Did you know?: With Thursday’s loss in Phoenix, the Bulls fell to 5-48 on their annual November trip (due to the arrival of the circus in Chicago) since Michael Jordan left the team after the 1997-98 season.

Let’s say you run a pro basketball team. You’re in hock for $100 million to your star player and your legendary coach.

Let’s say you run a pro basketball team. You’re in hock for $100 million to your star player and your legendary coach.

The NBA’s plan for New Orleans is taking shape.

The NBA’s plan for New Orleans is taking shape.

If you can figure out a way to travel back in time, you might want to set the dial for about 20 years ago. When you arrive in your new (or old) era, you might want to buy an NBA franchise.

NEW YORK — Gilbert Arenas was suspended without pay Wednesday by NBA commissioner David Stern, who determined the player's behavior made him "not currently fit to take the court."

NEW YORK — The NBA has suspended Denver's J.R. Smith and Phoenix's Jason Richardson after both were recently convicted of driving offenses.

A look at the eight first-round series in the NBA playoffs, which start this weekend:

They’re finally back home, although the return to hurricane-ravaged New Orleans has been met with the second-worst turnstile count in the NBA. They are finally healthy — fulfilling the fears of other teams who looked at their injury-plagued roster with raised eyebrows and predicted future success.

With their members no longer allowed to whine without feeling it in the wallet, the NBA’s players association is picking up the slack and threatening — get this — an unfair labor practice because league referees are calling too many technical fouls.

American sports are generally nothing more than a curiosity in Europe. That’s not the case with the NBA. The same league that has darts thrown at it by Americans, especially when U.S. teams are defeated in international play, is big time in Europe.

American sports are generally nothing more than a curiosity in Europe. That’s not the case with the NBA. The same league that has darts thrown at it by Americans, especially when U.S. teams are defeated in international play, is big time in Europe.

So the NBA fined Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban $250,000 for his temper tantrum after Game 5 of the NBA Finals. Too bad the league can't send Cuban to his room, as well.