Kevin Love of the Minnesota Timberwolves, locked out of NBA arenas, is headed to the beach.
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The NBA's version of the Ming Dynasty is done. After helping pro basketball gain a foothold in the world's most populous market, Chinese star Yao Ming has retired.
The NBA has released its 2011-12 schedule despite being in a lockout that could last months and cause it to be scrapped.
November: 2 at Orlando, 7 p.m.; 4 Milwaukee, 7 p.m.; 5 at Memphis, 8 p.m.; 9 at Boston, 7:30; 12 Utah, 7 p.m.; 14 Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.; 16 at Cleveland, 7 p.m.; 18 at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.; 19 Cleveland, 7 p.m.; 21 Portland, 7 p.m.; 23 Memphis, 7 p.m.; 25 Orlando, 7 p.m.; 27 at Sacramento, 6 p.m.; 28 at Golden State, 10:30; 30 at L.A. Clippers, 10:30
The NBA lockout isn't really posing any challenges for Brian Grant's big fundraiser to fight Parkinson's disease, contrary to widespread reports and Internet buzz.
The agent for Bismack Biyombo insists that his client, the seventh pick in the NBA draft, will play for the Charlotte Bobcats next season despite a buyout dispute with his Spanish team.
With the NBA lockout less than two weeks old, at least two teams have begun cutting staff.
A source with knowledge of the agreements said Kelvin Sampson and J.B. Bickerstaff will join Kevin McHale's coaching staff with the Houston Rockets. No official announcement has been made by the team in the midst of the NBA lockout.
The Minnesota Timberwolves fired Kurt Rambis on Tuesday, ending more than three months of uncertainty and awkwardness surrounding the head coach of the worst team in the NBA last season.
Dwyane Wade could see himself and other NBA stars looking at overseas contracts if the lockout drags on, just like New Jersey's Deron Williams.
The NBA players' association says that there is an "adequate basis" for doubting the NBA's losses, citing the inaccurate financial projections the league made in 2009-10.
In March, NFL owners locked out their players. Last Friday, NBA owners followed suit.
Jon Scheyer, a former basketball star at Duke, joined Israeli powerhouse Maccabi Tel Aviv on Sunday, saying that his college experience prepared him well for coping with high expectations.
No free agency now, maybe no games later. The NBA lockout claimed a quick casualty in Day 1, when the free-agency period didn't open as usual on July 1.
Corey Maggette has played 12 seasons in the NBA and has been to the playoffs only once. Now he's about to join a Charlotte Bobcats team that has never won a playoff game and has spent the past year getting rid of most of its veterans and scorers as it rebuilds.
Chris Paul is in New Orleans this week for community service and charity events with his CP3 Foundation, and also to take in some concerts during the Essence Music Festival.
The NBA is headed to deadline day, with perhaps one last chance to avoid a lockout. Negotiators for owners and players are scheduled to meet today, about 12 hours before the expiration of the collective-bargaining agreement and seemingly nowhere close to a deal.
Representatives for NBA players and owners are scheduled to meet Thursday, hours before the collective-bargaining agreement expires, and commissioner David Stern said that's still enough time for a deal.
David Stern, the NBA commissioner, agrees with his players that teams need to do a better job sharing revenues.
With their turn, the players passed. NBA players declined to present a new economic proposal to owners Friday, less than a week before the expiration of the collective bargaining agreement.
Rich Cho was still general manager of the Portland Trail Blazers when he went to Spain last month to look at a player who had intrigued him on video and at a recent camp.
Plenty of players, from veterans to draft picks, were on the move Thursday night in an NBA draft that some considered a dud but certainly wasn't dull.
Kyrie Irving played in only 11 games at Duke as a freshman in the last college basketball season, but he showed enough to convince the Cleveland Cavaliers that he was worthy of the No. 1 selection in Thursday night's NBA draft in Newark, N.J.
With NBA stars from veteran Kevin Garnett to Rookie of the Year Blake Griffin standing behind him, union president Derek Fisher said Thursday that players won't accept a bad deal to avert a work stoppage.
The Charlotte Bobcats sent top scorer Stephen Jackson to the Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday in a three-way trade involving the Sacramento Kings that gave Charlotte two picks in the top nine of the NBA draft.
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