National Basketball League News and Rumors
Report: Melo sought to confront Celts after lossIan Begley, ESPN.com Carmelo Anthony approached the Celtics locker room after New York's loss to Boston on Monday and was screaming, MSG Network reported. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Carlos Boozer had 24 points and 11 rebounds to lead the Chicago Bulls to an 118-92 rout of the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday night. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Paul Pierce scored 23 points, and the Boston Celtics beat the New York Knicks 102-96 on Monday night in a heated first meeting of the season between the Atlantic Division rivals. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Bradley Beal made a jumper with 0.3 seconds left after using a pump fake to get open, and the short-handed Washington Wizards beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 101-99 Monday night. |
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Eric Freeman, yahoo.com In the immediate aftermath of their 2011 championship, the Dallas Mavericks took a gamble. With many key players — especially Tyson Chandler — set to become free agents, Mark Cuban and his front office decided to let most of them go. It was a calculat… |
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Boston Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo has been suspended one game without pay for making contact with a referee and failure to cooperate with an NBA investigation. |
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ATLANTA (AP) -- Hawks general manager Danny Ferry has been fined $15,000 by the NBA for inappropriate interaction with game officials following Saturday night's game against Boston. |
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Nene and Jordan Crawford are out for the Washington Wizards against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Monday night. |
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Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Love met with doctors in the Twin Cities on Monday to evaluate his right hand, which is broken for the second time this season. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Andrew Bynum says his knees are better and he still plans on playing this season for the Philadelphia 76ers. |
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Ferry fined for 'inappropriate interaction' with refs |
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Dave McMenamin, ESPN.com Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant might be a neophyte in the world of Twitter, but it hasn't taken him long to figure out how to use it to control the narrative that's surrounding him. |
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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: The New York Times. "In the past … |
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Andrew Bynum says his knees are better and he still plans on playing this season for the Philadelphia 76ers. |
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The Minnesota Timberwolves have been saying all season the playoffs are the goal this year. Now they're banking on it. |
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Bryant, Howard make light of locker room feud report |
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Following rumors of locker room turmoil, the Lakers announced that both Dwight Howard and Pau Gasol are out indefinitely, putting Los Angeles in a tough spot, says Ben Golliver. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com The Indiana Pacers have signed coach Frank Vogel to a contract extension. |
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The Indiana Pacers have signed coach Frank Vogel to a contract extension. |
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Eric Freeman, yahoo.com It is pretty well established at this point in the NBA season that the Los Angeles Lakers have been a disappointment. After entering this season with massive expectations, they've gone 15-18 and currently sit at 11th in the West. The worst part might be… |
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Jonah Bromwich, nytimes.com Kevin Durant of the Thunder could become one of the few N.B.A. players to shoot 40 percent on 3-point attempts, 50 percent on field goal attempts and 90 percent from the free throw line. |
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John Coon, ESPN.com After suggesting the Dallas Mavericks could explore trading him to rebuild their team following Saturday's loss to the New Orleans Hornets, Dirk Nowitzki was quick to clarify that he is making no trade demands. |
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Robert Silverman, nytimes.com David Lee, the former Knick, is averaging 19.9 points, 10.9 rebounds and 3.7 assists a game for the Golden State Warriors. |
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Andrew Greif, dimemag.com Jrue Holiday’s All-Star consideration has never been much of one in his first three seasons in the NBA. At 19, he was still figuring out his style while turning the ball over more frequently than he handled it. As his obvious talent has become more appa… |
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Marc Stein, ESPN.com The Mavericks plan to sign Mike James to a 10-day contract, sources said. |
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Spencer Lund, dimemag.com We’re only a week into 2013 and already Lakers fans are bugging out. The team has lost all of its games in the new year, including last night’s disappointment to the Denver Nuggets at home, which dropped them to 10-8 at the Staples Center (not countin… |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com OK, maybe they're not perfect strangers, but Denver Nuggets forwards Andre Iguodala and Danilo Gallinari sure seemed pretty psyched after they each did their part — Iggy with some behind-the-back wizardry, Gallo with a game-sealing triple — to vanquis… |
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The Indiana Pacers have signed forward Dominic McGuire to a 10-day contract. |
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Every season has its mirages. Part of the fun is discovering which improvements are more than trends. Rob Mahoney examines several NBA defenses to separate fact from fiction. |
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The New York Knicks' Carmelo Anthony and the Houston Rockets' James Harden today were named Eastern and Western Conference Players of the Week, respectively, for games played Monday, Dec. 31 through Sunday, Jan. 6. |
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The Cavaliers have recalled forward Jon Leuer from Canton and excused forward Luke Walton to "address a personal matter." |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com Last year, the Detroit Pistons' "Star Wars Night" promotion brought us a rare and informative interview with Chewbacca. This year's model, held Friday night when the Pistons took on the Atlanta Hawks at the Palace of Auburn Hills, taught us wh… |
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Tom Ley, deadspin.com A Group Of Bros Infiltrated The Knicks Locker Room, Asked Gregg Popovich About J.R. Smith, And Got Kicked Out After Snapping A Picture Of Half-Naked Carmelo | The conclusions are obvious. If you act like you belong, you do belong. Read » More » |
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Eric Freeman, yahoo.com The situation of Houston Rockets rookie forward Royce White has been explained here and elsewhere enough times for it to be fairly familiar. White, who suffers from anxiety, missed the first few days of training camp, secured a bus to take him to severa… |
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Barry Petchesky, deadspin.com See, this is why we love JaVale McGee: he'll forego the smart play for the spectacular play. Late in the first half of yesterday's win over the Lakers, a missed Kosta Koufos layup bounced right in the middle of three Nuggets. Rather than yell "same… |
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Eric Freeman, yahoo.com In the modern NBA, only a certain kind of player typically makes the All-Star team. In all but a few cases, he is a dependable star on a team in line to make the playoffs, and almost always the sort of player the league wants to promote to a larger audi… |
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Dime Magazine, dimemag.com The wheels were already coming off in Los Angeles for the Lakers, but now it seems like an axle just gave way. A 112-105 home loss to Denver drops L.A. to 15-18, which is three games worse (as ESPN’s J.A. Adande perfectly pointed out) than the ’04-’… |
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Notebook, ESPN.com The Lakers' latest loss reveals a team not headed for a quick turnaround, J.A. Adande writes. |
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Dave McMenamin, ESPN.com Los Angeles Lakers center Dwight Howard aggravated the sprained rotator cuff in his right shoulder in Sunday night's loss to the Denver Nuggets and will undergo an MRI on the injury Monday morning, according to the team. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Randolph scored 21 points and Rudy Gay added 20 to lead the Memphis Grizzlies to a 92-81 victory over the Phoenix Suns. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Ty Lawson had 21 points and 10 assists, Danilo Gallinari scored 20 points and hit a big 3-pointer with 13.8 seconds left, and the Denver Nuggets beat the struggling Los Angeles Lakers 112-105 Sunday night for their fifth win in seven games. |
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When the Houston Rockets pried Omer Asik away from the Bulls with an aggressive offer sheet, the most pressing question (after "Who?" and "Him?") was ... |
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The word indefinite has become the go-to recovery-time descriptor for NBA teams understandably wary of providing a specific timeline, and it is a ve... |
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Jalen Rose on how Kobe Bryant is right to question the current Lakers roster and why the team is too old and slow to compete in the Western Conference... |
