As of now, the status of Washington Wizards center Dwight Howard for the team’s first regular-season game seems unclear at best. Howard has been sidelined throughout the preseason with pain in his lower back, an injury that has forced the big man to be a spectator in each of the Wizards’ practice and exhibition games …
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CAMDEN, N.J. — Al Horford took a seat at one of the three tables needed to fit six players, an owner and a general manager and admired the Philadelphia skyline in the distance. “This view gets me excited,” Horford said . “This view back there of the city.” It’s the city he will call his …
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NEW YORK (AP) — A jury can decide whether former New York Knicks star Charles Oakley was ejected from Madison Square Garden with excessive force when he was removed as a spectator to a 2017 game, an appeals court ruled Monday. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated assault and battery claims Oakley made …
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* * * Will the Lakers’ path to The Finals in 2021 be easier or harder than in 2020? * * * Steve Aschburner: Harder. This league is all about continuous improvement, unless it happens to be about injury. That’s the mode Golden State was in this season, gone ghost by the injuries to Klay …
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* * * Will the Lakers’ path to The Finals in 2021 be easier or harder than in 2020? * * * Steve Aschburner: Harder. This league is all about continuous improvement, unless it happens to be about injury. That’s the mode Golden State was in this season, gone ghost by the injuries to Klay …
Read more “Bubble Wrap: Will the Lakers' path to The Finals in 2021 be easier or harder?”
Thunder guard Chris Paul says there are still many unknowns about the 2020-21 season. Chris Paul fully understands that these are imperfect times. And that means perfect solutions for issues that the NBA and its players are dealing with, he said, aren’t likely to be found. Paul, the president of the National Basketball Players Association …
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To date, Stephen Curry has amassed two Kia MVPs, set numerous 3-point shooting records, made six All-Star teams and been an All-NBA performer six times as well. Some might argue Curry’s 2015-16 season — the one in which he was the first unanimous MVP winner in NBA history — was perhaps the peak of his …
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Cleveland’s John Beilein, the only new-to-the-league coach this season, actually got a jump on his 29 rivals in one department. To better familiarize himself with the Cavaliers team he was taking over, Beilein broke from the tradition that has assistant coaches working the sideline at NBA Summer League. When the situation arose in a game …
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Boston Celtics point guard Kemba Walker will be back in the lineup against the Brooklyn Nets tonight (7 ET, ESPN), the team announced. #NEBHInjuryReport update: Kemba Walker and Daniel Theis have been upgraded to available. — Boston Celtics (@celtics) November 27, 2019 Both Walker and center Daniel Theis will play, but former Celtics guard and …
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Kevin Love knows change could be coming. A couple of years ago, uncertainty might have been something that stressed him out, triggered the sorts of feelings like the ones that manifested themselves in the form of an in-game panic attack in 2017, rendered him unable to compete as efficiently as he wanted. Not this time. …
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