Atlanta Hawks To Be Sold For $850 Million
While the top-seeded Hawks were playing Brooklyn in an opening-round series Wednesday night, they announced a deal to sell the team for $850 million to a group led by billionaire businessman Antony Ressler.
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While the top-seeded Hawks were playing Brooklyn in an opening-round series Wednesday night, they announced a deal to sell the team for $850 million to a group led by billionaire businessman Antony Ressler.
The Dallas Mavericks have announced that Chandler Parsons is out for the remainder of the season and is exploring surgical options to address his right knee injury.
Starting in 2010-11, Brooks led the team to the Western Conference Finals three out of four years, and the Thunder reached the NBA Finals in 2012.
The second-year coach was honored Tuesday after leading the Hawks to a 60-22 record — the best in franchise history — and top seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs.
A video game simulation of the NBA playoffs sees the Golden State Warriors beating the Cleveland Cavaliers, after getting by what would have been an exhausted San Antonio team.
The Eastern Conference seems far less interesting than the West, but still some intriguing match-ups in play.
The league said Thursday that the final total of 21,926,548 fans surpassed the 21,841,480 from 2006-07.
Suffering through three injury-plagued seasons in Los Angeles is not exactly how Steve Nash wanted to end his basketball career. But it helped him with the transition.
Tyson Chandler had 22 points and 15 rebounds and the Dallas Mavericks beat the Portland Trail Blazers 114-98 on Wednesday night while learning they will play Houston in the first round of the playoffs.
Charlie Villanueva has spent a decade playing in the NBA, but this weekend the Mavericks forward will reach a career milestone.
The last day of the NBA regular season has arrived. And it's loaded with intrigue, with more than half of the games on the closing docket having some effect on the playoff picture.
On Wednesday night, Oklahoma City will need a win at Minnesota, plus a victory by the San Antonio Spurs at New Orleans, to get into the postseason.
The Dallas Mavericks outcome in Utah on Monday was muddled. A 109-92 loss for which Dirk, Tyson and Monta didn't even show up. But now the Mavs' playoff picture suddenly has a great deal of clarity.
Utah closed out its home schedule with a 109-92 victory over the Mavericks on Monday, as reserves played heavy minutes for both teams ahead of the season's end.
The league said Monday that it's struck a new marketing partnership with Pepsico, ending a 28-year partnership with Coca-Cola.
Tyson Chandler had 20 points to lead seven Mavericks in double-figure scoring, and Dallas tuned up for the postseason with a 120-106 victory over the Lakers on Sunday night.
Outspoken Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban on Wednesday shared his views on today's sport of college basketball, calling it "uglier than ugly'."
Dirk Nowitzki scored 19 points, and the Mavericks kept the Suns home from the playoffs for the fifth straight season with a 107-104 victory on Wednesday night.
Dirk and the Mavericks have likely played the last game that matters for their seeding in the Western Conference playoffs.
Kentucky coach John Calipari and Spencer Haywood are among 11 new inductees going into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame this year.
The Splash Brothers had a little help from the big guys, and the Golden State Warriors had a little present for record-setting coach Steve Kerr.
Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle told 105.3 The Fan that he wasn't certain Monta Ellis would be 'playing any time soon.' Hours later Ellis returned to Mavs practice.
Boris Diaw scored 19 points, helping the San Antonio Spurs pull away for a 94-76 victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Friday night.
Three weeks left in the regular season, and the NBA playoff picture is starting to shape up. With that in mind let's look at the potential first round match-ups and rank them from least interesting to most.
