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When we spoke in June about wanting to see Greg Oden get a fresh start to this next phase of his career, we were absolutely sincere. We viewed it as a cathartic move for Oden that meant the same for the Portland Trail Blazers and their fans. Too much has happened to ...

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 ...

Chris Bosh enjoyed just about every second of his jampacked offseason. Nonetheless, he's ready to go back to work. Bosh said Saturday that he expects the Miami Heat to reconvene sometime soon, even though the NBA lockout has entered its third month with no apparent ending in sight. This would ordinarily be ...

Everyone wanted the circus to end. That is, until the circus actually ended. Such is life for the Miami Heat now, heading into the offseason. A season of intense scrutiny, criticism, attention and intrigue ended without a championship, and while getting out of the spotlight for a while this ...

What this series needed was a catch-phrase, a theme song, a slogan that perfectly captures the mood. And it was delivered rather bluntly by a coach who, like a lonely puppeteer, has run out of strings to pull. "If they're playing on top of their game," Doug Collins said, ...

Miami coach Erik Spoelstra is resting LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh for the Heat's final regular-season game. The Heat are locked into the second seed in the East and host Philadelphia in their playoff opener on Saturday. Miami also is without forward Mike Miller, who sat out the second ...

Trapped in an arena where venom and disgust filled nearly all 20,000 seats, LeBron James survived. He handled the boos, the "Akron hates you'' chants, the obscene taunts coming at him from every direction, from fans he considered family. At his homecoming, James was an outcast. He's returning on ...

Having LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh together was supposed to be the Miami Heat formula for many championships. And it might. Someday. Right now, it isn't. With the playoffs a little more than a month away, time is running out. So maybe it was fitting that Heat coach ...

Mike Bibby already has something in common with Dwyane Wade, LeBron James and Chris Bosh. He left money on the table to join the Miami Heat. Bibby settled in Thursday morning with his third team in little more than a week. He became a free agent Wednesday after ...

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 ...