The NBA, like virtually all sports, revolves around offense. As the game has shifted toward a skill-based, pace-and-space, ...

The Rockets often just looked sloppy against a Warriors defense that was the best in the NBA after the All-Star break: ...

The Rockets resorted to intense physical tactics in an effort to slow down the Warriors’ sharpshooter Stephen Curry on Sunday ...

Mechanisms like the one Detroit used to spring Beasley loose are textbook examples of floppy action — a classic off-ball play ...

The Clippers became the second team to have a non-playing member of their organization try to delay Nikola Jokic’s game.

The bigger problem for Milwaukee was that Antetokounmpo was the only guy creating or scoring for the Bucks: Kyle Kuzma was ...

“We’ll just talk through our read, what the defense was on this play and just (go) back and forth chopping it up.” This back-and-forth process involves bouncing ideas off each other about ...

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The 2024-25 NBA playoffs are right around the corner ... of the other major awards to highlight notable contributors. Defensive Player of the Year, Sixth Man, Rookie of the Year, Most Improved ...

Nobody in the modern era has deployed players on both sides of the ball situationally like Belichick did. Edelman was a Patriots legend for his 620 career catches, but he also played some defense.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Florida’s Walter Clayton Jr. came up with the perfect going-away present for that spirit-crushing Houston defense that bullied, battered and bedeviled him all night.