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Report: Nets interested in landing Jazz's Millsap

Mike Mazzeo, ESPN.com

The Brooklyn Nets are interested in trading for Utah Jazz power forward Paul Millsap, according to a report in the New York Daily News.

Associated Press, ESPN.com

Rudy Gay hit a pull-up jump shot with less than five seconds remaining and the Toronto Raptors beat the short-handed Denver Nuggets 109-108 on Tuesday.

nba.com

The Chicago Bulls left injured guard Kirk Hinrich at home when they traveled to Boston to face the Celtics in their final game before the All-Star break.

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Brazilan guard Leandro Barbosa has a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee and will miss the rest of the NBA season for the Boston Celtics.

Jared Zwerling, ESPN.com

New York Knicks coach Mike Woodson said that reserve guard Iman Shumpert will not be traded before the Feb. 21 deadline.

Matt Gibson, dimemag.com

Attention Kenyon Martin shoppers. Your power forward is ready for pickup. The 12-year vet, with career averages of 13 points and 7.1 boards, claims he’s ready to take advantage of whatever opportunity comes his way at the age of 34. Earlier this season,…

ESPN.com news services, ESPN.com

Boston Celtics guard Leandro Barbosa has a torn left ACL and is out for the rest of the season, a team source told ESPN The Magazine's Chris Broussard.

Spencer Lund, dimemag.com

J.R. Smith has always been a kid at heart. Early in February, after missing everything but oxygen and nitrogen on a free throw attempt, Smith tried his hand with the kids during halftime of the Knicks 99-85 win over Detroit. The kids famously refused to…

Dan Devine, yahoo.com

On one hand, an NBA player hitting an open elbow jumper to re-take a fourth-quarter lead from a dog-tired team that had just gone to triple-overtime one day earlier isn't, like, a super huge highlight. On the other, when that NBA player plies his trade …

grantland.com

The life and death of Spencer Hawes! Blake Griffin (sorta) switched hands in midair against the Sixers last night. According to the announcers, the cr...