The NBA Draft is a special event every year, as young players from around the world, through the NCAA system, finally get the chance to fulfill their dreams and become part of an NBA organization.

The New Jersey Nets’ decision to pass on Kobe Bryant in the 1996 NBA Draft will haunt the franchise for eternity. While many Nets fans have attempted to suppress that memory, Bryant’s infamous threat ...

Picture this: It's another steamy June day in 2016. The streets of Newark are eerily empty at lunchtime. Most are glued to televisions to watch a live news conference held inside the city's downtown ...

The year was 1996, when future league legends like Kobe Bryant and Allen Iverson realized their dreams of becoming NBA players. As is the case with every draft, however, teams didn’t exactly get it ...

Today is a day where we all remember Kobe Bryant. What he's done for the game, what he's done for players, for writers, for everyone involved. In that remembrance, I had something very cool sent my ...

The 1996 NBA Draft was one of the best drafts in NBA history. Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash, Allen Iverson, Ray Allen and many more great NBA players were part of the special class. In that draft, the ...

The NBA Draft is a stressful time for teams, especially those in the lower rankings. History has shown that picking the right player can change a franchise's fortunes, turning it from a perennial ...

Warner Bros. is producing With the 8th Pick, a film about Kobe Bryant’s near selection by the New Jersey Nets in 1996. The story is told from the perspective of Nets general manager John Nash and ...

Every so often, the NBA’s talent pipeline swells, and a single draft class reshapes the league’s balance of power. In the past 50 years, it has happened six times: (If you're into ranking the classes, ...