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NEW YORK (AP) — The Orlando Magic selected Duke forward Paolo Banchero on Thursday night with the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft. After leading the Blue ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Paolo Banchero thinks he should be No. 1. Jabari Smith Jr. is sure he won’t go beyond No. 2. Chet Holmgren would be happy with either....

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – A year ago, it got a taste. For the Bona alumni-based Brown & White, the biggest victory last summer was that it finally cracked the ...

ST. BONAVENTURE — It was the latest indication of just how chaotic things have become in the dreaded “transfer portal.” On June 1, after visiting camp...

Some thoughts on two stories that broke Saturday. One was the retirement of Davidson basketball coach Bob McKillop. The other, curiously, was Bills Ha...

Greatest shooter ever. That’s what everyone has been calling Golden State’s Stephen Curry for years now, for obvious reasons. Nobody in the history of...

As he had hundreds of times before, Rowan Colebert jogged down his steep, half-gravel and half-pavement driveway towards Derrick Road. Colebert, a 2nd...

Jaden Ivey erupted in his second college season into an All-American with explosive athleticism and scoring ability. He’s the headliner among floor le...

BOSTON (AP) — Stephen Curry and the Warriors have been within a game of clinching a championship in three of Golden State’s previous five trips to the...

The series won’t end until Thursday, or maybe Sunday. A champion will be crowned, an NBA Finals MVP trophy will be hoisted, one side will spray a few ...

BOSTON (AP) — Jayson Tatum knows he has taken his game to a new level in his fifth NBA season, pushing his way into the league’s top echelon of playma...

BOSTON (AP) — Even as he lay on the court, with 240-pound Celtics center Al Horford on top of his recently recovered left ankle, Stephen Curry knew wh...

BOSTON (AP) — Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors have no problem playing on the road. The Celtics, meanwhile, haven’t been lights-out in Bost...

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — After losing 10 scholarship players and a staggering 99.5 percent of its scoring from last season — tied for most in the count...

Adam Silver was on his phone constantly in late December. At that time, the NBA had more than 100 players sidelined by virus-related issues, along wit...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When the Golden State Warriors look at the tape of Game 1 of the NBA Finals, they’ll see both the present and the past. They’ll s...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When Steve Kerr looks at the way the Boston Celtics built a championship-caliber team he sees plenty of similarities to how his G...

MIAMI (AP) — Somewhere, Gregg Popovich must be pleased. Ime Udoka and Steve Kerr played for Popovich with of the San Antonio Spurs, both served as ass...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The NCAA stance against gambling on sports by its athletes and those who work in college athletics is summed up simply by the...

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — For the last few weeks, there’d been an air of disappointment mixed with acceptance. That, of course, was the product of the S...