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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 ...

NBA scoring leader Kevin Durant was held out of practice Thursday with a sprained left ankle and Thunder coach Scott Brooks says it's doubtful he will play Friday night at Atlanta. "It's one of those injuries you can't avoid. I feel good today, better than I thought,'' ...

Kevin Durant has always shown the league’s elite players appropriate respect. After the Thunder’s Sunday afternoon loss to Miami, for instance, he called LeBron James and Kobe Bryant 1A and 1B, as in being the best players in the game. Chris Bosh is probably pretty far down Durant’s list. Asked ...

Miami’s big three are all battling injuries. Chris Bosh has missed the last four games with an ankle sprain but he traveled with the team to OKC and wants to play. Dwyane Wade had an MRI on his wrist yesterday that showed no serious damage. Heat coach Erik Spoelstra says ...

Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant, a three-time All-Star MVP, is this year's leading vote-getter in the NBA All-Star Balloting program presented by T-Mobile with 2,380,016 votes. It is Bryant's 13th consecutive All-Star selection; only Jerry West, Karl Malone and Shaquille O'Neal, with 14 straight nods ...

Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers and Kevin Durant of the Oklahoma City Thunder top the Western Conference, while Dwight Howard of the Orlando Magic and LeBron James of the Miami Heat lead the Eastern Conference after the fourth returns of 2011 NBA All-Star Balloting ...

Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers and Kevin Durant of the Oklahoma City Thunder top the Western Conference, while Dwight Howard of the Orlando Magic and LeBron James of the Miami Heat lead the Eastern Conference after the third returns of 2011 NBA All-Star Balloting ...

The Miami Heat's LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, and Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant were named the Kia NBA Eastern and Western Conference Players of the Month, respectively, for games played during December. James (25.2 ppg, 7.9 rpg and 6.8 apg) and Wade (27.9 ppg, 6.9 rpg and 4.1 ...

Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers and Kevin Durant of the Oklahoma City Thunder top the Western Conference, while Dwight Howard of the Orlando Magic and LeBron James of the Miami Heat lead the Eastern Conference after the first returns of 2011 NBA All-Star Balloting presented ...