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Andrew Bynum popped champagne in the middle of the hallway outside the Lakers locker room. Ron Artest lost his voice, screaming at the top of his lungs while clutching what the Lakers had worked for all season. But the moment that may very well stand out was the image ...

Rajon Rondo was cut on the chin compliments of a Ron Artest elbow. Kendrick Perkins had to be helped off the court thanks to a Pau Gasol and Kobe Bryant sandwich. Paul Pierce wound up on his back time and time again in large part because of the Lakers' ...

This was everything you could have wanted from an NBA Finals game. It was physical. It was competitive. And it featured two teams playing different enough styles to engender after-the-fact discourse about who was playing the "right way". Tonight, the "right way" was the path taken by ...

If it wasn't already apparent, this is not the same series as the 2008 Finals. Mostly because of the Los Angeles Lakers. In their 91-84 Game 3 victory, the Lakers, both as individuals and collectively, fought through a litany of situations that would have left them reeling ...

The Phoenix Suns say veteran forward Grant Hill has exercised the one-year player option on his contract and will return to the team next season. The 16-year veteran and seven-time All-Star averaged 11.3 points and 5.5 rebounds last season. That was his highest rebounding average since 2002-03 ...

LeBron James can pick his next team. If it's the Cleveland Cavaliers, he won't be selecting their coach. That was the powerful message from Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert, who refused to comment Tuesday on reports he has offered a massive contract to Michigan State's Tom Izzo and adamantly ...

This was the earlier Rajon Rondo of the NBA playoffs. This was the one who declared himself the best point guard in the league. Not the one who came up lame in Game 1 of the NBA Finals. This was the all-around Rondo, who had a series of huge ...

The talk coming into the game circled around how the Celtics' defense may rival that of the 2008 championship team. On Thursday, the Lakers showed their rendition of defense. They took charges. They caused deflections. They altered and rejected shots inside. In short, they frustrated Boston. That defense coupled ...

Mike Brown won everything in five years coaching the Cleveland Cavaliers. Everything, that is, except an NBA title. Brown, the most successful coach in franchise history, was fired Monday after failing to win a championship with superstar -- and soon-to-be free agent -- LeBron James. Brown's dismissal had been expected since the ...

Cleveland Cavaliers general manager Danny Ferry says the elbow injury that bothered LeBron James during the NBA playoffs was bad enough that the team would have rested him during the regular season. Ferry revealed for the first time that the league's MVP complained about his elbow before an ...