Category: NBA News Wire
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder used descriptions like “disjointed” and “out of sync” to describe his team’s play in his first game as an NBA head coach. The opposite could be said of how the new bench boss’ first opponent played. Center Dwight Howard scored 22 points with 10 rebounds and […]
DENVER — Kenneth Faried showed a big new contract won’t change his style. That suits the Denver Nuggets just fine. Faried had 22 points and 17 rebounds, guard Arron Afflalo had 15 points in his return to Denver and the Nuggets pulled away to beat the Detroit Pistons 89-79 in the season opener for both […]
Boston Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo won’t be sure until game time whether he’ll be able to play in the season opener on Wednesday night against the Brooklyn Nets. Rondo, who has a broken hand, said he’ll know when he wakes up from a pregame nap whether he’ll be good to go. “When I wake […]
SAN ANTONIO — Manu Ginobili scored 20 points — 14 in the second half — in the season opener as defending champion San Antonio defeated Dallas 101-100 Tuesday, the Spurs’ their 10th consecutive regular-season victory over the Mavericks. Guard Tony Parker led the Spurs with 23 point. Parker hit a 3-point shot — his fourth […]
Two days before the Cleveland Cavaliers open the season against the New York Knicks, they received a scare when forward Kevin Love took a shot to the ribs during Tuesday’s practice and was held out for the rest of the day. Cavs coach David Blatt indicated that Love was not seriously injured. He did not […]
LOS ANGELES — Guard James Harden scored 32 points, leading the Houston Rockets to a 108-90 rout of the Los Angeles Lakers in the season opener for both clubs on Tuesday night at Staples Center. Forwards Trevor Ariza and Terrence Jones chipped in 16 points apiece for Houston (1-0). Jones also grabbed 13 rebounds. Center […]
NEW ORLEANS — Anthony Davis had just accomplished something that hadn’t been done in an NBA season opener in nearly 30 years — putting up a monster stat line of 26 points, 17 rebounds and a career-tying nine blocks in the New Orleans Pelicans’ 101-84 demolition of the Orlando Magic Tuesday night. But the third-year […]
SAN ANTONIO — You bet he was concerned. San Antonio Spurs guard Manu Ginobili converted just two of 23 shots in preseason games, which makes even a successful player question his acumen. “I wasn’t confident,” Ginobili said. “It worried me. At same time, I knew the beginning was (Tuesday).” Sure was. Ginobili scored 20 points, […]
Former NBA player Mookie Blaylock pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide Monday, accepting a plea deal that means he will serve three years of a 15-year sentence for killing a woman in 2013. Blaylock admitted to killing Monica Murphy, a mother of five, in a head-on collision in Atlanta on May 31, 2013. The 15-year sentence […]
For years, the NBA’s Western Conference race has been a battlefield, contenders lobbing grenades at contenders, powerhouses flexing muscles in places where Eastern Conferences teams don’t even have places. That won’t change this season. If anything, the West has grown stronger, with some favorites standing pretty much pat (San Antonio, Oklahoma City, Portland, Memphis), others […]
