a double-digit fourth-quarter deficit to beat Boston 110-107 on Wednesday and push the Celtics to the brink of NBA playoff elimination as the Memphis Grizzlies stayed alive with a 134-95 drubbing of Golden State.…

The Dallas Mavericks organization was fined $25,000 by the NBA on Friday for violating league rules regarding team bench decorum in a playoff loss Wednesday at Phoenix. The league said that on multiple occasions, several Mavericks…

The United States said Tuesday that Russia has unjustly detained basketball star Brittney Griner, as her league announced plans to honor her at all venues for the start of the season. More than two months after she was seized amid…

Jayson Tatum spun in for a buzzer-beating layup to give the Boston Celtics a thrilling 115-114 victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday in the first game of their NBA Eastern Conference playoff series. Tatum scored 31 points to lead…

The South-East representative on the board of the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF), Ugo Udezue is confident that the 2022 Owerri Basketball Classic will pave the way for other developmental programmes in the zone. He stated…

Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James became the first player ever in NBA history to reach at least 30,000 points, 10,000 rebounds and 10,000 assists on Sunday night. The 37-year-old brought up his landmark 10,000th career…

Steph Curry made a young fan's day after surprising her before a Golden State Warriors' game  after the girl had been left in tears when the NBA star was dropped in a previous game. PJ O'Byrne, 10, went viral after a clip…

US basketball star Brittney Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and WNBA champion, has been detained in Moscow on charges of carrying vape cartridges that contained cannabis oil in her luggage. A statement on Saturday from…