Hakeem Olajuwon

Alex Len played it coy Wednesday when asked if he'd return to Maryland for his junior season or declare for the NBA draft. The Terps' 7-foot-1 center actually prefaced his remarks by saying he hadn't thought about it, which is hard to believe, given he'...

The late, great Times columnist Jim Murray opined about all the superstar athletes in the second half of the 20th century. It's what he did as well as anyone that came before or after him in America. So, on Michael Jordan's 50th birthday, we give you...

The Lakers seemed to be moving forward, heading into Week 15. Lakers General Manager Mitch Kupchak was confident enough in his team to say he had "no intention of making a trade."  Kupchak's former mentor, Lakers great Jerry West, said he still...

According to Jeff Schultz of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Dwight Howard Sr. believes his son, Dwight Howard, will re-sign with the Lakers this summer as a free agent. Howard Sr. spoke out for his son on the recent controversy surrounding Howard's...

According to Chris Tomasson of Fox Sports Florida, Hall of Fame center Hakeem Olajuwon believes Dwight Howard will re-sign with the Lakers this summer. Olajuwon said Howard, while still with the Orlando Magic in 2011, told him that he wanted to join the...

MINNEAPOLIS — I'm liking the laugh-out-loud guy sitting across from me at Starbucks, maybe as big a shock as Kobe Bryant and I getting together to sip vanilla lattes. You know who I'm talking about: the Kobester, the Big Baby, the Ball Hog, the...

It's not often you hear humility from former Lakers center Shaquille O’Neal. But the TNT analyst displayed some Monday night when he said that former Houston Rockets center Hakeem Olajuwon was unflappable. "Hakeem Olajuwon was the only guy that...

The Orlando Magic continue to have a crowded injury list, but the team welcomed back two key members of their rotation when they hosted the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday night. Jameer Nelson returned to the starting lineup after he sat out two games with a...

Generally, players and coaches get caught up in great moments and only later can they reflect on the significance and meaning. "Unless it's a game like Georgia Tech, where we were up by 25," Jim Calhoun said. That 82-73 UConn victory clinched the...

It's an award that any NFL player would be proud of, but none would choose to endure. Comeback player of the year. The field is especially crowded this season, with an inordinate number of standout players returning from season-ending injuries, the...

In one corner of the Lakers' practice gym, even on one crutch, Mike D'Antoni was jumping through the roof. In another corner, Superman was stuck to his seat. At his first news conference as new Lakers coach Thursday, D'Antoni was all smiles and...

Heat coach Erik Spoelstra is a digger, a thinker, a curious mind who stopped using conventional position names for his team last year — "Too limiting,'' he says — and talked with disparate coaching minds from Paul Westhead to Tony Dungy...