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USA Basketball: Door 'Wide Open' for Possible Tayshaun Prince Return

Olympic gold medalist Tayshaun Prince was a bit miffed to first learn on ESPN about the latest players tabbed for Team USA. But USA Basketball officials offered assurance Friday the door is "wide open'' for a possible return by Prince to Team USA consideration. In an interview earlier this week with FanHouse, the Detroit...

Stern Doesn't Expect Contentious All-Star Labor Negotiations

DALLAS -- With labor negotiations on the docket Friday at All-Star Weekend, there's sentiment in the NBA that the league is heading toward a lockout. Still, NBA commissioner David Stern said he doesn't believe there will be a negative tone when negotiating committees set up by the owners and the players' union get...

Who Will Start for the Mavericks?

On Monday, Mavericks GM Donnie Nelson mentioned at a press event that incumbent starting center Erick Dampier could come off the bench this season. Eddie Sefko of the Dallas Morning News followed up to report that it's not a set-in-stone matter, and that Nelson was just generally speaking about the team's flexibility.That...

Mavericks Keep Jason Kidd, Continue to Defend Devin Harris Trade

One positive ramification of Jason Kidd ditching Dallas after 1-1/2 years in Maverick blue would have been that Mark Cuban and team management could finally have admitted that the Kidd-Devin Harris trade was an absolute mistake. But no, we're due three more years of Cuban barking in a hurricane, as Kidd has re-signed with...

Blazers Chase Hedo as Expected

Jason Quick of the The Oregonian reports Portland bosses Kevin Pritchard and Tom Penn made a play for Orlando free agent Hedo Turkoglu early Wednesday morning, just as Orlando's other major free agent -- Marcin Gortat -- was getting flowers from the Rockets. Two Western contenders pilfering the Kings of the East, how...

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06/02/12 Territorial rights in the early years of the NBA Source: SFGate.com - San Francisco CA The Warriors are interested in signing an experienced backup point guard who could also start without much drop-off if Stephen Curry's ankle continues to be an issue.
05/31/12 Shane Battier Accepts Invitation to Americna Century... Source: PRWeb Nev. (PRWEB) May 31, 2012 Shane Battier, starting forward for the Miami Heat, as they battle the Boston Celtics in the NBA Eastern Conference Championship series, has accepted an invitation to compete in the American Century Championship Celebrity Golf Tournament at Lake Tahoe, July 20-22.
05/29/12 Shane Battier wants to come to Tahoe a champion Source: Tahoe Daily Tribune - South Lake Tahoe CA "It's a different conference call for me because I'm usually taking this conference call from the golf course, because I'm usually out of the playoffs by now."
05/25/12 NBA Free Agents 2012: How the Mavericks Will Rebuild... Source: CBS - KTVT CBS 11 - Dallas / Fort Worth TX The free agency period of 2012 is expected to be interesting with big names like Kevin Garnett , Tim Duncan, Ray Allen, Eric Gordon and many others ready to sign with a new team.
05/24/12 Your comments: Is Scoop Jardine's game better suited... Source: The Post-Standard - Syracuse NY From tjw82 : Scoop would be a far better NBA guard than a college.