USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo, named the 20 finalists for the U.S. Olympic men’s basketball team today. The team consisted of eight of the players that featured in the 2008 Olympic team that won the gold medal, 10 players of …
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ATLANTA (AP) — Joe Johnson scored 25 points, Ivan Johnson hit the clinching free throws with 4.6 seconds remaining and the Atlanta Hawks rallied from 18 points down to beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 93-91 on Saturday night. Kevin Love missed …
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Twelve games into this hectic, compressed 66-game NBA season and alarm bells are ringing in New York. And Mike D’Antoni, once the NBA’s anointed modern-day Guru of Go thanks to the Steve Nash-powered ‘Seven Seconds or Less’ product he oversaw …
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Carpe Diem. Or “seize the day, putting as little trust as possible in the future.” That’s Kobe Bryant’s motto. And to this day, it’s still the driving force behind what makes him one of the greatest to ever set foot …
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Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers drives in for a basket against the Cleveland Cavaliers at Staples Center on January 13, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kobe Bryant scored 42 points in his third straight …
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Dwight Howard broke Wilt Chamberlain’s nearly 50-year-old NBA record for most free throw attempts in a game, making 21 of 39 in the Orlando Magic’s 117-109 victory over the Golden State Warriors on Thursday night. The …
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Dwight Howard leads all players after the first returns of the 2012 NBA All-Star Ballot. Howard, who has been named Defensive Player of the Year each of the past three seasons, is the overall leading with 754,737 votes. Howard paces …
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When Matt Barnes signed a 2-year contract with the Lakers in the summer of 2010, the team thought they had just added another tough defender and a player who will always do the little things that are easily forgotten but …
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Minnesota Timberwolves’ Ricky Rubio of Spain, left, and Chicago Bulls’ Derrick Rose part after they exchanged a hug following the Bulls’ 111-100 win on Tuesday in Minneapolis. Rose scored a season-high 31 points and had 11 assists to outlast Ricky …
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Editor: We’re pleased to present to you an excellent guest submission from budding phenom Adam Raymond on the art of the chasedown block. Enjoy, and keep those submissions coming! Holy Mother of Mary. How did he do that? Honestly, there’s …
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