The Over and Back NBA podcast is celebrating the NBA at 75 by rewatching some of the greatest Slam Dunk Contests in NBA history. Michael Jordan didn’t need the 1987 Slam Dunk Contest to become Air ...

All through the 1986-87 NBA season, the Los Angeles Lakers had redemption on their minds after losing in the Western Conference Finals the year before to the Houston Rockets. L.A. won a league-high 65 ...

For three-straight seasons, Boston Celtics forward Larry Bird won the NBA Most Valuable Player award (1984-86). The streak tied a league record for most consecutive MVP awards won (Wilt Chamberlain ...

At the start of the 1980s, the Lakers and Boston Celtics were at the forefront of basketball pageantry. Both teams had won three titles from 1980-1986 and matched up in back-to-back Finals in 1984 and ...

INDIANAPOLIS -- A tall, spindly California kid, a guard who could shoot the lights out on a basketball court was on Donnie Walsh's radar. But to be clear, and it kind of pains Walsh to say it 35 years ...

In Game 3 of the 1987 Eastern Conference semifinals, Boston big man Kevin McHale turned around on the Celtics bench and grabbed a Milwaukee fan by the necktie. It was not the most explosive fight in ...

The 1980’s were a golden era for NBA basketball. Larry Bird and Magic Johnson’s epic rivalry had jolted the league back to life and then, not long after, players like Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, ...

On this day in 1987, Scottie Pippen made his NBA debut for the Chicago Bulls. He would play with the team for the next 11 seasons, winning six championships. Pippen was known as a versatile player who ...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Donnie Walsh knew he wasn't going to take Steve Alford. There was never an inkling of a thought. Not even those red-blooded IU fans, shouting that the Pacers needed to pick the ...

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Before the NBA's G League or the D League before that, there was the minor league Continental Basketball Association and a team in Albany, N.Y., that for one season current Timberwolves coach Tom ...