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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…

The future of college basketball has arrived. SLAM’s 2022 High School Boys All Americans are an elite group of certified bucket-getters who are already making serious waves on the court. From Amari Bailey to Naismith Player of the Year Dariq Whitehead, here’s who we’ve selected to our SLAM All American roster: Amari Bailey 6-5, SG…

SLAM’s 2022 High School All Americans don’t got next, they got right now. On the girl’s side, this talented group of female ballers are already winning championship titles, snagging FIBA gold metals and making their impact known on, and off the court, from the booth to the classroom. Meet this elite group of high school standouts…

As we make our way down our SLAM’s TOP 75 NBA Teams of All Time list, the teams in this group separate themselves from the pack with one word: championships. We know we mentioned earlier that you don’t have to win a ‘chip to be included on this list, but when it comes to ranking…

The Miami Heat are on the brink of elimination after losing two straight games to the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference Finals. Wednesday’s Game 5 was perhaps their best chance to head back to Boston with a 3-2 lead. The Heat was up by five coming out of the halftime break, but Boston outscored…

It’s a late april afternoon, and Cade Cunningham is sitting on a black leather couch inside a sunny, white-walled studio in Los Angeles for his SLAM cover shoot. He’s in the midst of explaining what “Detroit vs Everybody” really means to him. It was already a thing, he says, when he arrived last summer as…

Heading into the 2021-22 campaign, many fans and those within the NBA believed the Boston Celtics would be wise in considering breaking up the All-Star duo of Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. After Wednesday’s Game 5 93-80 win over Miami to give Boston a 3-2 lead in the Eastern Conference Finals, any notion of separating…

The Indiana Fever announced that Marianne Stanley had been dismissed as head coach after leading the Fever to a 2-7 start this season, the second-worst record in the W. BREAKING: The @IndianaFever announced today that Marianne Stanley will no longer hold the head coaching position. Stanley, who was in the final year of her contract,…

Jayson Tatum played at an All-Star, some may even say All-NBA level, last year when he averaged a then-career-best 26.4 points, 7.4 rebounds, and 4.3 assists per game on 45.3 percent shooting from the field. Tatum was awarded an All-Star nod in the 2021 All-Star Game but was snubbed from an All-NBA selection despite putting…