Denver Nuggets rookie Sonny Weems had surgery Thursday to repair a sports hernia. Weems, a second-round pick who was acquired by the Nuggets on draft night, is expected to fully recover in time for the start of training camp on Sept. 30. The Chicago Bulls picked Weems 39th overall out of Arkansas, then traded him to the Nuggets for a 2009 second-round pick. Read Original Post Here
Oklahoma City’s new NBA team will buy its NBA Development League affiliate in Tulsa. Clay Bennett, the chairman of the Oklahoma City team’s ownership group, joined the team’s general manager, Sam Presti, and D-League President Dan Reed for the formal announcement of the deal on Thursday. When the purchase of the Tulsa 66ers is complete, Oklahoma City will be the third NBA team to own its D-League… Read Original Post Here
Emeka Okafor signed his six-year, $72 million free-agent deal with the Charlotte Bobcats on Thursday and indicated he’s excited to play under new coach Larry Brown. Okafor, who was a restricted free agent, agreed to terms on the richest contract in team history early Tuesday, after nearly a month of negotiations. Read Original Post Here
Any team with Kobe Bryant and LeBron James in the lineup is going to score. Sure enough, the United States had no problem doing so in the first quarter Thursday — but neither did Turkey. The Americans didn’t pull away until their offensive superstars decided to be defensive stoppers. James scored 20 points and was a defensive force in his exhibition debut, helping the U.S. Read Original Post Here
The Chicago Bulls drafted their point guard of the future last month and now they’ve locked up their best player, signing versatile forward Luol Deng to a long-term extension. “Obviously we’re incredibly happy to get Luol signed,” general manager John Paxson said at a news conference Thursday announcing the six-year contract.
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Businessman and former NBA great Dave Bing says he’s seriously considering running for mayor of Detroit because of scandals surrounding the incumbent and other problems in the city where he played for most of his Hall-of-Fame career. Bing said Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s legal and image troubles, a federal probe into a sludge recycling contract and Detroit’s underachieving public schools, are… Read Original Post Here
The Houston Rockets are close to an agreement to acquire Ron Artest from the Sacramento Kings, two people familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press. The Rockets will give up guard Bobby Jackson, who played for the Kings from 2000-05, and another player — likely rookie forward Donte Greene, according to two NBA people who confirmed the deal, but spoke on condition of anonymity…
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Disgraced ex-NBA official Tim Donaghy admitted that he’d brought shame on his profession Tuesday as a federal judge sentenced him to 15 months behind bars for a gambling scandal that still has the league on the defensive. U.S. District Judge Carol Amon sentenced Donaghy to prison time plus three years of supervised release, saying he’d let the sport down by taking thousands of dollars from a…
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Emeka Okafor has signed his six-year, $72 million free-agent deal with the Charlotte Bobcats. Okafor agreed to terms early Tuesday after nearly a month of negotiations. He signed the richest contract in team history Thursday and said in a statement that he’s looking forward to playing under new coach Larry Brown. Read Original Post Here
The Chicago Bulls drafted their point guard of the future last month and now they’ve locked up their best player, signing versatile forward Luol Deng to a long-term extension. “Obviously we’re incredibly happy to get Luol signed,” general manager John Paxson said at a news conference Thursday announcing the six-year contract.
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