The basketball world is mourning the death of longtime Bridgton Academy coach Whit Lesure, who is a member of the New England ...

Starting in 1968, and for the next 50 years, Special Olympics competitions at the international level meant the World Games, held alternately in Winter and Summer in two-year cycles. That framework ...

The college basketball world is mourning the loss of former Syracuse star Lawrence Moten, who died unexpectedly on Tuesday at the age of 53. Former Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim, who spent nearly five ...

19 December 2025 - Basketball was invented in 1891… using a soccer ball. The first games were very slow. Each time someone scored, someone had to climb a ladder to retrieve the ball because the ...

NBA and YMCA announce year-long collaboration as part of World Basketball Day on Dec. 21 to help further the game's growth. Official release The third annual World Basketball Day will take place on ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – World Basketball Day was celebrated on Sunday with a youth clinic at the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, the birthplace of basketball. This youth clinic ...

CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Brandon Knight still holds out hope of returning to the NBA. He’s hoping that wearing USA across his chest for the next few days gets him closer to that goal. Knight is one of the ...

Can basketball be a force that helps bring a divided nation, a divided world together? That's the dream of World Basketball Day. A day — designated by the United Nations to be commemorated every Dec.

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — The Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury marked World Basketball Day with a basketball clinic that brought kids face-to-face with two pro players on Tuesday. The Suns/Mercury ...