For years, the guys who were the heart-and-soul of the Cincinnati Bearcats’ 1992 Final Four team have had a running text-message thread. It particularly blew up in April, when Terry Nelson directed a ...

Deadspin broke this yesterday, but really, the onus falls on me. As someone commenters 249-through-548 constantly rail as a stat guy, and a longtime APBRmetrics board lurker, I should have happened ...

You know the saying – rappers wanna be ballplayers and ballplayers wanna be rappers. NBA veteran, Nick Van Exel of the World Champion San Antonio Spurs, is yet another basketball player with Hip-Hop ...

Nick Van Exel burst into the scene as a second-round pick at an odd time. The Los Angeles Lakers' glory days in the Showtime Era were over, so it was time to build something from scratch. The problem ...

Van Exel would have several more productive seasons with the Nuggets, Dallas Mavericks, Golden State Warriors, Portland Trail ...

2003 was a big year for Nick Van Exel. Van Exel had seemingly gone into obscurity after his infamous Lakers exit in 1998. But that year, he finished 4th in the Sixth Man of the Year voting, averaging ...

For everyone born after 1989, Nick Van Exel was the most exciting Lakers player in the post-Magic Johnson era. That was until the team traded for Kobe Bryant in June of 1996, and, well, the rest is ...

SAN ANTONIO - MAY 21: Nick Van Exel #31 of the Dallas Mavericks looks on in Game two of the Western Conference Finals against the San Antonio Spurs during the 2003 NBA Playoffs at SBC Center on May 21 ...

CINCINNATI — UC's summer graduation ceremony has a pair of stars walking to get their diplomas. Former All-American cornerback Ahmad "Sauce" Gardner and former basketball guard Nick Van Exel are ...

Whenever fans and pundits discuss the most dynamic guards in league history, the name of Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf rarely comes up, and for good reason. After all, the 6'1" guard played only nine seasons in ...

Hawks assistant coach Nick Van Exel understands what it takes to get to the NBA. So with the Hawks tapping him to be their Summer League coach, he’s turned his attention to helping this generation ...

Nick Van Exel is returning to the NBA sidelines. Van Exel is now an assistant coach of the Atlanta Hawks. Van Exel previously was with the Hawks as a player development instructor for the Hawks from ...