Kevin Garnett was set to take part in a standard postgame interview…but his excited coach got in a few (miked up) words first.

High school basketball star Austin Rivers has a well-known father, and he’s embracing it.

President Barack Obama is a Chicago sports guy. He doesn’t shy away from that…not even when talking to coaches of non-Chicago teams.

Tonight the NBA’s best will be on display in the All-Star Game, an annual celebration of the players who have risen the highest through the first half of the season – and indeed, one of the main topics of discussion is who deserves the league’s MVP award thus far.

Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson can whine all he wants about playing games on Christmas, but the Christmas day tradition isn’t likely to disappear.

Paul Pierce hit a long jumper with 8 seconds left to help the Celtics beat the Knicks 104-101 Wednesday night in an NBA preseason game. What drove Pierce to take the game into his hands and hit the clutch shot? A dinner reservation.

Among the things we learned from today’s Yahoo Sports piece on the wooing of LeBron: the process that got him to Miami was every bit as sinister and Machiavellian as you could have hoped for.

For a while, the return of both 2010 NBA Finals coaches to the league next season was in doubt. But this season’s success first proved to be too much for Doc Rivers to give up, and today, Phil Jackson decided the same, announcing he’ll return to the Lakers next season.

Doc Rivers texted his buddies at the Boston Globe a little over an hour ago, telling them “I’m coming back. I want another crack at it with this group.”

Anything can happen in a Game 7 – including a nearly John-Starks-level shooting meltdown from Kobe Bryant. Fortunately for the Lakers, they did enough to win their second straight NBA title anyway.