Australian Patty Mills has stepped up big again as the short-handed San Antonio Spurs clinched their NBA Western Conference semi-finals series with a commanding 114-75 win over Houston.

The Boston Celtics beat the Washington Wizards 123-101 to move to within a game of a place in the NBA's eastern conference final.

Erin Phillips' next step is uncertain after she was released by US basketball club Dallas Wings.

Australian basketball legend Andrew Gaze believes the new FIBA World Cup qualifying format will boost the sport around Asia and lift the Boomers in the process.

Patty Mills' shot went cold in the final minutes of the San Antonio Spurs' thrilling game-five playoff overtime victory against the Houston Rockets, but his coach Gregg Popovich didn't mind.

San Antonio Spurs' Patty Mills repays coach Gregg Popovich's faith with starring role against the Houston Rockets.

​Muslim women now will be able to compete in basketball while wearing hijab, thanks to a rule change by the international governing body for the sport.

Former Capitals skipper Abby Bishop will play for Adelaide while ACT netball trio get Australian call up.

NBL club Melbourne United will play a game in China just three days after the AFL clash between Port Adelaide and Gold Coast in Shanghai later this month.

Capitals coach Paul Goriss will juggle his WNBL job with an Australian Opals assistant's role.

Australia's WNBA stars could reach a whole new audience with Twitter to live stream 20 games per season for the next three years.

Patty Mills' San Antonio Spurs were never in the game in the NBA Western Conference semi-final opener.

It sounds like basketball's Mission Impossible for Australia's Joe Ingles, Dante Exum and their Utah Jazz teammates when they meet the Golden State Warriors in their NBA western conference semi-final series.

Numerous former athletes have opened up about their struggle to cope with life after elite sport.

​Australians Joe Ingles and Dante Exum will face title favourites Golden State in the NBA western conference semi-finals after their Utah Jazz claimed a 4-3 playoffs series win over the Los Angeles Clippers.

Her shooting radar was well off but AFLW best and fairest Erin Phillips has performed strongly in her first basketball game since winning the premiership with Adelaide.

Australia's Joe Ingles, Dante Exum and their Utah Jazz have blown an opportunity to eliminate the Los Angeles Clippers from the NBA play-offs.

Melbourne United have re-signed NBA import Josh Boone for the next NBL season.

The Capitals are on the verge of finalising a deal to recruit a rising basketball gun for the WNBL season.

Australian star Liz Cambage hopes to return to the WNBA, potentially next year.

Melbourne Boomers announce the signing of Liz Cambage for the upcoming WNBL season on Thursday.

Patty Mills put on a shooting clinic in an NBA play-offs win on Wednesday.

Fox Sports and the WNBL announced on Tuesday they would form a three-year partnership where the network would show one game a week and all finals.

Thon Maker, Matthew Dellavedova and their young, promising Milwaukee Bucks are just one loss away from being eliminated from the NBA play-offs.

Joe Ingles had a monster game to lead the Utah Jazz to a seven-point victory over the Los Angeles Clippers and lock up their NBA play-off first-round series at 2-2.

Mike Conley showed why he landed the richest contract in NBA history as he sparked the Memphis Grizzlies to a thrilling playoff series-levelling win over Patty Mills' San Antonio Spurs.

The Canberra Capitals hope Rachel Jarry's arrival will spark a recruitment spree for the WNBL club.

NBL chief executive Jeremy Loeliger says basketball is now back in the fight for elite athletes.

Australia's Joe Ingles has hit a three-pointer, a lay-up and pulled off some big defensive plays in the final minutes, but the Utah Jazz have lost to the Los Angeles Clippers in game two of their NBA playoff series.

The reigning NBA champion Cleveland Cavaliers have developed a habit of giving away late-game leads but LeBron James is not losing sleep over that trend and feels his team are on the cusp of their top form.

Sandy Brondello did it all as an Australian Opals player, and now she will return to the national set-up as the head coach on the road to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Matthew Dellavedova is at the centre of a dirty play controversy for setting "hellish screens".

Joe Ingles, a key figure in the Utah Jazz's playoff hopes, is on the cusp of cashing in with a huge new NBA contract.

Danger time for the Warriors could come when Steve Kerr sends Steph Curry and Kevin Durant to the bench together - or not.

Patty Mills' San Antonio Spurs have thrashed the Memphis Grizzlies in their NBA playoff opener, continuing a successful day for Australian players.

Anneli Maley had a tough choice to make between the WNBL and US college basketball.

Tahlia Tupaea admits she was shocked to hear WNBA club Minnesota Lynx had drafted her.

Ben Simmons decided to not reveal much during his long-awaited news conference.

Monique Conti, international basketballer and inaugural AFL women's academy member, wants to play both sports at the top level.