#dribbling--skill

#dribbling--skill

"That's just how I was raised. I feel like Northwood, the basketball gym felt like my home since I'm there so much, before, during and after school... I just wanted to help out. That was really it."

You'd have to catch me off the record to answer that question. The implication was clear: Now that every school can pay players -- either through direct revenue share or name, image and likeness dollars -- Big Ten schools are no longer disadvantaged in recruiting by everything from booster bag men to shoe company AAU connections.

Jaden Ivey hunts through a bible for passages to share with his followers. He evidently did not do the prep-work to place sticky tabs or bookmarks in there, so there are awkward moments of silence while Ivey flips back and forth and sniffs and mutters.

We were not expecting to find so much richness and depth from a physics point of view underneath the sole of a shoe, says Adel Djellouli, a scientist at Harvard University and co-lead of the study. In a new study, scientists explore the physics that give rise to the familiar squeak of basketball shoes sliding on a hard surface.

Powell isn't one for on-court confrontations, and there's no real history of him engaging in that behaviour. That said, there's always a first, and Tuesday night saw the two players clash, or crash, into each other in what could have been a very dangerous play. Powell did put up 27 points in the contest, but it did not come without avoiding the snare of Brooks, who initiated a short scuffle during the game.

INDIANAPOLIS -- All-Star forward Kevin Durant will not play for the Houston Rockets on Monday night after spraining his left ankle when he stepped on a fan's foot during a recent game. Coach Ime Udoka provided the update about 90 minutes before his team was scheduled to play at the Indiana Pacers, saying Durant "tweaked" the ankle. He provided no timetable for a return.

Seth Curry, the younger brother of Warriors superstar Steph, still has a ways to go before he returns to the Golden State rotation. Seth Curry has missed the past 24 games with sciatica, and the Warriors announced on Wednesday that he will be re-evaluated in two weeks. The re-evaluation indicated that Curry continues to make good progress, the press release read. He will begin to intensify his on-court workouts this week, including live play.