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Deron Williams scored 21 points and the Utah Jazz ended their decade-long misery in San Antonio with a 90-83 win over the Spurs on Thursday night. Utah had not won a regular-season game in San Antonio since 1999, a losing streak that spanned 20 games. Paul Millsap added 20 points for the Jazz. Tim Duncan [...]

Peja Stojakovic hit seven 3-pointers during a 25-point, 13-rebound performance, and the New Orleans Hornets defeated the Phoenix Suns 110-103 on Thursday night. Devin Brown and rookie Marcus Thornton each scored 19 for New Orleans, which won its second straight under new head coach Jeff Bower. The score was tied at 96 when Stojakovic and [...]

NBA players' association director Billy Hunter plans another negotiating session soon with commissioner David Stern, and here's something that might come up. The union says total player compensation will fall this season, which would be only the second drop in the salary cap era that began in the 1984-85 season.

NBA players' association director Billy Hunter plans another negotiating session soon with commissioner David Stern, and here's something that might come up. The union says total player compensation will fall this season, which would be only the second drop in the salary cap era. The amount of the drop can't be determined yet, since more [...]

Manu Ginobili is expected to miss about a week for the San Antonio Spurs because of a strained left groin. Ginobili and Tony Parker were both inactive for Thursday night's game against Utah. Ginobili left the first quarter of Wednesday's overtime loss at Dallas and didn't return. Parker re-aggravated a sprained left ankle in a [...]

Allen Iverson has cleared waivers and is free to sign with any NBA team. The former MVP was waived Tuesday after playing only three games with the Memphis Grizzlies and no team claimed him in the following 48 hours, making him a free agent. The New York Knicks are discussing whether they want to bring [...]

Micheal Ray Richardson, who played for the Knicks and the Nets, once famously declared that "the ship be sinkin."' These days, it's happening on both sides of the Hudson River. One team is about to drop even lower — assuming the winless Nets haven't already hit bottom — when they meet Saturday at New Jersey [...]

Rookie Brandon Jennings had an out-of-the-blue question for the injured Michael Redd during a recent practice. "'Mike, what's your career high?"' said Redd, who scored 57 points against Utah back in 2006. "He was like, 'Dang, how'd you do that?' and I said, 'Man, you just got to be on."' Two days later, Jennings put [...]

Opponents of the Brooklyn arena planned for the New Jersey Nets have filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn a state agency's approval of the project. The lawsuit was filed Thursday in Manhattan state Supreme Court. It seeks to block a Sept. 17 move by the Empire State Development Corp. to approve a delayed construction plan [...]

Opponents of the Brooklyn arena planned for the New Jersey Nets have filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn a state agency's approval of the project. The lawsuit was filed Thursday in Manhattan state Supreme Court. It seeks to block a Sept. 17 move by the Empire State Development Corp. to approve a delayed construction plan [...]