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Ray Allen scored a game-high 25 points, including a go-ahead 3-pointer with 17.1 seconds remaining, and the Boston Celtics rallied past the Washington Wizards 86-83 on Sunday. Boston trailed 79-66 with 6:11 remaining and responded with a 20-4 run to close out the game with eight points from Allen and six from guard Rajon Rondo.

Portland Trail Blazers center Joel Przybilla, already out for the season, slipped while taking a shower at his home and ruptured the right patella tendon again that he tore in December, team officials said. In a news conference prior to Sunday’s game against the Denver Nuggets, Trail Blazers coach Nate McMillan said Przybilla would undergo [...]

Nuggets forward Kenyon Martin was ruled out of Sunday night’s game against the Portland Trail Blazers because of continuing left knee soreness. Concerns about the injury have led to a scheduled consultation Monday with doctors to determine its severity and further treatment options. Martin has been playing through persistent pain and swelling in the knee [...]

Will Bynum has been waiting patiently for a chance to break back into the Detroit Pistons’ rotation. Rodney Stuckey’s frightening collapse during Friday’s game in Cleveland wasn’t the scenario that Bynum had in mind, but he took advantage of the opportunity as Detroit snapped a six-game losing streak with Sunday’s 110-107 overtime win over the [...]

Tayshaun Prince scored a season-high 29 points to help the Detroit Pistons snap a six-game losing streak with a 110-107 overtime win over the Houston Rockets on Sunday. Richard Hamilton added 22 points for Detroit, while Kevin Martin had 27 points for Houston and Aaron Brooks scored 25. Martin and Brooks, though, both missed key [...]

Detroit Pistons guard Rodney Stuckey missed Sunday’s game against the Houston Rockets, two days after collapsing during a game in Cleveland. Pistons coach John Kuester said that Stuckey is continuing to undergo tests in Detroit. He was released from the Cleveland Clinic Saturday after being kept overnight for observation.

Vince Carter had 25 points, Dwight Howard finished with 15 points and 16 rebounds and the Orlando Magic beat the Lakers 96-94 on Sunday to hand Los Angeles its first three-game losing streak of the Pau Gasol-Kobe Bryant Era. Carter made his first 13 free throws and kept the Magic in control, showing signs of [...]

Thaddeus Young scored a career-high 32 points, Jrue Holiday had 21 and the Philadelphia 76ers beat the Toronto Raptors 114-101 on Sunday to snap a five-game losing streak. Andre Iguodala had 16 points and 10 assists and Elton Brand had 12 points and nine rebounds for the 76ers, who went nine for 12 from 3-point [...]

Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant has a stomach illness but is expected to play against the Orlando Magic. Lakers coach Phil Jackson said before Sunday’s game that Bryant would likely play despite being a little late to the game because of the illness. Bryant was not in the locker room while it was open [...]

Tempers flared and punches were thrown. The Phoenix Suns and Indiana Pacers got into it Saturday night on the court, and kept yapping after the game. Amare Stoudemire scored 30 points for the third consecutive game and the Suns beat the Pacers 113-105 for the 1,900th victory in franchise history in a game marred by [...]