National Basketball League News and Rumors
Mavericks win 3rd straight behind CollisonAssociated Press, ESPN.com Darren Collison led six players in double figures with 23 points and the Dallas Mavericks matched their season high with a third straight win in a 113-98 victory against the Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday night. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Carlos Boozer scored 20 points, Luol Deng added 18 and the Chicago Bulls held Atlanta to a franchise-low 20 points in the first half of a 97-58 victory over the Hawks on Monday night. |
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Sean Newell, deadspin.com First, Wall literally pump-faked Smith over his entire body. Smith, however, was unfazed. He quickly bounced back and blocked the real shot. Pretty impressive. Later, as the third quarter was winding down, Wall shook Ish out of his shoes and into the Ma… |
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Who’s really the better team, the Knicks or the Nets? This particular debate had evaporated for much of December, as the Nets swooned and the Knicks stomped on everyone. But now the Knicks are struggling with injuries, the Nets have their act together |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Reserves Jamal Crawford and Matt Barnes each scored 16 points, and the Los Angeles Clippers easily routed the Memphis Grizzlies 99-73 Monday night with Chris Paul missing his first game this season because of a bruised right kneecap. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Rajon Rondo scored 17 points with 12 assists and 10 rebounds on Monday night to lead the Boston Celtics to a 100-89 victory over the Charlotte Bobcats. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Emeka Okafor had 19 points and 11 rebounds, leading six players in double figures for Washington in a 120-91 victory over the Orlando Magic on Monday night for the Wizards' third straight win. |
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Dave McMenamin, ESPN.com The Lakers have turned to none other than Kobe Bryant to spearhead that defensive turnaround. |
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The one where LeBron James and Chris Paul ate dinner with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates (VIDEO)Jan 14
Eric Freeman, yahoo.com LeBron James has had designs on being a "global icon" for the better part of his NBA career. In practical terms, that means he wants to be both a legendary basketball player and a massively influential leader of business and the culture at lar… |
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Clippers guard Chris Paul won't play Monday night against the Memphis Grizzlies because of a bruised right kneecap. |
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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: TrueHoop. Pau Gasol's been sidelined f… |
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Pau Gasol is expected to miss his fifth straight game for the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night while he recovers from a concussion. |
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Arash Markazi, ESPN.com Clippers point guard Chris Paul didn't play Monday against the Memphis Grizzlis due to a bruised right knee cap. |
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Eric Freeman, yahoo.com Last June, most pundits agreed that the 2012 NBA draft featured a single likely star: freshman Kentucky power forward Anthony Davis. His defense was far enough along that it was logical to project multiple Defensive Player of the Year awards, and his of… |
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ESPN.com news services, ESPN.com Andrew Bynum, who has yet to play a game for his new team in Philadelphia, is on a six-step rehabilitation process that he hopes will get him back into lineup around the Feb. 15 All-Star break. |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com After a Sunday night loss to the Los Angeles Lakers, the Cleveland Cavaliers sit at 9-30, owners of the second-worst record in the NBA and, outside of the transcendent Kyrie Irving, possessed of relatively little that's likely to stoke fans' interest. I… |
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Andrew Greif, dimemag.com … |
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Kelly Dwyer, yahoo.com The Chicago Bulls enter Monday night’s game against the Atlanta Hawks with a surprisingly poor 10-10 mark at the United Center. Big man Joakim Noah deems that mark to be “very average,” which is candid as far as athletes often go, but he’s very wr… |
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Tom Ley, deadspin.com I was not previously aware of the fact that there are NBA security guards whose job it is to prevent players from getting too close to the referees during video reviews. But as the video above shows, such security guards do indeed exist, and one of them… |
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Sean Sweeney, dimemag.com Despite losing to New York yesterday, the Hornets look like a completely new team with Eric Gordon finally back. That came at the expense of rookie Austin Rivers, who started most of the season at the two guard in Gordon’s absence. Now, he’s been rele… |
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When he worked as a broadcaster, Mark Jackson was adamant that David Lee didn't deserve to be an All-Star with the New York Knicks in 2010. No matter how eye-popping Lee's statistics looked, Jackson said, the power forward played on a bad Knicks team. |
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The hand surgery for Minnesota's Kevin Love has been scheduled. |
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Remember Anthony Davis? The No. 1 pick is playing second fiddle to Damian Lillard in the Rookie of the Year race, but he has been every bit as good as advertised, says Rob Mahoney. |
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The Milwaukee Bucks' Brandon Jennings and the Oklahoma City Thunder's Kevin Durant on Monday were named Eastern and Western Conference Players of the Week, respectively, for games played Monday, Jan. 7 through Sunday, Jan. 13. |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com Oof — tough spot, Utah Jazz Bear. You flew all the way from Salt Lake City to the Pepsi Center so that you could go to the birthday party for Rocky, the Denver Nuggets' mascot, on Sunday, only to realize after getting off the plane that you forgot to pa… |
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San Antonio Spurs guard Manu Ginobili is expected to miss 10-14 days with a left hamstring strain. |
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Kelly Dwyer, yahoo.com Try to cut everything out of the picture, save for the visual tip-offs. Forget how he may have disappointed you at Connecticut, or the Memphis Grizzlies’ inspiring 2011 playoff run with him on the bench. Forget the contract, forget Lionel Hollins recent… |
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Barry Petchesky, deadspin.com The Lakers snapped a six-game losing streak with a 20-point win over the last-place Cavaliers, thanks in large part to the return of Dwight Howard from a shoulder injury. But the real star of the show was Metta World Peace, who, with reporters gathered … |
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Knicks owner James Dolan had employees record Carmelo Anthony’s in-game talk, according to reportJan 14
Dan Devine, yahoo.com Prior to a Sunday afternoon win over the visiting New Orleans Hornets, the New York Knicks were in the midst of a bad stretch, having lost three straight games, four of their last six and six of their last nine since Christmas Day. With the Knicks strug… |
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Jonah Bromwich, nytimes.com Best N.B.A. games this week pit the Lakers and Bucks, the Rockets and Pacers and the Warriors vs. the Spurs. |
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Kelly Dwyer, yahoo.com After a wildly-impressive start – 7-5, a 12-game turn that seems miraculous at this point – the Charlotte Bobcats have faded badly. The team has lost 22 out of 24 games, fallen to second to last in the NBA in defense despite a group of hard-working yo… |
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Blazers' Lillard looking to follow in Jordan's shoes |
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Jay Busbee, yahoo.com You've seen a hundred half-court heaves for cash, but you've never seen one quite like this. During halftime of the Atlanta Hawks' Friday night matchup with the Utah Jazz, a Hawks fan stuck the ball on the edge of the rim from half-court. Pretty impress… |
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Sean Sweeney, dimemag.com John Wall and Bradley Beal played exactly one game together before rumors surfaced that Washington was considering a trade for Rudy Gay. Memphis’ leading scorer, as you probably know by now, is being shopped by the Grizzlies in an effort to lighten thei… |
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Complete broadcast schedule of events for the 2013 All-Star Weekend in Houston, TX: |
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Kelly Dwyer, yahoo.com Prior to the team’s game against Cleveland, Los Angeles Lakers coach Mike D’Antoni suggested that the Lakers’ season started over on Sunday, even after a 15-21 start to a (pre?) season that some thought would end in the Lakers losing all of 21 conte… |
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Dave McMenamin, ESPN.com Despite return of Howard and a victory over lowly Cavs, L.A. remains unsettled |
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Daily Dime: Dwight's backJan 14
Notebook, ESPN.com Dwight Howard returned to action and got a big vote of confidence from Steve Nash, J.A. Adande writes. |
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Dime Magazine, dimemag.com On Sunday, the Knicks were looking to Chris Copeland (22 points) to guide them early harder than someone lost looks for the North Star. The “other” guy in the Knicks’ recent starting five hit his first three threes in rapid fire to keep his team afl… |
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For some reason, Carmelo Anthony had been fasting for 15 days. During that time he ate no meat. No cheese. No Honey-Nut Cheerios. No nothing. Anthony said he did it for “clarity,” whatever that means. |
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Nuggets rally past Warriors for fifth straight win |
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Moving on from Steve Nash has proved difficult so far for Phoenix. The Suns are 12-26, just a game up on New Orleans in the race for worst record in... |
