Sam Smith

Call it "small ball." Even better, call it "goodbye to the big stiff." Either way, one of the biggest and most subtle changes in the NBA has been the increasing...

Introducing your rookie of the year ... Chris Paul of the Hornets. The next Isiah Thomas? At barely 6 feet, the point guard from Wake Forest is so far ahead...

He came to the Knicks from the Bulls in a trade amid a summer of controversy last year, a big free agent, and Wednesday he was the big man against...

Here's Eddy Curry's problem: He's too normal. Which is why when all around him were losing their heads--and their tempers--last summer amid Curry's refusal to take a DNA test to...

Eddy Curry watched his Knicks teammates again Monday night, his third straight game as a spectator with a left calf injury. But he said he plans to play Wednesday when...

Maybe the Eastern Conference isn't as good as most believed it would be this season. After all, the Bulls are coming off their dreaded November circus trip with the fourth-best...

The Magic will visit the United Center on Tuesday, but Orlando's first-round draft pick, Fran Vazquez, won't be there. And some around the Magic doubt Vazquez ever will be in...

Someone handed Tyson Chandler a beverage before the game in the Bulls' locker room. Perhaps to wash down a Prozac? "I've been, pretty much from the beginning of the season,...

Perhaps the most debated strategy in the NBA is what to do when you're leading by three points in the waning seconds of a game: Foul and make it a...

Sometimes I feel like I'm in that old British spy spoof TV series, "The Avengers," playing the dapper John Steed. I've been begging the Tribune to use a column picture...