Several factors to blame for hoops decline
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US basketball once stood in the same Olympic pantheon as Cuban boxing and Chinese table tennis. From basketball&#39;s inclusion in the Games in 1936 until this summer, the United States
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Sudden year-end slowdown is to blame, researcher says.
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NEW YORK - They had one quite costly fourth-quarter foul. They made turnovers and went cold on offense at the worst of times. They missed far too many free throws.
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Allen Iverson's old team is having more fun these days than his new one. With Kobe Bryant back in his hometown, the Philadelphia 76ers drew their first sellout of the season Friday night. And if they keep up their surge, the fans might keep coming back.
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Seattleâs Kevin Durant scored 30 points and threw down one of the most memorable dunks of the season as the Knicks fell to 6-15.
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The Bulls and Wizards have developed something of a rivalry since meeting in the 2005 playoffs, but personnel changes have deflated it somewhat.
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The firing of Denver Nuggets coach Jeff Bzdelik came as a surprise to few around the league, as the team has failed to build on last season&#39;s success despite obtaining all-star forward Kenyon Martin last summer.
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David Stern led the NBA through drug problems and work stoppages. Now his league faces the stigma of a point-shaving scandal involving a referee.
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March could be more maddening than usual for teams on the NCAA tournament bubble this year.
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Some say that money in the shoe business is ruining basketball, yet it is important to remember that along with the vices come virtues.
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The picture of defeat is the best basketball player in the galaxy slumped on a chair in the waning minutes. The picture of defeat is a coach shaking his head in disbelief, watching his team disintegrate.
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Maybe Doc Rivers is right. Maybe two years from now, when the Celtics are leading the Atlantic Division and Gerald Green has morphed into Kobe Bryant and Al Jefferson has morphed into Elton Brand, people will choose not to remember or care about what transpired in the dog days of the winter of 2007.
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Midway through the Celtics' franchise-record 18-game losing streak, a strange trend developed in the locker room: Players stopped dissecting box scores.
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Many of the NBA's best players who toiled for the U.S. men's national team last summer have suffered injury and fatigueÃÂ as a result of the extraÃÂ commitment.
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The NBA comes down hard on the Pacers, suspending Ron Artest for the rest of the season, Stephen Jackson for 30 games and Jermaine O'Neal for 25.
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Sooner or later, every professional basketball playerâs career comes to an end. For Todd MacCulloch, that day came earlier than expected.
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With the new season in full swing, the NBA copes with its first controversy: a new synthetic ball thatâs driving its players batty.