Welcome to the NBA 75, The Athletic’s countdown of the 75 best players in NBA history, in honor of the league’s diamond anniversary. We also will run features such as this one to complement certain ...

Basketball stars often like to pay tribute to their favorite players in small or major ways. It can take the form of a public shoutout, a more formal tribute, or even just a plain old meet-and-greet.

"Real basketball addicts" - Toni Kukoc on how Drazen Petrovic and Michael Jordan were wired differently from the rest originally appeared on Basketball Network. Toni Kukoc was part of one of the most ...

Drazen Petrovic and Willow Bay stand, the Statue of Liberty behind them, in Hoboken, N.J. circa 1991. (Bruce Bennett-NBAE-Getty Images) Petrovic played little in the first half after picking up two ...

In a quiet moment during the Slovenian national team training camp before last summer's Eurobasket championship run, the team's coach, Igor Kokoskov, pulled aside Luka Doncic, his star prospect, for a ...

It wasn’t the first time Mirjam Poterbin witnessed her teenage son become the center of attention. In fact, two days before the NBA Draft, Poterbin watched him win his third ACB championship with Real ...

Regret is a heavy load to carry. For NBA players, it can be a missed shot, a botched pass, or a missed defensive assignment that costs them a game or, worse, the Larry O'Brien trophy. However, for ...

The year was 1980, and Digger Phelps was working a coaching clinic in the former Yugoslavia. The Notre Dame coach brought players on the floor for a demonstration, and one of them caught his eye.

In the 1989 FIBA Cup Winners' Cup final, all of Europe eagerly anticipated a showdown between the two scoring machines. Drazen Petrovic played for Real Madrid, while Snaidero Caserta featured the ...