It took their biggest rivals and a big Christmas Day game from Kobe Bryant to do it, but the Celtics finall lost. After rolling off 19-straight wins, Boston fell short of 20 in-a-row, dropping the afternoon special of ABC's...

Oh, the woes of being Kobe Bryant. No matter how many points you score, and no matter how much money you make, every time someone fakes you out on a pick and roll and you fall down it'll make headlines, get replayed on a loop...

Please, please Kobe. Just tell the Big Aristotle how his rear end tastes so that he'll stop rapping. In fact, the scariest part about Shaq's anti-Kobe freestyle over the weekend at a NYC open mic was how his raps have aged as...

Our look back at the 2008 NBA season continues with this wild video LA Lakers basketball prodigy, Kobe Bryant, uploaded this video to YouTube to show just how high he can actually jump. The crazy thing is that he makes this...

Sure, the NBA Finals went six games, but for all intents and purposes, the series changed in the second half of Game 1, when Paul Pierce crumpled to the floor with a sprained knee, had to be carried off the court, then...

Call it what you will: The foul that wasn't, the series changer, maybe even the start of the end of the Spurs' defense. Whatever you call it, don't minimize this no-call in Game 4 of the Spurs' Western Conference Semifinals...

Kevin Garnett has long been known as one of the NBA's most emotional players, if not it's most driven player. Still, the public catharsis he showed after watching the final seconds of Game 6 of the NBA Finals tick off,...

When Celtics GM Danny Ainge finagled lopsided trades with the Seattle Sonics and Minnesota Timberwolves, adding Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett to Paul Pierce, an NBA title became an instant goal. Well, it only took one year, and...

They had two games at home to wrap things up ... they didn't need the second one. The Celtics rolled to the NBA title by destroying the Lakers in Game 6 of the NBA Finals, setting a new record for largest margin of victory in...

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The Lakers had led throughout, but it looked like they were on the ropes again. This time, they wriggled off, using foul trouble from two of Boston's Big Three - Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett - and clutch plays on defense to...

How did they do it? How did the Celtics possibly rise up from a deficit of 20 points with just more than 18 minutes left in the game? How did Boston hold the Lakers -- who scored a whopping 58 points in the first half -- hold...

They were down by 24 in the first half, by 18 at halftime and 20 halfway through the third quarter. That didn't matter to the Celtics, who engineered one of the biggest comebacks in NBA history in beating the Lakers, 97-91,...

The timing could have been a lot better for the NBA, but it's probably fitting that the NBA referee scandal would spiral out of control during the league's premier event, with the resurrection of its two proudest franchises....

Once you get about 40 seconds into this clip, from the Lakers victory in Game 3, and once you get past the fact that former Knicks and Rockets coach turned ESPN commentator Jeff Van Gundy has confused Alyssa Milano with...