New York Times:
A 6-foot-8 freshman whose team will be playing at California on Sunday, Brittney Griner made a rare dunk in an exhibition game on Nov. 7.
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Yahoo! Sports - NBA News:
Clippers longtime play-by-play announcer Ralph Lawler and color analyst Michael Smith were suspended one game by the Fox Sports Prime Ticket cable network for their comments about Memphis center Hamed Haddadi. Lawler and Smith made their off-the-cuff comments about the Iranian-born center during Wednesday night's telecast f (Read More)
New York Times:
Josh Pastner’s program has lost four starters to graduation and two more to the N.B.A. And the No. 1-rated recruiting class went elsewhere.
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New York Times:
Travis Grant finished his college career with 4,045 points and broke the record of Pete Maravich at Louisiana State, outscoring him by 378 points.
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New York Times:
Cleveland’s Shaquille O’Neal missed a fifth straight game, but LeBron James scored 32 points and the Cavaliers held the 76ers to 10 points in the fourth quarter.
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ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog:
Ray Amanti/NBAE via Getty Images William Wesley, to those who have lost patience with Eddy Curry: "At the end of the day, we have to remember that these are still young kids, and they're our kids. We're responsible to lead them down the right road."Eddy Curry has already been much discussed as a key to the Knicks' future.A (Read More)
New York Times:
November is usually the time that Rick Pitino throws a lot of plays at Louisville’s basketball team in preparation for Big East play. Not this year.
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CNN:
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.(AP) No matter how bleak things look for the Knicks, they can take comfort knowing worse basketball is being played 10 miles away.
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SI.com - NBA:
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.(AP) No matter how bleak things look for the Knicks, they can take comfort knowing worse basketball is being played 10 miles away.
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New York Times:
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Junior-college transfer Darington Hobson scored a career-high 30 points Saturday to lead New Mexico to an 81-52 victory over Louisiana Tech in the Basketball Travelers World Vision Classic.
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New York Times:
NEW YORK (AP) -- Jim Boeheim has always made a point of telling the media not to get too caught up in runs because basketball, especially on the college level, is a game of runs.
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ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog:
LOS ANGELES -- If ever there were a team and a head coach in desperate need of a win, the Los Angeles Clippers and Mike Dunleavy were it.The Clippers had lost five of six games entering Friday night's game against the Denver Nuggets, all without their most efficient player second-year guard Eric Gordon. Over that stretch, w (Read More)