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Carmelo Anthony was selected from a group of five finalists “for his dedication over the past year to pursuing social justice and advancing Abdul-Jabbar’s life mission to engage, empower and drive equality for individuals and groups who have been historically marginalized or systemically disadvantaged,” the NBA said.

Royal Farms Arena, the aging downtown Baltimore events venue, would be renovated by a global entertainment and investment company with ties to basketball star Kevin Durant under a deal being negotiated by Baltimore Development Corp.

As Kevin Huerter swished jump shot after jump shot Sunday night, silencing a distraught Philadelphia 76ers crowd and putting an end to another season of “The Process,” his legend seemed to grow larger and larger among NBA Twitter.

Kevin Huerter led the Hawks with a playoff career-best 27 points while Trae Young made a late 3-pointer and scored 21 points to help Atlanta win for the third time in the series in Philadelphia, a 103-96 victory over the top-seeded 76ers on Sunday night in Game 7.

Scott Brooks will not return as coach of the Washington Wizards after five seasons with only one playoff series victory in 2017 to show for his tenure.

Calvert Hall has hired 2002 graduate and former NBA player Gary Neal as its varsity basketball coach, the school announced Tuesday.

Seth Curry scored a playoff career-high 30 points and Philadelphia beat Washington, 129-112, on Wednesday night to end the series in five games, overcoming Joel Embiid’s absence because of a knee injury.

Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid has a small lateral meniscus tear in his right knee and will miss Game 5 of the playoff series against Washington on Wednesday night.

Bradley Beal’s 27 points, Russell Westbrook’s 12th career playoff triple-double and Washington’s strategy of fouling Ben Simmons whenever possible down the stretch all helped the Wizards beat the 76ers, 122-114, to cut Philadelphia’s series edge to 3-1.

With Ben Simmons soaring and Russell Westbrook ailing, the Philadelphia 76ers beat the Washington Wizards, 120-95, on Wednesday night to take a 2-0 lead in their first-round playoff series.

Tobias Harris carried top-seeded Philadelphia’s offense when it sagged early and scored 37 points, Joel Embiid had 30 and the 76ers survived the sub.-500 Washington Wizards in a 125-118 Game 1 victory on Sunday.

Russell Westbrook and Bradley Beal did what they do — a near triple-double for one, 25 points in just 29 minutes for the other — and the Washington Wizards reached the NBA playoffs as the Eastern Conference’s No. 8 seed by overwhelming the Indiana Pacers, 142-115, in the play-in round Thursday night.

Jayson Tatum scored 32 of his 50 points in the second half, and the Boston Celtics rallied to beat the Washington Wizards, 118-100, in the play-in round on Tuesday night. Washington will host Indiana, which rolled over Charlotte in Tuesday’s other play-in game, for the eighth seed on Friday.

Russell Westbrook has set the NBA record with his 182nd triple-double, surpassing the mark set by Oscar Robertson in 1974.

Carmelo Anthony, a former Towson Catholic star, now has 27,318 points in his NBA career, surpassing Elvin Hayes to move into the top 10.

Ten-time NBA All-Star Carmelo Anthony has a memoir coming out Sept. 14 that publisher Gallery Books is calling “raw and inspirational,” tracing his rise from housing projects in New York City and Baltimore to becoming an Olympic gold medalist and one of professional basketball’s top scorers.

WNBA star Angel McCoughtry has been vocal about women receiving fair and equitable treatment in sports. She’s an investor in PlayersTV as the Head of Culture, working to empower women by helping create, produce and distribute content.

It’s the first time in league history that a team had picks No. 1 and 2.

Aldridge announced he was leaving the game Thursday.

Bob Leonard became one of the crown princes of Indiana basketball. But while he was embraced for his Hoosier roots and ABA genius, Leonard honed his skills as the Baltimore Bullets’ coach in 1963-64.

After the death of his father, a beloved MTA bus driver shot and killed on the job in Baltimore, former Lake Clifton star Aaron Parks went overseas to continue his professional basketball career.

Bradley Beal and Russell Westbrook hit 3-pointers in a wild 3.8-second sequence in the final seconds to help the Washington Wizards stun Kevin Durant and the Brooklyn Nets 149-146 on Sunday night.

Wall scored 24 points to help Houston to a 107-88 victory over Russell Westbrook and the Washington Wizards.

Russell Westbrook is headed to the Washington Wizards and John Wall is moving to the Houston Rockets in a significant swap of point guards — one an MVP, the other a No. 1 overall draft pick — just weeks before the season starts.

Columbia-native Greg Whittington, who spent the last four years playing professional basketball internationally, signed a two-way contract with the Denver Nuggets on Tuesday.

Here’s what draft experts and analysts are saying about the two former Baltimore standouts, Jalen Smith and Immanuel Quickley.

Deni Avdija became the highest drafted player from Israel in NBA history by going No. 9 overall to the Washington Wizards on Wednesday night — a year after the team made Rui Hachimura the first player from Japan to go in the first round.

Immanuel Quickley has been known to put his nose to the grindstone and overcome any challenge that comes his way. Now, the former John Carroll star will take his talents to the NBA.