National Basketball League News and Rumors
Wolves' Roy has setback with right kneeMinnesota Timberwolves guard Brandon Roy has had a setback with his surgically repaired right knee, casting further doubt on his chances of resuming a career derailed by knee problems. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Kevin Durant scored 27 points, Russell Westbrook added 21 points and nine assists and the Oklahoma City Thunder beat Memphis 106-89 Thursday night in the Grizzlies' first game since trading away leading-scorer Rudy Gay. |
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Joe Kaiser, ESPN.com Dirk Nowitzki of the Dallas Mavericks will miss Thursday's game against the Golden State Warriors with a right adductor strain, yet another blow to a Mavs (19-26) team that has taken its fair share of punishment already this season. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com A North Texas jury has found the 22-year-old son of former NBA player Nick Van Exel guilty of murder in the shooting death of a longtime friend. |
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Dwyane Wade will captain the Eastern Conference and Chris Paul will lead the West when All-Star Saturday becomes a team event for the first time. |
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Toronto Raptors coach Dwane Casey was fined $25,000 by the NBA on Thursday for criticizing officials the previous night after a loss at Atlanta. |
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Eric Freeman, yahoo.com In addition to being one of best coaches in the NBA, Gregg Popovich of the San Antonio Spurs can be a big grump. He's well known as one of the league's least forthcoming interview subjects, treats between-quarter talks with sideline reporters as a burde… |
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Beckley Mason, nytimes.com After struggling last season, the Knicks' front-line stars - Carmelo Anthony, Amar'e Stoudemire and Tyson Chandler - are now dominating together on offense. |
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Darko Milicic. Hasheem Thabeet. Stromile Swift. Sam Bowie. |
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Dime Magazine, dimemag.com Over the years, the Dime Family has worked closely with every top player in the NBA. All of them. And we often get asked who we like the most, who we dislike the most, who is the best to work with, and who is the most difficult to work with. Right at t… |
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Ian Begley, ESPN.com New York Knicks point guard Jason Kidd will sit out of Wednesday's game against the Orlando Magic with a sore lower back. |
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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: MORE RUDY TALK, Y'ALL! By now, you've … |
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Andrew Greif, dimemag.com By way of The New York Post (with a hat tip to Nets blog The Brooklyn Game, Brooklyn point guard Deron Williams has just bought a $15.8 million penthouse loft in Manhattan’s TriBeCa. As you might expect from a living space with that kind of price tag, t… |
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Dave McMenamin, ESPN.com Los Angeles Lakers star center Dwight Howard has been diagnosed with a sore right shoulder and will be listed as day to day. |
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Tom Ley, deadspin.com Adrian Wojnarowski's latest Yahoo column is a thorough think piece about what the Memphis Grizzlies' decision to trade Rudy Gay to the Toronto Raptors means for the future of NBA free agency. It's a perfectly fine read, but what caught our attention was… |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Ricky Rubio is standing up for his fellow Spaniard Pau Gasol, saying he doesn't think it's fair that the Los Angeles Lakers are bringing Gasol off the bench this season. |
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Ricky Rubio is standing up for his fellow Spaniard Pau Gasol, saying he doesn't think it's fair that the Los Angeles Lakers are bringing Gasol off the bench this season. |
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Nick Friedell, ESPN.com Chicago Bulls point guard Nate Robinson said Wednesday he had a plan if he didn't sign with an NBA team last summer, and that was an NFL tryout. |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com Plenty of things were surprising about the Phoenix Suns' come-from-behind 92-86 home win over the Los Angeles Lakers in the late game of ESPN's Wednesday night double-header - that the Lakers offense sputtered after three straight strong games helmed by |
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The Memphis Grizzlies have shown once before they can be contenders without Rudy Gay. |
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Andrew Greif, dimemag.com If Los Angeles Lakers fans don’t already know it, the number 48 is the most important statistic to know this season. Forty-eight wins is what it takes to make the playoffs as an eighth seed, averaged over the last five seasons, according to the NBA. Itâ… |
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Samantha Farlow, nytimes.com Michael Marcus and David Ramos, longtime Knicks fans, are starting to fall in love with the Nets. |
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Kelly Dwyer, yahoo.com Future Hall of Famer Kevin Garnett and talent-laden Kings big man DeMarcus Cousins are two of the NBA’s more, um, “talkative” players. So of course the big men are both going to talk quite a bit about a subject that we didn’t even deign to talk ab… |
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ESPN.com, ESPN.com Our panel gives their takes on each team involved in the trade that sent Rudy Gay to Toronto. |
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Mike Mazzeo, ESPN.com Brooklyn Nets power forward Reggie Evans said Thursday he never downplayed the Miami Heat's championship from the lockout-shortened 2011-12 season, and his comments were blown out of proportion. |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com There were 12 games on the NBA schedule on Wednesday night. That's 576 minutes of basketball (because none of them went into overtime, duh) and, as you might expect, a lot of stuff can happen in nearly 10 hours of NBA play. There was something weird abo… |
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Sean Sweeney, dimemag.com The vultures are circling in Boston. The Celtics will probably still make the playoffs without Rajon Rondo, but the chances of them winning a round are slim. For Kevin Garnett, that would be another short postseason, and would leave him heading into nex… |
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Pistons fan learns about Tayshaun Prince trade, takes off Prince jersey, lets healing begin (VIDEO)Jan 31
Dan Devine, yahoo.com Most analysis of Wednesday night's trades sending Rudy Gay to the Toronto Raptors, Ed Davis, Tayshaun Prince and Austin Daye to the Memphis Grizzlies, and Jose Calderon to the Detroit Pistons has focused on what the swaps meant for the Raps' future or t… |
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Justin Kubatko, nytimes.com Danilo Gallinari leads nine players averaging 8.1 or more points per game for Denver, which has won 18 of 24 games after an 11-12 start. |
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Kelly Dwyer, yahoo.com If it seems like a well-worn rant, it’s because you’ve been well warned in advance: The Toronto Raptors are complaining about the hand that’s been dealt to them, this time in the form of yet another terrible call down the stretch of a game they shou… |
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The relocation of the Kings to Seattle is not a done deal, but the damage has been done. A team built for the future, the Kings are struggling through the present, says Ian Thomsen. |
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Sean Sweeney, dimemag.com For a while last night, Brooklyn was giving it to the defending champs as often as they were getting it. Eventually, LeBron put a stop to all that, but not before Joe Johnson hit Chris Bosh with a nasty behind-the-back step-back that nearly had the big … |
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Kelly Dwyer, yahoo.com The 2012-13 Orlando Magic were put together under terrible terms. The team was built under the leadership of the former GM and current CEO, two men in Otis Smith and (especially) Alex Martins that wanted to appease current Los Angeles Laker disappointme… |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com It's a fundamental tenet of basketball - if you want to reliably create quality offense, you're going to want to play somebody willing to and capable of setting good screens. Even the best shot-makers won't consistently knock down contested looks, and h |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Michael Beasley scored a season-high 27 points and the Phoenix Suns rallied from 13 down in the fourth quarter to hand the Los Angeles Lakers their eighth straight road loss, 92-86 on Wednesday night. |
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Dime Magazine, dimemag.com So, when exactly is the latest “new” Lakers season starting? At the end of the third quarter last night in Phoenix’s unbelievable 92-86 win, all was right in L.A. The Lakers shot 65 percent in the third quarter, Kobe was dishing (17 points, nine ass… |
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Dave McMenamin, ESPN.com Although his team is riding a three-game winning streak, Los Angeles Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni sounded exasperated when asked about Pau Gasol's reaction to his fourth-quarter benching Tuesday. |
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Mike Mazzeo, ESPN.com Following his team's third embarrassing performance in its past four games, Brooklyn Nets small forward Gerald Wallace didn't mince words. |
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Brian Windhorst, ESPN.com LeBron James was not amused with Reggie Evans' comments that devalued the NBA title won by the Miami Heat last season. So James dominated the Brooklyn Nets on Wednesday night, and then directly ripped Evans after the game. |
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