Category: Wirenews
While fans and media pundits continue to speculate about where forward Carmelo Anthony will play next season, a more informed source weighed in on the topic Sunday night. La La Anthony, Carmelo’s wife, said on Bravo TV’s “Watch What Happens Live” that she expects her husband to remain with the New York Knicks. “I definitely […]
CHICAGO — The Minnesota Timberwolves are starting to resemble the team they expected to be heading into the season. While forward Kevin Love scored 31 points in a 95-86 victory over the Chicago Bulls on Monday night at the United Center, two Minnesota players who missed the majority of the season with injuries provided a […]
NEW YORK — Patrick Patterson hasn’t played football since he was at Huntington High School in West Virginia, but the 6-foot-9 forward looked like a Pro Bowl defensive back in the waning seconds of the Toronto Raptors’ 104-103 victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Monday night at the Barclays Center. “Me, Richard Sherman, Ed Reed, […]
MILWAUKEE — Entering the final stop on a 12-day, seven-game road trip, the red-hot Los Angeles Clippers were not going to be lulled into complacency by a team with the worst record in the NBA. Instead, the Clippers (32-15) wrapped up their annual Grammy Award-induced trip with a exclamation point, drubbing the Bucks 114-86 at […]
SALT LAKE CITY — Center Derrick Favors and forwards Marvin Williams and Jeremy Evans all tallied double-doubles, and the Utah Jazz took advantage of a short-handed Sacramento Kings squad en route to earn a 106-99 victory Monday night at EnergySolutions Arena. The outcome pushed the Jazz’s record to 16-29 and dropped the Kings to 15-29, […]
SALT LAKE CITY – It took 45 games, but the Utah Jazz finally escaped from the cellar of the Western Conference. Center Derrick Favors and forwards Marvin Williams and Jeremy Evans all produced double-doubles and the Jazz took advantage of a short-handed Sacramento Kings squad en route to a 106-99 victory on Monday night at […]
OKLAHOMA CITY — NBA games in late January are supposed to be tedious. With the All-Star break around the corner, many players and teams don’t put much stock into them. Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant is not one of them. On a night he described as emotional, the MVP candidate scored 41 points and […]
Deputy commissioner Adam Silver will recommend to the NBA’s Board of Governors that Mark Tatum succeed him when he takes over as commissioner, according to multiple reports. Commissioner David Stern is retiring and Silver will succeed him Feb. 1. Tatum is the NBA’s executive vice president of global marketing partnership. Tatum has worked in the […]
Playing in front of a sparse home crowd because of icy road conditions, forward Johnny O’Bryant scored a game-high 29 points and grabbed nine rebounds and LSU blocked 11 shots to pull off an 87-82 upset of No. 11 Kentucky on Tuesday night at Pete Maravich Assembly Center in Baton Rouge, La. Attendance was reported […]
WICHITA, Kan. — Wichita State won again, relatively easily, but the atmosphere afterward almost resembled a defeat. The Shockers defeated Loyola-Chicago 57-45 on Tuesday at Koch Arena to remain one of the nation’s three unbeaten teams. But the No. 4 team in the nation expects better. The Shockers didn’t deliver, and they knew it. “The […]
