The 49ers had a 10-point lead with seven minutes left in the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl. If they had won the game, there could have been hundreds of thousands of fans on the streets of San...

Nanae Yamano, a 43-year-old stay-at-home mother in the Tokyo suburbs, knew nothing about the NBA. Then she watched Russell Westbrook. Now even the Thunder players know who she is.

Two-time gold medalist Yuzuru Hanyu’s devoted following in China flies in the face of history and geopolitics.

The league needed a vault for 50,000 tapes of game footage. It found one 50 feet below ground.

The NBA’s best player combination this season was LeBron James and Alex Caruso—and it wasn’t just this season. James was better with Caruso than any teammate in his career.

Nanae Yamano, a 43-year-old stay-at-home mother in the Tokyo suburbs, knew nothing about the NBA. Then she watched Russell Westbrook. Now even the Thunder players know who she is.

NBA playoff series are chess matches. So it’s a good thing that Warriors star Klay Thompson really, really loves chess.

There was nobody Shane Battier respected more than the one player he could never crack. “So much of my career was tied to me being his foil and him being my foil,” he says.

Derrick White went unrecruited in high school and paid college debt with his first pro contract. Boston has been the league’s best team since trading for him.

Toronto is a legitimate title contender in part because of Danny Green—the other player in the Kawhi Leonard deal that might define this NBA season.

After his tweet supporting Hong Kong’s protesters, Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey was the subject of a pro-China campaign.

NBA teams can’t stop him, so they foul him. But that strategy doesn’t work on Joel Embiid.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the infectious-disease specialist who has become a source of trust for hundreds of millions of people, led his overmatched high-school basketball team to a highly improbable...

Oklahoma’s freshman point guard Trae Young is college basketball’s most electrifying player. And he plays like Stephen Curry because he grew up when Curry was revolutionizing the game.

Fred VanVleet did not hear his name called on his NBA draft night. Now he’s perhaps the most coveted free agent on the market.

Hollywood studios that licensed old TV shows to Netflix are getting into streaming and want their hits back. It’s a threat to Netflix because its viewers spend much of their time watching reruns.

Twitch will broadcast up to six games each week from the G League as part of the NBA’s broader strategy to reimagine how basketball games should be presented.

The Thunder dealing Paul George to the Clippers was decades in the making. Here’s the forgotten history of a blockbuster move older than some of the players involved.

The Warriors have outscored their opponents by more than 4,000 points in Stephen Curry’s minutes over the last five NBA seasons. He breaks defenses simply by stepping on the court.

Chinese companies have suspended ties with the Rockets, one of the NBA’s most popular teams in China, after Houston’s general manager tweeted his support of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.

Philadelphia 76ers guard Seth Curry has quietly become the most accurate 3-point shooter in the league—and his own family.

The best shooter in the history of basketball didn’t have a place to shoot. So Stephen Curry built one for himself.

NBA playoff series are chess matches. So it’s a good thing that Warriors star Klay Thompson really, really loves chess.

A shot at the NBA title cost the Nets their draft picks through 2027. The players in that class? They’re currently in middle school.

Luka Doncic and Giannis Antetokounmpo grew up watching Vassilis Spanoulis. He played one season in the NBA. He’s also responsible for the future of the league.

They were early to the hottest NFT market—and their collections are now worth millions of dollars.

Pita Taufatofua is one race away from a return to the Olympics. Can he make it from Rio to Pyeongchang?

Anthony Fauci doesn’t want to make excuses. But he can explain his first pitch. “I completely destroyed my arm!” he said.

Miami’s Erik Spoelstra and Boston’s Brad Stevens both called Nova Southeastern’s Jim Crutchfield to pick his brain—and now the Heat and Celtics are in the Eastern Conference Finals.

The league’s reigning most valuable player has elevated his game this season. These charts explain how.

He doesn’t know anything about his sport, but he knows how to get the best of his players. An unexpected hit TV show has become “required watching” for coaches.

Memphis Grizzlies guard Mike Conley has one of the most obscure but impressive streaks in sports: He’s never received a technical foul.

Why do Brad Stevens’s teams always seem to overachieve? We asked his former Butler players.

On the first basketball team of LeBron James’s life, every player went home with an MVP trophy. It’s a lesson that the Cavaliers star has never forgotten.

The Philadelphia 76ers understand the benefits of 3-point shooting. That’s why they added a 4-point line to their practice courts.

Pita Taufatofua completed a highly improbable road to the Winter Olympics on Saturday by qualifying for cross-country skiing in dramatic fashion. His next stop: the opening ceremony.

The author of “To Kill a Mockingbird” watched every Crimson Tide game and wrote letters about Bear Bryant—including this one.

Max Deutsch, a speed learner who conquered back-flips, Hebrew and perfect pitch, is testing the limits of self-improvement. Next up: the world’s greatest chess player.

Golden State is getting more value from the mid-range than any team in 20 years. Is basketball’s latest market inefficiency the game’s most inefficient shot?

The Hot Hand: The Mystery and Science of Streaks

Jayson Tatum and his generation of NBA players spent their entire lives improving their skills by watching basketball on YouTube. And it shows.

How did shoes that were huge, weird and French conquer America’s hearts, wallets and feet?

Luka Doncic started traveling halfway across the world to study his biomechanics long before he came to the NBA. Now he’s the league’s star rookie—and the face of the NBA’s data generation.

Why are the Chiefs back in the Super Bowl? Because their star quarterback plays like a point guard.

Houston Rockets star James Harden has a revolutionary shot of his own. He’s taking more stepback 3-pointers by himself than any NBA team. And it’s working.

Yuki and Yumea Nakagawa are newlyweds from Japan. For their honeymoon, they are traveling the U.S. for two weeks to see as much basketball as they can.

The Rockets signing P.J. Tucker—yes, P.J. Tucker—was the most revealing move of the league’s crazy summer

Memphis Grizzlies center Marc Gasol had taken 66 threes in his entire career before last season. He had never taken more than 17 threes in any season. And then he took 268 last year alone. How did he...

The voice of the Super Bowl has become known for his eerily accurate predictions. We watched nearly 50 hours of game tape to calculate Romo’s hit rate.

Boban Marjanovic plays a 7-foot-3 assassin in the new “John Wick” movie. Here’s the inside story of his casting.

Five years after he revolutionized basketball, the NBA’s best shooter is still getting better.

The latest basketball technology is making players faster than ever before. Just ask 11-year-old Lanie Grant.

Steve Javie officiated his last NBA game in 2011. He soon began studying at his local seminary and was recently ordained as a deacon by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.