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NBA Northwest News and Rumors

Dwyane Wade suspended 1 game for groin kick, Dwight Howard fined $35K for flagrant foul

Dan Devine, yahoo.com

We were pretty sure that some nature of punishment would come down from the league office for both Dwyane Wade and Dwight Howard after the former went below the belt on Charlotte Bobcats guard Ramon Sessions and the latter went up high on Denver Nuggets…

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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- P.J. Carlesimo hadn't even coached his first game with the Brooklyn Nets and already names such as Phil Jackson were floating around.

Dan Devine, yahoo.com

If you were watching Thursday night's NBA action on TNT, the late-running opener between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Dallas Mavericks — pushed to overtime thanks to this absurd, one-of-a-kind buzzer-beating 3-pointer by Darren Collison — meant that …

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LOS ANGELES -- The 2007-08 Houston Rockets have become something of a cautionary tale in the NBA, a middling team that stood at 24-20 on Jan. 27, before they jumped into a kerosene bath. The searing Rockets embarked on a 22-game winning streak, an unfor…