Had St. Francis University basketball icon Maurice Stokes lived a long, healthy life, as opposed to one cut tragically short, he likely would have been an important person in Chuck Cooper III’s ...

The team's stated goal is to “spread goodwill worldwide," and it has routinely contributed to basketball’s growth and society’s betterment.

Maurice Stokes entered the National Basketball Association 70 years ago, in 1955, when the relatively few Black players were ...

Michael Cooper, one of the most important yet underrated members of the Los Angeles Lakers' dynastic teams of the 1980s, was recently inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame ...

LOS ANGELES — Michael Cooper’s induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in October was nearly three decades in the making. And yet, after Monday night, it wasn’t even the ...

Calling it an ‘overwhelming’ honor, the former defensive stalwart has his No. 21 jersey raised to the Crypto.com Arena rafters during halftime of Monday’s game against the Spurs Click to ...

Lakers Retire Michael Cooper's No. 21 on an Emotional Night for the Hall of Fame Guard From Pasadena LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Cooper spent his entire career with the Los Angeles Lakers as a ...

Cooper was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame last October, 33 years after his last NBA game. The Lakers only retire the numbers of Hall of Famers, and they quickly ...