ESPN hot-taker Stephen A. Smith blasted LeBron James for “selfishly” depriving another player of an All-Star Game roster spot and ruining the game’s once-famous Slam Dunk Contest.
Film director Spike Lee wore a jacket to the NBA All-Star Game with a message demanding slavery reparations.
NBA Sportscaster Kenny Smith is under fire for supposed sexism for comments he delivered about Steph Curry and the WNBA’s Sabrina Ionescu.
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.
Macy Gray performed a typically eccentric rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” on Sunday at the NBA All-Star Game in Cleveland, just months after the pop star trashed the U.S. flag as a symbol of “hate.”
The NBA All-Star game proved to have very little star power indeed, as the annual event hit all-time lows in ratings and viewership.
The NBA’s All-Star Game will kick off on Sunday with a chat between Vice President Kamala Harris and actor Michael B. Jordon.
ATLANTA — A shooting on Interstate 85 in suburban Atlanta has claimed the life of a rising Texas rap artist, one of three interstate shootings in the metro area in two days, authorities said Saturday.
L.A. Lakers star LeBron James said he intends to use the All-Star Game weekend to fight “voter suppression” as the NBA comes to Atlanta’s State Farm Arena on Sunday.
It’s not unusual for NBA players to dunk over obstacles, when trying to impress the judges enough to win the NBA dunk contest. However, it is unusual to see players dunk over human obstacles standing over 7-feet-tall.
LeBron James has not yet accepted Laura Ingraham’s invitation to debate the mixing of sports and politics. However, that doesn’t mean that LeBron has given up mixing sports and politics.
On this All-Star weekend, Nike used the entire side of a building to let you know that they’re actively solving the problem of racism in the world. Across from the Superdome, a giant image of New Orleans Pelicans Power Forward Anthony Davis graced the side of a building along with the word “Equality” and the Nike swoosh, marking it as part of the advertising campaign launched by LeBron and others last week.
Remember when the media warned about the terrible financial loss, and negative economic impact North Carolina would sustain after the NBA decided to pull their All-Star game from Charlotte due the state’s HB2 law?
The state of North Carolina says President Barack Obama’s administration “fails to grasp the serious privacy and public safety problems” caused by its effort to prohibit single-sex bathrooms and to urge individuals to decide which of the two sexes’ private bathrooms they desire to use at any given moment.
The Republican governor of North Carolina says he struck a deal with the NBA to keep the 2017 All-Star Game in Charlotte but blames members of his own party in the legislature and a Democrat running for his office for killing the agreement.
The NBA announced its decision on Thursday to move its 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte because of a North Carolina law that restricts multiple-person public bathrooms on government property to those matching the biological sex indicated on the entrances.
Friday, on ESPN2’s NBA show “The Jump,” host Rachel Nichols decided to address the new law in North Carolina that forces people to use public bathrooms that correspond to their biological sex and the NBA’s response of possibly looking elsewhere to
