Author Shea Serrano embraces one of the toughest truths of NBA writing: There’s no simple way to write something new about Michael Jordan.

AJ, of course, is the 18-year-old multimillionaire playing basketball this season at BYU. His story is well known even among ...

“The Real Hoosiers: Crispus Attucks High School, Oscar Robertson, and the Hidden History of Hoops,” by Jack McCallum (Hachette, 325 pages, $30) “Kingdom on Fire: Kareem, Wooden, Walton, and the ...

Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. Hello, fellow readers. I’m culture critic, fervent bookworm and hoops head Chris Vognar. This week we speak with poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib ...

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David Brautigam, of Silverton, is a youth basketball coach and screenwriter, who soon release his first book, a crime drama titled "Revenge is a Must." When the production of the movie based on David ...

The easy cliché here would be to point out that Russ Bengtson has forgotten more about sneakers than most of us will ever know. The problem with this particular cliché is that when it comes to ...

Nick Greene’s first book, How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius, is a brilliantly engaging and utterly unique look at the game we love. It’s easy to assume that one has a solid understanding of the ...

If you’re a high school basketball player interested in earning a Division I scholarship, there’s a book that provides some great information how to achieve this goal. The book “I AM D-1: How To ...

The last steps that basketball hero and former NBA player Howard Nathan would ever take were from the Landmark Bowling Alley to his 1972 Oldsmobile Cutlass. Late at night on July 30, 2006, Howard ...

Eighty years ago, an extraordinary collegiate basketball game took place. It’s such a shining moment, it’s madness that March 12 isn’t an annual hoops holiday. On that Sunday morning in 1944, when ...