David Stern, the former NBA commissioner who reshaped the league and presided over its skyrocketing growth for three decades, has died, the league said Wednesday. He was 77.

Stern joined the NBA as general counsel in 1978, became executive vice president in 1980 and was named commissioner in 1984, beginning a 30-year run in charge of the league until 2014 when ...

David Stern, the longtime NBA commissioner who shepherded the NBA from the edges of disaster to unimaginable success, died Wednesday. He was 77.

David Stern, the former NBA commissioner who died Wednesday, helped shape the league into the $8 billion business it is today.. It wasn’t easy. Stern faced many on- and off-court crises, but ...

Stern got unwelcome attention in 1985 when, in the NBA's first draft lottery, he reached into the basketball-shaped plastic hopper and pulled out the envelope awarding the No. 1 pick, and ...

Deandre Ayton responds to critics after joining the Los Angeles Lakers, calling it the perfect place to prove himself and ...

Long before Stern took the helm as commissioner, he was already shaping the league behind the scenes. In 1983, as the NBA’s ...

David Stern, the former Commissioner of the NBA who presided over a period of growth in revenue and franchises during a 30-year tenure, has been hospitalized with a medical emergency, a brain ...

Jrue Holiday was the first domino to fall, being traded to the Portland Trail Blazers in a deal that brought Anfernee Simons ...

Some believed the NBA rigged the 1985 Draft lottery by freezing the envelope with the Knicks’ logo, making it easy to pick.