Carmelo Anthony and Dwight Howard headline the group of 17 finalists for this year's Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame class announced Friday.

Former Nuggets, Knicks icon and 10-time All-Star Carmelo Anthony, eight-time All-WNBA point guard Sue Bird, Dwight Howard and Maya Moore make list.

The All-Star guard paid a visit to his high school in Oakland and set up 9 nine students with $25,000 scholarships.

Jackie White, a native of Centralia, Illinois, in 1968 became the first Black person to officiate an NBA game.

Kevin Durant became the eighth player in NBA history to score 30,000 points, hitting the mark against the Memphis Grizzlies ...

The two Milwaukee representatives at the NBA All-Star Game will share the floor with a native Milwaukeean ... He'll team up with Milwaukee Bucks players Giannis Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard ...

Alabama basketball is coming off its first Final Four season, but it has had some legendary players. Here are the top 10 in ...

Penn State TE Tyler Warren (6-6, 261) Warren was NFL Network lead draft analyst Daniel Jeremiah's selection for the Jets in his first mock draft. Warren led the Big Ten with 104 receptions last season ...

Heading into the final month of the college basketball regular season, staff writer Gene Henley looks at the top five men's ...

Entering February, the 6-foot-11 native of Fayetteville ... that he "reminds me of a young Marcus Camby," who spent 17 ...

He is on pace for a career high in assists and ranks third in the NBA behind Atlanta Hawks guard Trae Young and Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic. He’s one of only eight players in NBA history ...