NBA bet on winning back fans after scandal
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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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INDIANAPOLIS -- The Indiana Pacers&#39; front office offered an apology and support for suspended players in the wake of stiff penalties against those involved in Friday night&#39;s brawl at the end of a nationally televised game at Detroit.
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Ron Artest, Stephen Jackson and Jermaine O&#39;Neal now have the backing of their union. The NBA Players&#39; Association is appealing the suspensions handed to the three Indiana Pacers for their actions in a brawl with Detroit Pistons fans Friday night.
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The Sacramento Kings will allow Ron Artest to return to the team, five days after his arrest on suspicion of domestic violence.
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Detroit, Nov. 24 - Investigators are publicizing a picture of the person they have identified as the NBA fan who threw a chair during the big basketball brawl between the Detroit Pistons and the Indiana Pacers.
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Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who has been slapped with more than $1 million in fines by the NBA since buying the club in 2000, said he will create a hedge fund that will seek to make money the Las Vegas way: gambling.
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The chief executive of the N.B.A.'s players union intends to appeal the length of the league's suspensions of Indiana's Ron Artest, Jermaine O'Neal and Stephen Jackson.
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In the aftermath of the fiasco that was the Pacers-Pistons game last Friday night, you would think that pro sports leagues would be looking to move fans farther away from the action.
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It&#39;s official, the notorious brawl last month between the Indiana Pacers, Detroit Pistons and some fans has resulted in criminal charges.
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But the balance of power in the Eastern Conference might shift after the punishments the NBA handed out Sunday in response to the brawl at the end of Friday&#39;s Indiana-Detroit game.
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NBA chief David Stern said the National Basketball Association&#39;s internal probe of its officials will look into whether the commissioner&#39;s office missed telling signs of an illegal betting scandal.
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One of the NBA players who was suspended for his role in a fight with fans during a November game in Detroit has had his suspension reduced by an arbitrator.
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An arbitrator on Wednesday knocked 10 games off the penalty Jermaine O'Neal received from NBA commissioner David Stern for fighting with fans during the Nov. 19 Indiana Pacers-Detroit Pistons brawl. Three other suspensions were upheld, including the season-long suspension of Ron Artest.
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The NBA players&#39; union is seeking to have a case heard by an arbitrator to fight the suspensions leveled by Commissioner David Stern.
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The swift manner with which the NBA meted out punishment to Ron Artest and other members of the Indiana Pacers in the wake of the brawl last week in Auburn Hills, Mich.
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An unidentified fan holds a sign referring to the season-long suspension of Indiana Pacers&#39; Ron Artest during a game in Seattle between the Pacers and the Seattle SuperSonics Sunday, Nov. 28, 2004, at Key Arena in Seattle.
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NEW YORK - The NBA players union will win its appeal to reduce the suspensions doled out to Ron Artest and two other Indiana Pacers who brawled with Pistons fans last week, a sports business expert predicted Tuesday.