'Hawks in the NBA

Watch Joel Embiid arm-wrestle Justin Bieber in a night club

Joel Embiid, the No. 3 overall pick in the 2014 draft, has yet to play an NBA game, due to significant foot injuries. Because of the aforementioned two seasons worth of missed action, Embiid tends to be the butt of social media jokes — sometimes just for the fun of it and other times ...

Undeterred Tarik Black ready to earn larger role with Lakers

Many NBA players would look back at a six-month-long season that included merely 104 shot attempts with contempt. Tarik Black isn’t wired that way, though. During the young center’s second season with the Los Angeles Lakers, he only played in 39 games, logging just 12.7 minutes off ...

Paul Pierce gives coaching a shot in video feature

Paul Pierce, in his 18 NBA seasons following three years at Kansas, has seen it all in the game of basketball. The 38-year-old forward recently imparted some of his hoops wisdom with a young prep player for a feature on The Players’ Tribune. Pierce, a contributing editor for the site, ...

Andrew Wiggins: Young T’wolves will be ‘a nightmare to play’

A regular at the draft lottery for more than a decade, Minnesota might finally be on the brink of NBA relevance again. Just ask one of the franchise’s young faces, 21-year-old forward Andrew Wiggins. Since the dynamic wing left Kansas early and became the No. 1 pick in the 2014 draft, ...

Defensive response: Kelly Oubre Jr. adapting in second summer league trip

Kelly Oubre Jr. didn’t have the most exciting or memorable rookie season. But now that the NBA Summer League has arrived, the former Kansas wing can try to put that behind him and establish a new tone for Year No. 2. Washington’s 6-foot-7 small forward went for 20 points, 8 rebounds ...

Veteran Drew Gooden waived by Washington

There could be one less ’Hawk in the NBA for Kansas basketball fans to follow next season. Washington waived veteran power forward Drew Gooden, a fan favorite in D.C., according to [CSN Mid-Atlantic’s report on the move][1]. One of the league’s charismatic journeymen, Gooden ...

First taste of NBA Playoffs has Marcus Morris inspired this offseason

This past spring, Marcus Morris got his first taste of the NBA Playoffs. Now the Detroit forward wants to make sure his next trip to the postseason will feel more like a feast. Five years removed from his standout college career at Kansas, Morris finally reached the league’s biggest ...