George Gervin

The text messages or phone calls to Magic power forward Tobias Harris come weekly from the legend. He often receives them after games from the 60-year-old man in Texas. Generations apart, they have little in common but basketball. "He's cool,"...

"Never has a player so good been seen by so few people. As Bob (Costas) said that I was one of the few lucky ones. I saw him play in high school and I covered him his entire ABA career. He was a combination of Jerry West, Oscar Robertson, Sam Jones, and...

We're paraphrasing Sting and the Police here, not the sting of the UConn campus police. Still, it is scant exaggeration to say that every breath the UConn women take, every move they make, every step they take, we'll be watching them. As the 2012-13...

There is a small refrigerator in the women's basketball locker room at Gampel Pavilion that frequently needs to be replenished. Athletes tend to get thirsty after one of those famous Geno Auriemma practices. And the job of restocking it falls to a...

STORRS — Geno Auriemma's media sessions, especially the ones near the start and end of each basketball season, are an Italian meal. The tasty stuff just keeps coming and the meal lasts forever. College freshmen, meanwhile, can say their fill in 140...

      The college basketball season is now history but this week in Salem, they are celebrating the anniversary of a past championship.       40 years ago, in 1972, the Roanoke College Maroons won the Division II national championship under head coach...

Whether or not the Bulls ever will win a championship with him, I still believe Ben Gordon is one of the most extraordinary talents in the NBA, simply due to his uncanny scoring ability, especially when his size is factored in. (It's not a big secret that...

You can make the claim - statistically at least - that Omar Thomas was one of the finest junior-college basketball players ever. He's the leading scorer in JuCo history, having averaged 35.3 points during his two years at Panola College in Texas, and...

After watching the NCAA championship game, I am convinced that Emeka Okafor is just what the Bulls need. He has a desire to win which I'm not sure many people have on this Bulls team. He dove for a loose ball with his team up 19. If the Bulls get lucky...

Free throw percentages of the NBA's Top 50 players of all time. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -- .721 Nate Archibald -- .810 Paul Arizin -- .810 Charles Barkley -- .735 Rick Barry --.900 Elgin Baylor -- .780 Dave Bing -- .775 Larry Bird -- .886 Wilt...