LeBron James trolls Doug Gottlieb amid basketball personality’s abysmal first season at Wisconsin-Green Bay

Getty Images The ongoing beef between LeBron James and Wisconsin-Green Bay men’s basketball coach Doug Gottlieb took a new turn Monday on X (formerly Twitter) when the Los Angeles Lakers star trolled... Read more »

Duke vs. Virginia odds, prediction, time: 2025 college basketball picks, Feb. 17 bets by proven model

An ACC showdown on Monday features the No. 3 Duke Blue Devils (22-3) traveling to play the Virginia Cavaliers (13-12). The Blue Devils have won two straight games. Duke hammered Stanford 106-70... Read more »

Kevin Durant derides NBA All-Star criticism: ‘It’s more fun to complain about the NBA than to actually watch it’

Kevin Durant has joined the chat. The 15-time All-Star and active online poster took the time to weigh in what to do about the NBA’s All-Star weekend. The NBA has tried for... Read more »

Maryland Eastern Shore vs. Howard prediction, odds, time: 2025 college basketball picks, bets by proven model

Teams trending in opposite directions meet when the Howard Bison battle the Maryland-Eastern Shore Hawks in early MEAC action on Monday afternoon. Maryland Eastern Shore is coming off a 75-63 loss to... Read more »

NBA All-Star Game, with little basketball and a lot of Kevin Hart, reaches new low of wasting everyone’s time

If expectations are the root of frustration, then anyone who expected the NBA’s All-Star Game, or the entire weekend for that matter, to be anything other a complete and total waste of... Read more »

Lakers star LeBron James will miss his 21st All-Star Game

Lakers forward LeBron James speaks during a news conference before the NBA All-Star Game on Sunday, when he announced a sore foot and ankle will prevent him from playing. (Godofredo A. Vásquez/AP)... Read more »

College basketball scores, winners and losers: SEC steals the show, Villanova chokes, Purdue loses ground

The SEC was at the center of the college basketball universe Saturday, which began when the NCAA revealed its top 16 seeds. Auburn, Alabama, and Florida were on the No. 1 seed... Read more »

Analyzing Knicks’ Jalen Brunson, Karl-Anthony Towns tandem

After years of searching, the Knicks have finally found two stars to build around as the tandem of Jalen Brunson and Karl-Anthony Towns is a potent one-two punch. Brunson and Towns are... Read more »

No. 1 Auburn’s convincing win at No. 2 Alabama has Bruce Pearl’s Tigers pacing toward historic greatness

Prior to Saturday, across the past 40 seasons, the No. 1 and No. 2 schools met 16 times in the regular season. None of the teams that played in those games wound... Read more »

Mac McClung’s legendary Dunk Contest performance proves NBA doesn’t need stars like Ja Morant to keep it alive

SAN FRANCISCO — Pretty much every year we see a variant of the same idea. Some NBA superstar is sitting in a hotel room or on a tropical island in the early... Read more »