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Bucks offseason homework: Figure out what kind of team they are
Apr 30, 2013, 4:46 PM EDT
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There is a dump truck full of questions the Milwaukee Bucks need to answer this offseason — what to do with interim coach Jim Boylan, should they expend a lot of energy to keep Monta Ellis and/or J.J. Redick, how much to offer Brandon Jennings, and many more. But the answers to all of those…
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Video proof Kyrie Irving can pretty much own a college pickup game
Apr 30, 2013, 3:31 PM EDT
Monday afternoon Kyrie Irving wanted to play a little pickup ball, so he strolled into the gym at Montclair State University in Jersey. Yes, he was the best player on the court. Give a couple of those defenders credit for cutting off his baseline drives, but like many an NBA defender discovered if you do that…
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Cavaliers assistant Nate Tibbetts to interview for Bobcats coaching job
Apr 30, 2013, 2:17 PM EDT
General Manager Rich Cho and the Charlotte Bobcats face some additional challenges in getting a coach — the top-flight assistants out there are hesitant to take over a bad team with no great young prospects in a small market. Michael Jordan as an owner is not a job. For example, the Bobcats reportedly offered their…
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Antawn Jamison has wrist surgery, skips Lakers exit interview
Apr 30, 2013, 12:59 PM EDT
If we can be sure of one thing around the Lakers this summer it is this: Antawn Jamison will not be back. The veteran forward was frustrated all season with how he was used — or often not used — in the ever-shifting Mike D’Antoni Lakers lineups. He handled it professionally but I heard him…
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With Kings staying in Sacramento, Seattle has no good options
Apr 30, 2013, 12:25 PM EDT
Throughout the spin and back-and-forth between Seattle and Sacramento over the fate of the Kings, every rational Sacramento backer said Seattle deserved a team — not this team, not their team, but a team. So now that the NBA’s relocation committee has recommended rejecting the move of the team — a lead the other NBA…
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Ten players to make you restructure NBA’s 50 All-Time greatest
Apr 30, 2013, 11:49 AM EDT
Back in 1996 — the year the baby crawling on the ceiling in “Trainspotting” gave us all nightmares — the Association released its list of the NBA’s 50 Greatest Players. It was undoubtedly a strong list. Nobody on the list is weak. We could quibble around the edges about who should have gotten in, but…
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Even before Russell Westbrook went down, I thought there would be one game this series where the young and improving Houston Rockets would put it all together well enough to beat the Thunder. The kind of game where James Harden and crew would make plays the Thunder could not stop. Such as Carlos Defino on…
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Veteran NBA center Jason Collins handled his coming out as gay very well — he wrote a thoughtful piece for Sports Illustrated where he talked about his history, his family and his hopes. Then he stayed out of the public spotlight the rest of the day and let the reaction flow in, letting his piece…
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Horford says Hawks sometimes question Josh Smith’s shot selection. Ya think?
Apr 30, 2013, 10:06 AM EDT
It was still anybody’s game — Atlanta led by 5 with 3:10 left when Josh Smith took a three against the Pacers Monday night and you could hear the entire Phillips Arena do the same thing: “Noooooooo… YES!” Smith made that shot and that’s what he’ll remember. So he’ll shoot it again and again. And…
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Serge Ibaka misses bunny at the buzzer in Thunder loss (VIDEO)
Apr 30, 2013, 8:42 AM EDT
Oklahoma City had its chances. There will be a Game 5 after the Rockets beat the Thunder Monday night (although that’s likely where it ends). But the Thunder had their chance at a sweep, it just seems like the final play became a scramble of lost opportunities like much of the game was for them.…
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Chorus of praise from Obama, others for Jason Collins shows times, they are a changin’
Apr 30, 2013, 7:59 AM EDT
Six years ago retired NBA player John Amaechi came out and announced he was gay after a four-teams-in-five-years NBA career. The reaction was decidedly mixed within the basketball community. What we all remember most was Tim Hardaway saying, “I hate gay people” (a stance he has since recanted). There was a smattering of hate when…
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Report: Pistons to interview Nate McMillan for coaching job Tuesday
Apr 30, 2013, 1:30 AM EDT
This isn’t a surprise, we told you not long after the Pistons jettisoned Lawrence Frank that they were interested in Nate McMillan, but now thing are getting more serious. McMillan and the Pistons will sit down Tuesday to start the formal interview process, reports Marc Stein at ESPN. Later the Pistons are expected to interview…
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Suddenly, the Indiana Pacers don’t look so in control of this series anymore. The Pacers defense that got them to the No. 3 seed in the East and helped them race out to a 2-0 series lead went missing for long stretches on Monday night — especially their transition defense. And that allowed the Hawks…
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Five things the Lakers should do on their summer vacation (starting with re-signing Howard)
Apr 29, 2013, 7:09 PM EDT
The San Antonio Spurs didn’t just end the Lakers season, they put Los Angeles out of its misery. That was the first time the Lakers have been swept in the first round of the playoffs since 1967, but you could see it coming for a long time. From the injuries during training camp, to the…
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NBA committee recommends against move of Kings to Seattle, team almost certainly remains in Sacramento
Apr 29, 2013, 5:17 PM EDT
The Sacramento Kings are going to remain the Sacramento Kings. And Seattle is going to remain without an NBA team. A collection of a dozen NBA owners — making up a group looking into the sale and relocation of the Kings to a group from Seattle — voted unanimously to recommended against allowing the team…
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In case you missed it, Jason Terry owned overtime Sunday in Boston (VIDEO)
Apr 29, 2013, 4:35 PM EDT
When Jason Terry came down in transition in overtime and pulled up for a transition jumper early in the clock you could hear Boston collectively say, “Nooooo… YES!” The hot and cold Terry has been more like dry ice during these playoffs but when he got hot in overtime he put up nine straight points and…
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Jason Collins was the kind of player NBA people like on their team, but not a guy who was a household name. Until now. Collins — a 12-year NBA veteran — came out as gay on Monday. He’s the first active major American team sport athlete to come out as gay. At this point his…
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Former Jason Collins coach Doc Rivers states support, references Jackie Robinson
Apr 29, 2013, 2:00 PM EDT
In the middle of last season, the Boston Celtics traded Jason Collins to the Washington Wizards as part of the Jordan Crawford deal. But it wasn’t a move the Celtics wanted to make — they fought to hold on to Collins until it became clear the deal would fall apart without him in it (credit…
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Dan Patrick, SI’s Jon Wertheim talk Jason Collins coming out as gay
Apr 29, 2013, 1:43 PM EDT
Veteran NBA big man Jason Collins on Monday made a statement about the changes in society that goes beyond the basketball court: He became the first active NBA player to come out as gay. Collins came out in an article for Sports Illustrated Monday, and when he told his story to the people at SI…
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Support for Jason Collins coming out pouring in through statements, twitter
Apr 29, 2013, 1:16 PM EDT
Jason Collins is not the first gay player in professional sports, and you’re kidding yourself if you think he’s the only one in all of the NBA, NFL or MLB right now. Collins however is the first to come out while an active player (he played with the Celtics and Wizards last season, he is…
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Kirk Hinrich has been a key reason the Chicago Bulls have a 3-1 lead over the Brooklyn Nets in their first-round playoff series. After a Game 1 Nets win where Deron Williams did pretty much as he pleased against the Bulls defense (22 points on 9-of-15 shooting), coach Tom Thibodeau switched Hinrich onto Williams and…
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David Stern issues statement in support of Jason Collins coming out as gay
Apr 29, 2013, 12:01 PM EDT
Jason Collins is the first active NBA player, the first active American major team sport athlete, to come out as gay. He did so Monday in what will be viewed as a watershed moment. Collins also will not be the last to come out. David Stern knows that and struck the right tone in issuing…
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Kenneth Faried should be frustrated. He came back for Game two of the Nuggets series against Golden State right at the same time David Lee went out. Yet the Warriors have won three straight on the floor as Andrew Bogut and Carl Landry have stepped up inside the paint and, to the best of my…
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Journeyman NBA center Jason Collins has come out as gay, the first active professional major team sport athlete to do so. He wrote an article for Sports Illustrated (that hits newsstands May 6) and came out on his terms in his own words. I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay. I didn’t…
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Keeping the lid on a celebrity wedding is not easy, but Michael Jordan has always craved privacy for her personal life and he did as good a job at it as one could expect over the weekend. Jordan, the man many consider the greatest basketball player ever, married his fiancé Yvette Prieto, a former model,…
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