Indiana University has one of the most storied programs in college basketball history. The Indiana Hoosiers fielded their first men’s basketball team in the 1900-01…
The Fab Five is the greatest college basketball class ever recruited. In the fall of 1991, the incoming freshman class of the University of Michigan’s…
On this date in 1962, Wilton Norman Chamberlain set the single-game NBA scoring record by scoring 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors in a 169-147…
Happy 53rd birthday to The Round Mound of Rebound. Charles Wade Barkley was born in Leeds, Alabama–about 10 miles outside of Birmingham–on February 20, 1963. …
Richard Francis Dennis Barry III is the only player in basketball history to lead the NCAA, ABA and NBA in scoring for an individual season.…
Arnold Jacob Auerbach was the architect and mastermind behind one of the most dominant franchises in professional sports history. Born in the Williamsburg section of…
Stephen John Nash is the greatest free throw shooter in NBA history. Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, on February 7, 1974, into a soccer-minded family,…
Where LeBron Raymone James fits in the pantheon of greatest players in basketball history remains to be determined. James was born in Akron, Ohio, on…
Peter Press Maravich was perhaps the greatest creative offensive talent in basketball history. Born in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania—a steel town outside of Pittsburgh that produced NFL…
Jacques Dominique Wilkins was one of the best dunkers in NBA history. Born in Sorbonne—the Latin Quarter District of Paris, France,–on January 12, 1960, while…