Many basketball players like to spin the ball on their fingers. It is some sort of juggling move that can be learned in a few days (see figure 1). To make the ball spin in balance on your fingers it ...

Pay attention, Shaq: Two engineers have figured out the best way to shoot a free throw -- a frequently underappreciated skill that gets more important as the game clock winds down. Pay attention, Shaq ...

In a way, a game like basketball is a physics geek's delight. It's a playground where you can apply physics principles to try and get some added insight to the game. You've got the interplay of ...

It’s officially squeak season. The National Collegiate Athletic Association’s March Madness is right around the corner. The National Basketball Association (NBA) is fresh off its All-Star break, with ...

Josh Gates (@DeltaGPhys) beat me to this one. A great analysis of the following commercial. I kind of like the commercial (from a non-physics view). Well done. But as Josh points out, not so well done ...

A dispute in professional basketball about a new ball has bounced its way into a physics lab. A study launched last month at the University of Texas at Arlington compares a controversial plastic ball ...

To reveal just why and how those little speckles made their way to your basketball, we’ll need to take a trip back to the early days of the sport, dabble in a little bit of physics, and swing on over ...