National TV ad revenue for the major basketball contest was up 56% to $288 million. The previous year, a five-game series in which the Boston Celtics beat the Dallas Mavericks earned $184.7 million.

All the hyper-realistic characters in a recent NBA Finals ad from Kalshi, a prediction market company, were generated entirely with Google’s Veo 3 AI tool.© Kalshi ...

Stephen A. Smith had a bold take about the Mavericks, claiming that they could win the NBA Finals if they're healthy.

ESPN has demoted basketball analyst Doris Burke from its lead broadcast team just months after she called her second NBA ...