'Basketball is my spine'
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Scanning the crowd of NBA representatives awaiting his predraft workout at the University of Illinois-Chicago, Kevin Garnett saw a group of men holding lottery picks for the 1995 draft with better places to be. Garnett leans back and feigns glassy-eyed boredom to reenact what he remembers most about the invited audience on that fateful June day. He stares blankly into ...
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Listening to hip-hop and growing up playing pickup basketball in Shenzhen, Yi Jianlian stands as a symbol of basketball discovery that is rippling through China.
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Having played professional basketball for 14 years in the National Basketball Association, Iâve spent a great deal of time on airplanes over the last three decades.
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Friday night&#39;s basketbrawl in Detroit was a shameful chapter in sports history but also a conflagration of many of modern society&#39;s common ailments -- hair-trigger tempers, misplaced hostility, me-firstism, emotional immaturity, incivility, lack of self
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Vince Carter, a former all-star game slam dunk champion, was named the National Basketball Association's Eastern Conference player of the week.
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Reviewing tape of a recent Grizzlies game, Celtics coach Doc Rivers was reminded of his days playing in Atlanta.
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Steve Nash felt many different emotions about his return to Dallas. That included feeling very comfortable on the Mavericks' home court.
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On the road with the Cornell basketball team, we find that a team shootaround provides a good excuse for coaches to get the players out of bed.
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He&#39;s all sinew and cut muscle in perhaps a slightly smaller frame than he once was as a dominant NBA center for the Heat. It&#39;s as though the stunning diagnosis of four years ago - four years!
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The NBAâs balls popped up Portland onto the championship path. And they may have consigned my Celtics to another decade in pro basketball hell.
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When Sandora Irvin thinks back on the childhood basketball games with the boys in the park, one thing sticks in her head:
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So we caught most of the Rockets-Kings exhibition game in Shanghai, China this morning. It felt damn good to be watching NBA hoops again.
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a situation for which everything from video games and junk food to the popularity of other sports like basketball is blamed â-ore
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Micheal Ray Richardson is the hottest coach in the Continental Basketball Association and still has hopes of fulfilling a major goal â returning to the N.B.A.
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EL SEGUNDO, California (Sports Network) - Los Angeles  Lakers center Vlade Divac is not expected to be ready for the  start of training camp due to a herniated disc in his lower  back.
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Severiano Ballesteros said on Friday he  has made such a dramatic recovery from his back problems that  he hopes to play a full season next year on both sides of the  Atlantic.
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How point guard Rajon Rondo's back feels this morning will likely determine whether he will play tonight against the Washington Wizards.