Lakers legend Magic Johnson claims that Julius Erving's extraordinary feats on the basketball court was like Michael Jordan ...

It’s All-Star Saturday, which means it’s time for the most electrifying event in sports. The NBA Slam Dunk Contest. That’s ...

All-Star weekend has gradually added events over the last seven decades. The All-Star game started in 1951. The Slam Dunk ...

I n a moment of get-off-my-lawn petulance, I once argued in the pages of Sports Illustrated that the NBA All-Star Game’s Slam ...

The King of the NBA, and also of the All Stars (the 2025 one will be number 21 for him) has never wanted to participate in ...

Rick Welts vividly remembers the genesis of All-Star Weekend, more than four decades later. In the early 1980s, the NBA’s ...