Richard Jefferson shows he's still got at age 36 with a big-time dunk over Kevin Durant and receives a technical foul for staring him down. (0:40)
CLEVELAND -- Cavaliers veteran swingman Richard Jefferson was assessed a technical foul for taunting after he smiled and winked -- yes, winked -- at the Golden State Warriors' Kevin Durant in the fourth quarter of Cleveland's 109-108 come-from-behind victory on Christmas Day.
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LeBron James and the Cavs are now 0-3 against the Warriors and Spurs this season.
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Measured and calm — even humorous at times — with his responses, Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James did not overreact to the thorough beating the Golden State Warriors delivered on Monday.
James tried to defuse the importance or big-picture meaning of Golden State’s 132-98 victory, a game in which the Warriors were up 15 in the first quarter, 30 in the second quarter a
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Move over, LeBron James: You are no longer the best basketball player on the planet.
LeBron has passed the torch, and what is amazing is whom the torch was passed to and how convincing the move has been.
The new best player in the world is not Kevin Durant, who has long been second-best. It is not Anthony Davis, despite the assumption of many that Davis was the heir apparent.
Rather, it is that shooter out of Davidson College, Stephen Curry.
And how did the 6-foot-3 (w
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Stephen Curry was the overall leading NBA All-Star Game vote-getter, finishing ahead of LeBron James.
My dad may have been playing in the NBA at the time, but the best basketball games I remember from my childhood were the ones between my little brother, Seth, and me on our backyard basketball court in Charlotte, North Carolina. We’d play for hours and hours, oftentimes well into the night with the use of a bright stage light shining on the court, until our mom would yell out the window for u
