On a Tuesday afternoon in 1950, April 25, in a board room jammed with owners and coaches of the fledgling league’s 12 (soon ...

The NBA’s inaugural draft after the merger of two leagues produced historical footnotes and one of the greatest players ever ...

Wilt Chamberlain arrived in 1959 like the eighth wonder of the world, his 7-foot-1 powers tearing up and rewriting all NBA record books for individual achievements. Much changed in the 1960s and ’70s, ...