NBA shows increase in teams of the century point mark
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One-hundred-point games, a rarity as recently as last season, have become a regularity around the NBA. Only two teams averaged more than 100 a game last season, the Dallas Mavericks and Sacramento Kings. This season eight teams are above the mark.
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The NBA has come to booming, basketball-crazy China &#151; but it doesn't expect to make any money soon.
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The nature of the center position has changed in recent years, but NBA title teams almost always have had a dominant post player.
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A record nine international players will take part in the best-of-seven National Basketball Association Finals, which will be televised to 205 nations in 46 languages starting here Thursday.
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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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The NBA introduced the 24-second shot clock in 1954 to increase scoring. For the second time this month, the Nets and the Portland Trail Blazers set back offensive basketball 50 years.
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When Andre Miller led the NBA with 10.9 assists a game in 2001-02, he had the first stamp of success required to enter the league&#39;s pantheon of premier point guards.
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Strange things are happening to the pro teams in this city. The Cavaliers are in the NBA finals. The Indians are tied for first place. And the Browns drafted an offensive lineman &#151; in the first round.
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Gilbert Arenas set a franchise record with 60 points, 16 of them in overtime, to lead the Washington Wizards to a 147-141 victory over Kobe Bryant and the Lakers last night in Los Angeles.
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Jamaal Tinsley put up the biggest numbers, but he reserved his biggest praise for the old newcomer. Asked about Michael Curry&#39;s contributions to the Indiana Pacers&#39; 108-97 overtime
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Americans in general and American NBA fans in particular will never, ever understand the frenzy that drives the league's international players to play for their national teams in the offseason. As one NBA official put it last week, the ongoing European Championships in Spain are a bigger deal to many of the players in the tournament than the Olympics. And ...
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The Boston Celtics are in a record-breaking rut that has shaken their confidence and damaged the image of a once-proud franchise.
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Allen Iverson scored 60 points, a career high and the most in the NBA this season, to lead the host Philadelphia 76ers to a 112-99 victory over the Orlando Magic last night.
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New talk of adding European teams to the National Basketball Association within a decade has some appeal to the league's European stars, but they want to see the details.
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Ron Artest has been hit with a season long suspension, unprecedented for the NBA outside doping cases; Stephen Jackson banned for 30 games; Jermaine O&#39;Neal for 25 games and Anthony Johnson for five.
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LeBron James scored 33 points and the Cleveland Cavaliers moved over .500 for the first time in more than three years with their fourth straight victory, a
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Allen Iverson scored a season-high 54 points, including his 15,000th career point, and the Philadelphia 76ers won for the fourth time in five games, earning a 116-97 victory over the Bucks last night in Milwaukee.