On this day in Boston Celtics history, former head coach and team president Rick Pitino was hired as head coach and general manager of the team in 1997. He had previously coached at the NBA level as a moderately successful head coach of the New York Knicks ...

Luka Doncic, forward-guard for the Dallas Mavericks, recently rolled up to an NBA game from behind the wheel of a custom-wrapped 1968 Chevy Camaro, turning heads long before he hit the court. The exterior of the ’68 Camaro was covered by a sizzling vinyl ...

Bill Russell celebrates his second season doubling as a player-coach with an NBA championship, as the Boston Celtics defeat the Los Angeles Lakers, four games to two, with a 124-109 victory in Game 6. It was the Celtics’ 10th title in 12 years — they ...

The Oklahoma City Thunder (and the Seattle Supersonics before them) have 51 jersey numbers worn by the players who have suited up for the franchise since its founding at the start of the 1967-68 season. To commemorate the players who wore those numbers ...

Watch Jerry West talk about his philosophies on basketball and practice, and take some time to play hoops with kids, in this rarely scene footage from 1968!