The history of the NBA is filled with championships, legendary performances, unforgettable rivalries and players who changed basketball forever. But not every chapter has been worth celebrating. Since the league’s earliest years, professional basketball has also endured gambling scandals, premature deaths, devastating injuries, violence, labor disputes, controversial ownership, franchise relocations …
Russell Westbrookâs NBA career was never quiet. For 18 seasons, he played basketball with an intensity that could make an ordinary regular-season game in January feel like Game 7 of the NBA Finals. He attacked the rim with little concern for who was standing in his way, rebounded like a …
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Former NBA players Royce White and Enes Kanter Freedom have found a new way to put themselves back into the basketball conversation: announcing plans to enter the 2027 WNBA Draft. Neither announcement should be confused with the ordinary situation of a transgender athlete seeking to participate in sports consistent with …
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History of the Oshkosh All-Stars The Oshkosh All-Stars were one of the most successful and historically important professional basketball teams of the pre-NBA era. Based in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, the club was founded in 1929 and developed from an independent barnstorming team into one of the dominant organizations of the National …
The American Basketball Association (ABA) was a professional basketball league that operated from 1967 to 1976 and became the most important rival the NBA has ever faced. Although the ABA survived for only nine seasons, its influence on professional basketball was enormous. The league popularized the three-point shot, introduced the …
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The Kentucky Colonels were one of the most successful and recognizable franchises in the history of the American Basketball Association. Based in Louisville, the Colonels competed during all nine seasons of the ABA, from 1967-68 through 1975-76. They won 448 regular-season games, reached the playoffs every year, appeared in the …
The Baltimore Claws were one of the shortest-lived franchises in professional basketball history. The team existed during the turbulent final months of the American Basketball Association and played only three preseason exhibition games before being expelled from the league in October 1975. The collapse of the Claws was not an …
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The Chicago Stags were one of the most successful early franchises in professional basketball history, but their story did not end when the team folded after the 1949-50 NBA season. Instead, the franchise became involved in one of the more unusual chapters of the NBA’s early years involving legendary Harlem …
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The Los Angeles Lakers are one of the most iconic and successful franchises in professional sports. Since relocating from Minneapolis to Los Angeles in 1960, the Lakers have won numerous NBA championships, featured generations of Hall of Fame players, and helped shape the popularity of professional basketball around the world. …
The Minneapolis Lakers were one of the greatest dynasties in basketball history and one of the NBA’s first powerhouse franchises. From 1947 to 1960, the Lakers won six league championships, including five with legendary center George Mikan, helping establish professional basketball as a major American sport. The franchise began as …
