The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is siding with former Dallas Maverick Roy Tarpley in his legal fight for reinstatement by the NBA, which banned him in 1995 for violating the league's ...

DALLAS — Roy Tarpley, the former Dallas Mavericks star center whose NBA career was cut short by drug abuse, died Friday at age 50. According to a Tarrant County medical examiner’s report, Tarpley died ...

Former Dallas Maverickscenter Roy Tarpley, whose star fizzled due to drug and alcohol problems, died Friday afternoon. He was 50. The Tarrant County medical examiner did not list a cause of death for ...

The only reason Roy Tarpley is not given his proper due as the archetype of the modern NBA big man is that he was also one of the last prominent players taken down by cocaine. It was the scourge of ...