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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.

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Bucks drop Suns for first win in Phoenix since '87

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.

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Warriors' Curry out indefinitely with ankle sprain

Eric Freeman, yahoo.com

Los Angeles Lakers icon Kobe Bryant has been a part of the NBA for 17 seasons. During that time, he's seen several different eras, from the end of Michael Jordan's dominance to the recent ascendance of LeBron James and Kevin Durant. The only constant, r…

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…

Kelly Dwyer, yahoo.com

Kobe Bryant made the All-Defensive second team last season. Let that sink in a bit. The guy who has been dragging his leg around for three years, the man who had to have his knee drained several times a season, was selected by coaches as one of the four…

Tim Brandl, dimemag.com

Last week, the basketball world was abuzz with news that the owners of the Sacramento Kings were in the process of finalizing the sale of the franchise to a Seattle-based ownership group. The upshot of the apparent deal, while far from sealed, was that …

Eric Freeman, yahoo.com

LeBron James has been a star from roughly the minute he entered the NBA in 2003, and over that time he's accomplished a heck of a lot. As a player who can do pretty much anything he wishes on the court, LeBron has accrued a lot of numbers over that time…

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In the Rivers' first father-son meeting, Austin got the best of Doc in the Hornets' 90-78 win. But the emotional night, years in the making, was about much more, says Ian Thomsen.