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Clips, without Paul, cruise past sliding Wolves

Associated Press, ESPN.com

Jamal Crawford scored 22 points, Blake Griffin added 20 and the Los Angeles Clippers hardly broke a sweat in cruising to a 90-77 victory over the free-falling Minnesota Timberwolves on Thursday night.

nba.com

The Minnesota Timberwolves have agreed to terms with French swingman Mickael Gelabale.

nba.com

Ricky Rubio is back where he belongs -- in the starting lineup for the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Arash Markazi, ESPN.com

Los Angeles Clippers point guard Chris Paul will not play Thursday against the Minnesota Timberwolves, sitting out his third straight game because of a bruised right kneecap.

Dan Devine, yahoo.com

Every team in the league would love to have Oklahoma City Thunder star Kevin Durant on their roster. But as a young NBA fan growing up in Washington, D.C., which roster did Durant himself wish he could join? Surprisingly, the answer wasn't his hometown …

Dan Devine, yahoo.com

Pau Gasol will return to the Los Angeles Lakers' lineup for the team's nationally televised Thursday game against the defending NBA champion Miami Heat after missing five games with a concussion brought on by an inadvertent elbow from Denver Nuggets cen…

CNNSI.com

Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook dominate the headlines in Oklahoma City, but Ian Thomsen says that the emergence of Serge Ibaka has really kept the Thunder among the elite.

Associated Press, ESPN.com

Russell Westbrook scored 32 points, Kevin Martin had 20 and the Oklahoma City Thunder snapped Denver's six-game winning streak by beating the Nuggets 117-97 on Wednesday night.

grantland.com

When I gave last night's Thunder-Nuggets game one of my coveted DVR slots, I knew I was probably recording a schedule loss. Denver was on the second n...