• The Canadian Press

    Trail Blazers guard Taze Moore signs with CEBL's Vancouver Bandits

    VANCOUVER — Taze Moore doesn't take basketball for granted, so when a unique opportunity to play summer ball came up, he grabbed it. After playing four NBA games for the Portland Trail Blazers this year, the 25-year-old guard is bringing his skills to the Vancouver Bandits of the Canadian Elite Basketball League. Coming to B.C. is another stop in Moore's quest to secure an NBA contract. “I’m almost there," he said in a phone interview from Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday. "I’m still on my journey, I

  • Yahoo Sports

    NBA playoff X-factors: 7 under-the-radar difference-makers who could tilt a series

    We all know who the superstars are. So here are the players who can work in the margins to provide a postseason edge.

  • The Canadian Press

    Butler, Williamson injuries are part of story for Heat-Bulls and Kings-Pelicans play-in finales

    MIAMI (AP) — When injuries affect the Miami Heat, coach Erik Spoelstra almost always delivers the same three-word outlook. “We have enough," he says. That theory is about to be tested — and will be a theme in the NBA's win-or-go-home finales of the play-in tournament on Friday night. All four teams — Miami and Chicago in the Eastern Conference, New Orleans and Sacramento in the Western Conference — have serious injury concerns going into their matchups to decide the No. 8 seeds on the playoff br

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    Shai Gilgeous-Alexander signs extension to be face of Converse Basketball

    Gilgeous-Alexander will be the eighth NBA player to get a signature shoe with Converse.