Basketball

A new study of NBA players documents the cost of sleep deprivation.

The outliers are basketball aficionados, who tend to lean leftward.

In the last month, I watched every Timberwolves game in an attempt to tune out something larger.

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A new study says it belongs to Barry Bonds, but probably not for the reason you think.

What do the iconic shoes mean to low-income basketball players?

New research finds playing before supportive fans increases the likelihood of a sports team winning.

Hopeful athletes fight for roster spots in Canada’s budding basketball league.

It takes more than basketball skills to make it to the NCAA tournament.

From NBA prospects to bracketology, researchers have touched on all aspects of March Madness.

The Big Ten Conference's Year of Readiness proposal, which would push freshman athletes to the sidelines, is supposedly about giving students time to explore educational opportunities, but the financial benefits to colleges and universities are hard to ignore.

A new study explores how newspapers and social media framed a historic first.

By choice or by circumstance, exiting sport is inevitable. What happens after is less certain.

The basketball star isn't the only one moving back to Ohio. Even with manufacturing on the decline, Cleveland is drawing talented migrants from other areas.

Even bad basketball programs make the NCAA tournament once a decade just due to sheer randomness and dumb luck. So why have the Northwestern Wildcats never qualified?

Why do some of the greatest basketball players ever struggle with an uncontested shot from just 15 feet away?

Teamwork wins games, but a taste for “hero ball” means players are much less cooperative during playoffs. That kind of selfish play is often rewarded with boatloads of money.

Also: a reminder that they don't try to.

In every issue, we fix our gaze on an everyday photograph and chase down facts about details in the frame.

New data and statistical theory are overturning 30-year-old research that failed to find evidence of streaky shooting on the basketball court. The hot hand, it turns out, really does exist—and it may apply to a lot more than just sports.

For every Michael Jordan, there's at least one Keon Clark. Or an Allen Iverson. Or a Junior Seau. The machinery of professional sports churns through its athletes and spits them out on the other side.

LeBron James was right, then, when he said: "I'm LeBron James. From Akron, Ohio. From the inner city. I am not even supposed to be here."

There are only so many sports you can grow up playing in the inner city.

Aaron Gordon is a basketball phenom. Aaron Gordon is a Pacific Standard contributor. Aaron Gordon works for a public relations firm.