Brooklyn Nets forward Kevin Garnett and Houston Rockets center Dwight Howard were disciplined by the NBA for their incident in Monday’s game.
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Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James returned to practice Monday but called himself “a game-time decision” for the team’s game against the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday.
This was one of those double-scoop weeks for UNLV’s basketball team. Or should have been.
Championship basketball teams find a way to win ugly, close games. So much was true for Agassi Prep’s boys basketball team Saturday against division rival The Meadows.
Danielle Miller scored 30 points, including a tying jumper with 13 seconds left in regulation, to lead the UNLV women’s basketball team to a 72-68 overtime win over San Jose State in a Mountain West game Saturday in San Jose, Calif.
UNLV hosts San Jose State tonight at the Thomas & Mack. Tip is at 7:00 p.m.
Nobody ever told Dave Wojcik it would be easy to rebuild the San Jose State basketball program when he took the job before last season.
UNLV is falling from contender status as it prepares to host San Jose State at 7 p.m. today at the Thomas & Mack Center, where a struggle in the conference cellar does not figure to draw a captive audience.
If there was ever an advertisement for the cliche “basketball is a game of runs,” it was Friday’s Northwest League contest between Desert Oasis and host Bonanza.
The University of Oregon and men’s basketball coach Dana Altman are being sued by a female student who allegedly was the victim of a sexual assault last year.
Thanks to a roster loaded with Division I talent, the Bishop Gorman boys basketball team is capable of making spectacular plays, as Stephen Zimmerman showed late in the first half.
The 84-year-old Hall of Fame basketball coach was released Wednesday from Valley Hospital Medical Center after spending almost a month there following a relapse of the pneumonia that initially hospitalized him in mid-November.
The Atlanta Hawks will be put up for sale after the franchise’s owners announced Thursday that they unanimously approved a plan to sell all shares in the team.
Marqueze Coleman’s 18-foot jumper with 4.8 seconds remaining lifted the Wolf Pack to a 64-62 upset of the Rebels on Wednesday at the Thomas & Mack Center.
Somehow, UNR was able to close the deal Wednesday at the Thomas & Mack Center. The Wolf Pack managed to stay step for step with UNLV for 40 minutes, and David Carter’s team did enough things right to escape with a 64-62 victory.