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NBA escalated decision to suspend season quickly – Wojnarowski | SC with SVP

The National Basketball Association has reportedly suspended its 2020 season amid concerns over novel coronavirus after a Utah Jazz player tested preliminarily positive for the virus.

“The test result was reported shortly prior to the tip-off of tonight’s game between the Jazz and Oklahoma City Thunder at Chesapeake Energy Arena. At that time, tonight’s game was canceled. The affected player was not in the arena,” th

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LAKERS at CLIPPERS | FULL GAME HIGHLIGHTS | March 8, 2020

Both teams downplayed Sunday's showdown as a potential playoff preview, but the Lakers topped the Clippers in a back-and-forth thriller worthy of May.

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LOS ANGELES — The Lakers and Clippers brought meaning to the regular season by offering an NBA playoff preview.

The Lakers finished with a 112-103 win over the Clippers in a nationally-televised game Sunday at Staples Center, which offered more of a complete pictu

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Legendary movie director and Knicks superfan Spike Lee has been attending games at Madison Square Garden for 28 years. He has seen some truly awful basketball but has remained a constant fixture in the court-side seats of MSG through the team’s ups and downs, always supporting orange and blue. However, after a bizarre dispute before the Knicks’ game against the Houston Rockets Monday night, Lee says he won’t be attending another game this season. In fact, the Knicks superfan said that he’s al

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A potential preview of the 2020 NBA Finals saw the Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Milwaukee Bucks 113-103 at Staples Center on Friday. In the process, L.A. became the first team in the Western Conference to clinch a playoff spot and will return to the postseason for the first time since 2013.

The top two teams in their respective conferences met for the second and final time in the regular season. The Bucks notched a seven-point victory in Milwaukee back in mid-December. Neither team has chang

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A potential preview of the 2020 NBA Finals saw the Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Milwaukee Bucks 113-103 at Staples Center on Friday. In the process, L.A. became the first team in the Western Conference to clinch a playoff spot and will return to the postseason for the first time since 2013.

The top two teams in their respective conferences met for the second and final time in the regular season. The Bucks notched a seven-point victory in Milwaukee back in mid-December. Neither team has chang

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Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has been fined $500,000 for “public criticism and detrimental conduct regarding NBA officiating,” the league office announced Friday.

The NBA also denied the Mavs’ protest of their loss to the Atlanta Hawks on Feb. 22, after which Cuban confronted the referees on the court and criticized them on Twitter and while speaking to reporters.

The NBA said in a statement that Cuban’s comments were “highly critical, personal and demeaning to the league and its o

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Jamal Murray Hits Wild Fadeaway Game-Winner vs. Hornets

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Stephen Curry looked great in his first game in more than four months

Stephen Curry returned to the floor for the first time since Oct. 30 on Thursday, and at times, it was as if he never left. It was only fitting that a Golden State Warriors team that is at least partially responsible for the league's declining television ratings happened to be facing

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Peters spent the past 11 seasons with the Eagles and is one of the best players in franchise history

The Philadelphia Eagles and Jason Peters have mutually agreed to part ways. Philadelphia released a statement Thursday that announced the Eagles will allow Peters to test the free agent market this month, sending a farewell message to one of the greatest players in franchise history.

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Hield hit the final shot at the buzzer to win the title

It was a heated competition during the second event of All-Star Saturday night, as Buddy Hield narrowly defeated Devin Booker and Davis Bertans in the final round of the 3-Point Contest. It was an exciting final round as Hield went last and need to get 27 points to beat Booker's 26 points. With the clock winding down on the la

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Kobe Bean Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna have been laid to rest in a private family service two weeks after their deaths in a helicopter crash.

The funeral service was held quietly on Friday at Pacific View Memorial Park in Corona del Mar, California with no photographers present.

Information about the ceremony was revealed in death certificates issued by the County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health, which listed burial as the type of deposition for both Bryant and Gianna.
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The 44 finalists to join the U.S. men's basketball team at the Tokyo Olympics this summer were announced Sunday night.   

Unsurprisingly, LeBron James, Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant are in the running. Other notable names are Houston Rockets All-Star duo James Harden and Russell Westbrook, Portland Trail Blazers All-Star Damian Lillard and reigning NBA Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard.

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Stephen Curry, Anthony Davis, Kevin Durant, Paul George, Kyrie Irving, LeBron

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50 Cent, Snoop Dogg and other fans of Kobe Bryant are not happy with Gayle King for bringing up the late NBA icon’s 2003 rape case in a CBS interview, while she says she is “mortified” and “angry” with her own network for distributing what she said was an “out-of-context” clip.

Kobe, 41, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna Bryant and seven other people were killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California earlier this month. Since then, several people have posted on social media about how th

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Andre Iguodala is on the move after being traded to the Miami Heat from the Memphis Grizzlies, per ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.

Memphis will receive 2015 first-round pick Justise Winslow as part of the package in return, according to Wojnarowski.

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👀 Great pickup @MiamiHEAT

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Despite speculation that the 2020 trade deadline would leave much to be desired, four NBA squads blew away any such notion when they agreed upon a massive deal involving 12 players and multiple first-round picks.

The biggest name involved in the deal is Clint Capela but what’s most important about the pact is how four different teams with four different motives ended up checking off items on their wish list.

We’ll jump into the details of the still evolving deal below:

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NFC quarterback Russell Wilson, of the Seattle Seahawks, (3) looks to pass, during the first half of the NFL Pro Bowl football game against the AFC, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O’Meara)

The Pro Bowl, as was the entire sports world and beyond, was overshadowed Sunday by the death of NBA legend Kobe Bryant and his daughter in a helicopter crash earlier in the day.

NFL players began learning of it shortly before kickoff in Orlando, Fla., and according to Green Bay lin

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