The NBA's best rivalry peaked in the 1984 NBA Finals between the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers. While the two teams featured their own "Big 3", it was Celtics legend Cedric Maxwell who told ...

HBO's Winning Time drama series based on the 1980s "Showtime" Lakers aired its final episode Sunday night as it was canceled after only two seasons. Ironically, the show about the Lakers dynasty ended ...

Don’t bother making the trip. Just mail the stat sheet in. That was the message from a Nets legend to his former team on the eve of the decisive Game 5 of the first round of the NBA Playoffs in 1984.

In Game 5 of the 1984 NBA Finals at Boston Garden, the sweltering heat and lack of air conditioning forced Kareem ...

Have you heard about the legendary 1984 NBA Draft, which is quite possibly the greatest draft class of all-time? Let's get in to it! At the end of every season in American sports, a champion is ...

The Over and Back NBA podcast is celebrating the NBA at 75 by rewatching some of the greatest Slam Dunk Contests in NBA history. There’s only one place we can begin a series on slam-dunk contests: the ...

King played 14 NBA seasons after being drafted seventh-overall by the New Jersey Nets in 1977 and promptly rewarded them with ...

The 1984 Finals included eight eventual Hall-of-Fame inductees. In addition, Larry Bird is one of three players to win three consecutive Most Valuable Player honors (1984-86) while Abdul-Jabbar won ...

Looking back at the two greatest NBA Drafts in recent history in 1984 and 2003, both appear eerily similar. The 2003 draft produced some of the greatest players in the league today. No. 1 pick LeBron ...

Hakeem Olajuwon dominated the Dallas Mavericks for 24 points and nine rebounds in his NBA debut with the Houston Rockets on Oct. 27, 1984. Expectations were sky-high for Olajuwon after he entered the ...

In fact, it wasn't just good -- it was legendary. There were future All-Stars, NBA record-setters and soon-to-be living legends. Sam Bowie was infamously a bust. But even Bowie played 10 pro seasons, ...

Back in 2015, we all learned a weird little fact: Every single NBA champion since 1984 had a connection to Shaquille O'Neal. Seriously! Each team who won a ring -- including, obviously, those Shaq ...