Goose Creek High School junior Ja’Quell Brown is the eighth annual Best of Prep Sports Male Basketball Player of the Year.

Chris Thornton loves talking about playing basketball on the most fragile-sounding ... a German company building floors made of fused-together layers of safety glass covering LED panels.

"The tradition of the game of basketball was created on hardwood," said Zach Riberdy, Connor Sports' marketing director. "The squeak. ... I can still grimace at some of the floor burns I got ...

With the NBA playoffs currently in action, Michelle Obama shared a pretty wild story about the time Barack Obama suffered an injury on the hardwood ... a pickup game of basketball.