93 total points.  No, it was not Bowling Green Junior High v. South Warren Middle School, a game from the 1930s, or Dean Smith using the "four corners" offense for ...

Mike Vaccaro of the New York Post doesn't exactly offer a resounding endorsement of the February 21 NY Knicks acquisition of Carmelo Anthony, but he does reply to detractors  (Tepid ...

The NBA's popularity vaulted during the 1980s and 1990s with Bird as MVP but also with Moses, Magic, Michael, Charles, David, Hakeem, and Karl -- all African American.

Recently, on the NBA Network I caught the tail end of a conversation between Kenny Smith and another announcer about the LA Clippers.  Maybe there are less successful franchises by ...

Today's WSJ has a review of the book, Play Their Hearts Out, by SI reporter George Dohrman.  The book examines the world of elite youth basketball in the U.S.  I'm ...

LeBron James is catching a torrent of criticism over his decision to leave his "hometown team", the Cleveland Cavaliers, for the Miami Heat.  As an economist, and a sports fan, I ...

Meghan Barr, an AP correspondent from Cleveland, needs a lesson in economics in this article about LeBron James. "James has been with Cleveland since he was drafted in 2003 but ...

Watching NBA highlights last night on NBATV, I stumbled across this video story on the 2010 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. Daryl Morey, GM of the Houston Rockets, helped establish ...

From a past entry from Dave Berri's Wages of Wins Journal: The statement about competitive balance reflects an argument offered in The Wages of Wins. Specifically, we argue – following ...

Labor relations in professional sports are notoriously contentious. Nobody gets along. Players strike, owners lock out players, referees strike, owners lock out referees; it happens all the time. Labor disputes ...