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The NBA today announced that the league's 66th season will tip off Christmas Day with a five-game slate, contingent on timely ratification of the new collective bargaining agreement. Kia NBA Tip-Off '11 will launch on TNT with one of the NBA's oldest and most intense rivalries. The Boston Celtics, featuring their ...

LeBron James had the superstar teammates with him and the crowd against him. September felt like June all over again, especially when another Big Three came up short. James, Carmelo Anthony and Chris Paul couldn't lead their team back from a dreadful start, as Team Philly beat Melo's stars of Baltimore 131-122 ...

The New York Knicks are bringing Chauncey Billups back for next season. The Knicks announced Wednesday that they are keeping the veteran point guard, deciding his leadership outweighs the savings they would have earned by waiving him this week. The Knicks would have been obligated to pay Billups ...

Center Timofey Mozgov sprained his left knee and ankle in the first quarter of the Denver Nuggets' game against Oklahoma City on Tuesday night and was helped to the locker room. Mozgov cut into the lane from the right corner, took a pass from Kenyon Martin with 2:44 ...

The Minnesota Timberwolves have reached a buyout agreement with center Eddy Curry. The Wolves announced the agreement in the fourth quarter of a 90-79 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night. Curry came with forward Anthony Randolph to Minnesota from the New York Knicks in a ...

Carmelo Anthony took some easy shots about 12 feet from the basket Saturday afternoon, swishing just about every attempt. All were left-handed - a clear sign that the New York Knicks' newly acquired star was having plenty of distress in his right elbow again. Regardless, Anthony said he would ...

Carmelo Anthony was en route to the airport, headed for that unwanted return to Denver, when the call he waited for all season finally came. The one that makes him a brighter star, and maybe the Knicks a bigger threat come playoff time. "I think New York needed a moment like ...

The New Jersey Nets finally landed a big-name All-Star in a blockbuster trade that gives them point guard Deron Williams and sends rookie Derrick Favors and point guard Devin Harris to the Utah Jazz. The Jazz also will receive the Nets' first-round pick in 2011, which could ...

The day after losing Carmelo Anthony to the New York Knicks, the New Jersey Nets took an unexpected day off. Well, at least the team did. The Nets called off practice on Tuesday, roughly 12 hours after the Denver Nuggets and Knicks agreed on a deal to ship the All-Star ...

Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony put on a gray Denver sweatshirt and a pair of pricey headphones, then sprinted for the bus. A wrong turn kept him from the door and sent him right back into a wall of questions. The key figure in the longest-running trade story of ...