Teaching Life Lessons on the Basketball Court
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Samuel L. Jackson plays the real-life coach of a high school basketball team in this solid, unsurprising sports drama.
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The more you teach, the more you learn.
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On the road with the Cornell basketball team, we find that a team shootaround provides a good excuse for coaches to get the players out of bed.
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After-school sports club are being launched to improve basic skills like throwing and catching.
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First there was the Detroit Pistons. Then there was the Summer Games in Athens. Now there&#39;s the Indiana Pacers. Kids, coaches, hope you&#39;re paying attention, because the message is clear: Teams reign supreme.
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When it comes to oncourt basketball mentors, Michael Jordan may be the best. His Airness certainly stands as the most revered and most accomplished competitor/instructor in Chicago pickup games at Hoops Gym. This summer, he took a special interest in Celtics rookie Tony Allen , who grew up in the Windy City.
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ATHENS -- Seeing was admiring. &quot;Puerto Rico played as a team,&quot; said US coach Larry Brown. &quot;They were well-prepared and the coaching was incredible. They played so much harder than we did, and so the result was not a surprise. I think anybody watching this, who enjoys basketball, got a thrill out of that.&quot;
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Richard Jefferson hasn't forgotten the lessons taught by his missionary parents. A couple of hours before a brawl between Indiana and Detroit gave the NBA a black eye last week, Jefferson quietly showed the charitable side of the league's players.
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The Knicks have discovered how to be competitive. They just have not figured out how to make the plays that matter most.
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Dating, negotiating, fragging and making money.  Play and its consequences.
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United States Olympic women's basketball center Lisa Leslie has some advice for her humbled male counterparts from the National Basketball Association - come see how a real Dream Team plays.
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I went to an Indianapolis elementary school, middle school and high school. Iâve gone nuts countless times in my house, a friendâs, Market Square Arena or now Conseco Fieldhouse watching Pacers players
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Simplice Njoya, a University of Memphis basketball forward, sat hunched over a laptop, testing an idea first studied on Israeli fighter pilots. The premise: Skills he picks up playing a complex computer game can make him a better ball player.
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There was some great basketball played last Friday night. From preps to pros, many remarkable things happened that are worth talking about.
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The Maryland coaching staff often selects certain clips to show their players specific moment to reinforce the importance of minding the small details.
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A day before starring in the NBA&#39;s first China game, Yao Ming went back to school. All the way back. The 7-foot-6 center visited his old elementary school Wednesday as part of an NBA sponsored program to promote reading.
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CHICAGO -- Sometimes a first-quarter pep talk, a halftime speech, a postgame rant speaks volumes. Even in the NBA, where all that really counts is what takes place on the court, a few well-chosen, well-timed words can be particularly revealing. Those words can show how a player or coach truly feels about his team. That was the case during the ...