NBA Sets First-Week Attendance Record
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A record 17 home-opener sellouts brought NBA attendance to 95 percent capacity for the first week of the season.
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Larry Bird's first game in a Celtics uniform was against the Philadelphia 76ers in a preseason doubleheader at Madison Square Garden, the most famous indoor arena in the world.
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The Phoenix Suns and Denver Nuggets will play the first outdoor game in modern NBA history during the 2008-09 preseason. The exhibition game on Oct. 11 at the 16,000-seat Indian Wells Tennis Garden will be televised by TNT.
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Major League Baseball broke its season attendance record Saturday and was on track to finish with the second-highest per-game average in the sport's history.
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By James Walker, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Feb. 9--CLEVELAND -- Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell never worried about jersey sales.   Magic Johnson and Larry Bird didn't compete for fans in China and Japan.
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The Dallas Mavericks established a franchise record for fewest points allowed. They also, for the first time in history, finished a month without being beaten.
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Gilbert Arenas sets a franchise record with 60 points, 16 of them in overtime, to lead the Wizards to a 147-141 victory over Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers.
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San Antonio's Manu Ginobili and Washington's Gilbert Arenas and Antawn Jamison were among six first-time selections when reserves for the National Basketball Association All-Star Game were named.
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One of the longest-running curiosities in sports is why fans in Atlanta don&#39;t come out to professional sports events. And many fans who showed up at Philips Arena last night
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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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Yao Ming's Houston Rockets squeezed past the Sacramento Kings on Thursday in the first NBA game to be played in China, a country the fast-growing basketball league deems a potential marketing mecca.
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Amare Stoudemire is setting himself apart from most NBA players. The Portland Trail Blazers saw that firsthand Sunday night.
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A sellout crowd of 57,280 converged on the RCA Dome on Sunday for the Indianapolis Colts&#39; home opener. A video game broke out.
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SHANGHAI : Hometown fans of Chinese basketball star Yao Ming will see their hero in action for no more than 28 minutes when the NBA&#39;s first ever tip-off in China takes place this week.
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The biggest news of the past week has been the basket brawl at Auburn Palace in Detroit between the Pistons and Indiana Pacers. If you havenât heard by now, the Pacersâ Ron
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The NBA flew more than 100 people halfway around the world for its first games in China this week. Chinese-born star Yao Ming was there with the Houston Rockets for games against the Sacramento Kings.
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This week's U.S.-Spain Davis Cup final is expected to break the attendance record for a sanctioned tennis match.