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The patch of Wellesley asphalt isn't wide, but there's enough room for five or six neighborhood kids to horse around with a basketball and heave it at that iconic symbol of suburban America, the driveway hoop.

When Chicago Bulls , the veteran replies: "Good. I mean, as good as it's going to get at this point."

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A leader of the "Bad Boy" Detroit Pistons, Bill Laimbeer played on one of the greatest teams in NBA history.

Sacramento Kings legend Mitch Richmond, who was inducted into the Hall-of-Fame, was honored in the team's season finale Sacramento Kings legend Mitch Richmond was honored by the team in the season finale on Wednesday for his induction into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Richmond, the former Sacramento Kings legend, who was a 6-time All Star ... (more)

Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah finished the 2013-14 regular season with 431 assists and 121 blocks, becoming just the ninth player in NBA history to record at least 400 assists and 100 blocks in one season, per K.C. Johnson of The Chicago Tribune .

Washington's basketball franchise has had three postseason droughts of at least five years, and each time the Chicago Bulls were there to welcome them back to the playoffs.

J.A. Adande: How excited am I for the playoffs? I'm even fired up to watch the Eastern Conference.

Chad Finn is the sports media columnist for the Globe and writes the irreverent Touching All the Bases blog for Boston.com.

'We just didn't want to be the seventh seed, to be honest,' John Wall said. John Wall used to scribble, "playoffs," on his sneakers before each game to remind himself of the shared goal within the Wizards organization.

The former president stopped to have lunch with Calipari on April 17, during which he called the book terrific.

George Herman Ruth Jr. stayed in the game too long. In his last season and playing for the Boston Braves in 1935, the legendary Babe batted .181, could barely trot around the bases and stuck around mostly because he thought he'd be offered the manager's job, which he wasn't.

The regular season has come to an end for the Oklahoma City Thunder. They finished the season 59-23 and are going into the playoffs with the No.

It wasn't all brass bands and pickle juice en route to prominence as a stand-up comedian for Hannibal Buress.

For the second straight season the fourth-seeded Chicago Bulls enter the playoffs wondering how much different their outlook would be if Derrick Rose was healthy.

Brooklyn had a chance to clinch the No. 5 seed on Tuesday at home against New York, but missed badly.

After scoring 25 points in Monday's 101-89 loss to the New Orleans Pelicans, Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant has 2,551 points this season, marking the second-highest single-season total by any NBA player in the last 23 years, per the Elias Sports Bureau .

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MANILA, Philippines Manny Pacquiao may get a guaranteed sum of USD 20 million from his recent bout against Timothy Bradley, but a big chunk of it will still go to the US Internal Revenue Service .

Our view: The return of Baltimore's Michael Phelps to competitive swimming raises hopes - and misgivings - of his biggest fans George Herman Ruth Jr., the pride of Pigtown, stayed in the game too long.