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The Minnesota Timberwolves are set to have one busy draft day. The Timberwolves agreed to trade guards Randy Foye and Mike Miller to the Washington Wizards for the fifth overall draft pick and three players, leaving Minnesota with four first-round choices and plenty of ammunition to do even more wheeling and dealing.

The Spurs acquired scoring swingman Richard Jefferson from Milwaukee in a four-player deal on Tuesday, giving San Antonio the extra offensive punch the aging former champions sorely needed. The Spurs sent veterans Bruce Bowen, Kurt Thomas and Fabricio Oberto to the Bucks in exchange for the 29-year-old Jefferson, who averaged 19.6 points in his one [...]

The Minnesota Timberwolves have agreed to trade guards Randy Foye and Mike Miller to the Washington Wizards for the fifth overall draft pick and three players, according to Yahoo! Sports. The deal would give Minnesota the fifth and sixth overall selections in Thursday's NBA draft, as well as forwards Etan Thomas, Darius Songaila and Oleksiy [...]

City officials are reassessing an ongoing $100 million renovation of the arena where the Oklahoma City Thunder play, because a sales tax that was supposed to fund it has brought in less money than expected. With shoppers buying less so far this year, the tax approved by voters as a way to lure the NBA's [...]

The Minnesota Timberwolves are done looking at draft prospects, so let the wheeling, dealing and subterfuge begin. The Timberwolves hold the sixth, 18th and 28th selections in the first round of Thursday's NBA draft. That gives them plenty of ammunition to try and move up if they think it is worth it.

The Philadelphia 76ers are going retro. The Sixers have changed their logo and colors to revive the traditional "76ers basketball" logo and the red, white and blue color scheme. The logo, last used during the 1996-97 season, consists of a color scheme originally established in 1963 and used during the Sixers' two championship seasons in [...]

Blake Griffin heard the doubters who wondered why he was joining a college team coming off a 16-15 season. "A lot of people, when I committed to Oklahoma, asked me, 'Why did you commit there? Why didn't you go to Kansas or Duke or somewhere like that?"' he recalled Tuesday. "I just said, 'You'll see [...]

A Bucks official with knowledge of the deal said Tuesday that Milwaukee plans to trade scoring forward Richard Jefferson to the San Antonio Spurs for Bruce Bowen, Kurt Thomas and Fabricio Oberto, giving them a veteran cast and financial flexibility. The person confirmed the pending trade to The Associated Press and requested anonymity because the [...]

After four years of seemingly never-ending knee and weight issues, Sean May faces an uncertain summer as an unrestricted free agent after the Charlotte Bobcats decided not to make a qualifying offer to their former first-round pick. Plagued first by chronic knee pain that led to microfracture surgery, May struggled to get into proper playing [...]

Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki says he is recovering from his soured relationship with jailed former fiancee Crystal Taylor and still wants to have a family someday. Speaking in his home country to Germany's Bild newspaper, the All-Star forward opened up about his romance with Taylor for the first time in a question-and-answer format that was [...]