National Basketball League News and Rumors
Hornets use OT to down Mavs in Dirk's 1st startAssociated Press, ESPN.com Eric Gordon completed a three-point play with 4.7 seconds left in overtime and the New Orleans Hornets won 99-96 Saturday night at Dallas to spoil the Mavericks' first game this season with Dirk Nowitzki in the starting lineup. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com James Harden scored 29 points, including 16 in the fourth quarter, and the Houston Rockets defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 112-104 on Saturday night. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Brook Lopez scored 18 points in 17 minutes to lead six players in double figures, and the Brooklyn Nets got a nice effort from their reserves in beating the Sacramento Kings 113-93 on Saturday night for their third straight victory. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Rajon Rondo had 14 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists, and the Boston Celtics rallied to beat the Atlanta Hawks 89-81 on Saturday night. |
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Ramona Shelburne, ESPN.com Dwight Howard says the Lakers need to develop a better chemistry. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Carmelo Anthony scored 16 of his season-high 40 points in the fourth quarter, helping the New York Knicks outlast the Orlando Magic 114-106 on Saturday night. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Roy Hibbert had 20 points, 15 rebounds and five blocked shots to lead the Indiana Pacers to a 95-80 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday night. |
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Ashley Brooke Nevel, dimemag.com Indiana Pacers’ Paul George drives through the open lane to the basket and posterizes Larry Sanders with a ferocious one-handed slam in tonight’s matchup against the Milwaukee Bucks. |
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Michael Wallace, ESPN.com The Miami Heat released seldom-used guard Terrel Harris on Saturday in a move that clears a roster spot to potentially address their rebounding struggles. |
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Tim MacMahon, ESPN.com Mavericks star forward Dirk Nowitzki made his first start of the season Saturday night against the New Orleans Hornets. |
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Ashley Brooke Nevel, dimemag.com In his second attempt to assist J.J. Redick, Josh McRoberts throws a crazy backwards, over head pass to Redick who banks in the three-point basket in tonight’s matchup between the New York Knicks and Orlando Magic. |
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After practicing Thursday, Wizards guard John Wall is expected to make his season debut within the next two weeks, league sources told SI.com. Wall, the No. 1 pick in the 2010 NBA draft, has been sidelined all season with a stress injury in his left pat… |
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The injury-riddled Minnesota Timberwolves lost star forward Kevin Love to a broken right hand for the second time this season when an MRI confirmed the injury on Saturday. |
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Ashley Brooke Nevel, dimemag.com Atlanta Hawks center Al Horford drives to the hoop and drops in the right-handed hook shot in tonight’s matchup against the Boston Celtics. |
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Jared Zwerling, ESPN.com To honor his late brother, Hazell, Amar'e Stoudemire has invited 30 high-schoolers from their hometown of Lake Wales, Fla., to watch the New York Knicks-Orlando Magic game at the Amway Center on Saturday night. |
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Marc Stein, ESPN.com As Mark Cuban celebrates his 13th anniversary as Mavericks owner, the team struggles to find a future. |
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The injury-riddled Minnesota Timberwolves lost star forward Kevin Love to a broken right hand for the second time this season when an MRI confirmed the injury on Saturday. |
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After the NBA Finals, the Oklahoma City Thunder faced a difficult question: If they couldn't afford to keep both league blocks-leader Serge Ibaka and Sixth Man of the Year James Harden, which one would stay? |
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Kelly Dwyer, yahoo.com We generally don’t like posting video or pictures of fans that happen to be children here at BDL, because our comment section can tend to get needlessly nasty, and these youngsters didn’t ask to be put in the public eye. After a day’s reflection, th… |
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A few of the A-list items we’re looking forward to seeing in the coming weeks of the 2013 NBA season: We’ll lead off with the Knicks’ No. 1 issue: Whether they can win big with Carmelo Anthony and Amar’e Stoudemire playing together. |
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Can the Lakers' season get any worse? Just take a look at their treacherous upcoming schedule. Rob Mahoney examines five Western Conference teams with difficult roads ahead. |
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Coming off a rare home loss, the Miami Heat will try to rebound against the Washington Wizards. |
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The Minnesota Timberwolves scratched point guard Ricky Rubio and forward Kevin Love from their game against Portland on Saturday night. |
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Benjamin Hoffman, nytimes.com The Los Angeles Clippers before this season had a legitimate claim to be the worst franchise in N.B.A. history. |
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Isaac Rauch, deadspin.com On Thursday night, Peter and his friends had courtside tickets to Knicks-Spurs, a gift from a family friend that meant an up-close view of the game in which Stephen Jackson injured himself tripping over Mike Bloomberg's waitress and J.R. Smith did this.… |
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Isaac Rauch, deadspin.com The confounding Lakers lost last night to the Clippers by five after going into the fourth quarter down 16. The loss dropped them to 15-17, 11th in a Western Conference that has roughly 11 solid contenders for the playoffs. While the team is still worki… |
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Dave McMenamin, ESPN.com After he endured his fourth benching in the fourth quarter since Mike D'Antoni was hired as coach, there is no denying Los Angeles Lakers forward Pau Gasol is having a hard time fitting in with the team he once helped win two championships. |
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Dime Magazine, dimemag.com We were going to write about how seldom games truly live up to the hype but then we had a thought – has there been a Clippers-Lakers game since Chris Paul‘s vetoed trade that hasn’t been satisfying? There have only been five between these two since … |
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Too Little, Too LateJan 5
Chris Paul took control of the game, and although Kobe Bryant looked strong, too, it was the Lakers' defense that sealed their fate in the 107-102 loss, writes Rob Mahoney. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Chris Paul had 30 points and 13 assists, Blake Griffin added 24 points, and the Los Angeles Clippers led all the way in beating the Lakers 107-102 on Friday night. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com James Harden scored 29 points to lead the Houston Rockets to a 115-101 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Friday night. |
