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The first time the Crawford brothers saw an NBA player in person was during a camp in Detroit. It was former Pistons forward Grant Hill. The boys were mesmerized. They knew they wanted to follow in his footsteps.
There's a new player matched with the Pistons in the latest mock draft by ESPN's Chad Ford, updated Tuesday: Michigan point guard Trey Burke.
Former Detroit forward and NBA hopeful Doug Anderson has spent hours playing the NBA 2K video game. When NBA 2K14 is released in October, Anderson will be able watch images of himself.
James powered Miami to a frantic fourth-quarter rally and overtime escape as the Heat beat the San Antonio Spurs 103-100 on Tuesday night to extend the NBA Finals as far as they can go and keep Miami's repeat chances alive.
The NBA Finals are either one or two games away from its conclusion, as either the Spurs or Heat will walk away with another title. Here's a few questions and answers on issues from around the league.
This season, the Heat was the NBA's best team, one that lost three games during a three-month span and made losing three times in one series look unlikely, if not downright unimaginable.
After spending last season competing against better players than he ever faced in college, the 6-foot-6 shooting guard is now on the verge of becoming the first player to go from D-League star to NBA first-round draft pick.
Ginobili scored 24 points and added 10 assists in his first start of the season, and the Spurs beat the Heat 114-104 on Sunday night to take a 3-2 lead.
The Clippers have concluded if the Celtics aren't receptive to their offer and Rivers isn't available, they will hire either Pacers associate coach Brian Shaw or former Grizzlies coach Lionel Hollins this week, according to the executives.
Things change quickly at the NBA Finals, and with everything suddenly seeming right with the Miami Heat, it's up to the San Antonio Spurs to change them back Sunday night in Game 5.
The Heat won by 19, lost by 36 and won by 16. The last few minutes of each game have looked more like an October exhibition than a mid-June championship clash.
The guy that desperately needs good fortune now is Dumars. In the coming weeks, he'll take another shot in the draft, then another shot at the free-agent and trade markets. And if there isn't a significant boost, Dumars likely will be gone.
What do they really have in Knight, their 2011 lottery pick, and what do they do with Rodney Stuckey, who is entering the partially-guaranteed final year of his second NBA contract in Detroit?
Lawrence Frank, fired as Pistons coach after this past season, has been invited to join new Brooklyn Nets coach Jason Kidd's staff.
It gave the appearance Pistons owner Tom Gores preferred Jackson's expertise over trusting Pistons president Joe Dumars to select the next coach, who ...
The Finals are now a best-of-three series that will be decided next week in Miami, thanks largely to Wade, who came up with his best game in months to carry ...
Maurice Cheeks, 56, played in the NBA when Isiah Thomas, Joe Dumars and the Pistons were among the league elite trying to overcome the Boston Celtics and Los ...
Cheeks played against Dumars. Both were tough-minded defensive players who were not stars of their teams. But they played major roles in winning titles. Cheeks ...
Newly hired Brooklyn Nets coach Jason Kidd has a court date next week on eastern Long Island stemming from his arrest last summer on drunken driving charges.
The Nets decided to hire Kidd to replace P.J. Carlesimo despite his lack of coaching experience. And according to multiple reports, recently fired Pistons ...
Poor Natalie Gilbert was looking for an escape during a 2003 NBA playoff game in Portland as the unthinkable happened. The 13-year old forgot the words to the ...
It's the gateway to possibly being a part of Olympic teams in 2016 and / or 2020, as USA basketball invites the best young players in the NBA to practice ...
Green hit seven of nine 3s, Neal was six for 10 and Tim Duncan had 12 points and 14 rebounds for the Spurs, who responded to a 19-point drubbing in Game 2 with ...
Maurice Cheeks, currently an assistant with the Oklahoma City Thunder, will be introduced this week as the 29th head coach in franchise history.
Somehow, some way, the Spurs seem to have discovered a secret that every team in the league desperately searched for all season long. They have figured out a ...
Tom Thibodeau and Monty Williams will join the returning Jim Boeheim as assistant coaches for the U.S. Olympic men's basketball team.
Mario Chalmers led the charge, LeBron James broke out to finish it with a flurry and the Heat used a 33-5 run to blow away the San Antonio Spurs, 103-84, on ...
Rest assured, whenever Maurice Cheeks is introduced, consensus is what they're going to tell us and sell us. For once, though, it'd be nice to see them — and ...
Cheeks and the Pistons have been engaged in negotiations in recent days, as multiple sources expressed optimism this saga, that began with the team firing ...
With six simple words, LeBron James explained the philosophy behind the way he now plays the game.
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