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The NBA has continued to enjoy higher TV ratings as the playoffs continue with the L.A. Lakers and LeBron James sitting on the sidelines.

Former L.A. Laker J.R. Smith is proving there is life after the NBA for winning North Carolina A&T’s Academic Athlete of the Year award.

An animal rights activist was tackled by stadium security as she attempted to storm the court during the Timberwolves-Grizzlies game in Minnesota Saturday night.

The NBA finally received some good ratings news with its most-watched Playoff game in 20 years, but only after LeBron James was eliminated.

There is no question that basketball is China’s most popular sport. “Roughly 800 million people in China tuned into an NBA game. … That’s more than twice the population of the United States,” NBC News reported in 2019. That was before Daryl Morey sent his simple tweet, “Fight for Freedom, Stand with Hong Kong,” in October of 2019 and started a firestorm that would shake the NBA to its core and begin a nearly 18-month-long ban on NBA games aired on Chinese television.

An animal rights activist chained herself to the back of the basketball net during the Memphis Grizzlies-Minnesota Timberwolves game on Saturday.

Lakers star LeBron James was more worried about his ‘Space Jam’ profits than in helping the oppressed pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong.

ESPN detailed the deep ties that billionaire Brooklyn Nets own Joe Tsai has to the authoritarian Chinese government.

Charlotte’s Miles Bridges was already in trouble for his actions on the floor Wednesday night which is why he got ejected. But what he did on his way off the floor may land him in even more hot water.

Kyrie Irving was left off the roster for every Nets home game this year, up until recently, due to his refusal to receive the Covid vaccine. He was also left off the NBA’s 75th-anniversary team, and he seems to think it could be for the same reason.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has apologized for saying that LeBron James should be “embarrassed” over some of his actions on and off the court.

The L.A. Lakers will miss the playoffs for the second year in a row after “King James” and his team fell to the Phoenix Suns.

Warriors coach Steve Kerr popped off about last weekend’s shooting in Sacramento and used the incident to call for more gun control laws.

Far-left activist basketball icon Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said that Lakers frontman LeBron James should be embarrassed.

China Central Television (CCTV) on Wednesday night aired the first National Basketball Association (NBA) game in 17 months, seemingly concluding a blackout that began soon after Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey shared an image supportive of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement. 

NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar took Will Smith to task for his assault on Chris Rock by accusing the actor of advocating “violence” and diminishing “women.”

Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving urges unvaccinated people to “stand together” and ensure that NYC vax restrictions are lifted for all.

Recently-minted U.S. citizen Enes Kanter Freedom dubbed Pennsylvania senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz a “foreign agent.”

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver denied claims that his league has blackballed China critic and former Celtic Enes Kanter Freedom in a New York Times article published Thursday.

Reports indicate that Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving will be cleared for home games this Thursday as Eric Adams rolls back restrictions.

Things are not going well for LeBron James and his Lakers. The team is well below .500, and his blood pressure appears to have ranged far beyond .500 as “The King” unleashed two profanity-laced outbursts during Los Angeles’ 114-103 loss

Kevin Durant is walking back his comments after blasting NYC Mayor Eric Adams over the city’s contradictory coronavirus restrictions.

The Brooklyn Nets were fined $50,000 by the NBA for breaking coronavirus protocols by letting the Kyrie Irving into the locker room. 

Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving, one of the sports world’s most popular players to refuse the coronavirus vaccine, was spotted at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Saturday despite a ban preventing him from playing there.

Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom took to Twitter on Sunday to charge his former employers with hypocrisy for supporting Ukraine in their war against Russia after they criticized him for calling attention to Chinese human rights abuses.

L.A. Lakers fans broke out in boos at LeBron James and the team as the Lakers lost in a blowout 123-95 to the Pelicans on Sunday.

LeBron James of Akron, Ohio, will have a museum dedicated to him in his hometown in 2023, according to Craig Webb of the Akron Beacon Journal.

Players from the Sacramento Kings and Denver Nuggets joined arms in a show of support for Ukrainian-born Kings forward Alex Len before their game Thursday night.

A 36-year NBA referee says that he lost his job after he refused to take the coronavirus vaccine for religious reasons.

NASCAR Daytona 500 ratings not only came in at a three-year high, they also beat the NBA’s vaunted All-Star Game and the Olympics.

On Tuesday, Kyle Rittenhouse announced that he is making plans to sue LeBron James for the NBA star’s social media attacks.

Basketball star Enes Kanter Freedom has been nominated for the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize after being a vocal critic of the NBA.

LeBron James, who appeared maskless at the Super Bowl and remains silent about China’s use of slave labor to preserve his business deals with the oppressive communist country, took to Twitter after the game to suggest that the Dodgers, Lakers, and Rams hold a joint victory parade.

A petty article in China’s Global Times government propaganda publication celebrated the news, first shared by ESPN journalist Adrian Wojnarowski, that NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom had been traded from the Boston Celtics and has not yet landed on a new team.

Enes Kanter Freedom, the NBA’s foremost voice on human rights and loudest critic of China’s genocide against its Uyghur Muslim population, finds himself at least temporarily out of the league after the Houston Rockets waived him on Thursday.

On Friday, Celtics center and outspoken human rights advocate Enes Kanter Freedom tweeted a list of NBA players sponsored by Chinese companies with ties to slave labor.