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Phil Jackson wants a better sustained effort from the Lakers against the Oklahoma City Thunder. He got it for one quarter in the playoff opener, then watched the defending champions lose energy the rest of the way. The Lakers won 87-79 Sunday mostly on the strength of their ...

Kevin Durant had 20 points and eight rebounds to lead the way to a 100-81 win in a Team USA intrasquad exhibition game on Saturday night. Rudy Gay scored a game-high 27 points for the losing Blue team. Durant, playing for the White team, continued to make his case for a spot ...

Mike Krzyzewski approached Greg Oden before practice and told him the U.S. team was going to need big guys who could rebound and defend. Oden replied that he could do that. He just hasn't been able to show it to USA Basketball leadership. But the Americans haven't given up on him yet, bringing ...

Twenty-three of the top young NBA talents will assemble Wednesday in Las Vegas, Nevada, for the July 23-25 USA Basketball Men's National Team mini-camp. The USA Basketball Men's National Team mini-camp will feature practice sessions on July 23 and July 24 at Valley High School, and the mini-camp will be capped ...

It's a good thing that Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant has a 7-foot-5-inch wingspan, because he had eight other second-year players and a six-game winning streak to take under his wing in the T-Mobile Rookie Challenge. Durant scored a Rookie Challenge record ...