National Basketball League News and Rumors
Clips, without Paul, cruise past sliding WolvesAssociated Press, ESPN.com Jamal Crawford scored 22 points, Blake Griffin added 20 and the Los Angeles Clippers hardly broke a sweat in cruising to a 90-77 victory over the free-falling Minnesota Timberwolves on Thursday night. |
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Bucks drop Suns for first win in Phoenix since '87 |
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The Minnesota Timberwolves have agreed to terms with French swingman Mickael Gelabale. |
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Ricky Rubio is back where he belongs -- in the starting lineup for the Minnesota Timberwolves. |
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Eric Freeman, yahoo.com From February 15 to 17, the NBA will descend upon Houston for its annual All-Star Game. With only a month left until the event, the participants at the weekend's various events are beginning to come into focus. On Thursday night, the NBA revealed the st… |
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NBA players should consider whether they want to keep Billy Hunter as executive director of the players' association after a series of wrongdoings, according to a review of the union released Thursday. |
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ESPN.com news services, ESPN.com Kobe Bryant has been voted to his NBA-record 15th consecutive All-Star start, leading four Los Angeles players into next month's game. |
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Arash Markazi, ESPN.com Los Angeles Clippers point guard Chris Paul will not play Thursday against the Minnesota Timberwolves, sitting out his third straight game 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: Straight Outta Vancouver. After a 21-p… |
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Warriors' Curry out indefinitely with ankle sprain |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Carmelo Anthony returned to his Olympic gold medal past and scored 26 points Thursday to lead the New York Knicks to a 102-87 victory over the Detroit Pistons. |
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Eric Freeman, yahoo.com Los Angeles Lakers icon Kobe Bryant has been a part of the NBA for 17 seasons. During that time, he's seen several different eras, from the end of Michael Jordan's dominance to the recent ascendance of LeBron James and Kevin Durant. The only constant, r… |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com Every team in the league would love to have Oklahoma City Thunder star Kevin Durant on their roster. But as a young NBA fan growing up in Washington, D.C., which roster did Durant himself wish he could join? Surprisingly, the answer wasn't his hometown … |
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NBA Commissioner David Stern has no problem with teams aiming microphones at their own players during games. If anything, he wants more mikes on the court. |
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The New York Times, nytimes.com As the N.B.A. continues its plan to extend its brand globally, the Knicks played the Detroit Pistons before a sold-out crowd at the O2 Arena in London. Steven Cotton will supply occasional updates from the game. |
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Mark Woods, ESPN.com NBA Commissioner David Stern says any team tempted to "eavesdrop" on opponents will face sanctions from the league. |
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Dave McMenamin, ESPN.com Pau Gasol will return to the court Thursday against the Miami Heat after missing five games because of a concussion, but he won't be playing with the starting unit. |
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Kelly Dwyer, yahoo.com Between Dec. 20th and Jan. 10th, Dallas Mavericks guard O.J. Mayo took 64 three-pointers and made 14 of them. This terrible 21.9 percent mark was spread out over 12 games, which is problematic in several areas. This means he was taking over five bombs p… |
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Brian Scalabrine lied about concussion symptoms to Celtics doctors to get cleared for the playoffsJan 17
Dan Devine, yahoo.com Pau Gasol will return to the Los Angeles Lakers' lineup for the team's nationally televised Thursday game against the defending NBA champion Miami Heat after missing five games with a concussion brought on by an inadvertent elbow from Denver Nuggets cen… |
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The Dallas Mavericks have signed veteran guard Mike James to a second 10-day contract. |
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Andrew Greif, dimemag.com For the Knicks there will be no “panic on the streets of London” today, as The Smiths sang. Second-year guard and perimeter defending savant Iman Shumpert could start in New York’s game against Detroit in the English capital after his recovery from … |
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Kelly Dwyer, yahoo.com Kobe Bryant made the All-Defensive second team last season. Let that sink in a bit. The guy who has been dragging his leg around for three years, the man who had to have his knee drained several times a season, was selected by coaches as one of the four… |
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Kelly Dwyer, yahoo.com On Thursday afternoon, stateside time, the Detroit Pistons and New York Knicks will play a regulation game in London’s O2 Arena. In anticipation of the event, Knicks website maestro Jonah Ballow put together an interview collection featuring various Kni… |
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Tim Brandl, dimemag.com Last week, the basketball world was abuzz with news that the owners of the Sacramento Kings were in the process of finalizing the sale of the franchise to a Seattle-based ownership group. The upshot of the apparent deal, while far from sealed, was that … |
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5-on-5: Kobe vs. LeBronJan 17
ESPN.com, ESPN.com Who's been more impressive this season? Who will win more championships? |
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Antoine Walker, who lost more than $110 million and is bankrupt, now gives financial tips (VIDEO)Jan 17
Dan Devine, yahoo.com We know that things haven't gone super great for Antoine Walker since he last set foot on an NBA court in 2008. This time last year, the former three-time All-Star was slogging through a D-League stint that he hoped would result in an NBA return; by mid… |
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Sean Sweeney, dimemag.com The Bulls won a close game in overtime last night thanks to Luol Deng morphing into Michael Jordan, but yet Chicago knows it won’t be until Derrick Rose gets back that they’ll take the next step. We’ve already seen a number of different “Year Of T… |
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Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook dominate the headlines in Oklahoma City, but Ian Thomsen says that the emergence of Serge Ibaka has really kept the Thunder among the elite. |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com After a furious second-half Toronto Raptors comeback erased a 19-point Chicago Bulls lead and turned a laugher into a fun Wednesday night table-setter, the two teams sat tied at 105 with 8.7 seconds left in overtime. You might have expected the Bulls to… |
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Steve Cotton, nytimes.com Rasheed Wallace, who has a foot injury, says he expects to be on the court again this season. |
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Mark Woods, ESPN.com Iman Shumpert has been cleared to make his season debut for the New York Knicks on Thursday against the Detroit Pistons in London. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Greivis Vasquez scored 15 points with 11 rebounds and Austin Rivers won his first NBA game against his father on Wednesday night as the New Orleans Hornets beat coach Doc Rivers and the Boston Celtics 90-78. |
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Eric Freeman, yahoo.com LeBron James has been a star from roughly the minute he entered the NBA in 2003, and over that time he's accomplished a heck of a lot. As a player who can do pretty much anything he wishes on the court, LeBron has accrued a lot of numbers over that time… |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Russell Westbrook scored 32 points, Kevin Martin had 20 and the Oklahoma City Thunder snapped Denver's six-game winning streak by beating the Nuggets 117-97 on Wednesday night. |
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When I gave last night's Thunder-Nuggets game one of my coveted DVR slots, I knew I was probably recording a schedule loss. Denver was on the second n... |
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