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Basketball Australia has rejected the application of transgender basketballer Lexi Rodgers to join the Kilsyth Cobras in the WNBL1 South basketball league. The decision came after a three-person panel assembled by Basketball Australia…

Editor’s Note: Isaac Humphries is a professional basketball player for Melbourne United, part of Australia’s National Basketball League (NBL). He previously played college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats. The…

The US and Russia are discussing a prisoner exchange that would involve trading a notorious Russian arms trafficker for an American basketball star, a Russian diplomat said on Saturday. It marked the first time that Russia…

US basketball star Brittney Griner said at her trial Wednesday that she had no intention of smuggling drugs into Russia. "I did not think of or plan to bring banned substances into Russia," Griner, a two-time Olympic…

Lawyers defending U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner told a Russian court on Friday she was prescribed medical cannabis in the United States for a chronic injury, a Reuters journalist at the courtroom reported. …

She's arguably Australia's greatest ever female basketballer player and now Lauren Jackson is set to pull on the green and gold once again, 25 years after first being called up to represent the Opals.Jackson, 41, last played for Australia…

A former basketball player in Kenya says sexual abuse has plagued the country's women's game "for many, many years" but that a climate of fear is preventing victims from speaking out. Now in her 30s, she says she was sexually abused by one…