National Basketball League News and Rumors
Boozer, Bulls beat up Heat on glass, post winAssociated Press, ESPN.com Carlos Boozer scored 27 points and the Chicago Bulls dominated on the boards to become only the third visiting team to win in Miami this season, beating the Heat 96-89 Friday night. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Kevin Garnett scored 18 points before he was ejected for a flagrant foul in the fourth quarter, and the Boston Celtics snapped a four-game losing streak by beating the Indiana Pacers 94-75 on Friday night. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Wesley Matthews scored 21 points, J.J. Hickson added 19 points and 11 rebounds, and the Portland Trail Blazers beat the Memphis Grizzlies 86-84 on Friday night. |
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Arash Markazi, ESPN.com Los Angeles Clippers guard and Sixth Man of the Year candidate Jamal Crawford will miss Friday's game against the Los Angeles Lakers with a sore left foot. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Joe Johnson's jumper with 0.7 seconds left in the second overtime lifted the Brooklyn Nets to a 115-113 victory over the Washington Wizards on Friday night. |
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The Lakers' made a strong comeback attempt in the fourth, but even Kobe Bryant's 38 could not prevent the Clippers from winning their 11th straight home game, 107-102. |
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Hostility In HollywoodJan 4
The Lakers have lost two of three since winning five straight, and the Clippers have now dropped two in a row. Both look to bounce back, and gain some L.A. bragging rights. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com DeMarcus Cousins scored a season-high 31 points and matched his career high with 20 rebounds, John Salmons scored eight of his 20 points in the fourth quarter and the Sacramento Kings beat the Toronto Raptors 105-96 on Friday night. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Kyrie Irving scored 33 points, including a pull-up jumper from the foul line with one second left, to lift the Cleveland Cavaliers to a 106-104 victory over the Charlotte Bobcats on Friday night. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Zach Randolph has been ruled out for the Memphis Grizzlies' game against the Portland Trail Blazers due to flu-like symptoms. |
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Eric Freeman, yahoo.com The Washington Wizards terrible, league-worst 4-26 season has been defined largely by abject futility. After that, though, it's been about the absence of John Wall, one-time franchise savior who had a disappointing first two NBA seasons. This season was… |
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Michael Wallace, ESPN.com LeBron James, who is suffering from a bruised right knee, is in the starting lineup for Friday night's game against the Chicago Bulls, the Miami Heat announced. |
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Mike Mazzeo, ESPN.com - Brooklyn Nets power forward Kris Humphries will miss the next two games with a mild abdominal strain, coach Avery Johnson said Tuesday. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Kobe Bryant is no longer a holdout. He's on Twitter. |
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Grizzlies reportedly making Gay available in talks |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com Follow the league long enough and you hear about them — the maniacal types whose devotion to the game gets them from the fringes of sticking in the league to steady jobs, based largely on their willingness to continue working toward improvement even whe… |
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Spencer Lund, dimemag.com The defending NBA champion Miami Heat are 22-8 and the top team in the Eastern Conference. They’re second in the league in offensive efficiency, trailing only the super-hot Oklahoma City Thunder, and they possess not one, not two, but three players that… |
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Andrew Greif, dimemag.com This is a post about Terrence Ross, Toronto rookie, not Ross, the Washington Husky. The photo with this post was chosen for a reason, though, because it brings back a vivid memory of when I talked to his college coach, Lorenzo Romar, over the phone 14 m… |
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After a long hold out, Bryant finally joins Twitter |
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Brandon K. Thorp, nytimes.com When bloggers and readers of SBNation's Posting & Toasting got together for the first time this season, their night was brightened by the Knicks' victory over the Spurs. |
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Tim MacMahon, ESPN.com Dirk Nowitzki practiced with the Dallas Mavericks' starters Friday for the first time this season, a significant step in the process of resuming his regular role. |
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J.A. Adande, ESPN.com Even Kobe Bryant agrees: Los Angeles' upcoming five-game stretch is 'critical' |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com On Wednesday morning, the Denver Nuggets were flying high, celebrating a big-time win that snapped the Los Angeles Clippers' franchise-record 17-game winning streak and looking like a team that had finally hit its stride after a tough-as-nails early-sea… |
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ESPN.com, ESPN.com We roll out the red carpet and dub the best and worst in L.A. basketball this season. |
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The New Orleans Hornets have waived forward Dominic McGuire, who's been with the club a little under a month. |
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Sean Sweeney, dimemag.com For the first time since coming to New York, Carmelo Anthony not only has himself ingrained in the MVP race, but has also spearheaded a true New York basketball resurgence. The Knicks are rolling as the second-best team in the East, and with the Celtics… |
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It was a rough week for title contenders, which allowed an old familiar favorite to take the top overall spot. How did the rest of the league fare? Matt Dollinger ranks every team. |
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Beckley Mason, nytimes.com The Knicks got back to executing their defense and the Nets got another good game from center Brook Lopez this week in big wins over two of the best teams in the West. |
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There's much at stake for the Lakers in the Battle of L.A. tonight. With a tough schedule ahead of them, the Lakers need to get back on track against the rival Clippers, says Chris Mannix. |
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Tom Ley, deadspin.com Twitter is a wonderful thing. It's the only place I can think of where we can witness former NBA player Pooh Jeter (and brother of Olympic sprinter Carmela Jeter) getting a truth bomb of epic proportions dropped on him by former NBA player Keith Closs. … |
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Sean Sweeney, dimemag.com A few weeks into the season, they were perhaps the NBA’s most disappointing team. Now Indiana is sitting at No. 4 in the East, 19-13 on the year after winning eight of their last 10 games. Roy Hibbert is still struggling on the offensive end, shooting o… |
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ESPNChicago.com, ESPN.com Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah, who's been battling flu-like symptoms, said he's healthy enough to face the Miami Heat on Friday. |
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Eric Freeman, yahoo.com Since taking over as NBA commissioner in 1984, David Stern has been the driving force behind expanding the global reach of the league and sport. There are more fans than ever in continents other than North America, and more players than ever that come f… |
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There are dark-horse candidates now emerging in the race to become the NBA's top pick in June. Chris Mannix revises his look at the draft's top 20 prospects in his latest Big Board. |
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Barry Petchesky, deadspin.com The game was out of hand at this point—San Antonio, playing their fourth in five nights, had benched most of the starters, and the Knicks had followed suit. That doesn't take a thing away from the athleticism required to put home this reverse alley-oop,… |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com First, it was Ronny Turiaf with the Los Angeles Lakers (and, later, the Clippers). Then, it was Robert Sacre following in Turiaf's excited forum-blue-and-gold footsteps. And now, California's other NBA team has an energetic end-of-the-bench champion all… |
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Eric Freeman, yahoo.com Comedy is a subjective thing, but there are several forms of humor that human beings are pretty much hardwired to enjoy. For the most part, these are incidents in which people suffer bodily harm because of their own obliviousness to their surroundings. … |
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Known for getting rings, Phil Jackson finally has given one as well. |
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New York Runs Tired San Antonio Into The Ground; J.J. Barea Doesn’t Need Kevin Love To Bust DenverJan 4
Dime Magazine, dimemag.com In a game where New York’s interior defense built a wall around the paint and allowed San Antonio just 12 points, it was appropriate the Knicks’ bucket to cap the win came on the inside. J.R. Smith (20 points, five boards and zero turnovers) threw dow… |
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In retrospect, Gregg Popovich should have sent Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker back to San Antonio before the Spurs ever reached the Garden on Thursday night. |
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Timberwolves forward Kevin Love has left Minnesota's game against the Denver Nuggets after spraining a finger on his right hand in the third quarter. |
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Jalen Rose returns to break down the NBA regular season, offer a behind the scenes look at NBA Countdown, and, in a video after the jump, explains why... |
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A lot has changed since the Grizzlies started the season scoring at a top-10 rate and looking like a legitimate title contender. Their offense has sta... |
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In case you were out seeing if it was really as cold as the guy on TV said it was (it was), here's what you missed in sports on Thursday. The New Yo... |
