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BOTTOM LINE: The Miami Heat visit the Dallas Mavericks in a non-conference matchup. The Mavericks have gone 4-9 in home games. Dallas is fourth in the league with 34.5 defensive rebounds per game led ...

Johnny Most's famous call from Game 5 of the 1987 Eastern Conference finals ranks in Boston Celtics lore and symbolizes one of the last gasps of the Larry Bird-led dynasty of the 1980s. Just when it ...

Despite being an AI-generated game idea that doesn't exist, Bird Game 3 continues to tear up TikTok with millions of likes and views. In this fictional open-world game, you "play" as a bird of your ...

Bird Game 3 is all over TikTok, but if you're sitting here wondering why you've never heard of the first or second game, there's a reason for that. Bird Game 3 isn't real, but you wouldn't know that ...

Los Angeles Lakers star Luka Doncic took issue with the "dangerous" NBA Cup court during Tuesday night’s win over the Los Angeles Clippers. Doncic had 43 points, 13 assists and nine rebounds as the ...

Lonzo Ball and Larry Nance Jr. recall former Los Angeles Lakers teammate Kentavious Caldwell-Pope’s prison work-release episode. Nance Jr. reacted immediately when the subject came up, acknowledging ...

Longtime NBA sharpshooter Danilo Gallinari has decided to call it a career. Gallinari announced on Tuesday that he has retired from professional basketball. The former first-round draft pick shared a ...

Bird diagram from the 1886 'A nomenclature of colors for naturalists : and compendium of useful knowledge for ornithologists' by Robert Ridgway (via Smithsonian Libraries) Colors in the 1912 'Color ...