Basketball

Alongside investors Richard Chaifetz and David Hoffman, NBA player Jayson Tatum hopes to bring a WNBA franchise to St. Louis.

Historically, St. Louis has had few basketball courts in south city. These new ones follow additions at Tower Grove Park and Forest Park in recent years.

The Drake Bulldogs’ conference championship is the second in three years under head coach Darian DeVries.

The Missouri Valley Conference's Arch Madness has called St. Louis home for more than 30 years. The men's basketball tournament faithful say the opportunity to punch their ticket to the Big Dance makes their trek to Missouri worth it year after year.

The former U.S. senator for New Jersey will be in St. Louis this weekend to receive the Stan Musial Lifetime Achievement Award for Sportsmanship at the Musial Awards.

The courts will be named for Nicholas J. Booker, an 18-year-old St. Louis native who died of asthma in 2018 while playing pickup basketball during his first year at Fordham University.

The courts had been highly anticipated since St. Louisans began pushing for them in 2017. Two hundred people showed up on Oct. 20 for the unveiling of the basketball courts in a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

The Drake Bulldogs men's basketball team will advance to the 2023 NCAA March Madness tournament after capturing the Missouri Valley Conference Arch Madness title in a blowout victory against the Bradley Braves.

Community leaders discuss the redevelopment of Love Bank Park, Cherokee Street’s only public gathering space.

Basketball cannot come soon enough to St. Louis’ largest parks.