National Basketball League News and Rumors
Melo-led Knicks get best of Garnett, CelticsAssociated Press, ESPN.com Carmelo Anthony scored 28 points and won his rematch with Kevin Garnett as the New York Knicks ended an 11-game losing streak in Boston with an 89-86 victory over the Celtics on Thursday night. |
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Still not old enough to legally toast any of his accomplishments, Kyrie Irving joined one of the NBA's most elite groups. |
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Arash Markazi, ESPN.com Los Angeles Clippers guard Chris Paul will sit out Thursday night's games against the Phoenix Suns with a bruised right kneecap. |
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Ian Begley, ESPN.com Raymond Felton of the New York Knicks has been cleared to take full contact in practice on Friday, a significant hurdle in his attempt to return from a fractured right pinky. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com DeMar DeRozan swished a fadeaway jumper at the buzzer as the Toronto Raptors fought off a late-game charge by the Orlando Magic to earn a 97-95 victory on Thursday night. |
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The Memphis Grizzlies are busy learning how to deal with success. |
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Dime Magazine, dimemag.com The results are in for the reserves for the 2013 NBA All-Star Game in Houston. In the Western Conference, coaches voted Oklahoma City’s Russell Westbrook, Houston’s James Harden, San Antonio’s Tim Duncan and Tony Parker, Portland’s LaMarcus Aldrid… |
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Hornets owner Tom Benson is changing his team's nickname to the Pelicans and said the switch will create a bond with the city that could lead to a championship. |
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Zach Schonbrun, nytimes.com Tyson Chandler was chosen for the game as a reserve. Despite a .600 winning percentage, the Nets were conspicuous by their absence. |
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Arash Markazi, ESPN.com Lakers center Dwight Howard, who aggravated his right shoulder injury, was examined Friday in Los Angeles by shoulder specialist Dr. James Tibone who confirmed there is no further damage, and that Howard has been cleared to continue to play. |
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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 Classical. As a New York Knicks fa… |
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Some familiar names made the cut while six earned their first selection as reserves for the All-Star Game. Ben Golliver looks at the 14 players who'll be on the bench in Houston. |
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Eric Freeman, yahoo.com The NBA's new flopping policies have worked pretty well (if only because we can now focus on agreed-upon offenders instead of freaking out over a vague threat to the league's integrity). Nevertheless, players still flop, and many of them see it as an oc… |
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Ricky Rubio swiped the pass in the open court and darted down the lane with Derrick Williams on his wing. |
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Spurs coach Gregg Popovich and forward Tim Duncan will miss a second straight game after the ailing duo didn't make the trip for Friday night's game at Dallas. |
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Andrew Greif, dimemag.com Into the Indiana vacuum left by Danny Granger‘s knee injury has stepped Paul George, a player whose ascension and fit have been so fast and so seamless he’s drawn many an endorsement to be an All-Star reserve (Dime has, too). George can leave you with… |
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Steve Reddicliffe, nytimes.com An alley-oop dunk and a high school crush made a brother and sister from Long Island life-long Nets fans. |
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The Cavaliers have assigned newly acquired guard Josh Selby to their Canton affiliate in the NBA Development League. |
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Justin Kubatko, nytimes.com Memphis is trying to contend while trimming salary in a conference with six of the N.B.A.'s best eight teams, as determined by a system that adjusts margin of victory based on schedule. |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com Just about everything's been going the Brooklyn Nets' way of late - they've won nine of their last 10, they're 12-2 since firing Avery Johnson, they've made multiple improvements on both sides of the ball under P.J. Carlesimo and they've drawn to within |
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Dan Majerle and Elston Turner discuss leaving the Phoenix Suns, being passed over as head coachJan 24
Kelly Dwyer, yahoo.com When Alvin Gentry and the Phoenix Suns decided that they’d had enough of each other last week, all signs pointed to either venerated longtime assistant coach Elston Turner or longtime Phoenix Suns legend and assistant coach Dan Majerle taking the job. C… |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com Coming into this season, Delonte West was expected to play a major role in a rebuilt Dallas Mavericks backcourt that featured new starters at both guard positions. Things went sour just before the start of the campaign, though, with Mavericks coach Rick… |
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The Lakers were supposed to be the toast of Los Angeles. But at the midpoint of the season, it's the rival Clippers at the head of the class, says Ben Golliver, who grades every team. |
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Patrick Cassidy, dimemag.com Stephen Curry had it going on against the Oklahoma City Thunder last night. Actually, Steph’s had it going on all season long [Here's why he deserves to be an NBA All-Star]. Last night against the Thunder though, he was special, racking up 31 points, se… |
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Ian Begley, ESPN.com Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony has filed an appeal with the players' association to try to recoup lost wages from his one-game suspension for confronting Boston's Kevin Garnett. |
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Barry Petchesky, deadspin.com The owners insisted they had no plans to move the team. That's what the Maloofs swore, raising their right hand as their left hand worked deals with buyers first from Anaheim, then Virginia Beach, then Seattle. And that's what the owners of the Kansas C… |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com As if the simple action of playing basketball at the speed of the NBA game wasn't exhausting enough, sometimes you have to play 20 second-half minutes at a super-high level to erase a seven-point halftime deficit, and then play another five minutes of e… |
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Kelly Dwyer, yahoo.com On Jan. 15, 2008, Joakim Noah probably didn’t want to secure Ben Wallace’s comeuppance. As a rookie, he probably didn’t even want to secure Ben Wallace’s job, or get then-Chicago Bulls coach Jim Boylan fired from his gig. What he wanted was for hi… |
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Tom Ley, deadspin.com JaVale McGee continues to be a delight. A normal basketball player, after fooling Omer Asik with a savvy pump fake, would have finished this play with a simple step-through move and a gentle layup. But JaVale McGee is not a normal basketball player, and… |
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Dime Magazine, dimemag.com A super-entertaining article posted on the L.A. Times web site last night by writer Mike Bresnahan describes a Lakers team meeting held before yesterday’s shootaround in Memphis, where the “guys went at each other a little bit.” The picture he paint… |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Stephen Curry had 31 points and seven assists, David Lee finished with 22 points and 12 rebounds and the Golden State Warriors outlasted theOklahoma City Thunder 104-99 on Wednesday night. |
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Dime Magazine, dimemag.com You know you have a good team when you can withstand five three-pointers from Jose Calderon, 36 combined points off the bench from a journeyman (Alan Anderson) and a rookie (Terrence Ross), and a turnover and missed shot from LeBron in the final minute.… |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com When the Milwaukee Bucks and coach Scott Skiles decided to part ways earlier this month, the franchise appeared to be treading on some pretty unstable ground. |
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