Basketball

JEREMY Lin, a Taiwanese-American guard whose 2012 heroics with the New York Knicks brought “Linsanity” to the NBA, announced his retirement from professional basketball on social media.

[LOS ANGELES] The Los Angeles Lakers are being sold in a record-breaking US$10 billion deal that makes the iconic franchise the highest-valued sports team in US history, ESPN reported on Wednesday.

A group of investors are looking to create a new basketball league that will span Asia and Europe to one day rival the NBA, with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund as a strategic partner and Swiss b...

BASKETBALL icon Michael Jordan has finally sold his sprawling Chicago-area mansion, settling for a significant price cut.

THE National Basketball Association (NBA) has signed a multiyear deal to play pre-season games in Macau from 2025, marking the league’s return to the Chinese market after a years-long absence that fol...

EARLY on in Carmelo Anthony’s career in the National Basketball Association (NBA), his teammates made fun of him for drinking wine.

THE National Basketball Association (NBA) is closing in on media rights deals with Comcast-owned NBC, Disney’s ESPN, and Amazon.com that would generate about US$76 billion in media revenue over 11 yea...

TRADING cards have been around for decades. Collectors from all over the world fork out big bucks for packs or even entire boxes of these cards – everything from basketball and football, to Pokemon an...

Thousands of raucous Chinese basketball fans pack tightly into a floodlit stadium filled with swirling fog, eager to spur on the teams battling in the tournament final.