NBA Standings

2011-01-02T20:30:08Z

All Times EST

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division

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L
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GB

Boston

25
7 .781
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New York

19 14 .576
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How to Book a Last Minute Flight Portland

2010-11-30T13:14:04Z

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Preseason NBA Standings

2010-10-24T20:30:11Z

All Times EDT

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division

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L
Pct
GB

Boston

7
1 .875
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To...

LeBron's Heat at Boston, Yao's Rockets at LA in openers

2010-08-03T17:46:01Z

LeBron James, the two-time NBA Most Valuable Player who left Cleveland for Miami in July, will make his debut for the Heat at Boston on October 26 in the NBA season opener, the league announced Tuesday.

James joined pals Dwyane Wade and point guard Steve Nash will skip practice and rest his sore hip until Phoenix open their NBA Western Conference second-round series against San Antonio on Monday.

The two-time NBA Most Valuable Player strained his right hip in a shootaround be...

Lakers silence the Thunder in playoff opener

2010-04-18T21:15:49Z

Kobe Bryant scored 21 points and Pau Gasol added 19 as the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers defeated Oklahoma City 87-79 on Sunday in their NBA Western Conference pl...

Lakers claim home court with victory

2010-04-10T09:15:29Z

Pau Gasol scored 29 points with 15 rebounds as the Los Angeles Lakers - with Kobe Bryant looking on - secured home court advantage through the NBA Western Conference playoffs with a win over Brandon Jennings, the leading scorer for the Milwaukee Bucks, was fined 7,500 dollars by the NBA on Friday for Tweeting too soon after a game last weekend.

The rookie playmaker, who averages team highs of 20.7 points and six assists a game,...

Ankle injury again sidelines NBA Spurs' Parker

2010-06-12T01:46:27Z

Tony Parker missed San Antonio's NBA game against Dallas on Wednesday after aggravating the left ankle he first sprained on November 6.

The Spurs also lost guard Manu Ginobil...

Rockets ride ferry to victory at Golden State

2010-06-12T00:37:50Z

Houston bounces back from season-opening loss at Portland to beat Warriors 108-107

Luis Scola scored 15 of his 21 points in the third quarter and grabbed 11 rebounds, Aaron Brooks had 18 points and 12 assists, and the Rockets take ferry to game against Warriors in Oakland

Aaron Brooks never figured he'd take a ferry to a game. Not in the NBA, anyway.

The Wizards win tiebreaker with Clippers for better chance in draft lottery

The Washington Wizards have won a tiebreaker with the Los Angeles Clippers, giving them a slightly better chance of landing the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft.

Washington has an 17.8 percent chance of winning the draft lottery May 19. Los Angeles is at ...

Nuggets clinch division crown, home-court edge

2010-04-16T15:36:15Z

Smith scores career-high 45 in Nuggets' division-clinching 118-98 win over Sacramento Kings

J.R. Smith's career-high 45 points and franchise-best 11 3-pointers helped the Denver Nuggets clinch the Northwest Division title and home-cou...

Trail Blazers-Clippers, Box

2010-04-16T15:38:34Z

PORTLAND (87)

Batum 2-4 0-0 4, Aldridge 8-17 5-6 21, Przybilla 4-6 2-2 10, Roy 5-8 5-10 15, Blake 3-10 2-2 10, Outlaw 3-14 0-0 6, Fernandez 4-8 3-3 13, Oden 1-2 2-2 4, Rodriguez 2-3 0-2 4. Totals 32-72 19-27 87.

L.A. CLIPPERS (72)

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With Yao on NBA sidelines, Rockets beat Warriors

2010-04-16T15:39:15Z

With Yao Ming sidelined by a sore foot, Dikembe Mutombo scored 10 points with 15 rebounds as the Houston Rockets beat Golden State 113-109 in a National Bas...

Lakers-Trail Blazers, Box

2010-04-16T15:39:18Z

OKC Weekend Highlights: 4/3-4/5

2010-10-21T09:29:16Z

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Saturday's NBA Boxes

2010-04-16T15:56:03Z

L.A. LAKERS (98)

Ariza 2-4 0-1 4, Gasol 6-9 0-0 12, Bynum 6-13 1-3 13, Bryant 9-24 11-12 32, Fisher 1-7 0-0 2, Odom 7-13 2-2 17, Brown 4-4 0-0 10, Walton 1-6 1-2 3, Vujacic 2-3 0-0 5, Farmar 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 38-85 15-20 98.

PORTLAND (106)

ATLANTA (96)

Evans 5-12 2-2 15, Jos.Smith 3-10 3-5 9, Horford 3-6 0-1 6, Bibby 6-15 0-0 14, Johnson 8-13 6-7 24, Murray 7-16 6-7 22, Pachulia 1-5 4-7 6, M.West 0-0 0-0 0, Gardner 0-0 0-0 0, Jones 0-0 0-0 0, Hunter 0-0 0-0 0, Morris 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 33-77 21-29 96.

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Trail Blazers-Nuggets, Box

2010-04-16T16:12:10Z

PORTLAND (90)

Batum 3-6 1-2 7, Aldridge 8-15 3-3 19, Przybilla 1-2 3-4 5, Roy 9-16 4-9 22, Blake 3-7 0-0 8, Outlaw 7-10 0-0 15, Frye 0-3 0-0 0, Rodriguez 0-2 0-0 0, Fernandez 3-7 2-3 11, Bayless 0-2 3-4 3, Ruffin 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 34-72 16-25 90.

DENVER (106)

Anthony 16-26 5-6 38, Petro 0-1 0-0 0,

Duncan to miss 3rd straight game with injured quad

2010-04-16T13:57:03Z

Duncan inactive against Cavaliers, will miss 3rd straight game with injured quad

San Antonio Spurs forward Tim Duncan missed his third consecutive game Friday night against Cleveland with a right quad injury, but is expected to return to the lineup as early as Sunday.

Dunca...

Clippers-Trail Blazers, Box

2010-04-16T14:10:04Z

L.A. CLIPPERS (87)

R.Davis 3-12 2-2 10, Novak 3-11 0-0 9, Jordan 4-4 7-13 15, B.Davis 6-12 3-4 15, Gordon 6-15 8-8 21, Collins 3-8 0-0 7, Jones 3-9 0-0 7, Taylor 0-2 1-2 1, Acker 1-6 0-2 2. Totals 29-79 21-31 87.

PORTLAND (116)

Bat...

Yao powers Rockets past Nuggets

2010-04-16T17:26:31Z

Chinese star center Yao Ming scored 31 points and grabbed a game-clinching rebound as time expired on Monday to lead the Houston Rockets past Denver Nuggets 115-113 in a National Basketball Association game.

Andrew Bogut, a 7-foot (2.15m) Australian center for the Milwaukee Bucks, will miss the team's entire three-game National Basketball Association ongoing road trip due to lingering back spasms.

Bogut missed four games in a row earlier this month but returned to the lineup a ...

Trail Blazers-Lakers, Box

2010-06-12T01:30:44Z

PORTLAND (86)

Batum 6-6 2-2 17, Aldridge 11-19 0-1 22, Oden 3-7 4-7 10, Blake 5-14 0-0 13, Fernandez 5-15 2-3 14, Przybilla 0-0 2-2 2, Outlaw 1-8 0-0 3, Bayless 0-4 2-4 2, Rodriguez 1-5 1-3 3, Frye 0-3 0-0 0, Diogu 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 32-82 13-22 86.

L.A. LAKERS (100)

Monday's NBA Boxes

2010-04-16T13:43:53Z

GOLDEN STATE (81)

Azubuike 3-7 2-2 8, Wright 1-4 0-0 2, Biedrins 2-9 1-6 5, Belinelli 4-13 4-4 12, Crawford 7-21 1-2 18, Kurz 0-6 2-2 2, Turiaf 0-1 1-2 1, Randolph 4-8 3-4 11, D.Nelson 0-1 0-2 0, Watson 1-7 2-2 4, Morrow 5-10 2-2 13, Williams 2-4 0-0 5. Totals 29-91 18-28 81.

ORLANDO (113)

Turkoglu 3-10 5-6 12, Lewis 8-12 1-2 21, Howard 4-11 3-8 11,...

Anthony out for 2 games with sore elbow

2010-04-16T13:44:11Z

Sore right elbow sidelines Nuggets forward Anthony for 2 games

The Denver Nuggets say Carmelo Anthony will sit out the next two games with a sore right elbow.

The team said Monday the All-Star forward may return Friday against Philadelphia.

Anthony has been hampered by the inju...

Sports leagues take a hit from bad economy

2010-04-16T12:53:24Z

Global financial crisis affects sponsorships, increasing woes of sports leagues

The NBA got lots of attention last month when it said the bad economy was forcing it to lay off 9 percent of its work force. But there was little shock in the Charlotte Bobcats' organization, which had already seen two rounds of...

Duncan likely to miss only a few games

2010-09-10T15:09:22Z

Spurs Forward Tim Duncan Likely to Miss No More Than a Few Games With Ankle, Knee Injuries

Tim Duncan will likely miss no more than a few games after injuring his ankle and knee. The San Antonio Spurs star was hurt against Portl...

Portland Washington Basketball

2010-12-06T21:31:32Z

Washington's Isaiah Thomas, right, twists in the air to move past Portland's Kramer Knutson on a drive in the final seconds of the first half of an Multnomah County Sheriff's Office shows Kyron Horman. Investigators have limited the search for the missing 7-year-old Portland boy to the city's metro area, despite tips from as far away as Washington state, a sheriff's spokesman said Tuesday, June 8, 2010...

Explosion Damaged Homes

2010-06-12T22:18:08Z

Dan Dziob, right, and Patricia Henderson pose for a photograph at their home directly across the river from the Kleen Energy Systems power plant in Portland, Conn., Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. They said th...

APTOPIX Portland Gonzaga Basketball

2010-03-28T00:14:41Z

Gonzaga's Robert Sacre goes to the net over Portland's T.J. Campbell, left, and Kramer Knutson in the first half of their Portland Trail Bazers guard Jerryd Bayless (4) reacts as he collides with Dallas Mavericks guard Jose Juan Barea (11) on a drive to the basket in the first half of an NBA b...

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