NBA stars head for Europe
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NBA Europe Live, the National Basketball Association initiative in concert with Euroleague, tips off in five nations next week, but the prospect of NBA expansion to Europe remains distant.
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While hockey has screeched to a halt many of the world's best players are skating off to Europe where clubs in Russia and Sweden are wooing them with lucrative contracts and expensive perks.
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Two NBA basketball teams, the Houston Rockets and Sacramento Kings have arrived in Shanghai preparing for China&#39;s inaugural NBA game, with both teams having a Chinese player.
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After a summer spent expanding its  global brand with exhibition games from Shanghai to Rome, the  NBA opens a new season on Tuesday looking to win back home fans  following a gambling scandal which rocked the sport to its  core.
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LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony finally earned the reward that used to await U.S. players.
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NBA standouts Jose Calderon and Pau Gasol give defending world champion Spain the inside edge at the European basketball championships.
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The Boston Celtics will be one of four National Basketball Association teams who will play exhibition games in four European countries next October, commissioner David Stern announced.
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US stars know they must improve to beat Greece on Friday and qualify for Sunday's World Basketball Championship final, where either 2004 Olympic champion Argentina or title-hungry Spain will await.
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Jaroslav Svoboda and Lubomir Visnovsky made it 173 NHLers in Europe after agreeing to contracts Monday. Svoboda, a forward with the Dallas Stars, agreed to play in his native Czech league with Olomouc, according
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European players, still basking in the afterglow of their runaway Ryder Cup victory over the United States, have a golden opportunity to shine
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While the stars take their time, midlevel free agents are starting to make deals.
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Lusty Europeans open their gyms and hearts to a fan of quality hoops.
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US National Basketball Association stars are concerned that playing in international events is hurting their ability to play their best in quest of a league crown, US media reported.
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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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Future United States Olympic teams of National Basketball Association stars will have more training with international rules before arriving at the Games, NBA commissioner David Stern said.
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Big man Esteban Batista and swingman Dahntay Jones played well enough over the past few days to earn themselves an all-expenses-paid (working) vacation to Rome and London. There, and back in the United States next month, they will have the chance to make the 2007-08 Celtics.
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National Basketball Association commissioner David Stern reportedly received a proposal from Real Madrid that could lead the way to a five-team European division of expansion clubs.