Pierce, Celtics down Lakers in Howard's returnAssociated Press, ESPN.com Paul Pierce scored 24 points and led a third-quarter surge as the Boston Celtics routed the Lakers 116-95 on Thursday night in Dwight Howard's return for Los Angeles. |
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Chris Forsberg, ESPN.com Celtics forward Kevin Garnett became only the 16th player in NBA history to reach 25,000 points during Thursday's game against the Los Angeles Lakers. |
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Dwight Howard has started for the Los Angeles Lakers after missing three games with a sore right shoulder. |
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ESPN.com news services, ESPN.com Los Angeles Lakers forward Pau Gasol is expected to be out a minimum of six to eight weeks with a tear in the plantar fascia of his right foot, the team announced. |
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Dom Cosentino, deadspin.com The video above is from several weeks ago, when the Clippers played the Rockets in Houston, but it only now came to our attention because Chandler Parsons just tweeted it in our direction so we would see it: More » |
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Dime Magazine, dimemag.com Over the course of a few days in January, a massive Blake Griffin Red Bull mural was raised in downtown L.A. just a short distance from the Staples Center. The mural is located at the corner of Olympic & Figueroa, and was hand-painted by a group of … |
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Andrew Greif, dimemag.com This won’t come as a surprise but the Clippers without Chris Paul are a fine, if unspectacular Western Conference team. They’d make the playoffs but likely be bounced early without him — an exit befitting the team that lost to Toronto by 25, not the… |
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Arash Markazi, ESPN.com For the first time this season, the Los Angeles Clippers had all of their players in uniform and practicing Thursday, and could possibly have them all in uniform and playing Friday night against the Miami Heat if there are no setbacks. |
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Andrew Greif, dimemag.com There still is not a better rivalry in the NBA than Celtics vs. Lakers, a feud that manages to entertain out of some deep, decades-old obligation to spite one another even when the teams are just OK or when one’s internal bickering is more fun than its … |
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Dime Magazine, dimemag.com ESPN got in front of Dwight Howard today after Lakers shootaround to ask him about Kobe Bryant‘s comments implying that Dwight needs to suck it up and play through his shoulder pain. Not surprisingly, Dwight’s not amused: The comments from Steve Nash … |
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Sean Sweeney, dimemag.com After hitting gold with their last couple of collections, Million Dollar Ballers might’ve outdone themselves again. Their latest collection honors the greatest frontcourt ever to strap on goggles: the Lakers’ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, James Worthy and Kurt… |
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Chris Paul has spent years preparing himself for his first championship. With a young, balanced Clippers team now behind him, nothing but that title will suffice, says Ian Thomsen. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Kevin Durant scored 25 points, Russell Westbrook added 22 and the Oklahoma City Thunder throttled the travel-weary Golden State Warriors 119-98 Wednesday night to win consecutive games for the first time in nearly three weeks. |
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