National Basketball League News and Rumors
Rudy Gay Saves Memphis; A King Makes A Game-Winner In D.C.Dime Magazine, dimemag.com The last time Rudy Gay posted up Evan Turner, the Sixers appointed nerd damn near ripped Gay’s arm out of his socket. That was back in 2011, and since then, Gay, Zach Randolph and the Grizz can’t go a week without someone pointing out that their marri… |
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Arash Markazi, ESPN.com Dwight Howard and Kobe Bryant acknowledge that airing their differences in a recent, much-discussed team meeting has |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Marc Gasol scored a season-high 27 points and Rudy Gay had 26 to lead the Memphis Grizzlies to a 103-100 win over the Philadelphia 76ers on Monday night. |
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ESPN.com news services, ESPN.com Center Andrew Bogut was in the starting lineup for the Golden State Warriors' 114-102 win Monday against the Raptors, his first action since Nov. 7. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Deron Williams had 20 points and nine assists, and the Brooklyn Nets beat the Orlando Magic 97-77 on Monday night for their eighth straight home victory. |
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Nick Friedell, ESPN.com Chicago Bulls All-Star forward Luol Deng was in the starting lineup Monday night against the Charlotte Bobcats. |
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Nuggets center JaVale McGee was ruled out of Denver's game against the Indiana Pacers on Monday night due to soreness in his left shin. |
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Pacers re-sign Sam YoungJan 28
Forward Sam Young was re-signed Monday by the Indiana Pacers, three weeks after being released by the club. |
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Eric Freeman, yahoo.com The National Basketball Developmental League was created primarily so that young players, drafted or otherwise, could develop their games and improve their chances of staying in the NBA for many years. In recent D-League seasons, though, we've seen form… |
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Arash Markazi, ESPN.com Los Angeles Lakers guard Steve Blake went through a full practice with the team Monday and will return to the lineup Tuesday when the Lakers play the New Orleans Hornets. |
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Grizzlies rally from 17-point deficit to knock off Sixers |
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Rick Adelman is back on the court and coaching basketball after three weeks away to help his wife through a health scare. |
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Jay Busbee, yahoo.com When money rolls in, tragedy soon follows. Over the course of his NBA career, Lorenzen Wright earned an estimated $55.2 million in salary. He died in 2010, shot to death, his body left to decompose in the woods southeast of Memphis. But the battle over … |
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The Dallas Mavericks have sent Jared Cunningham back to their NBA Development League team. |
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Rajon Rondo was having his best season for the struggling Boston Celtics. |
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Kyrie Irving capped an incredible week with a deserved award. |
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Eric Freeman, yahoo.com At this point in our media-saturated lives, we've seen enough athlete visits to the White House that a single random meeting of sports stars and our president does not register as a year-defining event. However, it's always notable when the NBA champion… |
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Andrew Greif, dimemag.com Filmmaker Evan Jackson Leong did not call up Jeremy Lin last February and ask to document his life once Lin became an international star. He had contacted Lin, and been turned down every time, routinely ever since contacting him around four years ago. S… |
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Jonah Bromwich, nytimes.com The best N.B.A. games of the week feature Indiana at Denver, Miami at the Nets and Washington at Memphis. |
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Sean Sweeney, dimemag.com The day after Dwight Howard and the Lakers had probably their most impressive win of the season, adidas has revealed the new D Howard Light, which is the lightest basketball sneaker to date for one of the NBA’s best defensive players. The reflective ton… |
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Rajon Rondo's season is over. The do-it-all guard was the glue that held Boston together, and his absence will be felt throughout the roster. Rob Mahoney examines life without him. |
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Kelly Dwyer, yahoo.com We don’t know much about this video, other than it features a team from the Russian Basketball League, and a member of Spartak-Primorye taking a pass from Torey Thomas before sending it along to … just watch: The coach that grabbed the dish and made t… |
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Kelly Dwyer, yahoo.com On Feb. 10, the Chinese New Year hits. And as part of his partnership with the NBA, former Houston Rockets All-Star Yao Ming will take part in a series of events that will start on Feb. 8, promoting 23 games that will be nationally televised in China as… |
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Jim Cavan, nytimes.com Amar'e Stoudemire's Knicks comeback has taken a turn for the promising in recent games. |
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Kelly Dwyer, yahoo.com We've attempted in several ways, over nearly a day, to write a column around Jeff Van Gundy's televised rant about Dwight Howard. The vent, pitched in the second quarter of Los Angeles' 105-96 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Sunday, was on point a… |
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Chicago Bulls forward Luol Deng is asking British Prime Minister David Cameron to pump government money into the country's basketball program to ensure the legacy from the London Olympics isn't "completely demolished." |
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Patrick Cassidy, dimemag.com There were a ton of story lines going on in Boston yesterday (a major one emerged during the game), one of which included a return to Boston for one of the greatest shooters in Celtics’ history. Check out the Ray Allen tribute video that the team ran on… |
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Kelly Dwyer, yahoo.com Before we dig in to J.J. Redick’s choices on a date night, it bears mentioning that we all do things we don’t want to for our partners. For instance, in my relationship I’ve had to … well, hmm. There’s not a lot that’s too embarrassing. My wif… |
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Sean Sweeney, dimemag.com Last night, for the second time in as many nights, Blake Griffin caught Portland with a nasty slam. Whereas on Saturday night, Griffin’s left-handed dunk put Nic Batum on a poster, this time it was J.J. Hickson who got a piece of Quake’s wrath. At lea… |
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Kelly Dwyer, yahoo.com Since his jump to Miami in 2010, eight-time All-Star forward/center Chris Bosh has turned into a bit of a punch line. His smart batch of humor, slender build of frame, and status as a distant third among the Heat’s Big Three triptych including LeBron Ja… |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Blake Griffin had 23 points and nine assists and the Los Angeles Clippers ended a four-game losing streak with a 96-83 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Sunday. |
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Carmelo Anthony's red-hot 3-point shooting saves NY Knicks from poor defensive effort... againJan 28
Clearly, these are not your father’s Knicks anymore. The crowd may still chant “Dee-fense” at the Garden, but on Sunday the fans didn’t often complete those two full syllables before Atlanta penetrated for an easy basket in the paint or buried a w… |
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Dime Magazine, dimemag.com Boston coach Doc Rivers set the scene after his Celtics’ dramatic double-OT win over Miami. It’s Sunday afternoon, the NBA’s first national matinee game of the season, and the Celtics are prepping to play Miami when the team doctor pulls him aside r… |
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You know it's just a nickname, right? That was Glenn "Doc" Rivers's response to a postgame reporter who had just asked him whether Rajon Rondo would... |
