The next finalist for our SportsZone Boys Basketball Player of the Year award goes to Sioux City West’s Roman Henry! Henry is only a freshman, but he was the heartbeat of a squad looking to make a turnaround after a two-win season last year.

SIOUX CITY, IA (KCAU) – The next finalist for the SportsZone Girls Basketball Player of the Year is Spirit Lake’s Albany Reinke. Reinke is another freshman joining the list of finalists after her fantastic high school debut season!

Vaughn Dalzell predicts the NBA's Most Improved and Sixth Man of the Year markets.

Jayson Tatum is a finalist for the NBA’s Teammate of the Year award, while Derrick White is a finalist for the league’s Sportsmanship Award.

The Iowa State Cyclones are going to be losing at least five players from their roster for the 2026-27 season.

Kon Knueppel very quickly switched his order of Duke basketball legends when talking to Richard Jefferson.

Nikola Jokić has now earned Player of the Week honors 20 times in his career, the most in franchise history.

"I don't think no one is a better basketball player than me. I think they had better careers because they had more, they were healthy." Wade said on his podcast. "Not because they were better than me. I don't think no basketball player is better. Can he score better? Can he dribble better? It's things that they do that's better."