National Basketball League News and Rumors
Report: Nets interested in landing Jazz's MillsapMike Mazzeo, ESPN.com The Brooklyn Nets are interested in trading for Utah Jazz power forward Paul Millsap, according to a report in the New York Daily News. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Royce White says he is ready to focus on basketball. White scored seven points, grabbed eight rebounds and had four assists for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers in Tuesday's 139-122 win over Maine, one day after reporting to the Rockets' D-League affiliate. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com LeBron James became the first player in NBA history to score 30 points and shoot at least 60 percent in six straight games, Chris Bosh scored 32 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, and the Heat held off the Blazers 117-104 on Tuesday night. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Rudy Gay hit a pull-up jump shot with less than five seconds remaining and the Toronto Raptors beat the short-handed Denver Nuggets 109-108 on Tuesday. |
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Timothy Burke, deadspin.com This is tough to watch (and to listen to, since it might be the sound of a promising NBA career being tossed into the spinning wheel of injury fate). Midway through the second half of Kentucky's bout in Gainesville—one the Wildcats would lose by a 69-52… |
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The clock is ticking for Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson's efforts to keep the Kings from moving to Seattle. |
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The Chicago Bulls left injured guard Kirk Hinrich at home when they traveled to Boston to face the Celtics in their final game before the All-Star break. |
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Brazilan guard Leandro Barbosa has a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee and will miss the rest of the NBA season for the Boston Celtics. |
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Chicago Bulls star Derrick Rose still has no target date for his return from a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee, and he even indicated he might sit out the season. |
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Eric Freeman, yahoo.com A month ago, the Chicago Bulls announced that Derrick Rose, who's missed the entire season while rehabbing the ACL tear he suffered in the first game of the 2012 playoffs, was taking "predictable contact" in practices. In the time since that r… |
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The Denver Nuggets had to juggle their starting lineup for Tuesday's game at Toronto after losing two of their top three scorers to injury. |
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DALLAS (AP) -- Delonte West hasn't joined the Texas Legends more than two weeks after the NBA Development League team acquired his rights. |
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Jared Zwerling, ESPN.com New York Knicks coach Mike Woodson said that reserve guard Iman Shumpert will not be traded before the Feb. 21 deadline. |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com A look around the league and the Web that covers it. It's also important to note that the rotation order and starting nods aren't always listed in order of importance. That's for you, dear reader, to figure out. C: SB Nation. After another streamrolling… |
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Andrew Greif, dimemag.com When Danny Granger was injured from patellar tendinitis early in this season, Indiana looked to be in trouble. Since then, and without Granger, the Pacers are comfortably in the top half of the Eastern Conference owing to the NBA’s best defense per 100 … |
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Kelly Dwyer, yahoo.com During the 1990s, I noticed a curious trend that All-Star guard Tim Hardaway seemed to be at the forefront of. No, it wasn’t his use of the crossover or inside-out dribble to dash past defenders. It was the way he treated last-second, buzzer-beating thr… |
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Matt Gibson, dimemag.com Attention Kenyon Martin shoppers. Your power forward is ready for pickup. The 12-year vet, with career averages of 13 points and 7.1 boards, claims he’s ready to take advantage of whatever opportunity comes his way at the age of 34. Earlier this season,… |
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ESPN.com news services, ESPN.com Boston Celtics guard Leandro Barbosa has a torn left ACL and is out for the rest of the season, a team source told ESPN The Magazine's Chris Broussard. |
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Tim MacMahon, ESPN.com Chris Kaman passed the NBA-mandated cognitive testing for players who suffered concussions, according to two sources. Kaman recently referred to the cognitive testing, part of the NBA's concussion protocol, as "the stupidest test ever." |
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Spencer Lund, dimemag.com J.R. Smith has always been a kid at heart. Early in February, after missing everything but oxygen and nitrogen on a free throw attempt, Smith tried his hand with the kids during halftime of the Knicks 99-85 win over Detroit. The kids famously refused to… |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com NEW YORK — When you get an event-promoting email with the subject line, "JR SMITH TEAMS UP WITH THE POWER RANGERS" ... I mean, you kind of have to go see what that is, right? This is why I'm hustling to the Sports Center at Chelsea Piers in Ma… |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Grizzlies owner Robert Pera says the team's recent moves, including the trade of leading scorer Rudy Gay, have Memphis set up for a good run in the playoffs. |
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Tom Ley, deadspin.com Grantland's Jonathan Abrams has a written a great profile of Shaun Livingston, the former NBA phenom whose horrendous knee injury still haunts the league. It's about Livingston's slow slog back to the NBA, and it includes vivid anecdotes that remind us … |
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Jack Dickey, deadspin.com … |
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New York and Washington, D.C. -- The National Basketball Association (NBA) and Special Olympics today announced the NBA Cares Special Olympics Unified Sports Basketball Game, which will take place as part of 2013 NBA All-Star in Houston. With support fr… |
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J.A. Adande, ESPN.com Our experts discuss whether LeBron James can reach or surpass Michael Jordan's level of greatness. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Basketball great Larry Bird's son has been arrested after police say he tried to run over his ex-girlfriend with a car. |
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Kelly Dwyer, yahoo.com In the months following the end of the 2011 NBA lockout, the defending champion Dallas Mavericks were faced with an enormous luxury tax bill, a capped-out team, an enticing 2012 free agent class, and enough trading options to make a shakeup of the champ… |
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ESPN.com, ESPN.com Which players should teams watch out for at the trade deadline? Our panel weighs in. |
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Tom Ley, deadspin.com Welcome to your Sad Derrick Rose update. Previously, we shared a collection of soul-crushing headlines about the progress of Sad Derrick Rose's rehab. Then, we found this GIF-like thing (it's called a vine) of Sad Derrick Rose executing a spin move and … |
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Gerald Green’s Top 10 DunksFeb 12
Brent Sanchez, dimemag.com This time last year, Gerald Green was nothing more than a YouTube legend. Pushed out of the league at 24 and forced to reestablish himself halfway across the globe, his legacy could be found in the confines of a website devoted to entertaining you with … |
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Andrew Greif, dimemag.com Will this shootout be the real-life equivalent of Denzel Washington and Ray Allen in He Got Game? There’s a very good (read, 100 percent) chance Cleveland head coach Byron Scott‘s three-point shootout with star guard Kyrie Irving won’t carry the emo… |
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Ramon Sessions’ game-winning jumper snaps both Bobcats’ skid, Celtics’ win streak at 7 (VIDEO)Feb 12
Dan Devine, yahoo.com On one hand, an NBA player hitting an open elbow jumper to re-take a fourth-quarter lead from a dog-tired team that had just gone to triple-overtime one day earlier isn't, like, a super huge highlight. On the other, when that NBA player plies his trade … |
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John Branch, nytimes.com Denver Nuggets forward Kenneth Faried became the first N.B.A. player to join Athlete Ally, an organization aimed at combating homophobia in sports. |
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Blake Griffin finishes the acrobatic and-one dunk, DeAndre Jordan follows up the free throw (VIDEO)Feb 12
Eric Freeman, yahoo.com When the Los Angeles Clippers traded for Chris Paul back in 2011, high-flying big men Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan immediately celebrated their good fortune and dubbed the new team "Lob City." In the 14 months since, the Clippers have most… |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Josh Smith had 26 points and 13 rebounds, Devin Harris made a key steal in the final minute and the Atlanta Hawks beat the Dallas Mavericks 105-101 Monday night. |
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At the end of the 2010-11 season, LeBron James and Dwight Howard were the two best players in the NBA. James was the clear top dog, and it wasn't all ... |
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The life and death of Spencer Hawes! Blake Griffin (sorta) switched hands in midair against the Sixers last night. According to the announcers, the cr... |
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In case you were busy fixating on that piece of popcorn stuck between your molars, here's what you missed in sports on Monday. The San Antonio Spurs... |
