NBA player and team drops have been a part of hip-hop lyrics for more than 50 years. Illustration: Kelsea Petersen / The Athletic; photos: Leon Bennett, Ezra Shaw, George De Sota, Emilee Chin / Getty ...

LOS ANGELES — When rapper-actor Common was a kid, he carried towels and sneakers as a Chicago Bulls ball boy who was close enough to hear the squeak of shoes and the roar inside the arena. Decades ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Florida A&M University’s Marching 100 band has added its “incomparable” sound to a theme song for the National Basketball ...

The Golden Age of the NBA on NBC, from 1990 to 2002, is remembered for iconic games and some of the biggest superstars in the history of professional basketball. But for fans who tuned in night after ...

There’s no shortage of songs about baseball. Indeed, the Library of Congress estimates that more than 1,400 tunes have been written about our national pastime. Yet, it’s an entirely different story ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amazon Prime Video tapped Common to pen the theme music for NBA on Prime, the company announced Thursday morning. Common made the ...

NBC Sports has found its basketball equivalent to Carrie Underwood. The company announced Monday that Lenny Kravitz will perform the introduction anthem music for Sunday Night Basketball, which will ...

The 2025 basketball season will see something different — something that hasn't been seen since the early 2000s. NBA on NBC is coming back to television screens and introducing itself to streaming ...

Welcome to Upside and Motor, a weekly NBA Draft column dedicated to analyzing the next wave of basketball stars, from blue blood sensations to those flying under the radar. Over this past weekend, I ...