HOUSTON (AP) - All it took was 3 minutes for Yao Ming to show Shaquille O'Neal that this would be no mismatch. Yao blocked O'Neal's first three shots, altered Kobe Bryant's attempt at the end of ...

"Kobe had finally accepted that he needed a low-post player to win. Kobe didn't want to play with a dominant center. Michael didn't, and Kobe didn't want to either. He told me that," Vitti told ...

Every so often, a player comes along who reminds fans of someone from a past era, and that's precisely what we've seen at ...