Hoops News Blog

Seven years have passed since Phil Jackson coached the Los Angeles Lakers to their third consecutive NBA championship in his first three seasons with the team. He’s definitely counting. They lost to Detroit in the 2004 finals and again last year to Boston. Starting Thursday against Orlando, Jackson gets a third chance to win his [...]

His smile has vanished, replaced by something closer to a scowl. His days of joking around are seemingly on hold. Kobe Bryant has gotten deadly serious. He has that look, you’ve seen the one. It’s the cold-blooded, get-out-of-my-way-or-pay glare he’ll shoot at a teammate who messes up or an opponent who dares to try and [...]

Knicks forward Wilson Chandler had surgery to remove bone spurs in his left ankle and is expected to be sidelined at least a month. The Knicks said the procedure Wednesday in New York was successful and comes with a recovery time of four to eight weeks. Chandler averaged 14.4 points while playing in all 82 [...]

He’s an All-Star, he feels healthy, and he dominated the Lakers during the regular season. So it seems pretty simple: Jameer Nelson should play in the NBA finals. It’s not so easy to the Orlando Magic, who still weren’t ready to make a decision Wednesday before practicing for the final time before facing the Los [...]

Comcast Corp. has reached a new seven-year agreement that will add the NBA TV channel to the cable TV operator’s most popular digital tier of service before the start of the next pro basketball season. Comcast, the nation’s largest cable TV provider, struck the deal with NBA Digital that would give NBA TV exposure to [...]

Leave all that cold-blooded seriousness to Kobe Bryant. Orlando Magic star Dwight Howard is going to have fun in his first NBA finals. “I’m always going to be that silly person,” Howard said Wednesday before practice at Staples Center. “Basketball brings too much joy to me and everybody who watches me.

Six years into the LeBron James era, the Cleveland Cavaliers are without an NBA title in a city that has waited 45 years to celebrate any major championship. Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert believes his team will break the drought. “We will win a championship for Cleveland, Ohio,” Gilbert said Wednesday in a meeting with reporters.

A lawmaker is urging the National Basketball Association to repeal its requirement that players be at least 19 years old and a year out of high school before entering the league. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., sent identical letters to the NBA and the players union Wednesday, asking that they scrap the requirement in the next [...]

Boston Celtics guard Tony Allen has had surgery on his right ankle and leg. The team says he’s expected to recover from the surgery, performed Wednesday, in time for training camp this fall. Allen averaged 7.8 points last season, when he missed 34 of the last 47 regular season games with the ankle injury.

Boston Celtics guard Tony Allen has had surgery on his right ankle and leg. The team says he’s expected to recover from the surgery, performed Wednesday, in time for training camp this fall. Allen averaged 7.8 points last season, when he missed 34 of the last 47 regular season games with the ankle injury.