His shooting improved when his mother was given an old basketball, and he and his siblings created a makeshift backboard and rim out of a wooden crate, wagon parts, a hanger, and string to slow ...

As LeBron rose up to try to pin the layup off the backboard, his right thumb got caught on the rim. You can see the slow-motion replay of the incident below. Los Angeles called a timeout shortly ...

Just about every summer day, Nate Ament would take the short walk through the muggy heat from his family’s home to the blacktop court at Coles Elementary School in Manassas. It was 2020, and ...

Hayward's shot bounced off the backboard and rim as Duke won 61-59 ... After a short pro basketball career, Scheyer joined the Duke coaching staff in 2014 and succeeded Mike Krzyzewski in ...

Here’s a recent AP basketball story ... forced Egor Emin to toss up a 3-pointer that wedged between the backboard and rim. BYU kept possession with the jump ball, and Houston promptly forced ...

What might have been a harbinger of BYU’s coming frustration came in the opening minutes, when Houston forced Egor Emin to toss up a 3-pointer that wedged between the backboard and rim.

Brigham Young's Fousseyni Traore, center, looks to the basket between Houston's Mylik Wilson, left, and Joseph Tugler, right, during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in the ...

2-seeded Louisville basketball rallied from 15 points ... The ball hit the rim, then the backboard, and landed for a brief moment in the hands of Chisom Okpara with 2.9 seconds on the clock.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Kawhi Leonard's only shot in overtime proved to be the game winner. His left hook hit the backboard and rim before dropping in at the buzzer, giving the Los Angeles Clippers ...

FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas basketball waited all season for Jonas ... and RJ Melendez's second-chance hit the backboard and rim before falling to the floor in conjunction with the final buzzer.

Jonas Aidoo finally delivered in the regular-season finale, and Arkansas basketball earned a critical win over Mississippi State. ... Billy Richmond blocked a layup attempt from Riley Kugel, and RJ ...

PROVIDENCE — Wednesday night certainly didn’t unfold in the fashion most might have expected while concluding this men’s basketball ... Joseph caught backboard and rim with his third ...