Basketball

Stephen Curry picked up some shiny new hardware after the Golden State Warriors closed the Western Conference Finals on Thursday, beating the Mavericks 120-11. The Baby-Faced Assassin is the first-ever winner of the Magic Johnson Trophy, the NBA’s newest postseason awarded earlier this month. Stephen Curry is the first-ever recipient…

When Dorian Finney-Smith entered the NBA out of Florida six years ago, the Dallas Mavericks wing heeded the advice he was given that he could “make a lot of money” if he could consistently hit the easiest shot in the League, the corner three. Since signing with the Mavs as an…

Two things are true when it comes to the offseason plans of the Cleveland Cavaliers and Collin Sexton. Cleveland wants to extend Sexton; the other is Sexton will be a restricted free agent. Where the Cavs front office and Sexton may disagree is the amount of money Young Bull will…

Historian Claude Johnson has spent more than two decades researching and honoring the history of some of the game’s more revolutionary pioneers. Following the racial integration of professional leagues in the 1950s, dozens of African American teams, which were often called “fives,” were founded. In his new book, THE BLACK…

It’s a journey whose steps began long ago. A marathon that’s still being run.  A mountain that’s still being scaled.  But the grind continues. There’s no turning back now. Too much ground has been covered, and there’s still much more left. Women basketball players. Women who hoop. Ballers. Athletes on…

The future of college basketball has arrived. SLAM’s 2022 High School Boys All Americans are an elite group of certified bucket-getters who are already making serious waves on the court. From Amari Bailey to Naismith Player of the Year Dariq Whitehead, here’s who we’ve selected to our SLAM All American…

SLAM’s 2022 High School All Americans don’t got next, they got right now. On the girl’s side, this talented group of female ballers are already winning championship titles, snagging FIBA gold metals and making their impact known on, and off the court, from the booth to the classroom. Meet this elite…

As we make our way down our SLAM’s TOP 75 NBA Teams of All Time list, the teams in this group separate themselves from the pack with one word: championships. We know we mentioned earlier that you don’t have to win a ‘chip to be included on this list, but…

The Miami Heat are on the brink of elimination after losing two straight games to the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference Finals. Wednesday’s Game 5 was perhaps their best chance to head back to Boston with a 3-2 lead. The Heat was up by five coming out of the…

It’s a late april afternoon, and Cade Cunningham is sitting on a black leather couch inside a sunny, white-walled studio in Los Angeles for his SLAM cover shoot. He’s in the midst of explaining what “Detroit vs Everybody” really means to him. It was already a thing, he says, when…