Ellis' second-half surge helps Warriors pass Nets
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Golden State vs. New Jersey recap from game played on 09, 2009
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Rodney Stuckey scored 27 points and hit the winner with 8.7 seconds left to lead the Detroit Pistons to a 90-86 win over Philadelphia on Wednesday night, the 76ers' 11th straight loss. Allen Iverson scored 11 points in his second game with the Sixers. He hit the tying jumper with 1:06 left that made it 86-all.
Monta Ellis scored 14 of his 18 points in the second half, and the Golden State Warriors beat the New Jersey Nets 105-89 Wednesday night to snap a four-game losing streak. Reserve C.J. Watson also scored 18 and former Nets center Mikki Moore had 16 on a series of dunks for the Warriors, who improved to 1-1 on a five-game trip they are playing without coach Don Nelson, who is recovering from...
Promoters of the Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather jnr bout have cancelled a trip to Dallas, an apparent sign that the new Cowboys Stadium won't host the mega-bout next year.
CNN's Wolf Blitzer will be a guest NBA tweeter.
The Los Angeles Lakers are the NBA's most valuable team, and 12 franchises lost money in the 2008-09 season, according to Forbes magazine.
The University of Memphis isn't backing down in its appeal of the NCAA order to vacate the 2007-08 men's basketball season, even though the Committee on Infraction's response has fans worried about even worse punishment.
The NBA is taking another step in its plans to expand its presence in India, sending Dikembe Mutombo to take part in a pair of events this week. The former All-Star center, recently hired as the league's global ambassador, was in Mumbai on Wednesday to unveil two refurbished courts, along with a learning center, which the league said will benefit more than 1,500 children.
Syracuse and Florida each lost their leading scorer from last season to the pros, but each team is 8-0 regardless. The seventh-ranked Orange will leave the state of New York for the first time in 2009-10 to meet the No. 10 Gators on Thursday night at the St. Pete Times Forum in the SEC/Big East Invitational.
The NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers rule in the economic arena as well as on court, Forbes reported Wednesday in its annual rundown on the value of National Basketball Association clubs.
The University of Memphis isn't backing down in its appeal of the NCAA order to vacate the 2007-08 men's basketball season, even though the Committee on Infraction's response has fans worried about even worse punishment. Memphis argues in its 28-page rebuttal to the NCAA's response to the university's appeal that the Committee on Infractions puts the Tigers at risk of double...
The Los Angeles Lakers not only won the National Basketball Association title last season, but seized the crown as the U.S. sports league's most valuable franchise.
The ball is taking some bad bounces for the National Basketball Association.
At this point in Greg Oden's career, how he recovers mentally is as important as his physical rehabilitation.
As Tigergate continues to unfold, the million-dollar question -- actually, make that the billion-dollar question -- remains: will his sponsors stick around?
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The New Jersey Nets won its first road game of the season last ...
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In the past few days, the word was that Andre Miller (notes) was ...