Right now, it&#39;s not good to be the Kings
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The names and the faces are pretty much the same. They look like the Sacramento Kings, wear the same uniforms, and Rick Adelman is still their coach.
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It was a good night for a couple of the NBA's bad teams. And another reminder that the Miami Heat are now one of them.
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At least the "Bad Boys" kept their shenanigans on the court when they were wreaking havoc in the NBA. Nowadays there are enough mug shots out there to spawn a new trading card industry. Players are doing and saying things that defy common sense, annoying fans with their high-priced whines. Wins seem to rank only slightly ahead of endorsement opportunities and monster contracts, and those "knuckleheads" Karl Malone once dissed haven't gotten a clue yet.
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This one would really, really, really have hurt had it not ended the way it did. There would have been the inevitable comparisons to the same disheartening defeat three days earlier against Sacramento. There would be six days to stew over it. There would be a sub-.500 record at the All-Star break and, well, who needed that ?
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Can&#39;t we all just get along? I mean this is getting ridiculously way out of hand. For those who haven&#39;t watched any TV in the last five days, a fight broke out in an NBA
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Tim Duncan, Gregg Popovich and the San Antonio Spurs woke up Tuesday facing a new identity: They&#039;re no longer the best team in the NBA, the Western Conference or even their division.
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Alonzo Mourning knows he is not ready to play meaningful minutes in a game yet. He doesn&#39;t have his wind yet and still isn&#39;t sure whether his new kidney is ready for the physical pounding NBA big men go through.
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ATHENS, Greece -- Things are clearly far from perfect for the US Olympic men&#39;s basketball team. But now, perfection isn&#39;t important. Victories are. Against anybody.
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Rasheed Wallace can be one of the NBA's most complete players at times, making life miserable for opponents at both ends of the court.
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Christmas comes today, but the Nets don&#39;t have any new big men under their tree. And it&#39;s not even like the team was naughty this year.
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The heavyweight division&#39;s desperate need for a new, young superstar is underlined by Don King&#39;s world title double bill at Madison Square Garden tonight, where four fighters in their 30s compete for the belts representing versions of what was regarded as
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With Ron Artest sidelined, Kevin Martin and Mike Bibby knew they had to pick up the scoring slack for the Sacramento Kings. Even they couldn't have predicted a night like this, when seemingly every shot they took ended up in the basket.
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Ron Artest has some time off now to assess where his life and his career are going. He can get some help. He is only 25 and it&#39;s not as if he can&#39;t revive his career next season.
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The Knicks appeared headed in the same direction as Jeff Van Gundy&#39;s team, which nowadays isn&#39;t such a good thing. &quot;I&#39;m so sick of losing, I can&#39;t stand it,&quot; Van Gundy said.
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There are only a handful of teams in the NBA that have won 30 or more games this season, and the San Antonio Spurs are among them. Yet even San Antonio has acknowledged in recent weeks it is undergoing some struggles, inconsistent play foremost among them.
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Ron Artest and the Sacramento Kings has had his share of trouble with the league, and the law, but has been turning things around. Monday heâll be participating in a charity event to help the needy of Queens, N.Y.
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They have been criticized roundly, at home and here in Europe, sometimes by their own coach. What the team lacks is to some observers more obvious than its attributes.