National Basketball League News and Rumors
Lopez paces surging Nets to 7th straight winAssociated Press, ESPN.com Brook Lopez had 22 points and nine rebounds, Joe Johnson and Deron Williams each scored 21 points, and the Brooklyn Nets extended their season-high winning streak to seven games with a 113-106 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Tuesday night. |
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Dave McMenamin, ESPN.com Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni said that Pau Gasol will assume Earl Clark's spot in the starting lineup as soon as he returns from the concussion that has sidelined the star forward for the last five games. |
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Chandler's late 3 lifts Nuggets over Blazers in OT |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Jamal Crawford scored a season-high 30 points, including 12 straight to start the fourth quarter, and the Los Angeles Clippers looked just fine without Chris Paul in a 117-109 win over the struggling Houston Rockets on Tuesday night. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Roy Hibbert had 18 points and seven rebounds, and the Indiana Pacers handed the Charlotte Bobcats their 13th straight home loss with a 103-76 victory Tuesday night. |
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Ashley Brooke Nevel, dimemag.com JaVale McGee jumps high to grab the alley-oop pass and throws it down with one hand:The post JaVale McGee Throws A Down One-Handed Alley-Oop appeared first on Dime Magazine (dimemag.com) : Daily NBA News, NBA Trades, NBA Rumors, Basketball Videos, Sneak… |
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Ashley Brooke Nevel, dimemag.com DeAndre Jordan hustles across the baseline and comes up with a huge block on Patrick Patterson’s shot attempt in tonight’s matchup between the Los Angeles Clippers and Houston Rockets.The post DeAndre Jordan Denies Patrick Patterson appeared first on … |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Greivis Vasquez scored 23 points, Eric Gordon added 19 and the New Orleans Hornets beat the Philadelphia 76ers 111-99 on Tuesday night. |
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Pacers throttle Bobcats for fifth win in six games |
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Eric Freeman, yahoo.com In the months immediately after he signed with the Miami Heat in 2010, Chris Bosh embraced his newfound media attention with open arms. He appeared on TV shows and did interviews in all possible venues, including an incredibly misguided and still inexpl… |
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Eric Freeman, yahoo.com It is fairly well established that Boston Celtics All-Star point guard Rajon Rondo is a peculiar guy. In addition to his unique style of play on the court — sometimes seeming to avoid shooting even when it's a fairly obvious choice to everyone else, inv… |
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Tom Ley, deadspin.com Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. There's a smattering of NBA and college basketball action to keep you busy tonight, so enjoy that. We'll see you tomorrow. More » |
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Listen up! Talk trash to Carmelo Anthony at Madison Square Garden and you may wind up on tape. |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com We all remember San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich incurring the wrath of David Stern when he decided to send Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili and Danny Green back to Texas to rest rather than suit them up for a nationally televised matchup wi… |
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Andrew Greif, dimemag.com Two days ago Dallas owner Mark Cuban re-iterated that he would not trade cornerstone player Dirk Nowitzki. Cuban recently said that the “Bank of Cuban” was open and he would “100 percent” make a trade by the Feb. 21 deadline. Shawn Marion is the p… |
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Sean Sweeney, dimemag.com … |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com Deron Williams will most likely be a member of the Eastern Conference All-Star team next month. He's been the third-leading vote-getter among Eastern guards through all three rounds of All-Star ballot returns thus far, trailing only Dwyane Wade of the M… |
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You heard it here first: the Thunder are underrated. With a more disciplined defense, the team is on track for one of the most dominant seasons of the past decade, says Ben Golliver. |
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Andrew Greif, dimemag.com Andre Iguodala was enjoying “probably the best time” he’s ever had playing basketball this summer with Team USA when he was traded by Philadelphia to Denver. Just as the medal round was about to begin in London, he was thinking about arriving in the… |
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Jake Appleman, nytimes.com An eighth grader from the Upper East Side with ties to Phoenix went to Section 15 to root for the Suns. |
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Honey Nut Carmelo’s T-ShirtJan 15
Sean Sweeney, dimemag.com All sides are denying it ever happened, but we can dream. If Kevin Garnett had gone through and said what he was rumored to have said, then it would’ve boosted him up a few spots on the list of the best trash-talkers of all time. Instead, it sounds like… |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com "... because I don't see anything, Paul." "I mean, it's supposed to be, Hakim. I read some story a couple of weeks back about how 2013's going to be the best year for comet-spotting in, like, forever." "Yeah, but that doesn't me… |
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Sean Sweeney, dimemag.com The plan, all along, was to get through this season with a half-filled cabinet, and then clear it for a strike at the summer free agency bonanza. But Dallas lost Dirk Nowitzki to injury for the first leg of the season, and even with a few guys playing o… |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson is taking his fight to keep the Kings in California's capital city to NBA owners. |
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Kelly Dwyer, yahoo.com So, why aren’t you going to NBA games? Is it because you’re a weirdo, and don’t like the league? That can’t be the case, because you’re reading this website. Is it because you live too far away from an NBA arena? Fair enough, though there are 28… |
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Miserable Shitehawk, deadspin.com A celebration of the NBA's most infuriating players, both past and present. Read other NBA Shit List entries here. More » |
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After franchise-worst quarter, half, final in Bulls blowout, we wonder: What’s up with the Hawks?Jan 15
Dan Devine, yahoo.com The Atlanta Hawks headed into their Monday night matchup with the Chicago Bulls having lost six of their previous eight games, including four straight road games against the relatively lowly likes of the Detroit Pistons, Minnesota Timberwolves, Clevelan… |
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Jim Cavan, nytimes.com With Danny Granger out, the Pacers' Paul George has made the most of his opportunities. |
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NEW YORK (AP) -- The injury-plagued New York Knicks welcome a week with just one game. The only catch is they had to travel to London for it. |
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LeBron James was the youngest player in NBA history to win rookie of the year, to record a triple-double, to score 1,000 points, to score 10,000 points, to win MVP honors at an All-Star Game ... |
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Kelly Dwyer, yahoo.com It’s just a tweet, a silly characterization of a person’s mood in 140 characters or less, and possibly something we shouldn’t spend more than three seconds considering before moving on to more weightier matters. Like dunks or draft picks in June, I … |
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Ian Begley, ESPN.com In the wake of an incident between Carmelo Anthony and Kevin Garnett that resulted in Anthony's suspension, the Knicks recorded all in-game conversations between the star forward and players surrounding him Friday against the Bulls, a source confirmed. |
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Tom Ley, deadspin.com The good news for the Lakers is that they ended their six-game losing streak on Sunday by defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers 113-93 in Dwight Howard's first game back from injury. The bad news is that the Lakers still have an uphill climb to the playoffs… |
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Andrew Greif, dimemag.com What makes San Antonio so frustrating for opponents and fun to watch for us, the fans, is the parallel personnel magic GM R.C. Buford and coach Gregg Popovich seem to always have working. It’s twofold: The Spurs’ core of Tony Parker, Tim Duncan and M… |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com Kevin Durant's been hunting for poster victims pretty much all season long. We've seen him ring up Toronto Raptors rookie Jonas Valanciunas, go end-to-end to throw one down on Atlanta Hawks forward Josh Smith, turn a blocked shot into a vicious slam on … |
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Mike Mazzeo, ESPN.com Nets small forward Gerald Wallace will miss his second straight game Tuesday night against the Toronto Raptors because of bruised ribs, the team announced. |
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Eric Freeman, yahoo.com A pump fake's purpose is to make a defender jump in the air. By that measure, John Wall made a really effective pump fake in the second quarter of the Washington Wizards' home game against the Orlando Magic on Monday night. Unfortunately, it worked a li… |
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Heckling courtside fan ejected during Jazz/Heat; Wade, Bosh benched in 4th as Heat lose (VIDEO)Jan 15
Dan Devine, yahoo.com It remains unclear where exactly this fan with a front-row seat for Monday night's matchup between the Utah Jazz and Miami Heat was directing his courtside chatter, but whomever his intended target, his words brought about a result he probably hadn't ba… |
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Brian Windhorst, ESPN.com The Miami Heat have chemistry issues that were showing at the end of a long road trip, Brian Windhorst writes. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Al Jefferson scored 23 points, Gordon Hayward added 22 -- including a jumper with 40 seconds remaining -- and the Utah Jazz held on to beat the Miami Heat 104-97 on Monday night. |
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Dime Magazine, dimemag.com It’s a good thing Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook didn’t get much help last night. Phoenix fans went to the arena expecting to see competitive basketball, not some bloodbath. Durant and Westbrook didn’t need any help, taking the Suns on 2-on-5 an… |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Kevin Durant scored 27 of his 41 points in the second half and the Oklahoma City Thunder became the NBA's first 30-game winner of the season with a 102-90 victory over the Phoenix Suns on Sunday night. |
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Sean Newell, deadspin.com The dunk itself is pretty good, but Stacey King's reaction is even better. This is sort of a thing, I've learned, that King does so maybe you Chicagoans are yawning, but the rest of us can still enjoy his enthusiasm. More » |
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Tim MacMahon, ESPN.com Memo to the rest of the NBA: Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is in "Let's Make a Deal" mode. |
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With Garden boss James (Guitar Jimmy) Dolan lurking around every corner, the potential for a Knicks soap opera, and a walk on the dysfunctional side, is just a moment away. |
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In 2009, five journalists and filmmakers in Seattle got together to make Sonicsgate: Requiem for a Team, a documentary film that told the story of how... |
