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<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en"><title>News on Cleveland Cavaliers</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/topic/cleveland-cavaliers" rel="alternate"></link><id>http://onthebasketballcourt.com/topic/cleveland-cavaliers</id><updated>2011-12-19T19:30:27Z</updated><entry><title>Davis ditches Lakers, Heat for Knicks</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/davis-ditches-lakers-heat-knicks-4879442a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-12-19T19:30:27Z</updated><author><name>AFP Global Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-12-19:/men's-professional-basketball/davis-ditches-lakers-heat-knicks-4879442a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;NBA free agent guard &lt;a title="Baron Davis" href="/topic/Baron+Davis" &gt;Baron Davis&lt;/a&gt; took phone calls from the &lt;a title="Miami Heat" href="/topic/Miami+Heat" &gt;Miami Heat&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a title="Los Angeles Lakers" href="/topic/Los+Angeles+Lakers" &gt;Los Angeles Lakers&lt;/a&gt;, but the offer he accepted on Monday came from the &lt;a title="New York Knicks" href="/topic/New+York+Knicks" &gt;New York Knicks&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Davis, dropped by the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavalie...</summary><category term="Jobs and Labor"></category><category term="Collective Bargaining"></category><category term="War and Conflict"></category><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Sports Transactions"></category><category term="Basketball Transactions"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="New York Knicks"></category><category term="Mike D'Antoni"></category><category term="Los Angeles Lakers"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Kobe Bryant"></category><category term="Dwyane Wade"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Carmelo Anthony"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Los Angeles Clippers"></category><category term="Baron Davis"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Amare Stoudemire"></category><category term="Tyson Chandler"></category><category term="Pau Gasol"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Atlantic"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Casino gets 16,000 job applications in 4 days</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/casino-16000-job-applications-4-days-4878259a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-12-17T14:30:08Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Domestic News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-12-17:/men's-professional-basketball/casino-16000-job-applications-4-days-4878259a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;CLEVELAND&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - A soon-to-open Cleveland casino was bombarded with job applications from 16,000 people in just four days after announcing openings for 750 positions, a casino official said on Saturday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Due to the high volume of responses, the Horseshoe Casino took down about half of the job openings on Friday and is now shifting ...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="Caesars Entertainment Inc."></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Daniel Gilbert"></category><category term="Jerry Norton"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category></entry><entry><title>Cleveland casino gets 16,000 job applications in 4 days</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/cleveland-casino-16000-job-applications-4-days-4878219a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-12-17T12:30:16Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Domestic News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-12-17:/men's-professional-basketball/cleveland-casino-16000-job-applications-4-days-4878219a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;CLEVELAND&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - A soon-to-open Cleveland casino was bombarded with job applications from 16,000 people in just four days after announcing openings for 750 positions, a casino official said on Saturday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Due to the high volume of responses, the Horseshoe Casino took down about half of the job openings on Friday and is now shifting ...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="Caesars Entertainment Inc."></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Daniel Gilbert"></category><category term="Jerry Norton"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category></entry><entry><title>Cavaliers waive NBA veteran Baron Davis</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/cavaliers-waive-nba-veteran-baron-davis-4876570a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-12-14T20:30:33Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-12-14:/men's-professional-basketball/cavaliers-waive-nba-veteran-baron-davis-4876570a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;NBA veteran &lt;a title="Baron Davis" href="/topic/Baron+Davis" &gt;Baron Davis&lt;/a&gt; was waived through the league by the &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt;, who used the league's new amnesty clause to improve their salary-cap position.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Waiving the ageing point guard under the amnesty clause rule allows the Cavaliers to clear space in their salary cap.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The 32-year-old Davis was acquired in a trade last season from the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a t...</summary><category term="Athlete Salary Caps"></category><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Los Angeles Clippers"></category><category term="Baron Davis"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category></entry><entry><title>"I am myself again" says relaxed LeBron</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/relaxed-lebron-4874831a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-12-12T17:30:15Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Sports News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-12-12:/men's-professional-basketball/relaxed-lebron-4874831a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Miami Heat" href="/topic/Miami+Heat" &gt;MIAMI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="LeBron James" href="/topic/LeBron+James" &gt;LeBron James&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; became the man &lt;span&gt;U.S.&lt;/span&gt; sports fans loved to hate when he left &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; for the Miami Heat last year and many celebrated when he stumbled in the NBA finals...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="NBA Playoffs"></category><category term="NBA Finals"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Dallas Mavericks"></category><category term="Dwyane Wade"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Chris Bosh"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="American Airlines Arena"></category><category term="South Florida"></category><category term="NBA Southwest"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Israel's Casspi traded from Kings to Cavs</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/israels-casspi-traded-kings-cavs-4801027a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-06-30T16:30:30Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-06-30:/men's-professional-basketball/israels-casspi-traded-kings-cavs-4801027a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The NBA's &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt; obtained Israeli forward &lt;a title="Omri Casspi" href="/topic/Omri+Casspi" &gt;Omri Casspi&lt;/a&gt; and a future first-round pick in the NBA Draft from &lt;a title="Sacramento Kings" href="/topic/Sacramento+Kings" &gt;Sacramento&lt;/a&gt; on Thursday in exchange for forward &lt;a title="J.J. Hickson" href="/topic/J.J.+Hickson" &gt;J.J. Hickson&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Casspi, the first Israeli player taken in the first round of t...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="NBA Draft"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Sacramento Kings"></category><category term="J.J. Hickson"></category><category term="Tristan Thompson"></category><category term="Omri Casspi"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category></entry><entry><title>Kings acquire Hickson from Cavaliers for Israeli Casspi</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/nba-draft/kings-acquire-hickson-cavaliers-israeli-casspi-4800894a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-06-30T12:00:46Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Sports News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-06-30:/nba-draft/kings-acquire-hickson-cavaliers-israeli-casspi-4800894a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="San Francisco" href="/topic/San+Francisco" &gt;SAN FRANCISCO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Sacramento Kings" href="/topic/Sacramento+Kings" &gt;Sacramento Kings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, hoping to improve their frontline, have acquired forward &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="J.J. Hickson" href="/topic/J.J.+Hickson" &gt;J.J. Hickson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; from the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="NBA Draft"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="North Carolina"></category><category term="San Francisco"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Raleigh"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Sacramento Kings"></category><category term="J.J. Hickson"></category><category term="Geoff Petrie"></category><category term="Gene Cherry"></category><category term="Omri Casspi"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category></entry><entry><title>Cavaliers make Irving first pick in NBA draft</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/cavaliers-irving-pick-nba-draft-4798077a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-06-24T02:31:30Z</updated><author><name>AFP Global Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-06-24:/men's-professional-basketball/cavaliers-irving-pick-nba-draft-4798077a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt; selected &lt;a title="Kyrie Irving" href="/topic/Kyrie+Irving" &gt;Kyrie Irving&lt;/a&gt; with the first overall pick in the &lt;a title="National Basketball Association" href="/topic/National+Basketball+Association" &gt;National Basketball Association&lt;/a&gt; entry draft.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thursday's draft was also noteworthy because of the high number of international players chosen early as three of the first six players take...</summary><category term="Jobs and Labor"></category><category term="Collective Bargaining"></category><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Europe"></category><category term="Toronto"></category><category term="Lithuania"></category><category term="Central Europe"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Utah Jazz"></category><category term="Czech Republic"></category><category term="David Stern"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Milwaukee Bucks"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Minnesota Timberwolves"></category><category term="Corey Maggette"></category><category term="Sacramento Kings"></category><category term="John Salmons"></category><category term="Charlotte Bobcats"></category><category term="Derrick Rose"></category><category term="Jimmer Fredette"></category><category term="Prudential Center"></category><category term="Beno Udrih"></category><category term="John Wall"></category><category term="Baltic Countries"></category><category term="Shaun Livingston"></category><category term="Jan Vesely"></category><category term="Stephen Jackson (Basketball)"></category><category term="Ohio State Buckeyes (Basketball)"></category><category term="Arizona Wildcats (Basketball)"></category><category term="Derrick Williams (Basketball)"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Northwest"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category><category term="Jared Sullinger"></category><category term="Kyrie Irving"></category><category term="Tobias Harris"></category><category term="Enes Kanter"></category><category term="Bismack Biyombo"></category><category term="Jonas Valanciunas"></category></entry><entry><title>Cavaliers number one pick no slam dunk this time</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/cavaliers-number-pick-slam-dunk-time-4797216a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-06-22T12:30:14Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Sports News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-06-22:/men's-professional-basketball/cavaliers-number-pick-slam-dunk-time-4797216a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;NEW YORK&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; have the top pick in the NBA draft on Thursday but there will be no slam-dunk decision like the last time they had the number one selection.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In 2003, after losing 65 games, the Cavaliers used the number one pick to grab &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="LeBron James" href="/topic/LeB...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Europe"></category><category term="Lithuania"></category><category term="Newark"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Central Europe"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Madison Square Garden"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="San Antonio Spurs"></category><category term="Utah Jazz"></category><category term="Phoenix Suns"></category><category term="Czech Republic"></category><category term="Hudson River"></category><category term="David Stern"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Toronto Raptors"></category><category term="Chris Bosh"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Minnesota Timberwolves"></category><category term="Sacramento Kings"></category><category term="Steve Nash"></category><category term="Latvia"></category><category term="Baltic Countries"></category><category term="Tony Parker (Basketball)"></category><category term="Ricky Rubio"></category><category term="Jan Vesely"></category><category term="Arizona Wildcats (Basketball)"></category><category term="Derrick Williams (Basketball)"></category><category term="NBA Southwest"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Atlantic"></category><category term="NBA Northwest"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category><category term="Donatas Motiejunas"></category><category term="Kyrie Irving"></category><category term="Enes Kanter"></category><category term="Bismack Biyombo"></category><category term="Davis Bertans"></category><category term="Jonas Valanciunas"></category></entry><entry><title>Former All-Star Mitchell dies of cancer at 55</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/allstar-mitchell-dies-cancer-55-4791817a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-06-09T16:30:21Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Sports News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-06-09:/men's-professional-basketball/allstar-mitchell-dies-cancer-55-4791817a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Dallas" href="/topic/Dallas" &gt;DALLAS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - Former &lt;span id="nba_all-star_game" class="inform"&gt;&lt;a title="NBA All-Star Game" href="/topic/NBA+All-Star+Game" &gt;NBA All-Star&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Mike Mitchell" href="/topic/Mike+Mitchell" &gt;Mike Mitchell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; has died after a long battle with cancer at the age of 55, the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="San Antonio Spurs" href="/topic/San+...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Dallas"></category><category term="Italy"></category><category term="Europe"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="San Antonio Spurs"></category><category term="Raleigh"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Gregg Popovich"></category><category term="Southern Europe"></category><category term="Mike Mitchell"></category><category term="Gene Cherry"></category><category term="NBA Southwest"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA All-Star Game"></category></entry><entry><title>Lakers still Kobe's team, new coach says</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/lakers-kobes-team-new-coach-4787834a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-05-31T20:31:13Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-05-31:/men's-professional-basketball/lakers-kobes-team-new-coach-4787834a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mike Brown may bring a different coaching philosophy to the &lt;a title="Los Angeles Lakers" href="/topic/Los+Angeles+Lakers" &gt;Los Angeles Lakers&lt;/a&gt; as he takes over from &lt;a title="Phil Jackson" href="/topic/Phil+Jackson" &gt;Phil Jackson&lt;/a&gt;, but he said one thing remains the same: The Lakers are &lt;a title="Kobe Bryant" href="/topic/Kobe+Bryant" &gt;Kobe Bryant&lt;/a&gt;'s team.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Brown, who was formally introduced as Jackson's successor on Tuesday, said his first meeting with Lakers superstar Bry...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="NBA Finals"></category><category term="Dallas"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="ESPN Inc."></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Los Angeles Lakers"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Kobe Bryant"></category><category term="Ron Artest"></category><category term="Andrew Bynum"></category><category term="Michael Jordan"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Phil Jackson"></category><category term="Chicago Bulls"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Pau Gasol"></category><category term="Derek Fisher"></category><category term="Jerry Buss"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Lakers unveil Mike Brown as successor to Jackson</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/lakers-unveil-mike-brown-successor-jackson-4787721a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-05-31T16:30:09Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Sports News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-05-31:/men's-professional-basketball/lakers-unveil-mike-brown-successor-jackson-4787721a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Los Angeles Lakers" href="/topic/Los+Angeles+Lakers" &gt;LOS ANGELES&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday unveiled the new face of the franchise by naming former &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a title="Mike Brown (Basketball Coach)" href="/topic/Mike+Brown+(Basketball+Coach)" &gt;coach Mike Brown&lt;/a&gt; as the s...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Los Angeles Lakers"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Dallas Mavericks"></category><category term="Phil Jackson"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Mike Brown (Basketball Coach)"></category><category term="Steve Gorman"></category><category term="NBA Southwest"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category></entry><entry><title>Lakers poised to sign Mike Brown as head coach</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/lakers-poised-sign-mike-brown-head-coach-4785651a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-05-26T03:30:15Z</updated><author><name>AFP Global Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-05-26:/men's-professional-basketball/lakers-poised-sign-mike-brown-head-coach-4785651a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a title="Los Angeles Lakers" href="/topic/Los+Angeles+Lakers" &gt;Los Angeles Lakers&lt;/a&gt; have said they are close to finalizing a deal with &lt;a title="Mike Brown (Basketball Coach)" href="/topic/Mike+Brown+(Basketball+Coach)" &gt;Mike Brown&lt;/a&gt; to succeed &lt;a title="Phil Jackson" href="/topic/Phil+Jackson" &gt;Phil Jackson&lt;/a&gt; as the &lt;a title="National Basketball Association" href="/topic/National+Basketball+Association" &gt;National Basketball Association&lt;/a&gt; team's new head coach.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"In res...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="NBA Finals"></category><category term="San Antonio"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="ESPN Inc."></category><category term="Twitter Inc."></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Los Angeles Lakers"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Dallas Mavericks"></category><category term="Kobe Bryant"></category><category term="Los Angeles Times"></category><category term="Phil Jackson"></category><category term="Chicago Bulls"></category><category term="Oklahoma City Thunder"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Derek Fisher"></category><category term="Mike Brown (Basketball Coach)"></category><category term="John Black"></category><category term="Brian Shaw (Hockey)"></category><category term="NBA Southwest"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category></entry><entry><title>Lakers poised to sign Brown</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/lakers-poised-sign-brown-4785529a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-05-25T20:30:38Z</updated><author><name>AFP Global Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-05-25:/men's-professional-basketball/lakers-poised-sign-brown-4785529a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a title="Los Angeles Lakers" href="/topic/Los+Angeles+Lakers" &gt;Los Angeles Lakers&lt;/a&gt; said they are close to finalizing a deal with &lt;a title="Mike Brown (Basketball Coach)" href="/topic/Mike+Brown+(Basketball+Coach)" &gt;Mike Brown&lt;/a&gt; to succeed &lt;a title="Phil Jackson" href="/topic/Phil+Jackson" &gt;Phil Jackson&lt;/a&gt; as the &lt;a title="National Basketball Association" href="/topic/National+Basketball+Association" &gt;National Basketball Association&lt;/a&gt; team's new head coach.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Lakers d...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="NBA Finals"></category><category term="San Antonio"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="ESPN Inc."></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Los Angeles Lakers"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Dallas Mavericks"></category><category term="Los Angeles Times"></category><category term="Phil Jackson"></category><category term="Chicago Bulls"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Mike Brown (Basketball Coach)"></category><category term="John Black"></category><category term="NBA Southwest"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category></entry><entry><title>Lakers hopeful of appointing Brown as head coach</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/lakers-hopeful-appointing-brown-head-coach-4785422a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-05-25T16:00:10Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Sports News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-05-25:/men's-professional-basketball/lakers-hopeful-appointing-brown-head-coach-4785422a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Los Angeles Lakers" href="/topic/Los+Angeles+Lakers" &gt;LOS ANGELES&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The Los Angeles Lakers hope to appoint &lt;span&gt;Mike Brown&lt;/span&gt; as head coach "within the next few days" to succeed Hall of Famer &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Phil Jackson" href="/topic/Phil+Jackson" &gt;Phil Jackson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, the &lt;span&gt;NBA&lt;/span&gt; champions said on Wednesday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Brown, 41, coached the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="C...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="NBA Playoffs"></category><category term="NBA Finals"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Houston Rockets"></category><category term="Los Angeles Lakers"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="San Antonio Spurs"></category><category term="Dallas Mavericks"></category><category term="Phil Jackson"></category><category term="Chicago Bulls"></category><category term="Rick Adelman"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Mike Brown (Basketball Coach)"></category><category term="NBA Southwest"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category></entry><entry><title>Hard luck Cavaliers land number one draft pick</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/hard-luck-cavaliers-land-number-draft-pick-4782018a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-05-17T22:30:05Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Sports News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-05-17:/men's-professional-basketball/hard-luck-cavaliers-land-number-draft-pick-4782018a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;NEW YORK&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; finally caught a break after a nightmare 2010-2011 season when they were awarded the number one pick in next month's NBA draft on Tuesday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the lottery to decide the order of selection of new talent coming into the league, the Cavaliers finally found a silver lini...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="NBA Draft"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Sacramento"></category><category term="Arizona"></category><category term="Newark (New Jersey)"></category><category term="Toronto"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Utah Jazz"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Los Angeles Clippers"></category><category term="Derrick Williams"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Minnesota Timberwolves"></category><category term="Daniel Gilbert"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Northwest"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category><category term="Kyrie Irving"></category></entry><entry><title>Cavaliers claim top pick in NBA Draft Lottery</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/cavaliers-claim-top-pick-nba-draft-lottery-4782001a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-05-17T20:30:16Z</updated><author><name>AFP Global Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-05-17:/men's-professional-basketball/cavaliers-claim-top-pick-nba-draft-lottery-4782001a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt;, who lost 2003 NBA Draft top pick &lt;a title="LeBron James" href="/topic/LeBron+James" &gt;LeBron James&lt;/a&gt; to free agency 10 months ago, have won the NBA Draft Lottery to claim the top selection in next month's draft.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;With a pick obtained from the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Los Angeles Clippers" href="/topic/Los+Angeles+Clippers" &gt;Los Angeles Clippers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; that had only a 2.8 percent chance of land...</summary><category term="Jobs and Labor"></category><category term="Collective Bargaining"></category><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="NBA Draft"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Chicago"></category><category term="Sacramento"></category><category term="Arizona"></category><category term="Milwaukee"></category><category term="Akron"></category><category term="Detroit"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Utah Jazz"></category><category term="Dwyane Wade"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Dwight Howard"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Toronto Raptors"></category><category term="Chris Bosh"></category><category term="Los Angeles Clippers"></category><category term="Baron Davis"></category><category term="New Jersey Nets"></category><category term="Derrick Williams"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Minnesota Timberwolves"></category><category term="Deron Williams"></category><category term="Daniel Gilbert"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Atlantic"></category><category term="NBA Northwest"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category><category term="Kyrie Irving"></category></entry><entry><title>Timberwolves have best chance in Draft Lottery</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/timberwolves-chance-draft-lottery-4781523a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-05-16T19:30:48Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-05-16:/men's-professional-basketball/timberwolves-chance-draft-lottery-4781523a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;NBA doormat Minnesota, coming off a woeful 17-65 season, will have the best chance to obtain the first pick of new talent with one-in-four odds of winning Tuesday night's NBA Draft Lottery.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Random drawings among the teams that failed to qualify for the NBA playoffs will determine the order of selection for the first 14 picks in the NBA Draft, set for June 23 at &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Newark (New Jersey)" href="/topic/Newark+(New+Jersey)" &gt;Newark, New Jersey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Timberwol...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="NBA Draft"></category><category term="NBA Playoffs"></category><category term="Chicago"></category><category term="Dallas"></category><category term="Sacramento"></category><category term="Memphis"></category><category term="Newark (New Jersey)"></category><category term="Toronto"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Los Angeles Lakers"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="New Orleans Hornets"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Dwight Howard"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Los Angeles Clippers"></category><category term="Oklahoma City Thunder"></category><category term="New Jersey Nets"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Minnesota Timberwolves"></category><category term="John Wall"></category><category term="NBA Southwest"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Atlantic"></category><category term="NBA Northwest"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>After night of glory, James finally says sorry to Cleveland</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/night-glory-james-finally-cleveland-4779764a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-05-12T09:00:16Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Sports News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-05-12:/men's-professional-basketball/night-glory-james-finally-cleveland-4779764a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Ponte Vedra Beach" href="/topic/Ponte+Vedra+Beach" &gt;PONTE VEDRA BEACH&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span&gt;Florida&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="LeBron James" href="/topic/LeBron+James" &gt;LeBron James&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; failed to get past the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Boston Celtics" href="/topic/Boston+Celtics" &gt;Boston Celtics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; as a &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Ca...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Boston Celtics"></category><category term="Dwyane Wade"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Chris Bosh"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Ponte Vedra Beach"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Atlantic"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>James and Heat eye ultimate prize</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/james-heat-eye-ultimate-prize-4768416a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-04-16T02:30:38Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-04-16:/men's-professional-basketball/james-heat-eye-ultimate-prize-4768416a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="LeBron James" href="/topic/LeBron+James" &gt;LeBron James&lt;/a&gt; left &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland&lt;/a&gt; in search of an &lt;a title="National Basketball Association" href="/topic/National+Basketball+Association" &gt;NBA&lt;/a&gt; title, and now "King" James and his fellow &lt;a title="Miami Heat" href="/topic/Miami+Heat" &gt;Miami Heat&lt;/a&gt; stars have a chance to show the much-discussed move was worth it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;James, a two-time NBA Most Valuable Player, pr...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="NBA Finals"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Dwyane Wade"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Chris Bosh"></category><category term="Philadelphia 76ers"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Erik Spoelstra"></category><category term="Doug Collins"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Atlantic"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Piston's Villanueva suspended five games</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/pistons-villanueva-suspended-games-4767593a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-04-14T03:30:16Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-04-14:/men's-professional-basketball/pistons-villanueva-suspended-games-4767593a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a title="National Basketball Association" href="/topic/National+Basketball+Association" &gt;National Basketball Association&lt;/a&gt;'s disciplinary committee has slapped &lt;a title="Detroit Pistons" href="/topic/Detroit+Pistons" &gt;Detroit Pistons&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a title="Charlie Villanueva" href="/topic/Charlie+Villanueva" &gt;forward Charlie Villanueva&lt;/a&gt; with a five-game ban for an altercation with &lt;a title="Ryan Hollings" href="/topic/Ryan+Hollings" &gt;Ryan Hollings&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" h...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Philadelphia"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Detroit Pistons"></category><category term="Charlie Villanueva"></category><category term="Byron Scott"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="Ryan Hollings"></category></entry><entry><title>'King' James jersey out-sells Bryant's</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/king-james-jersey-outsells-bryants-4767476a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-04-13T17:30:23Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-04-13:/men's-professional-basketball/king-james-jersey-outsells-bryants-4767476a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="LeBron James" href="/topic/LeBron+James" &gt;LeBron James&lt;/a&gt; was cast as a villain by some for his move from &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a title="Miami Heat" href="/topic/Miami+Heat" &gt;Miami&lt;/a&gt;, but that hasn't stopped fans making his Heat jersey the top-seller in the NBA.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sales of James' jersey passed those of &lt;span&gt;Lakers&lt;/span&gt; star &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Kobe Bryant" href="/topic/Kobe+Bryant" &gt;Kobe Bryant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; this ...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="New York Knicks"></category><category term="Kobe Bryant"></category><category term="Boston Celtics"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Carmelo Anthony"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Amare Stoudemire"></category><category term="Rajon Rondo"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Atlantic"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>League bans Pistons' Villanueva five games for altercation</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/league-bans-pistons-villanueva-games-altercation-4767466a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-04-13T17:00:17Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Sports News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-04-13:/men's-professional-basketball/league-bans-pistons-villanueva-games-altercation-4767466a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;NEW YORK&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The &lt;span&gt;NBA&lt;/span&gt; suspended &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Detroit Pistons" href="/topic/Detroit+Pistons" &gt;Detroit Pistons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Charlie Villanueva" href="/topic/Charlie+Villanueva" &gt;forward Charlie Villanueva&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; five games on Wednesday for an on-court altercation and attempting to escalate the incident by entering the opposing team's locker room twice.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Detroit Pistons"></category><category term="Charlie Villanueva"></category><category term="Simon Evans"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Bulls clinch No. 1 seed in East</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/bulls-clinch-1-seed-east-4765560a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-04-09T02:30:14Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-04-09:/men's-professional-basketball/bulls-clinch-1-seed-east-4765560a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a title="Chicago Bulls" href="/topic/Chicago+Bulls" &gt;Chicago Bulls&lt;/a&gt; secured the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference by beating &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland&lt;/a&gt; 93-82  with the help of a 24 point and 11 rebound performance from &lt;a title="Carlos Boozer" href="/topic/Carlos+Boozer" &gt;Carlos Boozer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Ronnie Brewer" href="/topic/Ronnie+Brewer" &gt;Ronnie Brewer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; had 12 points while &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Derrick R...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Michael Jordan"></category><category term="Chicago Bulls"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Carlos Boozer"></category><category term="Ronnie Brewer"></category><category term="J.J. Hickson"></category><category term="Derrick Rose"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category></entry><entry><title>Bulls head into playoffs as top seed in Eastern Conference</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/bulls-head-playoffs-top-seed-eastern-conference-4765551a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-04-08T22:30:05Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Sports News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-04-08:/men's-professional-basketball/bulls-head-playoffs-top-seed-eastern-conference-4765551a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;CLEVELAND&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;span&gt;Ohio&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Chicago Bulls" href="/topic/Chicago+Bulls" &gt;Chicago Bulls&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;' 93-82 victory over the &lt;span&gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/span&gt; Friday not only clinched the top seed in the Eastern Conference for the playoffs but also capped a transformation from up-and-comer to title contender.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Los Angeles"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Michael Jordan"></category><category term="Chicago Bulls"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Carlos Boozer"></category><category term="Derrick Rose"></category><category term="Joakim Noah"></category><category term="Tom Thibodeau"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category></entry><entry><title>"King-less" Cavs target bright finish to dark NBA year</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/kingless-cavs-target-bright-finish-dark-nba-year-4764533a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-04-06T22:00:08Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Sports News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-04-06:/men's-professional-basketball/kingless-cavs-target-bright-finish-dark-nba-year-4764533a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Toronto Raptors" href="/topic/Toronto+Raptors" &gt;TORONTO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - A year ago, the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; had the best record in the &lt;a title="National Basketball Association" href="/topic/National+Basketball+Association" &gt;NBA&lt;/a&gt;, the league's best player in &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="LeBron James" href="/topic/Le...</summary><category term="Baseball"></category><category term="Professional Baseball"></category><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Hockey"></category><category term="Professional Hockey"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="North America"></category><category term="New Jersey"></category><category term="National Football League"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="National Football Conference"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Major League Baseball"></category><category term="Boston Celtics"></category><category term="National Hockey League"></category><category term="NHL Eastern Conference"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="NHL Western Conference"></category><category term="San Jose Sharks"></category><category term="Toronto Raptors"></category><category term="Chris Bosh"></category><category term="Washington Capitals"></category><category term="Philadelphia Phillies"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Tampa Bay Buccaneers"></category><category term="Byron Scott"></category><category term="Alastair Himmer"></category><category term="National League (MLB)"></category><category term="NL East"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NHL Pacific"></category><category term="NHL Southeast"></category><category term="NBA Atlantic"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category><category term="NFC South"></category></entry><entry><title>Knicks back in playoffs after victory over Cavaliers</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/knicks-playoffs-victory-cavaliers-4762969a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-04-03T18:00:17Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Sports News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-04-03:/men's-professional-basketball/knicks-playoffs-victory-cavaliers-4762969a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;NEW YORK (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The &lt;a title="New York Knicks" href="/topic/New+York+Knicks" &gt;New York Knicks&lt;/a&gt; clinched their first post-season appearance in seven years following a 123-107 victory over the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; on Sunday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Amare Stoudemire" href="/topic/Amare+Stoudemire" &gt;Amar'e Stoudemire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Los Angeles"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="New York Knicks"></category><category term="Carmelo Anthony"></category><category term="Baron Davis"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Amare Stoudemire"></category><category term="J.J. Hickson"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Atlantic"></category></entry><entry><title>Cavs finally beat James for a dose of revenge</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/cavs-finally-beat-james-dose-revenge-4761215a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-03-30T10:30:36Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-03-30:/men's-professional-basketball/cavs-finally-beat-james-dose-revenge-4761215a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt; averted a season sweep by &lt;a title="Miami Heat" href="/topic/Miami+Heat" &gt;Miami&lt;/a&gt; and exacted a dose of revenge against &lt;a title="LeBron James" href="/topic/LeBron+James" &gt;LeBron James&lt;/a&gt; by beating the Heat 102-90 on Tuesday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cleveland took a whopping 23-point lead, then lost it and had to storm back late in the game with a 12-0 run for the victory and a dose of revenge against former ...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Dwyane Wade"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Anthony Parker"></category><category term="Baron Davis"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Mike Bibby"></category><category term="J.J. Hickson"></category><category term="Ryan Hollins"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>NBA Cavs finally beat James for a dose of revenge</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/nba-cavs-finally-beat-james-dose-revenge-4761037a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-03-30T02:32:34Z</updated><author><name>AFP Global Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-03-30:/men's-professional-basketball/nba-cavs-finally-beat-james-dose-revenge-4761037a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt; averted a season sweep by &lt;a title="Miami Heat" href="/topic/Miami+Heat" &gt;Miami&lt;/a&gt; and exacted a dose of revenge against &lt;a title="LeBron James" href="/topic/LeBron+James" &gt;LeBron James&lt;/a&gt; by beating the Heat 102-90 on Tuesday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cleveland took a whopping 23-point lead, then lost it and had to storm back late in the game with a 12-0 run for the victory and a dose of revenge against former ...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Dwyane Wade"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Anthony Parker"></category><category term="Baron Davis"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Mike Bibby"></category><category term="J.J. Hickson"></category><category term="Ryan Hollins"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Cavaliers negate James's triple-double to upset Heat</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/cavaliers-negate-jamess-tripledouble-upset-heat-4760979a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-03-29T20:30:43Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Sports News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-03-29:/men's-professional-basketball/cavaliers-negate-jamess-tripledouble-upset-heat-4760979a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;CLEVELAND&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;span&gt;Ohio&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="LeBron James" href="/topic/LeBron+James" &gt;LeBron James&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s triple double was not enough to help the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Miami Heat" href="/topic/Miami+Heat" &gt;Miami Heat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; overcome the lowly &lt;span&gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/span&gt;, who beat the playoff bound Heat 102-90 on Tuesda...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Los Angeles"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Anthony Parker"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="J.J. Hickson"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Police nab man with knife on NBA court</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/police-nab-man-knife-nba-court-4756299a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-03-19T18:30:18Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-03-19:/men's-professional-basketball/police-nab-man-knife-nba-court-4756299a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="Los Angeles Police Department" href="/topic/Los+Angeles+Police+Department" &gt;Los Angeles police&lt;/a&gt; arrested a man wielding a knife after a standoff for about an hour on the court ahead of an &lt;a title="National Basketball Association" href="/topic/National+Basketball+Association" &gt;NBA&lt;/a&gt; game between the &lt;a title="Los Angeles Clippers" href="/topic/Los+Angeles+Clippers" &gt;Los Angeles Clippers&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cav...</summary><category term="Crime"></category><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="College Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="College Athletics"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Big 12 Conference"></category><category term="Los Angeles Clippers"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Oklahoma Sooners"></category><category term="Blake Griffin"></category><category term="Los Angeles Police Department"></category><category term="Byron Scott"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category></entry><entry><title>Paul back at practice for Hornets</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/paul-practice-hornets-4752633a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-03-10T19:30:28Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-03-10:/men's-professional-basketball/paul-practice-hornets-4752633a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="NBA All-Star Game" href="/topic/NBA+All-Star+Game" &gt;NBA All-Star&lt;/a&gt; guard &lt;a title="Chris Paul" href="/topic/Chris+Paul" &gt;Chris Paul&lt;/a&gt; was back on the practice court for the &lt;a title="New Orleans Hornets" href="/topic/New+Orleans+Hornets" &gt;New Orleans Hornets&lt;/a&gt; on Thursday for the first time since suffering a concussion in a game four days earlier.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Paul, who has missed two games since colliding with &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavalier...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Sacramento"></category><category term="Memphis"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="New Orleans Hornets"></category><category term="Chris Paul"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Ramon Sessions"></category><category term="NBA Southwest"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA All-Star Game"></category></entry><entry><title>Rose, Boozer spark NBA Bulls over Hornets</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/rose-boozer-spark-nba-bulls-hornets-4751167a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-03-08T02:30:16Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-03-08:/men's-professional-basketball/rose-boozer-spark-nba-bulls-hornets-4751167a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="Derrick Rose" href="/topic/Derrick+Rose" &gt;Derrick Rose&lt;/a&gt; scored a game-high 24 points and &lt;a title="Carlos Boozer" href="/topic/Carlos+Boozer" &gt;Carlos Boozer&lt;/a&gt; added 19 to power the &lt;a title="Chicago Bulls" href="/topic/Chicago+Bulls" &gt;Chicago Bulls&lt;/a&gt; past &lt;a title="New Orleans Hornets" href="/topic/New+Orleans+Hornets" &gt;New Orleans&lt;/a&gt; 85-77 on Monday, the Hornets losing while without concussion-sidelined star &lt;a title="Chris Paul" href="/topic/Chris+Paul" &gt;Chris Paul&lt;/a...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Dallas"></category><category term="United Kingdom"></category><category term="Italy"></category><category term="Europe"></category><category term="Western Europe"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="New Orleans Hornets"></category><category term="Chris Paul"></category><category term="Chicago Bulls"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Jarrett Jack"></category><category term="Luol Deng"></category><category term="Carlos Boozer"></category><category term="Derrick Rose"></category><category term="Joakim Noah"></category><category term="Ramon Sessions"></category><category term="David West (Basketball)"></category><category term="Southern Europe"></category><category term="NBA Southwest"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category><category term="NBA All-Star Game"></category></entry><entry><title>Hornets' Paul leaves game on stretcher with concussion</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/hornets-paul-leaves-game-stretcher-concussion-4750656a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-03-06T20:00:12Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Sports News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-03-06:/men's-professional-basketball/hornets-paul-leaves-game-stretcher-concussion-4750656a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;CLEVELAND&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;span&gt;Ohio&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="New Orleans Hornets" href="/topic/New+Orleans+Hornets" &gt;New Orleans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;' All-Star guard &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Chris Paul" href="/topic/Chris+Paul" &gt;Chris Paul&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; left the court on a stretcher during the third quarter of the Hornets' 96-81 win over the &lt;span&gt;Cleveland Cavaliers...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Chicago"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="New Orleans Hornets"></category><category term="Chris Paul"></category><category term="Windsor (Ontario)"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Ramon Sessions"></category><category term="NBA Southwest"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category></entry><entry><title>Spurs beat Cavs to notch 50th win</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/spurs-beat-cavs-notch-50th-win-4749269a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-03-03T03:30:15Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-03-03:/men's-professional-basketball/spurs-beat-cavs-notch-50th-win-4749269a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a title="San Antonio Spurs" href="/topic/San+Antonio+Spurs" &gt;San Antonio Spurs&lt;/a&gt; polished up their act and posted their 50th victory of the &lt;a title="National Basketball Association" href="/topic/National+Basketball+Association" &gt;NBA&lt;/a&gt; season, beating hapless &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland&lt;/a&gt; 109-99.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Spurs on Wednesday became the first team this season to reach the 50-victory mark, and gave coach &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Gregg Popov...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Memphis"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="San Antonio Spurs"></category><category term="Manu Ginobili"></category><category term="Tony Parker"></category><category term="Samardo Samuels"></category><category term="Los Angeles Clippers"></category><category term="Baron Davis"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Tim Duncan"></category><category term="Matt Bonner"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="DeJuan Blair"></category><category term="George Hill"></category><category term="Daniel Gibson"></category><category term="Byron Scott"></category><category term="Gregg Popovich"></category><category term="Gary Neal"></category><category term="NBA Southwest"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category></entry><entry><title>Cavs dealt another blow as Jamison sidelined with injury</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/cavs-dealt-blow-jamison-sidelined-injury-4748272a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-02-28T22:00:06Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Sports News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-02-28:/men's-professional-basketball/cavs-dealt-blow-jamison-sidelined-injury-4748272a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;CLEVELAND&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The nightmare season for the NBA-worst &lt;span&gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/span&gt; continued with news that leading scorer &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Antawn Jamison" href="/topic/Antawn+Jamison" &gt;Antawn Jamison&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; could miss the remainder of the season with a fractured finger.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jamison, a 13th-year forward, was injured in Sunday...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="North America"></category><category term="Los Angeles"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Philadelphia 76ers"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Atlantic"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Jamison's surgery another blow to Cavaliers</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/jamisons-surgery-blow-cavaliers-4748250a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-02-28T20:30:27Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-02-28:/men's-professional-basketball/jamisons-surgery-blow-cavaliers-4748250a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a title="Antawn Jamison" href="/topic/Antawn+Jamison" &gt;forward Antawn Jamison&lt;/a&gt; will need surgery to repair a broken finger on his left hand and could miss the remainder of the &lt;a title="National Basketball Association" href="/topic/National+Basketball+Association" &gt;National Basketball Association&lt;/a&gt; season.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jamison fractured his little finger during the Cavaliers 95-91 loss to &lt;span&gt;&lt;a ti...</summary><category term="Medical Treatments and Procedures"></category><category term="Surgery"></category><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Philadelphia"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category></entry><entry><title>Flurry of trades at transfer deadline</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/flurry-trades-transfer-deadline-4746808a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-02-24T20:30:31Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-02-24:/men's-professional-basketball/flurry-trades-transfer-deadline-4746808a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Division leaders Boston and &lt;a title="Oklahoma City Thunder" href="/topic/Oklahoma+City+Thunder" &gt;Oklahoma City&lt;/a&gt; made a four-player swap on Thursday at the &lt;a title="National Basketball Association" href="/topic/National+Basketball+Association" &gt;NBA&lt;/a&gt; trading deadline as a flurry of potentially influential deals were made in the final hours.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Boston Celtics" href="/topic/Boston+Celtics" &gt;Boston Celtics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; sent center &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Kendrick Perkins"...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="NBA Draft"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Washington, DC"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="New York Knicks"></category><category term="Nate Robinson"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Portland Trail Blazers"></category><category term="Phoenix Suns"></category><category term="Boston Celtics"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Atlanta Hawks"></category><category term="Carmelo Anthony"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Shane Battier"></category><category term="Jamario Moon"></category><category term="Luke Harangody"></category><category term="Los Angeles Clippers"></category><category term="Baron Davis"></category><category term="Oklahoma City Thunder"></category><category term="Nenad Krstic"></category><category term="Kevin Durant"></category><category term="Jeff Green (Basketball)"></category><category term="Dante Cunningham"></category><category term="Shaquille O'Neal"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Tanzania"></category><category term="Mike Bibby"></category><category term="Maurice Evans"></category><category term="Memphis Grizzlies"></category><category term="Charlotte Bobcats"></category><category term="Gerald Wallace"></category><category term="Joel Przybilla"></category><category term="Hilton Armstrong"></category><category term="Kevin Garnett"></category><category term="Kendrick Perkins"></category><category term="Mo Williams"></category><category term="Hasheem Thabeet"></category><category term="Nazr Mohammed"></category><category term="Russell Westbrook"></category><category term="Kirk Hinrich"></category><category term="Morris Peterson"></category><category term="Aaron Brooks (Basketball)"></category><category term="Goran Dragic"></category><category term="Jordan Crawford"></category><category term="D.J. White"></category><category term="Semih Erden"></category><category term="NBA Southwest"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Atlantic"></category><category term="NBA Northwest"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Cavaliers build for future with Davis, first-round pick</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/nba-draft/cavaliers-build-future-davis-firstround-pick-4746549a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-02-24T12:30:07Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Sports News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-02-24:/nba-draft/cavaliers-build-future-davis-firstround-pick-4746549a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;NEW YORK&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, who went from being an &lt;span&gt;NBA&lt;/span&gt; power to painfully poor in one season, began the rebuilding process Thursday by acquiring &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Baron Davis" href="/topic/Baron+Davis" &gt;Baron Davis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and a 2011 first-round draft pick from the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Los...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="NBA Draft"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="North Carolina"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="New Orleans Hornets"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Jamario Moon"></category><category term="Los Angeles Clippers"></category><category term="Baron Davis"></category><category term="Eric Gordon"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Mo Williams"></category><category term="Byron Scott"></category><category term="Gene Cherry"></category><category term="NBA Southwest"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>League-worst Cavaliers stun reigning champ Lakers</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/leagueworst-cavaliers-stun-reigning-champ-lakers-4743772a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-02-17T11:30:53Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-02-17:/men's-professional-basketball/leagueworst-cavaliers-stun-reigning-champ-lakers-4743772a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a title="National Basketball Association" href="/topic/National+Basketball+Association" &gt;NBA&lt;/a&gt; doormat Cavaliers made certain that no more dubious history would be made at their expense this season by stunning the two-time reigning champions &lt;a title="Los Angeles Lakers" href="/topic/Los+Angeles+Lakers" &gt;Los Angeles Lakers&lt;/a&gt; on Wednesday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Ramon Sessions" href="/topic/Ramon+Session...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Los Angeles Lakers"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Kobe Bryant"></category><category term="Phil Jackson"></category><category term="Anthony Parker"></category><category term="Los Angeles Clippers"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Pau Gasol"></category><category term="Lamar Odom"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="Ramon Sessions"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category><category term="NBA All-Star Game"></category></entry><entry><title>Entertainment -- For Less</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/entertainment-4743761a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-02-17T11:30:36Z</updated><author><name>Kiplinger.com</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-02-17:/men's-professional-basketball/entertainment-4743761a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;You can have fun without feeling guilty if you follow these money-saving tips.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can have fun without feeling guilty if you follow these money-saving tips.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The March issue of Kiplinger's Personal Finance features loads of ways to trim expenses on food, medicine, utilities, travel, investing, transportation and more. The article, Save $50 a Day, also offers ways to cut entertainment costs, so you can have a little fun without feeling guilty.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Accordi...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Los Angeles"></category><category term="AARP"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="Twitter Inc."></category><category term="StubHub Inc."></category><category term="Taylor Swift"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Atlanta Hawks"></category><category term="Ticketmaster Corporation"></category><category term="Staples Center"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="TNOW Entertainment Group Inc."></category><category term="RazorGator Inc."></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category><category term="West Side Story (Musical)"></category></entry><entry><title>Bobcats extend contract of head coach Paul Silas</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/bobcats-extend-contract-head-coach-paul-silas-4743171a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-02-16T10:30:12Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Sports News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-02-16:/men's-professional-basketball/bobcats-extend-contract-head-coach-paul-silas-4743171a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;CHARLOTTE, &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="North Carolina" href="/topic/North+Carolina" &gt;North Carolina&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Charlotte Bobcats" href="/topic/Charlotte+Bobcats" &gt;Charlotte Bobcats&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; have extended the contract of head coach &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Paul Silas" href="/topic/Paul+Silas" &gt;Paul Silas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; through the 2011-12 season and removed the interim tag from his job title, the &lt;span...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="North Carolina"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Larry Brown (Basketball)"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="New Orleans Hornets"></category><category term="Los Angeles Clippers"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Charlotte Bobcats"></category><category term="Rod Higgins"></category><category term="Paul Silas"></category><category term="NBA Southwest"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Wizards end 0-25 road start with win at Cleveland</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/wizards-025-road-start-win-cleveland-4741929a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-02-13T18:30:23Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-02-13:/men's-professional-basketball/wizards-025-road-start-win-cleveland-4741929a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a title="Washington Wizards" href="/topic/Washington+Wizards" &gt;Washington Wizards&lt;/a&gt;, led by 31 points from &lt;a title="Nick Young (Basketball)" href="/topic/Nick+Young+(Basketball)" &gt;Nick Young&lt;/a&gt;, have finally won their first &lt;a title="National Basketball Association" href="/topic/National+Basketball+Association" &gt;NBA&lt;/a&gt; road game of the season after 25 losses in a row, defeating the &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt; 115-100...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="China"></category><category term="Dallas"></category><category term="Asia"></category><category term="New Orleans"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="East Asia"></category><category term="Los Angeles Clippers"></category><category term="Philadelphia 76ers"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Washington Wizards"></category><category term="Nick Young (Basketball)"></category><category term="Andray Blatche"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="Yi Jianlian"></category><category term="Josh Howard"></category><category term="Kirk Hinrich"></category><category term="John Wall"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Atlantic"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Cavaliers finally win, halt 26-game skid</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/cavaliers-finally-win-halt-26game-skid-4741647a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-02-12T14:30:27Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-02-12:/men's-professional-basketball/cavaliers-finally-win-halt-26game-skid-4741647a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt; ended the longest losing streak in &lt;a title="National Basketball Association" href="/topic/National+Basketball+Association" &gt;NBA&lt;/a&gt; history on Friday, beating the &lt;a title="Los Angeles Clippers" href="/topic/Los+Angeles+Clippers" &gt;Los Angeles Clippers&lt;/a&gt; 126-119 in overtime to halt their record skid at 26 games.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Cavaliers won for the first time since December 18, when they beat the &lt;...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Detroit"></category><category term="National Football League"></category><category term="National Football Conference"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="New York Knicks"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Jamario Moon"></category><category term="Los Angeles Clippers"></category><category term="Baron Davis"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Tampa Bay Buccaneers"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="J.J. Hickson"></category><category term="Mo Williams"></category><category term="Vinny Del Negro"></category><category term="Blake Griffin"></category><category term="Daniel Gibson"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Atlantic"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category><category term="NFC South"></category></entry><entry><title>Cavaliers win to end record NBA losing streak</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/cavaliers-win-record-nba-losing-streak-4741518a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-02-12T03:30:22Z</updated><author><name>AFP Global Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-02-12:/men's-professional-basketball/cavaliers-win-record-nba-losing-streak-4741518a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt; ended the longest losing streak in &lt;a title="National Basketball Association" href="/topic/National+Basketball+Association" &gt;NBA&lt;/a&gt; history, beating the &lt;a title="Los Angeles Clippers" href="/topic/Los+Angeles+Clippers" &gt;Los Angeles Clippers&lt;/a&gt; 126-119 in overtime to halt their record skid at 26 games.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Cavaliers won for the first time since December 18.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Cavs had set the NBA...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Football"></category><category term="Professional Football"></category><category term="Detroit"></category><category term="National Football League"></category><category term="National Football Conference"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Los Angeles Clippers"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Tampa Bay Buccaneers"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category><category term="NFC South"></category></entry><entry><title>Cavaliers end woeful streak with overtime win over Clippers</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/cavaliers-woeful-streak-overtime-win-clippers-4741484a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-02-11T21:00:18Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Sports News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-02-11:/men's-professional-basketball/cavaliers-woeful-streak-overtime-win-clippers-4741484a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;CLEVELAND&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The &lt;span&gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/span&gt; snapped their 26-game losing streak with a 126-119 overtime win over the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Los Angeles Clippers" href="/topic/Los+Angeles+Clippers" &gt;Los Angeles Clippers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; to the delight of a raucous home crowd on Friday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Cavs recorded their first win since a Decembe...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="North America"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="New York Knicks"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Windsor (Ontario)"></category><category term="Los Angeles Clippers"></category><category term="Baron Davis"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Randy Foye"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="J.J. Hickson"></category><category term="Mo Williams"></category><category term="Blake Griffin"></category><category term="Daniel Gibson"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Atlantic"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category></entry><entry><title>Cavaliers on brink of longest North American losing skid</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/cavaliers-brink-longest-north-american-losing-skid-4740739a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-02-10T11:00:15Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Sports News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-02-10:/men's-professional-basketball/cavaliers-brink-longest-north-american-losing-skid-4740739a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;NEW YORK (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The nightmare season for the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; could take an even darker turn as another defeat would given them ownership of the longest losing skid in all four major North American professional sports.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Cavaliers, who extended their NBA-record losing skid to 26 games when they lost to the &lt;span&gt;...</summary><category term="Baseball"></category><category term="Professional Baseball"></category><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Football"></category><category term="Professional Football"></category><category term="Hockey"></category><category term="Professional Hockey"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="North Carolina"></category><category term="National Football League"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="National Football Conference"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="New York Knicks"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Major League Baseball"></category><category term="National Hockey League"></category><category term="NHL Eastern Conference"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="NHL Western Conference"></category><category term="San Jose Sharks"></category><category term="Los Angeles Clippers"></category><category term="Washington Capitals"></category><category term="Philadelphia Phillies"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Tampa Bay Buccaneers"></category><category term="Detroit Pistons"></category><category term="Byron Scott"></category><category term="Gene Cherry"></category><category term="National League (MLB)"></category><category term="NL East"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NHL Pacific"></category><category term="NHL Southeast"></category><category term="NBA Atlantic"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category><category term="NFC South"></category></entry><entry><title>NBA Cavaliers match US all-sport mark losing run</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/nba-cavaliers-match-allsport-mark-losing-run-4740601a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-02-10T03:30:43Z</updated><author><name>AFP Global Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-02-10:/men's-professional-basketball/nba-cavaliers-match-allsport-mark-losing-run-4740601a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;NBA doormat &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland&lt;/a&gt; matched the all-time record losing streak in American pro sport history as they suffered their 26th defeat in a row by falling 103-94 to &lt;a title="Detroit Pistons" href="/topic/Detroit+Pistons" &gt;Detroit&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cavaliers coach &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Byron Scott" href="/topic/Byron+Scott" &gt;Byron Scott&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; kept the locker room closed for more than half an hour after the historic loss, then ripped...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Football"></category><category term="Professional Football"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="National Football League"></category><category term="National Football Conference"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="New York Knicks"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Tracy McGrady"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Los Angeles Clippers"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Tampa Bay Buccaneers"></category><category term="Detroit Pistons"></category><category term="Rodney Stuckey"></category><category term="Washington Wizards"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="J.J. Hickson"></category><category term="Ramon Sessions"></category><category term="Will Bynum"></category><category term="Daniel Gibson"></category><category term="Byron Scott"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Atlantic"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category><category term="NFC South"></category></entry><entry><title>Cavs match US all-sport mark losing run</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/cavs-match-allsport-mark-losing-run-4740585a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-02-10T02:30:37Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-02-10:/men's-professional-basketball/cavs-match-allsport-mark-losing-run-4740585a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;NBA doormat &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland&lt;/a&gt; matched the all-time record losing streak in American pro sport history as they suffered their 26th defeat in a row by falling 103-94 to &lt;a title="Detroit Pistons" href="/topic/Detroit+Pistons" &gt;Detroit&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cavaliers coach &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Byron Scott" href="/topic/Byron+Scott" &gt;Byron Scott&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; kept the locker room closed for more than half an hour after the historic loss, then ripped...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Football"></category><category term="Professional Football"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="National Football League"></category><category term="National Football Conference"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="New York Knicks"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Tracy McGrady"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Los Angeles Clippers"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Tampa Bay Buccaneers"></category><category term="Detroit Pistons"></category><category term="Rodney Stuckey"></category><category term="Washington Wizards"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="J.J. Hickson"></category><category term="Ramon Sessions"></category><category term="Will Bynum"></category><category term="Daniel Gibson"></category><category term="Byron Scott"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Atlantic"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category><category term="NFC South"></category></entry><entry><title>Cavs match US all-sport mark with 26th loss in row</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/cavs-match-allsport-mark-26th-loss-row-4740525a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-02-09T20:30:22Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-02-09:/men's-professional-basketball/cavs-match-allsport-mark-26th-loss-row-4740525a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The NBA's &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt; matched the all-time American pro team sport record for consecutive losses with their 26th defeat in a row, falling 103-94 to the &lt;a title="Detroit Pistons" href="/topic/Detroit+Pistons" &gt;Detroit Pistons&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Cavaliers extended their &lt;span&gt;NBA&lt;/span&gt; record losing streak on Wednesday, having broken the old mark of 24 they set over the 1981-82 and 1982-83 seasons, and equaled the ...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Football"></category><category term="Professional Football"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="National Football League"></category><category term="National Football Conference"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="New York Knicks"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Los Angeles Clippers"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Tampa Bay Buccaneers"></category><category term="Detroit Pistons"></category><category term="Rodney Stuckey"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="J.J. Hickson"></category><category term="Ramon Sessions"></category><category term="Will Bynum"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Atlantic"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category><category term="NFC South"></category></entry><entry><title>NBA Cavaliers match US all-sport losing record</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/nba-cavaliers-match-allsport-losing-record-4740523a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-02-09T20:30:20Z</updated><author><name>AFP Global Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-02-09:/men's-professional-basketball/nba-cavaliers-match-allsport-losing-record-4740523a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The NBA's &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt; matched the all-time American pro team sport record for consecutive losses with their 26th defeat in a row, falling 103-94 to the &lt;a title="Detroit Pistons" href="/topic/Detroit+Pistons" &gt;Detroit Pistons&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Cavaliers extended their &lt;span&gt;NBA&lt;/span&gt; record losing streak on Wednesday, having broken the old mark of 24 they set over the 1981-82 and 1982-83 seasons, and equaled the ...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Football"></category><category term="Professional Football"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="National Football League"></category><category term="National Football Conference"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="New York Knicks"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Los Angeles Clippers"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Tampa Bay Buccaneers"></category><category term="Detroit Pistons"></category><category term="Rodney Stuckey"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="J.J. Hickson"></category><category term="Ramon Sessions"></category><category term="Will Bynum"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Atlantic"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category><category term="NFC South"></category></entry><entry><title>Cavs set new low with 25th straight defeat</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/cavs-set-new-25th-straight-defeat-4739687a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-02-08T05:30:43Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-02-08:/men's-professional-basketball/cavs-set-new-25th-straight-defeat-4739687a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt; added to their unhappy resume as they went down to a record 25th straight defeat, losing 99-96 to the &lt;a title="Dallas Mavericks" href="/topic/Dallas+Mavericks" &gt;Dallas Mavericks&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;With their Monday's loss, Cleveland broke their own record for consecutive losses in the &lt;span&gt;NBA&lt;/span&gt; -- 24 amassed in a period spanning the 1981-82 and 1982-83 seasons.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was another lowpoint for ...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Portland"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Dallas Mavericks"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Anthony Parker"></category><category term="Jamario Moon"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Jason Terry"></category><category term="Dirk Nowitzki"></category><category term="Tyson Chandler"></category><category term="Peja Stojakovic"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="J.J. Hickson"></category><category term="Shawn Marion"></category><category term="Ramon Sessions"></category><category term="Byron Scott"></category><category term="Ryan Hollins"></category><category term="Ian Mahinmi"></category><category term="Christian Eyenga"></category><category term="NBA Southwest"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Cavaliers set new low with 25th straight NBA defeat</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/cavaliers-set-new-25th-straight-nba-defeat-4739666a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-02-08T04:30:29Z</updated><author><name>AFP Global Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-02-08:/men's-professional-basketball/cavaliers-set-new-25th-straight-nba-defeat-4739666a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt; added to their unhappy resume as they went down to a record 25th straight defeat, losing 99-96 to the &lt;a title="Dallas Mavericks" href="/topic/Dallas+Mavericks" &gt;Dallas Mavericks&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;With their Monday's loss, Cleveland broke their own record for consecutive losses in the &lt;a title="National Basketball Association" href="/topic/National+Basketball+Association" &gt;NBA&lt;/a&gt; -- 24 amassed in a pe...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Portland"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Dallas Mavericks"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Anthony Parker"></category><category term="Jamario Moon"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Jason Terry"></category><category term="Dirk Nowitzki"></category><category term="Tyson Chandler"></category><category term="Peja Stojakovic"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="J.J. Hickson"></category><category term="Shawn Marion"></category><category term="Ramon Sessions"></category><category term="Byron Scott"></category><category term="Ryan Hollins"></category><category term="Ian Mahinmi"></category><category term="Christian Eyenga"></category><category term="NBA Southwest"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Cavs' freefall sets all-time record losing streak</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/cavs-freefall-sets-alltime-record-losing-streak-4739611a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-02-07T21:30:06Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Sports News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-02-07:/men's-professional-basketball/cavs-freefall-sets-alltime-record-losing-streak-4739611a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="Dallas Mavericks" href="/topic/Dallas+Mavericks" &gt;DALLAS&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; hit rock bottom by losing an NBA-record 25th straight game on Monday to the &lt;span&gt;Dallas Mavericks&lt;/span&gt;, topping the previous mark they set over two seasons in 1982.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Cavaliers, who set the record for consecutive...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Los Angeles"></category><category term="Toronto"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="New York Knicks"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Dallas Mavericks"></category><category term="Portland Trail Blazers"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Jason Terry"></category><category term="J.J. Hickson"></category><category term="Ramon Sessions"></category><category term="NBA Southwest"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Atlantic"></category><category term="NBA Northwest"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Cavs set unwanted record for futility</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/cavs-set-unwanted-record-futility-4738918a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-02-06T03:30:17Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-02-06:/men's-professional-basketball/cavs-set-unwanted-record-futility-4738918a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;When it comes to losing, the &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt; are now in a class by themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Cavaliers lost their 24th straight &lt;span&gt;NBA&lt;/span&gt; contest on Saturday, falling 111-105 to the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Portland Trail Blazers" href="/topic/Portland+Trail+Blazers" &gt;Portland Trail Blazers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; to break the league record for a single-season losing streak.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The 1995-96 &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Memphis Grizzlies" href="...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Dallas"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Portland Trail Blazers"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Denver Nuggets"></category><category term="Jamario Moon"></category><category term="Andre Miller"></category><category term="Wesley Matthews"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Anderson Varejao"></category><category term="Memphis Grizzlies"></category><category term="LaMarcus Aldridge"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="Daniel Gibson"></category><category term="Byron Scott"></category><category term="NBA Southwest"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Northwest"></category></entry><entry><title>Cavaliers set record with single-season losing streak</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/cavaliers-set-record-singleseason-losing-streak-4738898a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-02-05T21:30:04Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Sports News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-02-05:/men's-professional-basketball/cavaliers-set-record-singleseason-losing-streak-4738898a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;CLEVELAND&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The &lt;span&gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/span&gt; plunged new depths when they set an &lt;span&gt;NBA&lt;/span&gt; record for the most consecutive losses in a single season at 24 after losing 111-105 to the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Portland Trail Blazers" href="/topic/Portland+Trail+Blazers" &gt;Portland Trail Blazers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; on Saturday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Their de...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Portland Trail Blazers"></category><category term="Rudy Fernandez"></category><category term="Windsor (Ontario)"></category><category term="Denver Nuggets"></category><category term="Jamario Moon"></category><category term="Andre Miller"></category><category term="Wesley Matthews"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Memphis Grizzlies"></category><category term="LaMarcus Aldridge"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="Nicolas Batum"></category><category term="Ramon Sessions"></category><category term="Daniel Gibson"></category><category term="Byron Scott"></category><category term="NBA Southwest"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Northwest"></category></entry><entry><title>Cavaliers match record losing streak</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/cavaliers-match-record-losing-streak-4738792a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-02-05T14:30:25Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-02-05:/men's-professional-basketball/cavaliers-match-record-losing-streak-4738792a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt; matched the &lt;a title="National Basketball Association" href="/topic/National+Basketball+Association" &gt;NBA&lt;/a&gt; record for the longest single-season losing streak by dropping their 23rd game in a row, falling 112-105 at &lt;a title="Memphis Grizzlies" href="/topic/Memphis+Grizzlies" &gt;Memphis&lt;/a&gt; on Friday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cleveland matched the 1995-96 Vancouver Grizzlies, who later moved to Memphis, and the 19...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Vancouver"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Portland Trail Blazers"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Denver Nuggets"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Memphis Grizzlies"></category><category term="Rudy Gay"></category><category term="Zach Randolph"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="J.J. Hickson"></category><category term="Ramon Sessions"></category><category term="Byron Scott"></category><category term="NBA Southwest"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Northwest"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Cavaliers tie record for consecutive losses</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/cavaliers-tie-record-consecutive-losses-4738646a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-02-04T21:30:05Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Sports News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-02-04:/men's-professional-basketball/cavaliers-tie-record-consecutive-losses-4738646a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Memphis Grizzlies" href="/topic/Memphis+Grizzlies" &gt;MEMPHIS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span&gt;Tennessee&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; fell 112-105 to the Memphis Grizzlies Friday to tie the &lt;span&gt;NBA&lt;/span&gt; record for the most consecutive losses.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Cavaliers' 23rd straight defeat matched the mark shared by t...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Windsor (Ontario)"></category><category term="Denver Nuggets"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Memphis Grizzlies"></category><category term="NBA Southwest"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Northwest"></category></entry><entry><title>Cavaliers reach brink of history with 22nd loss</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/cavaliers-reach-brink-history-22nd-loss-4737716a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-02-03T02:30:45Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-02-03:/men's-professional-basketball/cavaliers-reach-brink-history-22nd-loss-4737716a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland&lt;/a&gt;'s woeful Cavaliers moved to the brink of matching the longest one-season losing streak in &lt;a title="National Basketball Association" href="/topic/National+Basketball+Association" &gt;NBA&lt;/a&gt; history by dropping their 22nd game in a row, falling 117-112 to Indiana.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Cavaliers, who have been reeling since superstar &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="LeBron James" href="/topic/LeBron+James" &gt;LeBron James&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; departed ...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Dallas"></category><category term="Vancouver"></category><category term="Portland (Oregon)"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Denver Nuggets"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Anthony Parker"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Indiana Pacers"></category><category term="Danny Granger"></category><category term="Memphis Grizzlies"></category><category term="Darren Collison"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="J.J. Hickson"></category><category term="Ramon Sessions"></category><category term="Byron Scott"></category><category term="Christian Eyenga"></category><category term="Jim O'Brien (Basketball)"></category><category term="NBA Southwest"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Northwest"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>James' Heat deal Cavs 40th defeat</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/james-heat-deal-cavs-40th-defeat-4736625a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-01-31T20:30:28Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-01-31:/men's-professional-basketball/james-heat-deal-cavs-40th-defeat-4736625a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="LeBron James" href="/topic/LeBron+James" &gt;LeBron James&lt;/a&gt;, who had led &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland&lt;/a&gt; to 40 victories by February 4 last season, helped &lt;a title="Miami Heat" href="/topic/Miami+Heat" &gt;Miami&lt;/a&gt; deal the Cavs their 40th defeat of the current &lt;a title="National Basketball Association" href="/topic/National+Basketball+Association" &gt;NBA&lt;/a&gt; campaign.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Dwyane Wade" href="/topic/Dwyane+Wade" &gt;Dwyan...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Dwyane Wade"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Denver Nuggets"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Memphis Grizzlies"></category><category term="Byron Scott"></category><category term="NBA Southwest"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Northwest"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>LeBron James and Heat hand Cavs 21st straight loss</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/lebron-james-heat-hand-cavs-21st-straight-loss-4736609a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-01-31T20:00:07Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Sports News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-01-31:/men's-professional-basketball/lebron-james-heat-hand-cavs-21st-straight-loss-4736609a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Miami Heat" href="/topic/Miami+Heat" &gt;MIAMI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - &lt;a title="LeBron James" href="/topic/LeBron+James" &gt;LeBron James&lt;/a&gt; added to his former team's misery by helping the Miami Heat to a 117-90 blowout win over &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; on Monday, handing the reeling Cavaliers a franchise single-season record 21st ...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Los Angeles"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Dwyane Wade"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Denver Nuggets"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Memphis Grizzlies"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="NBA Southwest"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Northwest"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Cavaliers edge near record with 20th loss in a row</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/cavaliers-edge-record-20th-loss-row-4736147a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-01-30T19:30:32Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-01-30:/men's-professional-basketball/cavaliers-edge-record-20th-loss-row-4736147a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt; set a club record with their 20th consecutive loss, falling 103-87 to the &lt;a title="Orlando Magic" href="/topic/Orlando+Magic" &gt;Orlando Magic&lt;/a&gt; on Sunday and moving within four defeats of setting a dubious &lt;a title="National Basketball Association" href="/topic/National+Basketball+Association" &gt;NBA&lt;/a&gt; record.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Cavaliers, the team that NBA Most Valuable Player &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="LeBron J...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="New York Knicks"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Dwight Howard"></category><category term="Denver Nuggets"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Memphis Grizzlies"></category><category term="Orlando Magic"></category><category term="Manny Harris"></category><category term="J.J. Redick"></category><category term="Ryan Anderson (Basketball)"></category><category term="NBA Southwest"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Atlantic"></category><category term="NBA Northwest"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Cavaliers' nosedive reaching record proportions</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/cavaliers-nosedive-reaching-record-proportions-4734679a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-01-26T20:00:05Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Sports News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-01-26:/men's-professional-basketball/cavaliers-nosedive-reaching-record-proportions-4734679a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;SALVO, &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="North Carolina Tar Heels (Basketball)" href="/topic/North+Carolina+Tar+Heels+(Basketball)" &gt;North Carolina&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The downtrodden &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; are on the verge of a record-setting tailspin just one year after being the &lt;span&gt;NBA&lt;/span&gt;'s best regular-season team.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A Cleveland lo...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Boston"></category><category term="Denver"></category><category term="Vancouver"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Major League Baseball"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="New York Mets"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="Byron Scott"></category><category term="North Carolina Tar Heels (Basketball)"></category><category term="National League (MLB)"></category><category term="NL East"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category><category term="MLB All-Star Game"></category></entry><entry><title>Celtics hand Cavaliers 18th straight defeat</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/celtics-hand-cavaliers-18th-straight-defeat-4734160a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-01-25T20:00:11Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Sports News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-01-25:/men's-professional-basketball/celtics-hand-cavaliers-18th-straight-defeat-4734160a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;BOSTON (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Boston Celtics" href="/topic/Boston+Celtics" &gt;Boston Celtics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; brushed aside &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; in a 112-95 blowout on Tuesday to send the NBA-worst Cavaliers to an 18th consecutive defeat.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Paul Pierce" href="/topic/Paul+Pierce" &gt;Paul Pierce&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; scored a team-hi...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Los Angeles Lakers"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Boston Celtics"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Paul Pierce"></category><category term="Kendrick Perkins"></category><category term="Christian Eyenga"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Atlantic"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category></entry><entry><title>Hip injury to sideline Cavs' Williams</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/hip-injury-sideline-cavs-williams-4731655a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-01-19T17:30:28Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-01-19:/men's-professional-basketball/hip-injury-sideline-cavs-williams-4731655a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Starting guard &lt;a title="Mo Williams" href="/topic/Mo+Williams" &gt;Mo Williams&lt;/a&gt; could miss several weeks with a hip injury, another blow to a &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt; team that is already worst in the NBA.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Williams received a cortisone injection on Wednesday to relieve the pain, the team said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;He has already missed seven games this season because of the injury and doctors said he should rest before deciding how...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Anthony Parker"></category><category term="Joey Graham"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Anderson Varejao"></category><category term="Mo Williams"></category><category term="Byron Scott"></category><category term="Leon Powe"></category><category term="Christian Eyenga"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category></entry><entry><title>LeBron James says tweet not a dig at Cavs</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/lebron-james-tweet-dig-cavs-4729062a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-01-13T11:30:43Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-01-13:/men's-professional-basketball/lebron-james-tweet-dig-cavs-4729062a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;a title="LeBron James" href="/topic/LeBron+James" &gt;LeBron James&lt;/a&gt; insisted Wednesday his apparent &lt;a title="Twitter Inc." href="/topic/Twitter+Inc." &gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt; dig at &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland&lt;/a&gt; wasn't an attempt to kick his former team when they were down, but just a comment on "how I was feeling at the time".&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The struggling Cavaliers suffered a stunning 55-point loss to the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Los Angeles Lakers" href="/topic/...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="Twitter Inc."></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Los Angeles Lakers"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Los Angeles Clippers"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Anderson Varejao"></category><category term="Mo Williams"></category><category term="Byron Scott"></category><category term="Daniel Gilbert"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>LeBron James says tweet not a dig at NBA's Cavs</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/lebron-james-tweet-dig-nbas-cavs-4728888a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-01-13T04:30:18Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-01-13:/men's-professional-basketball/lebron-james-tweet-dig-nbas-cavs-4728888a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="LeBron James" href="/topic/LeBron+James" &gt;LeBron James&lt;/a&gt; insisted Wednesday his apparent &lt;a title="Twitter Inc." href="/topic/Twitter+Inc." &gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt; dig at &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland&lt;/a&gt; wasn't an attempt to kick his former team when they were down, but just a comment on "how I was feeling at the time".&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The struggling Cavaliers suffered a stunning 55-point loss to the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Los Angeles Lakers" href="/topic/L...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="Twitter Inc."></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Los Angeles Lakers"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Los Angeles Clippers"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Anderson Varejao"></category><category term="Mo Williams"></category><category term="Byron Scott"></category><category term="Daniel Gilbert"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>LeBron James' tweet a dig at NBA's Cavs</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/lebron-james-tweet-dig-nbas-cavs-4728748a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-01-12T18:30:28Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-01-12:/men's-professional-basketball/lebron-james-tweet-dig-nbas-cavs-4728748a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland&lt;/a&gt;'s 55-point &lt;a title="National Basketball Association" href="/topic/National+Basketball+Association" &gt;NBA&lt;/a&gt; loss to the &lt;a title="Los Angeles Lakers" href="/topic/Los+Angeles+Lakers" &gt;Los Angeles Lakers&lt;/a&gt; gave former Cavaliers star &lt;a title="LeBron James" href="/topic/LeBron+James" &gt;LeBron James&lt;/a&gt; a chance to get in an apparent &lt;a title="Twitter Inc." href="/topic/Twitter+Inc." &gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt; dig at &lt;a tit...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="Twitter Inc."></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Los Angeles Lakers"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Anderson Varejao"></category><category term="Mo Williams"></category><category term="Byron Scott"></category><category term="Daniel Gilbert"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Cavaliers humiliated by 55-point loss to Lakers</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/cavaliers-humiliated-55point-loss-lakers-4728462a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-01-12T10:00:18Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Sports News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-01-12:/men's-professional-basketball/cavaliers-humiliated-55point-loss-lakers-4728462a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Los Angeles Lakers" href="/topic/Los+Angeles+Lakers" &gt;LOS ANGELES&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;' most lopsided loss ever has their players feeling humiliated, dejected and running for cover.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"I feel like I can't even show my face in Cleve," guard &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Mo Williams" href="/topic/Mo...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="Twitter Inc."></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Los Angeles Lakers"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Dwyane Wade"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Anthony Parker"></category><category term="Chris Bosh"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Anderson Varejao"></category><category term="Pau Gasol"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="Mo Williams"></category><category term="Daniel Gibson"></category><category term="Daniel Gilbert"></category><category term="Gene Cherry"></category><category term="South Florida"></category><category term="North Carolina Tar Heels (Basketball)"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Cavs' Varejao likely to miss season with ankle injury</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/cavs-varejao-season-ankle-injury-4727284a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-01-09T21:00:10Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Sports News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-01-09:/men's-professional-basketball/cavs-varejao-season-ankle-injury-4727284a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;CLEVELAND&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;span&gt;Ohio&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - &lt;span&gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/span&gt; big man &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Anderson Varejao" href="/topic/Anderson+Varejao" &gt;Anderson Varejao&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; will likely miss the rest of the season with a torn tendon in his right ankle the team said Sunday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Varejao was injured during practice Thursday and underwent tw...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Los Angeles"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Anderson Varejao"></category><category term="Alastair Himmer"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Injured Gibson to miss last-place Cavaliers' road trip</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/injured-gibson-lastplace-cavaliers-road-trip-4726420a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-01-07T06:30:12Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Sports News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-01-07:/men's-professional-basketball/injured-gibson-lastplace-cavaliers-road-trip-4726420a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;NEW YORK (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; guard &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Daniel Gibson" href="/topic/Daniel+Gibson" &gt;Daniel Gibson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; will miss the Cavaliers' five-game road trip because of a sprained left ankle, the team said, adding to the last-place Cavaliers' problems.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gibson, Cleveland's third-leading scorer and a top defender, i...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="North Carolina"></category><category term="Toronto"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="New York Knicks"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Joey Graham"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Daniel Gibson"></category><category term="Leon Powe"></category><category term="Gene Cherry"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Atlantic"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Homeless man gets job offer from Cavaliers</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/homeless-man-job-offer-cavaliers-4726045a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-01-06T11:30:24Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-01-06:/men's-professional-basketball/homeless-man-job-offer-cavaliers-4726045a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;A homeless man whose vocal skills became a &lt;a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" &gt;US&lt;/a&gt; Internet sensation has been offered a two-year job with the &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt; that includes having his living expenses paid by the &lt;a title="National Basketball Association" href="/topic/National+Basketball+Association" &gt;NBA&lt;/a&gt; club.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Ted Williams" href="/topic/Ted+Williams" &gt;Ted Williams&lt;/a&gt;&lt;...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Ted Williams"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="The Columbus Dispatch"></category><category term="NFL Films Inc."></category><category term="NBA Central"></category></entry><entry><title>NBA Standings</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/nba-standings-4723776a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-01-02T20:30:08Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-01-02:/men's-professional-basketball/nba-standings-4723776a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;table&gt;
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&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;  &lt;th&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="NBA Atlantic" href="/topic/NBA+Atlantic" &gt;Atlantic Division&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
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&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;W&lt;br/&gt;L&lt;br/&gt;Pct&lt;br/&gt;GB&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span&gt;Boston&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;  25&lt;br/&gt;7  .781&lt;br/&gt;_&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span&gt;New York&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;19  14  .576&lt;br/&gt;...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Washington, DC"></category><category term="New York"></category><category term="Chicago"></category><category term="San Antonio"></category><category term="New Jersey"></category><category term="Indiana"></category><category term="Philadelphia"></category><category term="Sacramento"></category><category term="Charlotte"></category><category term="Denver"></category><category term="Atlanta"></category><category term="Utah"></category><category term="Memphis"></category><category term="Milwaukee"></category><category term="New Orleans"></category><category term="Portland"></category><category term="Toronto"></category><category term="Dallas (Texas)"></category><category term="Detroit"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Los Angeles Lakers"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Boston Celtics"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Los Angeles Clippers"></category><category term="Oklahoma City Thunder"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Orlando"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Atlantic"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Marion, Stevenson lead Mavericks past Cavs</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/marion-stevenson-lead-mavericks-cavs-4723746a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-01-02T19:00:18Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-01-02:/men's-professional-basketball/marion-stevenson-lead-mavericks-cavs-4723746a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;Marion scores 22 points, Stevenson adds 21 to lead Mavericks to 104-95 win over Cavaliers&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Shawn Marion" href="/topic/Shawn+Marion" &gt;Shawn Marion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; scored 22 points and &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="DeShawn Stevenson" href="/topic/DeShawn+Stevenson" &gt;DeShawn Stevenson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; added 21, leading the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Dallas Mavericks" href="/topic/Dallas+Mavericks" &gt;Dallas Mavericks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; to a 104-95 win over the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" ...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Dallas Mavericks"></category><category term="Jason Kidd"></category><category term="Milwaukee Bucks"></category><category term="Toronto Raptors"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Anderson Varejao"></category><category term="Jason Terry"></category><category term="Dirk Nowitzki"></category><category term="Caron Butler"></category><category term="Tyson Chandler"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="DeShawn Stevenson"></category><category term="Mo Williams"></category><category term="Shawn Marion"></category><category term="National Basketball Development League"></category><category term="Ramon Sessions"></category><category term="Daniel Gibson"></category><category term="Christian Eyenga"></category><category term="NBA Southwest"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Atlantic"></category><category term="Erie BayHawks"></category><category term="Texas Legends"></category></entry><entry><title>Rose scores 28 points, Bulls beat Cavs 100-91</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/rose-scores-28-points-bulls-beat-cavs-10091-4723314a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-01-01T19:00:11Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-01-01:/men's-professional-basketball/rose-scores-28-points-bulls-beat-cavs-10091-4723314a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;Rose leads way with 28 points, 11 assists, Bulls beat short-handed Cavaliers 100-91&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Derrick Rose" href="/topic/Derrick+Rose" &gt;Derrick Rose&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; had 28 points and 11 assists and the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Chicago Bulls" href="/topic/Chicago+Bulls" &gt;Chicago Bulls&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; won for the 13th time in 15 games, beating the struggling, short-handed &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 100-9...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="New Jersey"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Chicago Bulls"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Anderson Varejao"></category><category term="Luol Deng"></category><category term="Carlos Boozer"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="J.J. Hickson"></category><category term="Mo Williams"></category><category term="Derrick Rose"></category><category term="Ramon Sessions"></category><category term="Kurt Thomas"></category><category term="Daniel Gibson"></category><category term="Leon Powe"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category></entry><entry><title>Bobcats beat Cavs 101-92, move to 2-0 under Silas</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/bobcats-beat-cavs-10192-move-20-silas-4721870a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-29T19:00:35Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2010-12-29:/men's-professional-basketball/bobcats-beat-cavs-10192-move-20-silas-4721870a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;Jackson, Augustin help Bobcats hold off Cavaliers 101-92 to move to 2-0 under Silas&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Stephen Jackson" href="/topic/Stephen+Jackson" &gt;Stephen Jackson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; scored 38 points, &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="D.J. Augustin" href="/topic/D.J.+Augustin" &gt;D.J. Augustin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; added 28 and the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Charlotte Bobcats" href="/topic/Charlotte+Bobcats" &gt;Charlotte Bobcats&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; moved to 2-0 under interim coach &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Paul Silas" href="/topic/Pa...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Larry Brown (Basketball)"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Samardo Samuels"></category><category term="Joey Graham"></category><category term="Stephen Jackson"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Anderson Varejao"></category><category term="Charlotte Bobcats"></category><category term="Gerald Wallace"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="Mo Williams"></category><category term="D.J. Augustin"></category><category term="Tyrus Thomas"></category><category term="Manny Harris"></category><category term="National Basketball Development League"></category><category term="Ramon Sessions"></category><category term="Daniel Gibson"></category><category term="Paul Silas"></category><category term="Kwame Brown (Basketball)"></category><category term="Christian Eyenga"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Magic hit 19 3-pointers in 110-95 win over Cavs</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/magic-hit-19-3pointers-11095-win-cavs-4721242a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-28T19:00:34Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2010-12-28:/men's-professional-basketball/magic-hit-19-3pointers-11095-win-cavs-4721242a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;Orlando hits season-high 19 3-pointers, pulls away from Cleveland for 110-95 win&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Gilbert Arenas" href="/topic/Gilbert+Arenas" &gt;Gilbert Arenas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; scored 22 points, fellow newcomer &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Jason Richardson" href="/topic/Jason+Richardson" &gt;Jason Richardson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; added 20, and the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Orlando Magic" href="/topic/Orlando+Magic" &gt;Orlando Magic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; made a season-high 19 3-pointers in a 110-95 victory over the &lt;span&gt;...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="San Antonio"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Dwight Howard"></category><category term="Earl Clark"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Anderson Varejao"></category><category term="Jason Richardson"></category><category term="Orlando Magic"></category><category term="Jameer Nelson"></category><category term="Hedo Turkoglu"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="Mo Williams"></category><category term="Gilbert Arenas"></category><category term="Daniel Gibson"></category><category term="J.J. Redick"></category><category term="Ryan Anderson (Basketball)"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Beasley's basket gives Timberwolves 98-97 win</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/beasleys-basket-timberwolves-9897-win-4720193a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-26T18:00:14Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2010-12-26:/men's-professional-basketball/beasleys-basket-timberwolves-9897-win-4720193a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;&lt;a title="Michael Beasley" href="/topic/Michael+Beasley" &gt;Michael Beasley&lt;/a&gt;'s basket with 5.9 seconds left gives &lt;a title="Minnesota Timberwolves" href="/topic/Minnesota+Timberwolves" &gt;T-Wolves&lt;/a&gt; 98-97 win over Cavs&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Michael Beasley scored on a driving layup with 5.9 seconds left to give Minnesota a 98-97 victory over the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; on Sunday night, snapping the Timberwo...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Kevin Love"></category><category term="Minneapolis"></category><category term="New Orleans"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Luke Ridnour"></category><category term="Anthony Parker"></category><category term="Joey Graham"></category><category term="Michael Beasley"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Minnesota Timberwolves"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="J.J. Hickson"></category><category term="Mo Williams"></category><category term="Daniel Gibson"></category><category term="Jawad Williams"></category><category term="Kosta Koufos"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Northwest"></category></entry><entry><title>Lakers, Heat, downplay Christmas clash</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/lakers-heat-downplay-christmas-clash-4719731a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-24T21:30:14Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2010-12-24:/men's-professional-basketball/lakers-heat-downplay-christmas-clash-4719731a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The defending &lt;a title="National Basketball Association" href="/topic/National+Basketball+Association" &gt;NBA&lt;/a&gt; champion &lt;a title="Los Angeles Lakers" href="/topic/Los+Angeles+Lakers" &gt;Los Angeles Lakers&lt;/a&gt; get their first face-to-face look at the new &lt;a title="Miami Heat" href="/topic/Miami+Heat" &gt;Miami Heat&lt;/a&gt; on Saturday, with many on both teams downplaying the significance of the Christmas Day clash.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"I don't think it's a measuring stick for us," said two-time NBA Most Valuab...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Los Angeles Lakers"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Kobe Bryant"></category><category term="Dwyane Wade"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Phil Jackson"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Milwaukee Bucks"></category><category term="Chris Bosh"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Derek Fisher"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Healthy Johnson, Hawks beat Cavaliers 98-84</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/healthy-johnson-hawks-beat-cavaliers-9884-4718632a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-22T18:30:29Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2010-12-22:/men's-professional-basketball/healthy-johnson-hawks-beat-cavaliers-9884-4718632a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;Joe Johnson scores 23 points in top game since return to lead Hawks past Cavaliers, 98-84&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Joe Johnson scored 23 points in his best game since his return from elbow surgery to lead the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Atlanta Hawks" href="/topic/Atlanta+Hawks" &gt;Atlanta Hawks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; past &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Antawn Jamison" href="/topic/Antawn+Jamison" &gt;Antawn Jamison&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="New Jersey"></category><category term="Milwaukee"></category><category term="New Orleans"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Atlanta Hawks"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Al Horford"></category><category term="Maurice Evans"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="Mo Williams"></category><category term="Jeff Teague"></category><category term="Jamal Crawford"></category><category term="Daniel Gibson"></category><category term="Leon Powe"></category><category term="Josh Smith (Basketball)"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Jazz thump Cavs 101-90, Sloan ties for 3rd in wins</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/jazz-thump-cavs-10190-sloan-ties-3rd-wins-4717094a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-20T18:30:42Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2010-12-20:/men's-professional-basketball/jazz-thump-cavs-10190-sloan-ties-3rd-wins-4717094a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;&lt;a title="C.J. Miles" href="/topic/C.J.+Miles" &gt;CJ Miles&lt;/a&gt; scores 22 as Jazz down Cavs 101-90, giving &lt;a title="Utah Jazz" href="/topic/Utah+Jazz" &gt;Utah&lt;/a&gt; coach &lt;a title="Jerry Sloan" href="/topic/Jerry+Sloan" &gt;Jerry Sloan&lt;/a&gt; 3rd most wins&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;CJ Miles scored 22 points, &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Paul Millsap" href="/topic/Paul+Millsap" &gt;Paul Millsap&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Raja Bell" href="/topic/Raja+Bell" &gt;Raja Bell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; added 19 apiece and the Utah Jazz bea...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Utah Jazz"></category><category term="Don Nelson"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Raja Bell"></category><category term="Deron Williams"></category><category term="C.J. Miles"></category><category term="Jerry Sloan"></category><category term="Paul Millsap"></category><category term="Pat Riley"></category><category term="Daniel Gibson"></category><category term="Gordon Hayward"></category><category term="Lenny Wilkens"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Northwest"></category></entry><entry><title>Okur out for Jazz against Cleveland</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/okur-jazz-cleveland-4717034a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-20T16:30:20Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2010-12-20:/men's-professional-basketball/okur-jazz-cleveland-4717034a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;&lt;a title="Utah Jazz" href="/topic/Utah+Jazz" &gt;Utah&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a title="Mehmet Okur" href="/topic/Mehmet+Okur" &gt;Mehmet Okur&lt;/a&gt; out against &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland&lt;/a&gt; with sprained right ankle&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Utah Jazz forward Mehmet Okur will miss Monday night's game against Cleveland because of a sprained right ankle.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Okur, who returned from an Achilles' injury two games ago, was injured during pregame warmups Monday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Milwaukee"></category><category term="New Orleans"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Utah Jazz"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Mehmet Okur"></category><category term="Jerry Sloan"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Northwest"></category></entry><entry><title>Cavs beat Knicks in OT to snap 10-game skid</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/cavs-beat-knicks-ot-snap-10game-skid-4716007a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-18T19:30:57Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2010-12-18:/men's-professional-basketball/cavs-beat-knicks-ot-snap-10game-skid-4716007a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;&lt;a title="Mo Williams" href="/topic/Mo+Williams" &gt;Mo Williams&lt;/a&gt; scores 23, Cavaliers end 10-game losing streak with 109-102 OT win over &lt;a title="New York Knicks" href="/topic/New+York+Knicks" &gt;Knicks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mo Williams scored 23 points, including the tying basket late in regulation and six points in overtime, and the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; snapped a 10-game losing streak with a 109-102...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="New York Knicks"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Anderson Varejao"></category><category term="Amare Stoudemire"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="Mo Williams"></category><category term="Raymond Felton"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Atlantic"></category></entry><entry><title>Danny Granger leads Pacers past Cavaliers 108-99</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/danny-granger-leads-pacers-cavaliers-10899-4715567a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-17T19:00:16Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2010-12-17:/men's-professional-basketball/danny-granger-leads-pacers-cavaliers-10899-4715567a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;&lt;a title="Danny Granger" href="/topic/Danny+Granger" &gt;Danny Granger&lt;/a&gt; scores 30 points as Pacers hand Cavaliers 10th straight loss, 108-99&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Danny Granger had 30 points and a season-high 12 rebounds to help the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Indiana Pacers" href="/topic/Indiana+Pacers" &gt;Indiana Pacers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; beat &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 108-99 on Friday night, extending the Cavaliers' losing streak to 10 ga...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Sacramento"></category><category term="Indianapolis"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Anthony Parker"></category><category term="Tyler Hansbrough"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Anderson Varejao"></category><category term="Indiana Pacers"></category><category term="Danny Granger"></category><category term="Roy Hibbert"></category><category term="T.J. Ford"></category><category term="James Posey"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="Mo Williams"></category><category term="Solomon Jones"></category><category term="Conseco Fieldhouse"></category><category term="Brandon Rush"></category><category term="Mike Dunleavy Jr."></category><category term="Josh McRoberts"></category><category term="Jim O'Brien (Basketball)"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category></entry><entry><title>A year in basketball: Lakers provide real thrills</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/year-basketball-lakers-provide-real-thrills-4714714a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-16T17:31:14Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2010-12-16:/men's-professional-basketball/year-basketball-lakers-provide-real-thrills-4714714a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The year 2010 in the &lt;a title="National Basketball Association" href="/topic/National+Basketball+Association" &gt;NBA&lt;/a&gt; was full of surprises from &lt;a title="LeBron James" href="/topic/LeBron+James" &gt;LeBron James&lt;/a&gt;' self-indulgent &lt;a title="ESPN Inc." href="/topic/ESPN+Inc." &gt;ESPN&lt;/a&gt; special announcing he was leaving &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland&lt;/a&gt; to the champion &lt;a title="Los Angeles Lakers" href="/topic/Los+Angeles+Lakers" &gt;Los Angeles ...</summary><category term="Athletic Awards"></category><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="NBA Finals"></category><category term="Europe"></category><category term="Spain"></category><category term="Western Europe"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="ESPN Inc."></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Los Angeles Lakers"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Kobe Bryant"></category><category term="Ron Artest"></category><category term="Boston Celtics"></category><category term="Dwyane Wade"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Phil Jackson"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Chris Bosh"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Rajon Rondo"></category><category term="Pau Gasol"></category><category term="Ray Allen"></category><category term="Doc Rivers"></category><category term="Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Atlantic"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Wade shines as James' Heat down Cavs</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/wade-shines-james-heat-cavs-4714454a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-16T12:32:04Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2010-12-16:/men's-professional-basketball/wade-shines-james-heat-cavs-4714454a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="Dwyane Wade" href="/topic/Dwyane+Wade" &gt;Dwyane Wade&lt;/a&gt; scored 17 of his 28 points in the fourth quarter Wednesday as the Heat notched a second victory this season over &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland&lt;/a&gt;, the team &lt;a title="LeBron James" href="/topic/LeBron+James" &gt;LeBron James&lt;/a&gt; spurned in his move to &lt;a title="Miami Heat" href="/topic/Miami+Heat" &gt;Miami&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;James, who crushed Cavs fans with his decision to depart Cleveland...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Dallas"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Dwyane Wade"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Chris Bosh"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Anderson Varejao"></category><category term="Mario Chalmers"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="Mo Williams"></category><category term="Daniel Gibson"></category><category term="James Jones"></category><category term="Byron Scott"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Heat visit MSG, fans will bow no more to the King</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/heat-visit-msg-fans-bow-king-4714404a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-16T12:31:02Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2010-12-16:/men's-professional-basketball/heat-visit-msg-fans-bow-king-4714404a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;&lt;a title="New York Knicks" href="/topic/New+York+Knicks" &gt;Knicks&lt;/a&gt; brace for Heat in big game at MSG, where fans won't welcome the King&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Mike D'Antoni" href="/topic/Mike+D'Antoni" &gt;Mike D'Antoni&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; saw the way &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="LeBron James" href="/topic/LeBron+James" &gt;LeBron James&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; tore apart the Cavaliers when faced with a hostile crowd in &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Sports Transactions"></category><category term="Basketball Transactions"></category><category term="Boston"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="New York Knicks"></category><category term="Mike D'Antoni"></category><category term="Madison Square Garden"></category><category term="Michael Jordan"></category><category term="Dwyane Wade"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Chris Bosh"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Amare Stoudemire"></category><category term="Tim Reynolds"></category><category term="STATS LLC"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Atlantic"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Wade comes up big in 4th, Heat beat Cavs 101-95</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/wade-big-4th-heat-beat-cavs-10195-4713933a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-15T19:30:34Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2010-12-15:/men's-professional-basketball/wade-big-4th-heat-beat-cavs-10195-4713933a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;Wade, James combine for 49, and &lt;a title="Miami Heat" href="/topic/Miami+Heat" &gt;Miami&lt;/a&gt; beats &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland&lt;/a&gt; for 2nd time this season&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="LeBron James" href="/topic/LeBron+James" &gt;LeBron James&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; had few words for his former Cleveland teammates this time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Dwyane Wade" href="/topic/Dwyane+Wade" &gt;Dwyane Wade&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; did more than enough talking with his pl...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Federal Bureau of Investigation"></category><category term="Dallas"></category><category term="Puerto Rico"></category><category term="Akron"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Dwyane Wade"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Chris Bosh"></category><category term="Joey Graham"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Anderson Varejao"></category><category term="Mario Chalmers"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="Mo Williams"></category><category term="Alonzo Mourning"></category><category term="Daniel Gibson"></category><category term="James Jones"></category><category term="Carlos Arroyo"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>James doesn't plan to be quiet when Cavs visit</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/james-doesnt-plan-quiet-cavs-visit-4713092a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-14T15:30:11Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2010-12-14:/men's-professional-basketball/james-doesnt-plan-quiet-cavs-visit-4713092a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;LeBron vs. Cavs, Round 2: &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland&lt;/a&gt; to visit &lt;a title="Miami Heat" href="/topic/Miami+Heat" &gt;Miami&lt;/a&gt;, and James expects far different reaction&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;No extra security this time. No concerns about unrest in the stands. Probably not much in the way of organized "&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Akron" href="/topic/Akron" &gt;Akron&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Hates You" chants, either.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;LeBron&lt;/span&gt; vs. Cleveland, Round 2 awai...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Akron"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Houston Rockets"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Dwyane Wade"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="New Jersey Nets"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Mo Williams"></category><category term="Erik Spoelstra"></category><category term="Tom Withers"></category><category term="Daniel Gibson"></category><category term="STATS LLC"></category><category term="Washington Capitols"></category><category term="NBA Southwest"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Atlantic"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Cavs drop 8th straight heading into LeBron rematch</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/cavs-drop-8th-straight-heading-lebron-rematch-4711690a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-12T19:00:08Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2010-12-12:/men's-professional-basketball/cavs-drop-8th-straight-heading-lebron-rematch-4711690a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;Cavaliers lose to Thunder 106-77 for 8th straight loss heading into rematch with LeBron&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Kevin Durant" href="/topic/Kevin+Durant" &gt;Kevin Durant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; scored 25 points, &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Jeff Green" href="/topic/Jeff+Green" &gt;Jeff Green&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="James Harden" href="/topic/James+Harden" &gt;James Harden&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; added 19 apiece and the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Oklahoma City Thunder" href="/topic/Oklahoma+City+Thunder" &gt;Oklahoma City Thun...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Philadelphia"></category><category term="New Orleans"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Anthony Parker"></category><category term="Oklahoma City Thunder"></category><category term="Jeff Green"></category><category term="Nenad Krstic"></category><category term="Kevin Durant"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Anderson Varejao"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="J.J. Hickson"></category><category term="Eric Maynor"></category><category term="National Basketball Development League"></category><category term="Russell Westbrook"></category><category term="Daniel Gibson"></category><category term="James Harden"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Martin scores 40 to lead Rockets past Cavs 110-95</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/martin-scores-40-lead-rockets-cavs-11095-4711269a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-11T20:30:15Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2010-12-11:/men's-professional-basketball/martin-scores-40-lead-rockets-cavs-11095-4711269a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;&lt;a title="Kevin Martin" href="/topic/Kevin+Martin" &gt;Kevin Martin&lt;/a&gt; scores 40 points and Rockets beat skidding &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland&lt;/a&gt; 110-95&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kevin Martin scored 32 of his season-high 40 points in the first half, &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Luis Scola" href="/topic/Luis+Scola" &gt;Luis Scola&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; added 14 points and 14 rebounds and the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Houston Rockets" href="/topic/Houston+Rockets" &gt;Houston Rockets&lt;/a...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Chicago"></category><category term="Houston (Texas)"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Houston Rockets"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Luis Scola"></category><category term="Yao Ming"></category><category term="Shane Battier"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Kevin Martin"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="Mo Williams"></category><category term="Daniel Gibson"></category><category term="Byron Scott"></category><category term="NBA Southwest"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="Vernon Maxwell"></category></entry><entry><title>Cleveland State off to perfect start</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/cleveland-state-perfect-start-4710363a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-10T10:00:14Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2010-12-10:/men's-professional-basketball/cleveland-state-perfect-start-4710363a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;The Next Butler? &lt;a title="Cleveland State University" href="/topic/Cleveland+State+University" &gt;Cleveland State&lt;/a&gt; off to a perfect 11-0 start with star, depth and experience&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="LeBron James" href="/topic/LeBron+James" &gt;LeBron James&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; didn't deflate all the basketballs before going south.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;While the Cavaliers have fallen out of &lt;span&gt;NBA&lt;/span&gt; championship contention after losing their superstar this summer, there's another &lt;span&gt;&lt;a t...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="College Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="College Athletics"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Southland Conference"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Sam Houston State Bearkats"></category><category term="Horizon League"></category><category term="Cleveland State University"></category><category term="Gary Waters"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category></entry><entry><title>Rose leads Bulls past slumping Cavaliers 88-83</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/rose-leads-bulls-slumping-cavaliers-8883-4709307a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-08T19:30:32Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2010-12-08:/men's-professional-basketball/rose-leads-bulls-slumping-cavaliers-8883-4709307a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;&lt;a title="Derrick Rose" href="/topic/Derrick+Rose" &gt;Derrick Rose&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a title="Chicago Bulls" href="/topic/Chicago+Bulls" &gt;Chicago Bulls&lt;/a&gt; send &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt; to 6th straight loss, 88-83&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Derrick Rose scored 29 points, including a three-point play that put Chicago ahead for good with 39.2 seconds to play, and the Bulls beat Cleveland 88-83 on Wednesday night to hand the Cavaliers their si...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Los Angeles Lakers"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Chicago Bulls"></category><category term="Anthony Parker"></category><category term="Jamario Moon"></category><category term="Joey Graham"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Anderson Varejao"></category><category term="Luol Deng"></category><category term="Carlos Boozer"></category><category term="Ronnie Brewer"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="J.J. Hickson"></category><category term="Mo Williams"></category><category term="Quicken Loans Arena"></category><category term="Derrick Rose"></category><category term="Joakim Noah"></category><category term="Ramon Sessions"></category><category term="Kyle Korver"></category><category term="Daniel Gibson"></category><category term="Byron Scott"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category></entry><entry><title>Young helps 76ers pound Cavaliers 117-97</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/young-helps-76ers-pound-cavaliers-11797-4708404a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-07T18:30:45Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2010-12-07:/men's-professional-basketball/young-helps-76ers-pound-cavaliers-11797-4708404a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;&lt;a title="Thaddeus Young" href="/topic/Thaddeus+Young" &gt;Thaddeus Young&lt;/a&gt; helps &lt;a title="Philadelphia 76ers" href="/topic/Philadelphia+76ers" &gt;Philadelphia 76ers&lt;/a&gt; pound slumping &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt; 117-97&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thaddeus Young had a season-high 26 points and the Philadelphia 76ers beat the struggling Cleveland Cavaliers 117-97 on Tuesday night for their fourth win in five games.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Lou Wi...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Philadelphia 76ers"></category><category term="Thaddeus Young"></category><category term="Elton Brand"></category><category term="Andre Iguodala"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Jrue Holiday"></category><category term="J.J. Hickson"></category><category term="Mo Williams"></category><category term="Jodie Meeks"></category><category term="Daniel Gibson"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Atlantic"></category></entry><entry><title>Hamilton helps points, Pistons beat Cavaliers</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/hamilton-helps-points-pistons-beat-cavaliers-4706752a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-05T18:00:12Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2010-12-05:/men's-professional-basketball/hamilton-helps-points-pistons-beat-cavaliers-4706752a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;&lt;a title="Richard Hamilton" href="/topic/Richard+Hamilton" &gt;Richard Hamilton&lt;/a&gt; scores 27 points, Pistons beat Cavaliers 102-92&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Richard Hamilton scored 27 points and &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Rodney Stuckey" href="/topic/Rodney+Stuckey" &gt;Rodney Stuckey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; added 24 points and 11 assists to help the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Detroit Pistons" href="/topic/Detroit+Pistons" &gt;Detroit Pistons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; beat the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers"...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Dwight Howard"></category><category term="Richard Hamilton"></category><category term="Austin Daye"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Detroit Pistons"></category><category term="Rodney Stuckey"></category><category term="Tayshaun Prince"></category><category term="Ben Gordon"></category><category term="Jameer Nelson"></category><category term="Ben Wallace"></category><category term="John Kuester"></category><category term="Will Bynum"></category><category term="Jason Maxiell"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category></entry><entry><title>Love, Wolves dismantle reeling Cavaliers, 129-95</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/love-wolves-dismantle-reeling-cavaliers-12995-4706354a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-04T19:31:31Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2010-12-04:/men's-professional-basketball/love-wolves-dismantle-reeling-cavaliers-12995-4706354a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;LeBron hangover? Cavs crushed by Timberwolves, 129-95; Love has 28 points, 19 rebounds&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;If &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="LeBron James" href="/topic/LeBron+James" &gt;LeBron James&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; didn't put the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; at rock bottom, the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Minnesota Timberwolves" href="/topic/Minnesota+Timberwolves" &gt;Minnesota Timberwolves&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; just did.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Kevin Love" hr...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Kevin Love"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Target Center"></category><category term="Joey Graham"></category><category term="Wayne Ellington"></category><category term="Michael Beasley"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Minnesota Timberwolves"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="J.J. Hickson"></category><category term="Quicken Loans Arena"></category><category term="Ramon Sessions"></category><category term="Darko Milicic"></category><category term="Anthony Tolliver"></category><category term="Nikola Pekovic"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Northwest"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>LeBron says friendship with Cavs' Gibson is fine</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/lebron-friendship-cavs-gibson-fine-4706220a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-04T16:30:20Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2010-12-04:/men's-professional-basketball/lebron-friendship-cavs-gibson-fine-4706220a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;And the talk continues: LeBron speaks with Cavs' Gibson, says friendship remains fine&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="LeBron James" href="/topic/LeBron+James" &gt;LeBron James&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; says his friendship with &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; guard &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Daniel Gibson" href="/topic/Daniel+Gibson" &gt;Daniel Gibson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; is fine.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One day after Gibson said he didn't appreciate some of the things said by Ja...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Daniel Gibson"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>LeBron shrugs off 'LeBum' taunts and moves on</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/lebron-shrugs-lebum-taunts-moves-4705827a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-03T18:30:39Z</updated><author><name>AFP Global Edition</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2010-12-03:/men's-professional-basketball/lebron-shrugs-lebum-taunts-moves-4705827a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;With an emotional return to &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland&lt;/a&gt; finally behind him, a triumphant &lt;a title="LeBron James" href="/topic/LeBron+James" &gt;LeBron James&lt;/a&gt; is ready to move on and try to deliver on some of the stellar expectations of his new club, the &lt;a title="Miami Heat" href="/topic/Miami+Heat" &gt;Miami Heat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Former Cavaliers hero James scored a season-high 38 points, 24 of them in the third quarter, and silenced a booing c...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Dwyane Wade"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Atlanta Hawks"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Chris Bosh"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Erik Spoelstra"></category><category term="Byron Scott"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Cleveland behind them, Heat seeking consistency</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/cleveland-heat-seeking-consistency-4705563a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-03T13:31:11Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2010-12-03:/men's-professional-basketball/cleveland-heat-seeking-consistency-4705563a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;With LeBron's return to &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland&lt;/a&gt; a success, Heat hoping for a springboard into consistency&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;That long-awaited first trip to Cleveland with &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="LeBron James" href="/topic/LeBron+James" &gt;LeBron James&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; in enemy colors now behind them, the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Miami Heat" href="/topic/Miami+Heat" &gt;Miami Heat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; might now start plotting their first trip to another new destina...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Dallas"></category><category term="Detroit"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Atlanta Hawks"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Erik Spoelstra"></category><category term="Joe Johnson (Basketball)"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Heat-Cavs game draws 7.1 million viewers</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/men's-professional-basketball/heatcavs-game-draws-71-million-viewers-4705537a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-03T13:30:26Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2010-12-03:/men's-professional-basketball/heatcavs-game-draws-71-million-viewers-4705537a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;LeBron's return to &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland&lt;/a&gt; delivers more than 7 million viewers to TNT&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="LeBron James" href="/topic/LeBron+James" &gt;LeBron James&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;' return to Cleveland was a boon for TNT.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The cable network reported that the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Miami Heat" href="/topic/Miami+Heat" &gt;Miami Heat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s game against the &lt;span&gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/span&gt; on Thursday night delivered a 4....</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Broadcast Media"></category><category term="Television Broadcasting and Production"></category><category term="Media Sector"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="LeBron James"></category><category term="Miami Heat"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category><category term="Consumer Cyclicals"></category></entry><entry><title>Mavericks Cavaliers Basketball</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/photo/mavericks-cavaliers-basketball-2405295p" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-01-02T19:01:17Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-01-02:/photo/mavericks-cavaliers-basketball-2405295p/</id><summary type="html">&lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt;' &lt;a title="Alonzo Gee" href="/topic/Alonzo+Gee" &gt;Alonzo Gee&lt;/a&gt;, right, grabs a rebound against &lt;a title="Dallas Mavericks" href="/topic/Dallas+Mavericks" &gt;Dallas Mavericks&lt;/a&gt;' &lt;a title="Brendan Haywood" href="/topic/Brendan+Haywood" &gt;Brendan Haywood&lt;/a&gt; in the first quarter during an &lt;a title="National Basketball Association" href="/topic/National+Basketball+Association" &gt;NBA&lt;/a&gt; basketball game Sunday Ja...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Dallas Mavericks"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Alonzo Gee"></category><category term="Brendan Haywood"></category><category term="NBA Southwest"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category></entry><entry><title>Cavaliers Bulls Basketball</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/photo/cavaliers-bulls-basketball-2404882p" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-01-01T19:01:12Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2011-01-01:/photo/cavaliers-bulls-basketball-2404882p/</id><summary type="html">&lt;a title="Chicago Bulls" href="/topic/Chicago+Bulls" &gt;Chicago Bulls&lt;/a&gt;' &lt;a title="Taj Gibson" href="/topic/Taj+Gibson" &gt;Taj Gibson&lt;/a&gt;, left, and &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt;' &lt;a title="Antawn Jamison" href="/topic/Antawn+Jamison" &gt;Antawn Jamison&lt;/a&gt; battle for a rebound during the first quarter of an &lt;a title="National Basketball Association" href="/topic/National+Basketball+Association" &gt;NBA&lt;/a&gt; basketball game in Chicago, Saturday,...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Chicago Bulls"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="Taj Gibson"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category></entry><entry><title>Cavaliers Bobcats Basketball</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/photo/cavaliers-bobcats-basketball-2403820p" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-29T19:01:49Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2010-12-29:/photo/cavaliers-bobcats-basketball-2403820p/</id><summary type="html">&lt;a title="Charlotte Bobcats" href="/topic/Charlotte+Bobcats" &gt;Charlotte Bobcats&lt;/a&gt; guard &lt;a title="Matt Carroll" href="/topic/Matt+Carroll" &gt;Matt Carroll&lt;/a&gt;, left, shoots over &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt; center &lt;a title="Anderson Varejao" href="/topic/Anderson+Varejao" &gt;Anderson Varejao&lt;/a&gt;, of &lt;a title="Brazil" href="/topic/Brazil" &gt;Brazil&lt;/a&gt;, in the first half of an &lt;a title="National Basketball Association" href="/topic/National...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="NBA Playoffs"></category><category term="Brazil"></category><category term="South America"></category><category term="Charlotte (North Carolina)"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Anderson Varejao"></category><category term="Charlotte Bobcats"></category><category term="Matt Carroll"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Timberwolves Cavaliers Basketball</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/photo/timberwolves-cavaliers-basketball-2403780p" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-29T18:31:39Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2010-12-29:/photo/timberwolves-cavaliers-basketball-2403780p/</id><summary type="html">&lt;a title="Minnesota Timberwolves" href="/topic/Minnesota+Timberwolves" &gt;Minnesota Timberwolves&lt;/a&gt;' &lt;a title="Kevin Love" href="/topic/Kevin+Love" &gt;Kevin Love&lt;/a&gt; (42) shoots over &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt;' &lt;a title="Antawn Jamison" href="/topic/Antawn+Jamison" &gt;Antawn Jamison&lt;/a&gt; (4) in the first quarter of an &lt;a title="National Basketball Association" href="/topic/National+Basketball+Association" &gt;NBA&lt;/a&gt; basketball game Sunday, D...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Kevin Love"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Minnesota Timberwolves"></category><category term="Antawn Jamison"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Northwest"></category></entry><entry><title>Magic Cavaliers Basketball</title><link href="http://onthebasketballcourt.com/photo/magic-cavaliers-basketball-2403374p" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-28T19:01:40Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:onthebasketballcourt.com,2010-12-28:/photo/magic-cavaliers-basketball-2403374p/</id><summary type="html">&lt;a title="Orlando Magic" href="/topic/Orlando+Magic" &gt;Orlando Magic&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a title="Dwight Howard" href="/topic/Dwight+Howard" &gt;Dwight Howard&lt;/a&gt; goes in for a shot against &lt;a title="Cleveland Cavaliers" href="/topic/Cleveland+Cavaliers" &gt;Cleveland Cavaliers&lt;/a&gt;' &lt;a title="Anderson Varejao" href="/topic/Anderson+Varejao" &gt;Anderson Varejao&lt;/a&gt; (17), from &lt;a title="Brazil" href="/topic/Brazil" &gt;Brazil&lt;/a&gt;, in the second quarter of an &lt;a title="National Basketball Association" href="/topic/National...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="Brazil"></category><category term="South America"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="Dwight Howard"></category><category term="Cleveland Cavaliers"></category><category term="Anderson Varejao"></category><category term="Orlando Magic"></category><category term="NBA Central"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry></feed>
