National Basketball League News and Rumors
Nash out indefinitely; Blake to miss four gamesDave McMenamin, ESPN.com Los Angeles Lakers point guard Steve Nash and Steve Blake remain out indefinitely due to injuries. |
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Anthony leads surging Knicks to rout of HornetsNov 20, 2012
Associated Press, ESPN.com Carmelo Anthony scored 29 points and the New York Knicks extended the undermanned New Orleans Hornets' losing streak to four games with a 102-80 victory Tuesday night. |
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Sixers rally past Raptors for third straight winNov 20, 2012
Associated Press, ESPN.com Jason Richardson scored six of his 21 points late in the fourth quarter, Nick Young had 23 off the bench and the Philadelphia 76ers rallied to beat the Toronto Raptors 106-98 on Tuesday night. |
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Somehow The Knicks Managed To Get Even OlderNov 20, 2012
Jack Dickey, deadspin.com Popped on ESPN.com to check the boxscore of tonight's Knicks-Hornets game. Had to see how the local basketball team was doing. According to the boxscore, the Knicks have on their bench a 54-year-old guard/forward who last played in 1991. That's a vetera… |
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Hornets' Davis out with left ankle injuryNov 20, 2012
Top overall draft choice Anthony Davis has been scratched from New Orleans' lineup against New York on Tuesday night because of a flare-up of his left ankle injury that first occurred Friday night. |
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Warriors expect Bogut to miss three more gamesNov 20, 2012
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Golden State Warriors center Andrew Bogut is scheduled to miss at least the next three games as he continues to strengthen his surgically repaired left ankle. |
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Eric Freeman, yahoo.com About a year ago, back when it was assumed that Dwight Howard would leave the Orlando Magic as a free agent in the summer of 2012, the Brooklyn Nets were the odds-on favorite to land his services. Along with point guard Deron Williams, Howard would have… |
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Mavericks' Nowitzki still unsure when he will playNov 20, 2012
DALLAS (AP) Dirk Nowitzki says he is still about two weeks away from getting back on the court to start running and shooting. He's not sure how long after that it will be before he makes his season debut for the Dallas Mavericks. |
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Eric Freeman, yahoo.com Early last week, the NBA unveiled the single-color, stencil-font jerseys that teams will wear for its high-profile slate of Christmas games. However, for a global corporation, simply announcing new products for sale is not enough. There must be a compel… |
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Warriors' Bogut sidelined for three more gamesNov 20, 2012
Golden State Warriors center Andrew Bogut is scheduled to miss at least the next three NBA games as he continues to strengthen his surgically repaired left ankle. |
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Ethan Sherwood Strauss, deadspin.com A celebration of the NBA's most infuriating players, both past and present. Read other NBA Shit List entries here. More » |
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Bogut (ankle) to miss at least 3 more gamesNov 20, 2012
ESPN.com news services, ESPN.com Golden State Warriors center Andrew Bogut will miss at least three more games as he continues to rehabilitate his surgically repaired left ankle, the team announced Tuesday. |
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Dirk targets mid-December return to gamesNov 20, 2012
Tim MacMahon, ESPN.com Dirk Nowitzki hopes to begin basketball activity within the next two weeks and is targeting a mid-December return to game action, the Dallas Mavericks star forward said Tuesday. |
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Spencer Lund, dimemag.com The Knicks are 7-1 as the toast of the town, and their Jay-Z-owned brothers across the East River, the Nets, are 6-2 and second in the Atlantic Division. That means the Post and Daily News are foaming at the mouth to stir up a little New York rivalry an… |
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Kelly Dwyer, 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: Hoopspeak. Beckley Mason on the emergi… |
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Knee Feeling Better, D'Antoni to Make Lakers DebutNov 20, 2012
Howard Beck, nytimes.com Mike D'Antoni, the new Lakers coach, will be on the bench for the game against the Nets on Tuesday night. |
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When Chicago Bulls Luol Deng, Joakim Noah, and Jimmy Butler met Sir Paul McCartney (PHOTO)Nov 20, 2012
Kelly Dwyer, yahoo.com We have no idea how Chicago Bulls forward Jimmy Butler and Luol Deng teamed with center Joakim Noah and Sir Paul McCartney to create a photo that Kelly Dwyer will someday have tattooed onto his back, but we're very happy Luol took the time to share the … |
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Milicic likely leaving Celts, NBA for family issueNov 20, 2012
Greg Payne, ESPN.com Darko Milicic is likely leaving the team to be with his ailing mother. |
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Haslem two boards from setting Heat all-time recordNov 20, 2012
When Udonis Haslem was trying to make the Miami Heat take notice of him a decade ago, assistant coach Keith Askins gave him one piece of advice. |
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Cavs' Irving (finger) frustrated by latest injuryNov 20, 2012
Kyrie Irving couldn't handle playing with just one hand. Now, it's the Cleveland Cavaliers turn. |
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Deadspin I-Team: Who Are Those Amazing Lakers Bros?Nov 20, 2012
Tom Ley, deadspin.com OK, these guys have now become way too internet famous to not be identified. We must know who they are. How did they afford those seats? Are they brothers, or just bros? Did they wear matching t-shirts to the game and buy matching jerseys to wear over t… |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com I'm sure Scott Skiles thought he was pretty slick the first time he thought of pointing at his Milwaukee Bucks and saying, "I want you ... to work harder at defending the pick-and-roll." It was an especially nice touch to wear the hat and bear… |
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Wade practices, plans to return WednesdayNov 20, 2012
Michael Wallace, ESPN.com Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade plans to return from injury Wednesday. |
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Kelly Dwyer, yahoo.com In the year leading up to and the season following LeBron James' insipid 'Decision,' the Cleveland Cavaliers went about things about as incorrectly as one franchise conceivably can. In the time since, luckily for northern Ohioans, the team is doing just… |
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Spencer Lund, dimemag.com It’s ironic that losing Chris Bosh to an injury in last season’s Eastern Conference Semifinals signaled an end to the LeBron/Dwyane Wade overlap many believed would prevent them from ever climbing the mountain. Wade shifted to sidekick, James asserted… |
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Cavaliers' Irving to miss 4 weeks with fractured finger |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com One of the biggest plays in Monday night's entertaining and competitive — no, really! — contest between the Charlotte Bobcats and Milwaukee Bucks came late in the fourth quarter, with the Bucks holding onto a 96-93 advantage following a 14-6 Bobcats r… |
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News Corp. acquires 49 percent stake in YESNov 20, 2012
Darren Rovell, ESPN.com News Corporation, parent company of Fox Sports, is inching closer to acquiring 49 percent of the YES Network, sources who were briefed by its board of directors on Monday told ESPN. |
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Sean Sweeney, dimemag.com Last week, I was ready to write Manu Ginobili off. I was going to pen a piece pronouncing him dead, his All-Star years over, the Spurs’ chances at one final championship done. It wasn’t only because he started off slowly this year – and he did, fail… |
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Kelly Dwyer, yahoo.com We take no great pleasure in kicking a team while it's down, but the flailing Washington Wizards just can't be ignored. The team still has yet to win a game in nine tries, following Monday night's failed comeback against the Indiana Pacers; but whatever… |
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Gregg Popovich says Spurs were ‘soft’ in loss to Clippers: ‘… we were an embarrassment’Nov 20, 2012
Dan Devine, yahoo.com In the midst of another strong start that's continued a some increased experimentation along the way, the 8-2 San Antonio Spurs welcomed the similarly streaking 7-2 Los Angeles Clippers to the AT&T Center on Monday night with their hearts set on pay… |
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By 2025, The NBA Will Have A Latino MVPNov 20, 2012
Reuben Fischer, deadspin.com I'd like to make a $100 bet: By 2025 the NBA will have a Latino MVP. I'm willing to go one step further, I believe it will be a U.S.-born Latino MVP. I'll go one step further still and say that it won't be Carmelo Anthony (whose father is Puerto-Rican).… |
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Lin struggles (5 of 15) in skidding Rockets' loss to Jazz |
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Jazz take it to ill Harden, road-weary RocketsNov 20, 2012
Associated Press, ESPN.com Reserve Gordon Hayward scored 15 points, Al Jefferson had 14 points and 16 rebounds and the Utah Jazz beat the road-weary Houston Rockets 102-91 on Monday night. |
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Sources: News Corp. looking to own part of YESNov 20, 2012
Darren Rovell, ESPN.com News Corporation, parent company of Fox Sports, is inching closer to acquiring 49 percent of the YES Network, sources who were briefed by its board of directors on Monday told ESPN. |
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Botebook: Jazz 102, Rockets 91Nov 20, 2012
THE FACTS: The Utah Jazz are only a .500 team overall, but they have some serious home-court magic going on this season. |
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Dime Magazine, dimemag.com Maybe the Clippers are really this good? Or maybe the Spurs just aren’t THAT good? San Antonio has now lost two of their last three home games, and twice already this year to the Clippers. But we’re leaning to the Clippers being pretty good, because, … |
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Gallinari's 26 help Nuggets halt Grizzlies' streakNov 20, 2012
Associated Press, ESPN.com Danilo Gallinari scored 26 points and the Denver Nuggets ended the Memphis Grizzlies' win streak at eight games. |
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What's Wrong With the Pacers?Nov 20, 2012
Three weeks into the season and it's become clear the Indiana Pacers are in big trouble. An offense that ranked in the top third of the league last se... |
