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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 ...

Basketball, especially at its highest level, is a game of athleticism and skill. If your team doesn't have talent, it's not going to win many games. But it takes more than talent to win in the NBA. To get through an 82-game regular season and two months of ...

The Mavericks lost a future Hall-of-Fame point guard for nothing in free agency not so long ago. Whether or not Steve Nash's defection set the franchise back is up for debate. Dallas did reach The Finals two years after the the guy who became a two-time MVP left. History didn't repeat itself ...

The Denver Nuggets are leaving all the animosity with the Dallas Mavericks' players, fans and owner behind and heading to their first Western Conference finals since 1985. Behind 30 points from Carmelo Anthony and 28 from Chauncey Billups, the Nuggets beat the Mavericks 124-110 on Wednesday night to wrap up their ...

Jason Kidd glides to the basket for a layup in the Mavs' Game 3 win.

There's a guard down in Dallas that teams may have to start preparing for, and it's not the obvious guard (Jason Kidd) you may be thinking of. Thanks to his go-ahead 3-pointer in the final minute of Dallas' previous game that sank the Clippers, Jose Juan Barea, or J.J. for short, ...