National Basketball League News and Rumors
Pistons rely on interior play to send down MagicAssociated Press, ESPN.com Jason Maxiell, Andre Drummond and Greg Monroe combined for 38 points and 28 rebounds, and the Pistons pulled away to beat the undersized Orlando Magic 105-90 Tuesday night. |
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Watch: Clippers' Butler swats shot into ref's head |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com Near the end of the second quarter of the Los Angeles Clippers' Tuesday night matchup with the Oklahoma City Thunder, Clippers swingman Caron Butler played some wonderful late-possession help defense on Thunder big man Serge Ibaka. Well, it was wonderfu… |
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Clippers point guard Chris Paul won't play against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday night. |
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Ramona Shelburne and Marc Stein, ESPN.com Though the Lakers have long rebuffed talks of trading Dwight Howard, sources now say the team may consider dealing the pending free agent as Los Angeles continues to struggle. |
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Los Angeles Lakers forward Jordan Hill will have surgery on his left hip on Wednesday. |
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Ramona Shelburne and Marc Stein, ESPN.com Though the Lakers have long rebuffed talks of trading Dwight Howard, sources now say the team may consider dealing the pending free agent as Los Angeles continues to struggle. |
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Arash Markazi, ESPN.com Los Angeles Clippers guard Chris Paul will miss Tuesday night's game against the Oklahoma City Thunder with a bruised right kneecap. |
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Durant pours in 31 to fuel win as Paul (knee sits out |
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The Clippers have agreed to a 10-year extension of their lease at Staples Center, where they are one of the arena's original tenants. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Kyrie Irving scored 15 of his 40 points in the fourth quarter, including several key late baskets, to lead the Cleveland Cavaliers in a 95-90 victory over the Boston Celtics on Tuesday night. |
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson had a stern warning for Seattle SuperSonics fans who are excited about the prospect of the NBA returning to the Puget Sound next season. |
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After a shaky transfer of coaching power, the staggering Phoenix Suns headed for Sacramento with Lindsey Hunter in charge on the bench and without two of the team's highest-profile assistant coaches. |
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PHOENIX (AP) -- The shaky transfer of coaching power with the staggering Phoenix Suns has moved on with the team traveling to Sacramento to face the Kings on Wednesday night. |
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Eric Freeman, yahoo.com Over 11 NBA seasons, journeyman forward Brian Scalabrine cultivated an image of a regular guy who just happened to play basketball. Eventually, many fans came to believe that Scalabrine was an Average Joe, not an elite athlete (as all NBA players are), … |
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Jared Zwerling, ESPN.com New York Knicks point guard Raymond Felton, who's missed roughly the past five weeks with a broken right pinkie, is optimistic he'll return on Saturday in Philadelphia. |
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Tim Brandl, dimemag.com This weekend, Steve Nash took the floor in Toronto, Ontario for the first time since being acquired by the Los Angeles Lakers in July of 2012. Canada’s most successful active basketball player finished the contest with 16 points on 5-for-11 shooting, ni… |
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Andrew Greif, dimemag.com Watching Derrick Rose‘s return to Chicago’s lineup as starting point guard can feel like seeing a glacier move. You know where it’s headed, but it’s a slow and methodical process. That’s just the reality of tearing knee ligaments for a player wh… |
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Patrick Cassidy, dimemag.com As we write this, Kobe Bryant is live-tweeting an NBA TV re-run of his historic 81-point game against the Toronto Raptors back in 2006. You can re-live it with Kobe here, or you can watch him enact his wrath in under three minutes here: Related: Re-Live… |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com Kawhi Leonard missed more than a month earlier this season with quadriceps tendinitis, leaving the San Antonio Spurs without their top option at the small forward position and temporarily derailing what had been a strong start to the season for the seco… |
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ESPNChicago.com, ESPN.com Jimmy Butler helped limit Kobe Bryant to 16 points in another loss for the reeling Los Angeles Lakers, but the Chicago Bulls swingman said Tuesday he's no "Kobe Stopper" as his teammates called him after the game. |
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With the All-Star starters in place, it's time to pick the reserves. The unlikeliest candidate? Paul Pierce, who's making a big impact despite receiving little help, writes Rob Mahoney. |
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Kent Bazemore, fellow Warriors continue to enjoy it when Blake Griffin badly misses shots (VIDEO)Jan 22
Dan Devine, yahoo.com From the Golden State Warriors' Jan. 2, 2013, 115-94 home win over the Los Angeles Clippers: From the Warriors' 106-99 home win over the Clippers on Monday afternoon: Never stop rocking, Kent Bazemore and the Warriors bench. I don't have any hard eviden… |
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Jim Cavan, nytimes.com After being released by the Nuggets last offseason, Chris Anderson has been looking for N.B.A. work and the Heat have signed him to a 10-day contract. |
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Kelly Dwyer, yahoo.com Stan Van Gundy does not want to do what you expect him to do. If you were expecting him to bash Dwight Howard at his lowest point – in a week where Howard was thrown out of a game against Toronto and made into a non-entity offensively in a loss to Chica… |
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The Memphis Grizzlies traded Marreese Speights, Wayne Ellington, Josh Selby and a future first-round draft pick Tuesday to the Cleveland Cavaliers for Jon Leuer. |
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Beckley Mason, nytimes.com Nets guard Joe Johnson may not be the explosive scorer he was with Atlanta, but he still makes the game easier for his teammates. |
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Andrew Bynum’s return to health is being hamstrung by the 76ers’ broken anti-gravity treadmillJan 22
Kelly Dwyer, yahoo.com In order to make it to the .500 mark and give itself a chance to grab the last playoff spot in the East, the 17-24 Philadelphia 76ers will have to reverse that record in the second half of a season that starts Tuesday night in Milwaukee. That would be q… |
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For better or worse, through success and roadblocks, accolades and disappointments, some careers are forever linked. On Draft night in 2006, the Timberwolves traded the No. 6 overall pick, Brandon Roy, to the Trail Blazers for No. 7 pick Randy Foye. Roy… |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com Good news, everybody: One member of our human race has finally found an appropriate way to express our shared love for Detroit Pistons forward Charlie Villanueva. And all it cost him was his left arm, a bunch of dollars and (at least) a couple of hours.… |
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Barry Petchesky, deadspin.com Hot Hot Hoops took in Shane Battier's annual charity event in Miami Beach last night, and, I don't know, I guess some money was raised for a good cause or whatever. That's a distant second to the world-shattering levels of whiteness when Mike Miller and… |
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Tom Ley, deadspin.com Here is the lede from Adrian Wojnarowski's story on last night's Lakers-Bulls game, which ended in a 95-83 victory for the Bulls: More » |
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Sean Sweeney, dimemag.com … |
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Sean Sweeney, dimemag.com There was so much holiday action yesterday that most probably missed this game-winner from Jordan Crawford. Too bad. A 32-footer on the road to beat a potential playoff team is pretty big. Did you know the Wizards are 5-2 over their last seven games? A … |
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Ian O'Connor, ESPN.com For Knicks to win it all, Melo needs to hit shots like the one he missed on Monday |
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A Star Grows In IndyJan 22
Paul George has emerged as a go-to scorer and potential All-Star for Indianapolis. And in a year with many good candidates, he's the favorite for Most Improved, says Ian Thomsen. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Former NBA player and coach Bill Cartwright has been hired as coach of the Osaka Evessa in Japan's professional basketball league. |
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Dime Magazine, dimemag.com … |
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My man was in Heathers. Respect him. You can see a bunch of other photos of the "Battioke Night" — a benefit for the Take Charge Foundation (how... |
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I know the the Blazers' announcing team of Mike Barrett and Mike Rice are trying to keep their enthusiasm for the visiting Wizards to a minimum, but c... |
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In case you were busy spending your day off either volunteering with a local charity or watching Magnum, P.I. on Netflix, here's what you missed in sp... |
