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Derek Fisher returns to Dallas for the first time since requesting his release from Mavericks
Mar 17, 2013, 8:00 PM EDT
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The Thunder will take on the mavericks in Dallas on Sunday, and it marks the first time that Derek Fisher will return to face his former team. Fisher signed to play with the Mavericks at the beginning of December, as the team was struggling with its point guard rotation. Fisher appeared in nine games and…
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Larry Sanders fined $50K for using ‘a derogatory and offensive term’ and publicly criticizing officials
Mar 17, 2013, 6:30 PM EDT
Larry Sanders of the Milwaukee Bucks has been fined $50,000 for “using a derogatory and offensive term and publicly criticizing the officials,” the league announced on Sunday via official release. The incident occurred with 2:44 remaining the Bucks’ home loss to the Heat on Friday, when Sanders directed the language to the referees and was…
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DeAndre Jordan throws down the windmill jam against the Knicks (VIDEO)
Mar 17, 2013, 5:00 PM EDT
DeAndre Jordan got loose on the fast break early in the Clippers’ contest against the Knicks, and made sure to finish with some style by throwing down the thunderous windmill jam. This wasn’t quite on the level of DeAndre’s destruction of Brandon Knight, but not bad for an early Sunday afternoon start.
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The streak continues for the Heat. After a 108-91 road victory over the Raptors on Sunday afternoon, Miami has now won 22 consecutive games. The Heat controlled this one from very early on, leading by as many as 16 points in the first half, despite the Raptors out-rebounding them by 19 over the game’s first…
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Delonte West made his debut with the D-League Texas Legends on Saturday, playing professionally in a game for the first time all season. He started off strong with eight points on 3-4 shooting, to go along with two rebounds and an assist while playing all 12 first quarter minutes. West’s numbers dropped off significantly after…
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Manu Ginobili slips and falls before finishing with the finger roll (VIDEO)
Mar 17, 2013, 12:30 PM EDT
This is the type of play that has defined Manu Ginobili throughout his career, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that he’s still making them while playing in his 11th NBA season. As Ginobili lines up his defender and begins his dribble-drive, he slips and falls, but not all the way to the floor, and…
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Marc Gasol uses his shoe to play defense against the Jazz (VIDEO)
Mar 17, 2013, 11:00 AM EDT
Marc Gasol found himself without a shoe at one point during Saturday’s loss to the Jazz, but that didn’t stop him from trying to continue to play defense. Sort of. Gasol lost his shoe after Derrick Favors stepped on his foot, but play continued on. One of Gasol’s teammates returned the shoe to him, but…
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Knicks will be without Carmelo Anthony and Tyson Chandler Sunday against Clippers
Mar 17, 2013, 8:00 AM EDT
UPDATE 2:27 p.m. ET: It’s been made official now, a little more than an hour before tip-off, that both Anthony and Chandler are out for Sunday’s contest against the Clippers. Even though Chandler is out, the news on him might be considered to be positive — he’s missing the game due to a stiff neck; the…
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Deron Williams says poor play in Brooklyn earlier this season was about the pain in his ankles, nothing else
Mar 16, 2013, 10:00 PM EDT
It was a rough start to the season for Deron Williams in Brooklyn. He was failing miserably at living up to the max contract he signed in the offseason to remain with the Nets, and was placing blame seemingly everywhere but on himself for those early-season struggles. That behavior didn’t exactly ingratiate himself with the…
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Spurs coach Popovich says he wouldn’t want his team to go through another 20-game win streak
Mar 16, 2013, 8:30 PM EDT
The Spurs went on an absolute tear to finish the 2011-12 season, and rode a 10-game winning streak into the postseason. After sweeping the Jazz and then the Clippers in the first two rounds of the playoffs, the streak reached 18 straight, and two games into the Western Conference finals against the Thunder, it was…
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Kevin Garnett out Saturday against Bobcats, status uncertain for Monday vs. Heat
Mar 16, 2013, 7:12 PM EDT
Kevin Garnett will miss Saturday night’s game against the Bobcats, and his status is uncertain for Monday night’s game against the Heat, according to multiple reporters present for the pregame media session with Celtics head coach Doc Rivers. From Chris Forsberg of ESPN Boston: The Celtics have considered giving Garnett games off over the final…
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Hawks, Suns trade buzzer-beaters to end the first quarter (VIDEO)
Mar 16, 2013, 6:30 PM EDT
It’s always fun when one team gets an unlikely shot attempt to go down to beat the buzzer, but it’s not often when both teams do it to end a period in the same game. The Hawks and the Suns provided us with the unique highlight on Friday, as Johan Petro and Markieff Morris each…
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Kevin Love says chance that he won’t play again this season has ‘crossed his mind’
Mar 16, 2013, 3:30 PM EDT
The Timberwolves have been as decimated by injuries as any team in the league this season, and that’s included their best player, Kevin Love, appearing in just 18 games. Love broke his hand in the preseason, then re-injured it to the point where it required surgery. As the team’s medical staff tells him he’s still…
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Bucks head coach expresses concern after Larry Sanders is ejected from second straight game
Mar 16, 2013, 2:00 PM EDT
Larry Sanders gave us one of the more colorful reactions to an ejection we’ve seen all season on Wednesday, giving all three officials a demonstrative thumbs up before he headed to the locker room. Sanders found himself being kicked out of his second straight game on Friday, after arguing a foul call late in the…
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LeBron James can do this to just about anyone, so there’s no shame in Bucks rookie John Henson being on the wrong end of this reverse dunk while trying to contest it. What’s striking about the play, however, is how little space James seems to have to pull this one off — first as he’s…
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The Heat won their 21st straight game on Friday in Milwaukee, and while there’s no easily predictable end to the winning on the Miami horizon, at least one team isn’t lining up to fawn over the defending champs. The Celtics are in the seventh spot in the Eastern Conference playoff picture, and are just a…
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After first quarter hit to the head, Dwyane Wade had to pass a concussion test to return against Bucks (VIDEO)
Mar 16, 2013, 9:30 AM EDT
It was a scary moment in the early stages of the Heat’s 21st consecutive victory in Milawaukee on Friday, when Dwyane Wade took a hit to the head from the hip of Larry Sanders that sent him to the floor. Wade stayed down for a while, before eventually leaving to head to the locker room…
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Nuggets get 11th straight victory with comeback win over Grizzlies
Mar 16, 2013, 8:00 AM EDT
The Western Conference playoffs should be amazing this season, and two of the teams that will be as thickly involved as anyone clashed on Friday night in Denver. The Nuggets came away with their 11th straight victory, after bouncing back from a 10-point third quarter and erasing a double-digit deficit to beat a very good…
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Kobe plays with injured ankle, finishes scoreless as Lakers beat Pacers
Mar 15, 2013, 10:38 PM EDT
Kobe Bryant surprised many by appearing in the Lakers starting lineup in Indiana on Friday, but the ankle injury he suffered on Wednesday in Atlanta proved to be too limiting for him to do any damage against the Pacers. Bryant played the entire first quarter, but went 0-4 from the field and asked out of…
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Kobe Bryant will be in the starting lineup Friday against Pacers
Mar 15, 2013, 6:25 PM EDT
Despite being ruled “out indefinitely” by the Lakers after suffering the ankle injury at the end of the team’s loss in Atlanta on Wednesday, Kobe Bryant warmed up this afternoon and is expected to be in the starting lineup when L.A. faces the Pacers on Friday. Lakers head coach Mike D’Antoni told reporters in Indiana…
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PBT Podcast: Spurs, Blazers, Knicks, Bulls, Kobe’s injury, Heat’s win streak
Mar 15, 2013, 2:41 PM EDT
In this edition of the podcast, Kurt Helin and I discuss Thursday night’s games, which included a throwback performance from Tim Duncan to lead the Spurs past the Mavericks, and a big night from Damian Lillard to get the Blazers a win over the shorthanded Knicks. We then discuss the injury situation surrounding New York,…
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The Knicks limped into Portland on Thursday, and were forced to give it a go against the Blazers without their two All-Stars. The result was pretty much what you would have expected. New York was dropped by the Blazers 105-90, thanks to a stellar 26 point, 10 rebound performance from Damian Lillard, the runaway candidate…
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Throwback performance from Tim Duncan leads Spurs to win over Mavericks
Mar 14, 2013, 11:25 PM EDT
It wasn’t necessarily a surprise that a Spurs team with the best record in the Western Conference would bounce back from an embarrassing, blowout loss to one of the league’s bottom-feeders that they suffered in Minnesota on Tuesday. The performance from Tim Duncan that led them there, however, was definitely a bit unexpected. Duncan was…
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Carmelo Anthony has knee drained, Knicks say he’s questionable Sunday against Clippers
Mar 14, 2013, 8:32 PM EDT
Carmelo Anthony told reporters after the Knicks were blown out in Denver on Wednesday that he would be heading back to New York to get his knee drained, and that procedure was completed on Thursday. From the team’s PR: Carmelo Anthony had a soft tissue fluid collection of his posterior right knee aspirated today in…
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The Heat ran their win streak to 19 games on Tuesday, after cruising to a 98-81 home win over the Hawks that turned out to be just as easy as expected. Atlanta is reeling, having lost three straight and six of its last seven games. Watching the Hawks play, it’s fairly obvious that there’s no…
