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The Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Miami Heat, 106-93, in Game 6 of the NBA Finals to claim their record-tying 17th NBA Championship in team history.

The Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Miami Heat Sunday, giving them their 17th championship title.

The matchup is set, with the Miami Heat and the Los Angeles Lakers emerging as the last two teams standing in the chase to be crowned champions of the most tumultuous season in NBA history. The Heat won the Eastern Conference title Sunday night, finishing off Boston a day after the Lakers won the Western Conference crown.

Michael Jordan is joining NASCAR. The NBA legend announced Monday he would be partnering with Denny Hamlin to own a NASCAR Cup team with Bubba Wallace as it’s driver for 2021. Jordan will become the first Black majority owner of a full-time race team in NASCAR’s premier series since since Wendell Scott owned and raced his own cars in...

A small number of protesters carrying signs and shouting into megaphones blocked at least two buses chartered by the NBA from briefly from entering the Walt Disney World campus on Saturday night, with the group saying it wanted LeBron James, Russell Westbrook and other top players to take notice

Former NBA player Len Elmore gives advice to players to best achieve maximum impact for social justice.

The Milwaukee Bucks came to the arena and prepared for a game, just as they did three days earlier

The NBA playoffs will resume Saturday after the league and the National Basketball Players Association detailed the commitments that made players comfortable continuing the postseason

The shooting of Jacob Blake has sparked numerous protests throughout the professional sports world, including the MLB, NHL and NBA. NBC Sports Boston Reporter A. Sherrod Blakely stops by to break down the events that have ensued with pro athletes over the last 48 hours in the fight against systematic racism and police brutality.

The restart is about to restart.

Decades before Colin Kaepernick took a knee, athletes protested. Olympians Tommie Smith and John Carlos each raised one fist in the air during medal ceremonies at the 1968 games.  Muhammad Ali used his fists to build a platform commonly used for activism. What transpired Wednesday, however, is different. “Many athletes have done it but to have a league do it?…

A person with knowledge of the situation says another day of the NBA playoffs will be postponed

Former NBA star and TNT analyst Chris Webber delivered an emotional speech Wednesday in support of NBA players who refused to take the court in their playoff games that night. The five-time All Star was scheduled to commentate on one of Wednesday night’s NBA playoff games from the Orlando bubble when all three basketball matchups were postponed in protest...

Making their strongest statement yet in the fight against racial injustice, players from six NBA teams decided not to play postseason games on Wednesday in a boycott that quickly reverberated across other professional leagues.

The Milwaukee Bucks did not walk out to play Game 5 of their series with the Orlando Magic on Wednesday afternoon.

Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry and his family discuss why they’ve decided to support Joe Biden in 2020. Footage provided is a mixed feed and is a joint effort by the pool and the DNCC

Newly released body cam video shows the on-court altercation between an Alameda County Sheriff’s deputy and the president of the Toronto Raptors.

A quicker, less expensive COVID-19 test has received an emergency approval by the Food and Drug Administration. The new test is saliva-based and does not need a nasal swab.

Luke Walton was trying to motivate his Sacramento Kings to play hard until the end of this season.

Anthony Tall of the Aspires Sports Group breaks down down how sports across the board are still struggling dealing COVID-19.