What is the particular feeling people should get from your book? Shea Serrano: The theme of the book would be, 'It’s not a refutation of stats, right?' There are plenty of stats in the book. But I’m ...

Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. Hello, fellow readers. I’m culture critic, fervent bookworm and hoops head Chris Vognar. This week we speak with poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib ...

After 60 years of hosting Oklahoma high school basketball state championships, State Fair Arena will have its last hurrah in 2025. Relive six decades of basketball glory with a new book from The ...

Eighty years ago, an extraordinary collegiate basketball game took place. It’s such a shining moment, it’s madness that March 12 isn’t an annual hoops holiday. On that Sunday morning in 1944, when ...

Author Shea Serrano embraces one of the toughest truths of NBA writing: There’s no simple way to write something new about Michael Jordan. Three decades after his reign in the NBA, there aren’t many ...

Incredible slam dunks are living proof that humankind need not be held down by mere gravity. They literally and figuratively elevate basketball and are at the heart of “Magic in the Air: The Myth, the ...

“The Basketball 100” is the definitive ranking of the 100 greatest NBA players of all time from The Athletic’s team of award-winning writers and analysts, including veteran columnists David Aldridge ...

Kiki Rice and Charlisse Leger-Walker hold up books they're reading outside of a plane to the NCAA Tournament. Courtesy of UCLA Athletics SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Haymitch Abernathy is about to be selected ...

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The easy cliché here would be to point out that Russ Bengtson has forgotten more about sneakers than most of us will ever know. The problem with this particular cliché is that when it comes to ...

Young Black men on drugs! Starting fights! Looking to get paid! This was the collective NBA boogeyman of the 1970s and early ’80s, a transitional period in ...