Detroit Free Press Michael Rosenberg Column: Does Sexual Orientation Supersede Talent in NBA?
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By Michael Rosenberg, Detroit Free Press  Feb. 9--Lindsey Hunter wouldn't talk about it. Flip Saunders insisted he hadn't thought about it --and looked like he wanted to catch the next plane out of the interview session.   Hunter and Saunders are two of the nicest men in the NBA.
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When the NBA began sending its players to the Olympics in 1992, one of the league&#39;s goals was to spread basketball around the globe. Clearly, the idea worked.
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Kobe Bryant and Shaquille OâNeal agree on one thing: The NBAâs new marquee team is ... drum roll, please ... âItâd have to be Detroit, wouldnât it?
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David Stern is happy that win-thirsty Celtics fans have a potentially stellar team to root for again with the offseason additions of Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen. And the NBA commissioner is also happy for the league, too, in terms of how it could benefit if the Celtics become a power again.
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Carmelo Anthony and Josh Howard looked like worthy All-Stars. Dwight Howard might have stamped himself as the favorite in the slam dunk contest.
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Something strange is happening in US men&#39;s team sports in the international arena. We saw it with the men&#39;s basketball team at the Olympic Games, and we witnessed it again last weekend at the Ryder Cup.
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In the modern thrill-a-minute NBA it&#39;s the players who generate the big bucks, and who create the league&#39;s (and, to a significant extent, the country&#39;s) latest cultural realities.
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Former National Basketball Association player John Amaechi's revelation that he is gay and Tim Hardaway's hate-filled reaction have sparked a new look at homosexuality in US sport and society.
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With Dwyane Wade leading the youth movement, the National Basketball Association&#039;s future appears to be that much brighter.
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David Stern led the NBA through drug problems and work stoppages. Now his league faces the stigma of a point-shaving scandal involving a referee.
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by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff. (New York City) Gay men have long been accused of idolizing the body beautiful to the point of being hung up on their own bodies, but a new study shows it is not an exclusively gay phenomenon.
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Friday night&#39;s basketbrawl in Detroit was a shameful chapter in sports history but also a conflagration of many of modern society&#39;s common ailments -- hair-trigger tempers, misplaced hostility, me-firstism, emotional immaturity, incivility, lack of self
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Long before word recently broke that white referees in the National Basketball Association were calling fouls at a higher rate on black athletes than on white athletes, and long before studies found racial disparities in how black and white applicants get called for job interviews, researchers no...
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The Sporting News - NBA All-Star Weekend is upon us. There will be dunking, showmanship, a lack of defense until the final minutes, lots of flashy parties, and the persistent sense that the players care more about each other than they do our attachment to them.
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LeBron James and several of his fellow NBA Eastern Conference stars have been impressed with how the Celtics put together a star trio of Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, and Paul Pierce in the offseason. James and Co., however, believe the jury is still out on whether the Celtics can immediately jell into an East power.
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Glen "Big Baby" Davis knows what NBA teams will ponder when considering him on draft night. "Everyone knows I can play. Everybody knows I have skill," Davis said. "It's just, 'Is he going to eat himself out of the league?'" With Davis, it's certainly a valid question.
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Good thing Dwyane Wade and LeBron James got their big contract extensions last summer. Their teams might pay less now after proving they can win without their stars.