Category: NBA News Wire
The Orlando Magic exercised their fourth-year team option and extended the contracts of general manager Rob Hennigan and coach Jacque Vaughn through the 2015-16 season, the team announced Friday. The Magic finished the regular season 23-59 and 13th in the Eastern Conference. “Rob (Hennigan) and Jacque (Vaughn) have worked extremely hard in establishing a culture […]
Steve Kerr, who is favored to be the next coach of the New York Knicks, is not even on the Los Angeles Lakers’ list of candidates, the New York Post reported Friday. According to the report, the Lakers believe Kerr is too far along in the Knicks’ hiring process. Knicks president Phil Jackson is engaged […]
ATLANTA — The top-seeded Indiana Pacers were on the ropes. Down five to the upstart Atlanta Hawks with three minutes to play, the Pacers’ late-season collapse looked complete. Indiana forward David West would have none of it. The Pacers fought off the Hawks and an electric crowd at Philips Arena to stay alive in the […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Forward Kevin Durant matched his series high with 36 points, and the Oklahoma City Thunder staved off playoff elimination Thursday night with a 104-84 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies at FedExForum. The Thunder, the No. 2 seed in the Western Conference, evened the first-round series at three games apiece. Game 7 will […]
ATLANTA — Just when it looked as if their demise were complete, the Indiana Pacers found some life. The Pacers fought off the gritty Atlanta Hawks and an electric crowd at Philips Arena to stay alive in the Eastern Conference playoffs with a 95-88 win Thursday in Game 6. Indiana forward David West scored 12 […]
The NBA announced Thursday that it is moving forward in the process to force suspended Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling to sell the team. The 10-member Advisory-Finance Committee met through a conference call and unanimously voted to pursue the ouster of Sterling as quickly as possible. The committee will meet again next week. “This […]
HOUSTON — Rockets guard Jeremy Lin has built a reputation on redemptive moments, on discovering means to produce against mounting disbelief and adversity, persevering against long odds. Labeled the goat after his fourth-quarter turnover enabled Portland to force overtime in Game 4 and subsequently take a commanding 3-1 series lead, Lin rebounded to score 21 […]
HOUSTON — Guard James Harden awoke from a game-long slumber and scored eight points over the last four minutes to lead the Houston Rockets to a 108-98 win over the Portland Trail Blazers in Game 5 of a Western Conference quarterfinal on Wednesday night at Toyota Center. Harden had just nine points before converting a […]
SAN ANTONIO — Every time the Dallas Mavericks tried to make a push Tuesday, Tiago Splitter offered resistance. The San Antonio center produced nine points, six rebounds and four assists in the fourth quarter alone, helping the Spurs defeat the Dallas Mavericks 109-103 Wednesday to take a three-games-to-two lead in their Western Conference first-round playoff […]
TORONTO — Point guard Kyle Lowry scored 36 points, and the Toronto Raptors held on to defeat the Brooklyn Nets 115-113 Wednesday to take a 3-2 lead in their first-round Eastern Conference playoff series. The Raptors led by as many as 26 points in the third quarter, but the Nets came back to tie the […]
