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The Dream. That’s the man. That’s his life. Sure, it’s an easy rhyming nickname, in the tradition of Wilt the Stilt and Stan the Man. But it’s what that moniker tells us about Hakeem Olajuwon, how well it fits his improbable journey from a soccer pitch in Lagos, Nigeria, to the heights of professional basketball…

* Tonight on TNT: Thunder vs. Blazers, 10:30 ET After getting swept as a No. 3 seed in the first round of the 2018 playoffs, the Portland Trail Blazers ran it back for another year behind a core of Damian Lillard, C.J. McCollum and Jusuf Nurkic. And once again, the Blazers are in the mix…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Pelicans say guard Elfrid Payton is scheduled for surgery to repair a fractured finger on his left hand and that his recovery is expected to take about six weeks. Payton was injured during last Friday night’s victory over the New York Knicks, which was also his first game…

Boston returns to The Finals for the 1st time since 2010 after enduring Miami's late-game run in Game 7. MIAMI — The 2022 Eastern Conference finals were weird. And Game 7 on Sunday went all-in on the weird, with a wild comeback from the Miami Heat (from down 13 with 3 1/2 minutes left) coming…

Rudy Tomjanovich is one of only three coaches to win an NBA title and an Olympic gold medal. Rudy Tomjanovich had gotten so used to the “Sorry, maybe next year” phone calls from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, he almost looked forward to the “silver lining” of hearing from disappointed family, friends, even…

The Nuggets and Lakers will face off in a rematch of the Western Conference Finals on Oct. 24. It was the goal of the NBA to produce an early-season start that rivals a late-season finish and in that sense, the 2023-24 schedule will provide every chance for this to happen. One reason: This is the…