Celtics coach Doc Rivers chatted with Rockets general manager Daryl Morey after Boston’s 103-99 victory over Houston on Tuesday night. “Y’all are going to be great,” Rivers said. “I’m telling you.” Maybe so. But the defending NBA champions showed the Rockets how far they still have to go. Ray Allen scored 29 points, Kevin Garnett [...]
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Celtics coach Doc Rivers chatted with Rockets general manager Daryl Morey after Boston’s 103-99 victory over Houston on Tuesday night. “Y’all are going to be great,” Rivers said. “I’m telling you.” Maybe so. But the defending NBA champions showed the Rockets how far they still have to go. Ray Allen scored 29 points, Kevin Garnett [...]
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Raja Bell was hitting from the outside. Shaquille O’Neal and Amare Stoudemire dominated inside. Steve Nash was Steve Nash, setting up others and scoring when needed. It was almost a perfect game for Phoenix, and the New Jersey Nets never had chance once the Suns stopped turning the ball over in the second half.
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Dirk Nowitzki scored 30 points, Jason Terry added 29 in his first start of the season and the Dallas Mavericks beat San Antonio 98-81 on Tuesday night to send the Spurs to their first 0-3 record in 35 years. Dallas (2-2) also got 14 points from Josh Howard. The Mavericks shot 53 from the floor [...]
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San Antonio Spurs forward Fabricio Oberto played for the first time this season, facing the Dallas Mavericks on Tuesday night after missing the first two games with an irregular heartbeat. “The last couple of days they’ve been checking my heart rhythm and it’s been great,” Oberto, who entered late in the first quarter, said before [...]
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Chauncey Billups isn’t likely to make his Denver Nuggets debut on Wednesday night at Golden State. The Nuggets said Tuesday Billups didn’t have enough time to get to the Bay Area. He was in Charlotte with the Pistons when the deal took place. Denver acquired Billups, a point guard and Denver native, along with Antonio [...]
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The Detroit Pistons almost acquired Allen Iverson from Philadelphia entering the 2000-01 season. Then, they watched Iverson lead the 76ers to the NBA finals and become the league MVP. Eight years later, Detroit is hoping The Answer was worth the wait. Iverson does, too. “I want to be the piece that gets us over the [...]
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Bring back Larry Brown? Stephon Marbury won’t go that far. He disliked playing for his old coach, but at least he got into games, a much better situation than he now faces with the New York Knicks. “He’s really tough on his point guards, as we all know, but looking back at the last two [...]
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Phoenix Suns swingman Alando Tucker had arthroscopic knee surgery Tuesday and is expected to be sidelined about four weeks. Team physician Thomas Carter removed loose material from his left kneecap, the Suns said. Tucker, in his second season, has not been part of new coach Terry Porter’s regular rotation.
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Paul Millsap scored 15 of his 24 points during a decisive 17-3 run in the fourth quarter, and the unbeaten Utah Jazz beat the winless Los Angeles Clippers 89-73 Monday night. A 3-pointer by Cuttino Mobley trimmed Utah’s lead to 67-64 before Millsap began his tear by making a pair of foul shots with 8:47 [...]
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