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| Scott agrees to extension with Hornets |
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05/28/2008 |
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| ave the best coach for our players and team.'' Scott said he hoped to get a raise from his current $3.5 million annual salary to a figure closer to what the ``top five or six'' coaches in the league earn. The highest-paid coach in the NBA is the Los Angeles Lakers' Phil Jackson, who's paid $10.3 million per year. Golden State's Don Nelson and the Knicks' Mike D'Antoni, who each are paid about $6 million per year, also are among the highest-paid coaches in the league. After this season ended, Scott had the o |
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| Image is everything for Kobe Bryant |
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05/28/2008 |
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| out and likely regrets now that his playing days are over. Game 4 against the San Antonio Spurs had ended just moments before, and Bryant was now on national television telling everyone how it was his mistake late in the game that almost cost the Los Angeles Lakers a playoff win. Never mind that it was Bryant who actually won the game for the Lakers. It's all about image building, and there's nothing that plays better among fans than a star who admits his mistakes. And if there's anyone who knows about hav |
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| Popovich confirms contract extension with Spurs |
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05/28/2008 |
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) -Coach Gregg Popovich has signed a contract extension with the San Antonio Spurs. Popovich confirmed the extension with the defending NBA champions, which runs through the 2011-12 season, before the Spurs' Game 4 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night. Popovich has led the Spurs and star Tim Duncan to four NBA titles, in 1999, 2003, 2005 and 2007. Last year, the Spurs swept the Cleveland Cavaliers in four games. Duncan last fall agreed to a two-year extension with the Spurs that |
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| Kobe silencing his skeptics |
NBA Basketball |
05/28/2008 |
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| (Best E Casino) - The time has finally arrived for NBA MVP Kobe Bryant to rid himself of the label that he can't win without Shaquille O'Neal by his side. Bryant has the Los Angeles Lakers on the brink of their first NBA Finals berth since 2004, when they were stunned in five games by the Detroit Pistons in O'Neal's final season in Tinsel Town. Kobe and Shaq won three titles together (2000-2002), and appeared in four NBA Finals as teammates. O'Neal was dealt to Miami in a blockbuster trade on July 14, 2004. L.A |
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| NBA playoffs disappear from TV in China |
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05/28/2008 |
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| -day period of mourning for victims of the deadly Sichuan earthquake, including NBA playoff games. When the mourning period ended, the NBA playoffs returned as the state-run national broadcaster CCTV showed the Western Conference final between the Los Angeles Lakers and San Antonio Spurs. However, subsequent games have not been shown. ``We have followed orders and stopped the NBA broadcast,'' Jiang Heping, director for CCTV's sport channel, said in Wednesday editions of the Shanghai-based Oriental Sports Dail |
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| Celtics, Pistons battle in pivotal Game 5 |
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05/28/2008 |
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| esota to the West finals in 2004 and Pierce and the Celtics advanced to the East finals in 2002. None of the Big Three have ever won this round. The last time the Celtics captured the Eastern Conference crown was in 1987. They ended up losing to the Los Angeles Lakers in six games in the NBA Finals. Boston has lost its last two trips to this round. The Pistons have advanced to the Eastern Conference finals for the sixth straight year, becoming the first team since the 1984-89 Los Angeles Lakers to reach the confe |
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| Spurs host Lakers in Game 4 of West finals |
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05/27/2008 |
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| (Best E Casino) - The San Antonio Spurs try to knot the Western Conference finals at 2-2, as they welcome the Los Angeles Lakers tonight to the AT&T Center. After losing Games 1 and 2 at the Staples Center, the Spurs bounced back for a big win at home. On Sunday, Manu Ginobili scored 22 of his team-high 30 points in the first half and Tim Duncan dominated inside, as the third-seeded Spurs used the advantage of their home court to beat the top-seeded Lakers, 103-84, in Game 3 of the best-of-seven series. Dun |
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| Pistons try to even series with Celtics |
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05/26/2008 |
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| esota to the West finals in 2004 and Pierce and the Celtics advanced to the East finals in 2002. None of the Big Three have ever won this round. The last time the Celtics captured the Eastern Conference crown was in 1987. They ended up losing to the Los Angeles Lakers in six games in the NBA Finals. Boston has lost its last two trips to this round. The Pistons have advanced to the Eastern Conference finals for the sixth straight year, becoming the first team since the 1984-89 Los Angeles Lakers to reach the confe |
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| Ray or Rip: UConn alums take rivalry to conference finals |
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05/25/2008 |
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| us points in 70 of his 113 playoff games since 2003, trailing only one player's ability to reach that mark during the same span. San Antonio Spurs center Tim Duncan had 72 20-point postseason games since 2003 entering Sunday night's game against the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference finals. Duncan and Hamilton top the list of 20-point scorers over the past five-plus postseasons ahead of players such as Dallas' Dirk Nowitzki (56) and Los Angeles' Kobe Bryant (52). Since 1992, only Shaquille O'Neal ( |
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| Pistons host Celtics in Game 3 of East finals |
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05/24/2008 |
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| esota to the West finals in 2004 and Pierce and the Celtics advanced to the East finals in 2002. None of the Big Three have ever won this round. The last time the Celtics captured the Eastern Conference crown was in 1987. They ended up losing to the Los Angeles Lakers in six games in the NBA Finals. Boston has lost its last two trips to this round. The Pistons have advanced to the Eastern Conference finals for the sixth straight year, becoming the first team since the 1984-89 Los Angeles Lakers to reach the confe |
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