Which NBA players have been the best of the best since the 2000-01 season? The Athletic NBA staff makes its picks.

How do the readers' rankings compare with The Athletic staff picks? Are there changes at the top? Does anyone sneak into the ...

Early injuries scattering the No. 1 pick race? Only two guards in the top 10? Let's project all 30 picks for the 2026 first ...

In an ideal world, we would all have tremendous job security, have contracts for life, and be unfireable. We would all have a ...

Today, we're going to talk about the best NBA players to come out of every state in America, from Alabama and Wyoming. For this exercise, we chose players based on where they spent most of their lives ...

If he keeps up his current scoring pace, Los Angeles Lakers guard Austin Reaves is going to break a 71-year-old NBA record.

LATELY, the NBA has really caught on across the United Kingdom, and basketball has attracted a lot of fans. Nowadays, you have more ways to stay connected with all the action. For those who want ...

The major storyline is Luka Dončić guiding the Lakers to a dominant win over a top-tier foe in the Western Conference, ...

We saw the game go from the preps-to-pros era, which included the great LeBron James never playing a minute of NCAA ...

College basketball's talent ecosystem is unusually robust this season across teams and conferences and ranging from players aged 18 to 29. Yes, 29 years old. But no team this season has the top-end ...

Purdue veteran Braden Smith is a fixture on SN's first-team, but there are two freshmen on our first team and two on our ...

Because NBA rules restrict the Lakers from extending Reaves up to 140% of the average player (four-years, $87.4 million with ...