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NEW YORK – Sacramento Kings forward Harrison Barnes, Boston Celtics forward Jaylen Brown, Milwaukee Bucks guard George Hill, Oklahoma City Thunder guard Chris Paul and Dallas Mavericks forward-center Dwight Powell have received the 2019-20 End-of-Season NBA Cares Community Assist Award presented by Kaiser Permanente in recognition of their continued commitment to positively impacting their communities …

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Miami Heat starters Bam Adebayo and Goran Dragic continue to deal with injuries and will not play in Game 3 of The Finals against the Los Angeles Lakers. #LALvsMIA INJURY UPDATE: Bam Adebayo (neck) & Goran Dragic (foot) have both been ruled out of tonight's #NBAFinals Game 3 vs the Lakers. — Miami HEAT (@MiamiHEAT) …

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Miami Heat starters Bam Adebayo and Goran Dragic continue to deal with injuries and will not play in Game 3 of The Finals against the Los Angeles Lakers. #LALvsMIA INJURY UPDATE: Bam Adebayo (neck) & Goran Dragic (foot) have both been ruled out of tonight's #NBAFinals Game 3 vs the Lakers. — Miami HEAT (@MiamiHEAT) …

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In 1989, just days before tipoff of the Lakers-Pistons NBA Finals, Byron Scott suffered a terrible hamstring injury and was finished before he started. You say the Lakers still had Magic Johnson, who won MVP that season. Well, yeah, but halfway through Game 2, he was done too, another Laker star hamstrung by a damaged …

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In 1989, just days before tipoff of the Lakers-Pistons NBA Finals, Byron Scott suffered a terrible hamstring injury and was finished before he started. You say the Lakers still had Magic Johnson, who won MVP that season. Well, yeah, but halfway through Game 2, he was done too, another Laker star hamstrung by a damaged …

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In 1989, just days before tipoff of the Lakers-Pistons NBA Finals, Byron Scott suffered a terrible hamstring injury and was finished before he started. You say the Lakers still had Magic Johnson, who won MVP that season. Well, yeah, but halfway through Game 2, he was done too, another Laker star hamstrung by a damaged …

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ORLANDO, Fla. — Long after the final buzzer goes off in the NBA bubble, a champion is crowned and we close the curtain on the longest season in the history of the league, the movement will go on. The decision to restart and complete the 2019-20 season wasn’t as much about basketball for the players …

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CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Bulls weren’t on Billy Donovan’s radar when he and the Oklahoma City Thunder parted ways after five successful seasons. Things sure changed in a hurry. “I wasn’t looking at anything,” Donovan said. “It was five great years in Oklahoma City. I think it’s always emotional when you leave a place …

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How does the old saying go? The third time’s a harm? The Nuggets have resumed the position, trapped once again in that gloomy, win-win-win-or-else situation, where they must find the right formula to scramble back into a best-of-seven series in which they trail 3-1. It worked against the Jazz in the first round. It worked …

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Down three games to one in the Eastern Conference finals, the Boston Celtics were in a desperate situation on Friday. And with his team having scored just twice on its first seven possessions, head coach Brad Stevens didn’t hesitate to replace starting center Daniel Theis with Gordon Hayward less than four minutes into Game 5. …

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