Luka Doncic

The Boston Celtics player not only stood out in the offensive aspect during the NBA Finals, but was also crucial in stopping Luka Doncic

Teams are averaging 114 points per game, the highest since the 1960s and stars like Dončić, Antetokounmpo and Gilgeous-Alexander are scoring over 30 points a game

The highly rated French center scored 15 points in his first official game but the San Antonio Spurs fell to a 119-126 defeat by the Dallas Mavericks

The league’s foreign stars include Jokic, Antetokounmpo, Dončić and Wembanyama, to name a few

The 2023-24 championship features a new in-season tourmanent, the NBA Cup, but all eyes will be on the towering 19-year-old French rookie, the number one Spurs pick

Stefano Tonut and Giampaolo Ricci each scored 15 points and Italy reached the World Cup quarterfinals with win over Puerto Rico

Spain defeated Brazil 96-78, and the Americans beat Greece 109-81

The five-time champions are taking an untested team to the tournament under coach Steve Kerr’s idea of a collective game and with the goal of redeeming a seventh-placed finish in 2019

Austin Reaves and Tyrese Haliburton each scored 10 for the Americans, who improved to 2-0 on their five-game slate of exhibitions before getting to the Philippines for the World Cup

The Americans have six players who averaged at least 20 points in the NBA last season

Greece will play the U.S., Jordan and New Zealand in group-stage games at Manila in the tournament, which starts Aug. 25 in the Philippines, Indonesia and Japan

Lillard asked the Trail Blazers for a trade, a move that will end the seven-time All-Star’s tenure with that team

The league made the announcement a day after the Mavericks held out its star players in a defeat that knocked the franchise out of postseason consideration

The Mavericks were without All-Star guard Kyrie Irving because of right foot soreness and fell 1 1/2 games behind the Warriors

The race for the last two guaranteed playoff spots and the four berths into the play-in tournament is as muddled and murky as possible.

The number 16 shirt with which the Spanish player won two NBA titles at the Los Angeles Lakers was ceremoniously retired on Tuesday

It reaffirmed that getting out of the Western Conference and making the NBA Finals is going to be incredibly daunting this season

The Nets get Spencer Dinwiddie, Dorian Finney-Smith and a package of draft picks, according to a person familiar with the terms of the deal

There were 56 players who entered this week averaging at least 20 points per game

The other eight starters are Nikola Jokic, Luka Doncic, Stephen Curry, Jayson Tatum, Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, Donovan Mitchell and Zion Williamson

On the court, the Slovenian NBA star has been putting up a string of stellar performances for the Dallas Mavericks. Off the court, he just ended a legal battle with his mother over his commercial rights