Some of the luster will be missing Saturday night when the Los Angeles Lakers visit the Atlanta Hawks in a game that will be contested without two marquee stars.The Lakers will be without LeBron James, who didn't make the team's five-game road trip and...

Two teams that could probably benefit from some extra rest meet when the Philadelphia 76ers face the visiting Toronto Raptors on Saturday.Toronto is playing the second game of a back-to-back after rallying to beat the host Atlanta Hawks 109-97 on Frida...

The New York Rangers are putting together a string of strong performances on the road, going 7-1-1 on their travels.On home ice, the Rangers are turning in starkly different showings, and they hope to stop a maddening six-game skid in front of their fa...

The bottom feeders of the respective conference standings will meet in the nation's capital on Saturday night when the Washington Wizards host the Dallas Mavericks.A little more than two weeks into the regular season, Washington (1-8) is tied with the ...

Superstar freshman Caleb Wilson led four North Carolina players in double figures with 24 points as the No. 25 Tar Heels defeated No. 19 Kansas 87-74 in an early-season battle of college basketball titans on Friday night.It was the first-ever matchup b...

Macklin Celebrini scored a goal and added an assist on Friday, grabbing sole possession of the league lead in points while carrying the San Jose Sharks to a 2-1 victory over the visiting Winnipeg Jets.Celebrini, 19, boosted his point total to 23 (nine ...