GUANGZHOU, China, Oct.8 (Xinhua) -- NBA star Yi Jianlian would play for Guangdong Hongyuan in the upcoming Chinese Basketball Association season which starts in November, the defending CBA champions confirmed on Saturday night. Yi has signed a one-se...
The National Basketball League has formally locked out its players after they failed to reach an agreement with the owners on a new collective bargaining agreement. The lockout took effect early Friday morning when the previous labor deal expired. NB...
MADRID, June 20 (Xinhua) -- Spanish forward Pau Gasol, who has been linked to a move to the Minnesota Timberwolves, said Monday he wants to stay with the Los Angeles Lakers for as many years as I can. The Timberwolves have reportedly been pursuing Ga...
MADRID, June 17 (Xinhua) -- Spanish guard Ricky Rubio will play for the Minnesota Timberwolves in the NBA next season, the Barcelona basketball club announced on Friday. The 20-year-old Rubio, who made his Spanish league debut at the age of 14, was d...
The number of foreign-born players in America's professional National Basketball Association has tripled in the past two decades. One of the veterans - San Antonio Spurs' Tony Parker - and a rookie - Washington Wizards' Hamady Ndiaye - talk about the...
The National Basketball Association's (NBA) longest tenured head coach, Jerry Sloan, 68, has abruptly resigned from the Utah Jazz - a team he led for the last 23 years. He stepped down Thursday, only three days after signing a one-year contract exten...
The NBA (National Basketball Association) is the professional body that controls basketball in the U.S.A. and Canada. It consists of 30 franchised teams, of which 29 are in the U.S. and one is in Canada. It was founded in 1946 as the Basketball Assoc...
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- Three-time NBA all-star Steve Francis has been arrested（逮捕） at a Los Angeles airport for being drunk, police said. Airport spokesman Albert Rodriguez says Francis was arrested Thursday evening because he was in...
It's Day to Day from NPR news, I am Alex Chadwick. In basketball, the NBA's second-round playoffs are underway. The defending champion Detroit Pistons, playing at home, easily beat the Indiana Pacers last night 96 to 81. The Pistons and the Pacers...
It began with that nasty basketbrawl here in New York. The NBA could hand down some heavy suspensions today. We have more now from NBC's Mike Taibbi. It happened near the end of another ugly loss for...
