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Rudy Gay scored 23 points, Sam Young added 20 and the Memphis Grizzlies beat the Sacramento Kings 113-96 on Tuesday night. O.J. Mayo had 16 points, and Mike Conley — returning from an ankle injury — and Marc Gasol scored 14 points each. Tony Allen added 10 points. Gasol also had 15 rebounds as Memphis [...]

LaMarcus Aldridge had 30 points and eight rebounds to help the Portland Trail Blazers beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 103-93 on Tuesday night. Wesley Matthews added 16 points for the Blazers, who held Oklahoma City to 34 percent shooting in the second half to push ahead on an off night for All-Stars Kevin Durant and [...]

Luol Deng’s layup with 3.7 seconds to play lifted the Chicago Bulls to a 76-74 victory over the Atlanta Hawks on Tuesday night. Derrick Rose scored 17 of his 30 points in the fourth quarter to rally the Bulls from a 19-point deficit. Coming out of a timeout with the score tied in the final [...]

Rookie Kyrie Irving scored 20 points and veteran Antawn Jamison had 19, leading the Cleveland Cavaliers to a 115-101 win over the Charlotte Bobcats on Tuesday night. Cleveland continued its strong 3-point shooting, making 10 of 21 from behind the arc. The Cavaliers made 16 of 26 attempts from 3-point range Sunday, falling one short [...]

Andrew Bogut left the Milwaukee Bucks for undisclosed personal reasons and missed Tuesday night’s game against the Utah Jazz. His last entry on his personal Twitter feed — “On to the next one. No road win is easy…. Flying to Utah shortly” — was posted shortly after the Bucks lost to Denver, 91-86 Monday night.

Richard Hamilton was held out of the Chicago Bulls’ starting lineup Tuesday night against the Atlanta Hawks because of a sore left groin. Hamilton also missed Chicago’s 104-64 win over Memphis on Sunday with the injury. Before the game, Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau told reporters Hamilton would be a game-time decision but if he was [...]

Starting guard Thabo Sefolosha will miss the Oklahoma City Thunder’s game against the Portland Trail Blazers on Tuesday night because of flulike symptoms. Coach Scott Brooks said before the game that James Harden would take Sefolosha’s place in the starting lineup. Reserve Daequan Cook, who missed Monday night’s game at Dallas with flulike symptoms, was [...]

Two people with knowledge of the negotiations say the Golden State Warriors are close to signing guard Nate Robinson, who was released by the Oklahoma City Thunder last month. The people spoke on condition of anonymity Tuesday because the deal was yet to be finalized or formally announced by Golden State.

New Jersey Nets power forward Kris Humphries is day to day with a sprained left shoulder. The Nets announced that an MRI performed Tuesday revealed the sprain. He is going to accompany the team to Boston for a game against the Celtics on Wednesday. The Nets have not said how Humphries was hurt, but he [...]

Amare Stoudemire and Iman Shumpert could return from injuries Wednesday, giving the New York Knicks some sorely needed scoring punch. Both players took part in a light practice Tuesday and then played in a 3-on-3 workout on a short court. The Knicks say both players will be game-time decisions against Charlotte.