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We’ve dedicated an entire special issue,SLAM’s TOP 75 NBA Teams of All Time, to ranking the best 75 individual season teams ever. This week, we’re unveiling which squads made it on our top 10. To find out who else made it on the list, read here. 10. 2012-13 Miami Heat Coach: Erik Spoelstra Record: 66-16…

The Boston Celtics are on their way to their first NBA Finals since 2010 after the C’s beat the Miami Heat, 100-96, on the road in Game 7. The Celtics’ Eastern Conference Finals series win was largely thanks to their efforts of inaugural Larry Bird winner, Jayson Tatum. Tatum finally helped the Celtics get over…

This is where things start to get realer than real. This week, SLAM is unveiling our TOP 75 NBA Teams of All Time list that ran in our special issue, SLAM Presents TOP 75 NBA Teams of All Time. It wasn’t an easy list to make, but one thing’s for sure about all of these…

What makes a great championship team? And what makes one better than the other? These are the questions we tackled when putting together our list of the 75 best NBA teams of all time list, which is featured in our SLAM Presents top 75 NBA Teams of All Time special issue. At this point in…

Warriors! Come out and plaayyyy! Wow. The Golden State Warriors are back in the NBA Finals for the sixth time in eight years after their 120-110 series-clinching win over the Dallas Mavericks. Warriors! A look from inside the arena as the @warriors accept the Oscar Robertson Trophy! #DubNation pic.twitter.com/KuOKSHPmUL — NBA (@NBA) May 27, 2022…

Stephen Curry picked up some shiny new hardware after the Golden State Warriors closed the Western Conference Finals on Thursday, beating the Mavericks 120-11. The Baby-Faced Assassin is the first-ever winner of the Magic Johnson Trophy, the NBA’s newest postseason awarded earlier this month. Stephen Curry is the first-ever recipient of the Earvin “Magic” Johnson…

When Dorian Finney-Smith entered the NBA out of Florida six years ago, the Dallas Mavericks wing heeded the advice he was given that he could “make a lot of money” if he could consistently hit the easiest shot in the League, the corner three. Since signing with the Mavs as an undrafted agent in 2016, Finney-Smith…

Two things are true when it comes to the offseason plans of the Cleveland Cavaliers and Collin Sexton. Cleveland wants to extend Sexton; the other is Sexton will be a restricted free agent. Where the Cavs front office and Sexton may disagree is the amount of money Young Bull will make. According to NBA insider…

Historian Claude Johnson has spent more than two decades researching and honoring the history of some of the game’s more revolutionary pioneers. Following the racial integration of professional leagues in the 1950s, dozens of African American teams, which were often called “fives,” were founded. In his new book, THE BLACK FIVES: THE EPIC STORY OF…

It’s a journey whose steps began long ago. A marathon that’s still being run.  A mountain that’s still being scaled.  But the grind continues. There’s no turning back now. Too much ground has been covered, and there’s still much more left. Women basketball players. Women who hoop. Ballers. Athletes on a quest to prove to…