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Here’s a look at the stars who shined brightest on the game’s biggest stage.

Is it better to be lucky or good?

CHICAGO — Former Cleveland President Gabe Paul once quipped that “a manager really gets paid for how much he suffers.”

An overstuffed season of fact-based dramas, from Winning Time to Under the Banner of Heaven to The Staircase, has been more miss than hit

Former Lakers Nick Van Exel, Shaquille O’Neal and Robert Horry dish on the origin of the ‘Inside the NBA’ catchphrase.

The day after the series finale of your favorite TV show is always difficult.

In 1969, the Lakers lost yet another Game 7 of the NBA Finals to the Celtics, and it was rife with melodrama and misfortune.

LOS ANGELES — It's after hours at the Los Angeles Lakers practice facility, and Magic Johnson is alone on the darkened court, practicing the skyhook, the signature weapon of team captain Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. When the veteran star spots Johnson, he grudgingly gives the rookie a private lesson, demonstrating how the…

On April 29, 1970, Jerry West hit perhaps his most iconic clutch shot against the New York Knicks in the NBA championship series.

Will the Jaguars’ gamble pay off?

LOS ANGELES — It might have sounded like a bluff when Jerry West recently vowed to take his much-publicized battle with HBO "all the way to the Supreme Court."