Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 08:40:17 +0000
LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Kawhi Leonard and the Clippers won the opening round of Los Angeles’s revitalized battle for basketball supremacy on Tuesday, defeating LeBron James and the Lakers, 112-102, in a pulsating season-opening clash at the Staples Center. Leonard, who arrived at the Clippers in the off-season after leading Toronto to the NBA title […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 05:02:17 +0000
TORONTO (AP) – Fred VanVleet scored a career-high 34 points, Pascal Siakam fouled out with 34 points and 18 rebounds, and the defending champion Toronto Raptors beat the New Orleans Pelicans, 130-122, in overtime on Tuesday night in the NBA’s season-opening game. Kyle Lowry scored 22 points, including a pair of free throws that put […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 04:54:38 +0000
NEW YORK (AFP) – The 2019-20 NBA season opens Tuesday with 108 international players from 38 nations, including 16 Canadians a record for the most players from any non-US nation, the league announced. It is the sixth consecutive season the NBA has opened with more than 100 players from beyond US borders. The league set […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 10:41:22 +0000
THE NBA season starts Tuesday night, and here are 10 storylines to follow for the 2019-20 campaign: ___ 2 IN 3’S Golden State’s Stephen Curry is about to become No. 2 on the league’s all-time 3-pointers made list. Curry enters this season with 2,483 made 3-pointers, leaving him 78 away from passing Reggie Miller for No. […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 08:02:12 +0000
FOR five years the NBA Finals have returned to the same spot, the longest run ever in one Western Conference location. LeBron James and Anthony Davis want to bring them back to Los Angeles. So do Kawhi Leonard and Paul George. With the Warriors weakened and powerhouse pairs popping up all over the place, the 2019-20 NBA season, […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2019 07:47:13 +0000
MIAMI (AP) – James Harden sure seems in midseason form. Russell Westbrook isn’t there yet. Harden, the reigning NBA scoring champion, scored 44 points in 35 minutes – 18 of those points coming in the third quarter – and the Houston Rockets ended the preseason with a 144-133 victory over the Miami Heat on Friday […]
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Credit to Author: Paul Chapman| Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 21:38:29 +0000
Opinion: Bulls of the week and bears of the week.
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Credit to Author: Postmedia News| Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 20:10:26 +0000
Organizers behind the rally are hoping Grizzlies fans will show up in the classic teal-coloured jerseys and gather outside Rogers Arena.
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Credit to Author: Harrison Mooney| Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 03:11:06 +0000
Leonard, who famously managed his workload last season with the Raptors and has taken a similar approach to this year’s exhibition schedule, sat out L.A.’s first two exhibition games before making his preseason debut Thursday at the Staples Center.
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 04:47:36 +0000
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry says he expects to play for the United States at next year’s Tokyo Olympics, telling ESPN: “That is the plan, for sure.” The 31-year-old guard, a three-time NBA champion and two-time NBA Most Valuable Player, has never played for a US Olympic squad, although he did […]
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