On the outside, an NBA player's life looks like a dream. In addition to earning a king's ransom to play basketball, players enjoy access to world-class training facilities, being waited on from head ...

In today's NBA, teams' decision-makers and executives no longer have a problem putting the fate of their respective franchises in the hands of European players. From Luka Doncic of the Los Angeles ...

The song itself is lost to time. This was before the NBA had mastered the art of pomp, and much closer to the era in which the New Jersey Nets had a volunteer group of middle-aged men playing ...

Regret is a heavy load to carry. For NBA players, it can be a missed shot, a botched pass, or a missed defensive assignment that costs them a game or, worse, the Larry O'Brien trophy. However, for ...

32 years ago today, the NBA lost one of greatest shooters in league history. Drazen Petrovic, the star of the then-New Jersey Nets, tragically died in a traffic accident in the summer of 1993. Today, ...

In the 1989 FIBA Cup Winners' Cup final, all of Europe eagerly anticipated a showdown between the two scoring machines. Drazen Petrovic played for Real Madrid, while Snaidero Caserta featured the ...

Basketball stars often like to pay tribute to their favorite players in small or major ways. It can take the form of a public shoutout, a more formal tribute, or even just a plain old meet-and-greet.

In a quiet moment during the Slovenian national team training camp before last summer's Eurobasket championship run, the team's coach, Igor Kokoskov, pulled aside Luka Doncic, his star prospect, for a ...

Welcome to the NBA 75, The Athletic’s countdown of the 75 best players in NBA history, in honor of the league’s diamond anniversary. We also will run features such as this one to complement certain ...

Before there was Peja Stojakovic, Dirk Nowitzki and Pau Gasol, there was Drazen Petrovic. The Nets will honor Petrovic, who played for the team in New Jersey for two and a half seasons from 1991 to ...