Before a helicopter crash brought about their tragic deaths, Kobe Bryant’s daughter Gianna aspired to carry on his legacy as a pro basketball champion.
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A social psychologist explains how you can be so deeply affected by the death of someone you’ve never met.
Unlike when Kobe Bryant went straight from high school to the NBA, future superstars must now spend at least one year in college or overseas. A sports scholar explains how that could soon change.
A data scholar explains why playing at home doesn’t provide the boost that it once did.
Achilles tendon pain is surprisingly common in people over the age of 50. Strength training can help you recover and protect against future injury.
How do we reconcile the daily racism that Black people face in our country with our public expressions of multicultural pride?
Just as Kawhi Leonard did, each of us can apply load management in our lives to help promote our own resilience and success.
The Toronto Raptors are NBA champions. The team’s success has propelled basketball’s lore to a level never before reached among Canadians. Will it surpass hockey as Canada’s favourite game?
Hockey is often considered Canada’s national sport, but with the changing demographics of the country and the rising success of the Toronto Raptors, basketball is also seen as a national sport.
It probably sounds bad or uncomfortable to you. But stiffness is part of what gives elite athletes the spring in their muscles.
A group of researchers figured out which NBA teams featured the most egotistical players, and then tracked their performances over the course of a season.
Why are three-pointer shots from the corner more efficient than the ones above the break? The answer: More than 90 percent of corner three-point shots are assisted.
About 47 million adults in the US are expected to gamble on March Madness this year. A growing share of the bets will actually be legal.
The Toronto Raptors have the money to attract the NBA’s top players. Here’s why the league’s salary caps makes that so difficult.
A new study looks at decades of NCAA free throws, finding that women shoot at 3 percent higher consistency than men.
A new study shows that facial recognition software assumes that black faces are angrier than white faces, even when they’re smiling.
Star basketball players are suffering the fallout from a race scare campaign by politicians from the Liberal party over crimes committed by a small number of young people who came to Australia from South Sudan
Like the WNBA, the NBA went through fits and starts in its early years. Yet despite drawing similar crowds in the 1960s, NBA players earned far bigger paychecks than today’s WNBA stars receive.
The warm summer months encourage more of us to get outside and exercise, whether by shooting hoops or riding a bike. But there’s a downside: higher risk of injury.
Research has shown that the most successful basketball coaches resist pressure to make changes during games. Choosing not to make a move is sometimes also the right call for business leaders.
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PhD Student, Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo
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Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society, Penn State
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Associate Professor of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh
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Assistant Teaching Professor of Critical Sports Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
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Distinguished Professor of Law, Penn State
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Associate Professor of Cultural Sport Psychology, University of Southern Denmark
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