Shaquille O'Neal News

The conversation has played out on TNT in recent weeks - Charles Barkley insisting Dwyane Wade "is not the same player," and Shaquille O'Neal responding with a stern: "Leave Dwyane alone." For starters, Barkley wants to make one thing clear: "I have nothing against Dwyane" - his former partner on T-Mobile ads.

Phil Jackson said he would pick Bill Russell, not Michael Jordan, if given one pick to start an all-time team.

Two-time NBA champ Mark Madsen has officially returned to the Lakers' organization as head coach of their minor league affiliate.

Former Portland Trail Blazers forward Brian Grant made public his battle with Parkinson's disease in an article by ESPN.com's Ric Bucher back in 2009 .

Atlantic City plans to bring a $75 million development project, including a movie theater and supermarket, to a neighborhood near the Revel and Showboat casinos.

Kendrick Perkins and Shaquille O'Neal were Boston Celtics teammates for just a short period of time during the 2010-11 season.

In this Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013 file photo released by VICE Media, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and former NBA star Dennis Rodman watch North Korean and U.S. players in an exhibition basketball game at an arena in Pyongyang, North Korea.

During the NBA on TNT telecast tonight, Shaquille O'Neal was Shaqtin a fool as usual.

Sometimes you have to let the words marinate for a bit, take your glasses off, rub your eyes and breathe in the gravity of a statement before you react to it.

File this one under "fights we would happily shell out for the Pay-Per-View." Former NBA great Shaquille O'Neal got into a dispute on Twitter with Jose Canseco, perhaps over the quality of the Floyd Mayweather-Robert Guerrero fight Saturday night.

After the Celtics came within one victory of knocking off the Miami Heat and reaching the NBA Finals last season, it made sense for Danny Ainge to sign Kevin Garnett to a contract extension and try to take one more shot at winning a title.

't like Los Angeles? What if Howard follows the advice given to every prospective employee? Namely, go find a job that you enjoy because in the end, a higher salary won't buy career satisfaction.

Fouling the big guy, as the Thunder did to Rockets center Omer Asik during Game 5 of the Oklahoma City-Houston playoff series, is a time-honored tactic that even predates the Big Pontificator, Shaquille O'Neal, and his linear descendent, Dwight Howard.

Jason Collins continues to impress. Collins was featured on Inside the NBA on Tuesday to discuss his historic coming.

Digital First Media, which operates this newspaper and more than 800 other media properties, on Tuesday announced a partnership with Tout, a San Francisco startup that makes a Twitter-like platform for short videos.

With those words, Jason Collins, who for 12 seasons has labored as a journeyman player in the NBA, vaulted himself into the headlines.

It's a notion that would have seemed preposterous only two years ago. In fact, the move has been highly scrutinized up until as recently as January.

Basketball players and fans all over the world always look up to the players in the National Basketball Association .

NBA center Jason Collins became the first active player in a major professional sport to come out as gay Monday.

Former NBA head coach Flip Saunders is expected to return to the Minnesota Timberwolves as the team's next president of basketball operations, NBA.com has learned.