The 1979 NBA draft was supposed to mark the beginning of the Detroit Pistons' ascension in the standings. It just took a lot longer than expected. With three picks among the top 15 in '79, the Pistons ...

On March 26, 1979, Len DeLuca watched the NCAA men’s basketball championship between Michigan State and Indiana State from his home in the Boston area. DeLuca, who worked as a lawyer and a radio ...

SEATTLE — Gus "The Wizard" Williams, a former Seattle Supersonics player who led the team to its only NBA championship in 1979, has died at age 71. Williams spent six seasons of his NBA career with ...

Paul Mokeski says Larry Bird and Magic Johnson played a big role in putting the NBA where it is today Mokeski bares fans showed little interest in the NBA before Bird and Magic entered the league The ...

Forty-two years ago today, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird made their NBA debuts for their respective teams. The fans didn't know it yet, but this would be the start of a fearsome rivalry. Many ...

NOTE: Following is the third installment of a four-part blog series on the NBA Finals. The author, while working for newspapers in Olympia and Bremerton, covered three games in Portland during the ...

Lonnie Shelton, the starting power forward and defensive enforcer for the Sonics team that won the city’s only NBA title in 1979, has died at the age of 62. Shelton passed away Sunday night in ...

In February 1997, Wilt Chamberlain, then 60 years old, was one of the legendary figures honored during NBA All-Star Weekend in Cleveland, celebrating the league’s 50 greatest players. Reflecting back ...

Sonics great Fred Brown’s 1979 NBA championship ring fetched a winning bid of $115,242 at auction. Brown’s wife, Linda, put the ring up for sale on the Grey Flannel Auctions website and it drew 29 ...

Quick! Name a time when the Sonics/Thunder had NO top-flight talent. It’s pretty tough. Throughout the years, this has been one talent-laden franchise. From Bob Rule and Mahdi Abdul-Rahman (better ...

Larry Bird stands among the greatest NBA players of all-time and his success and playing style revolutionized the game of basketball and the league. Bird spent his entire career with the Boston ...

ALMOST every Filipino basketball fan is going bananas over the news regarding the first NBA preseason game in Manila this October 10 between the Houston Rockets and the Indiana Pacers at the Mall of ...