NBA Finals are delivering big moments, and one of the most surprising is about Indiana Pacers head coach Rick Carlisle.

"Even though his role is diminished a little bit, he is vital to this team" - Pat Riley had never given up on a 40-year-old Kareem Abdul Jabbar originally appeared on Basketball Network.

1949: One-time Chicago Cub Eddie Waitkus, by then with the Philadelphia Phillies, became the inspiration for “The Natural” when he was shot in the Edgewater Beach Hotel by Ruth Ann Steinhagen, a ...

1991 — Leroy Burrell sets a world record in the U.S. Championships in New York with a 9.90-second clocking in the men’s 100-meter dash. Carl Lewis, who held the record at 9.92 since the 1988 Olympics, ...

Magic Johnson looks back on his iconic skyhook shot from Game 4 of the 1987 NBA Finals against the Boston Celtics.

On this day in 1987, the Boston Celtics took Game 5 of the 1987 NBA Finals 123-108 against the Los Angeles Lakers, and Bill ...

The Knicks’ interest in Finch made sense. He had led Minnesota to back-to-back Western Conference Finals appearances and has ...

Now Indiana will try to exorcise the demons of its decades-long, snake-bitten history and actually win the title when the Pacers take on the Oklahoma City in the NBA Finals. “It is really a special ...

Alex Caruso and Mark Daigneault have an incredible, 9-year-old ... of the NBA Development League, which is the G League. Daigneault was coaching the Blue during that time, and a photo of the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Dallas Mavericks’ Rolando Blackman celebrates ...

Former Los Angeles Lakers player and coach Byron Scott has been accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl in 1987, according ... the team for his final NBA season in 1996-97.

LOS ANGELES, United States — Former Los Angeles Lakers player and coach Byron Scott is being sued for a 37-year-old case of alleged ... at her high school in 1987, when he was 26 and she was ...