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And now Kobe Bryant goes back to throwing passes to Kwame Brown. Or not. "Everybody was in the locker room after the game," Chauncey Billups was saying with a laugh,...

First Puerto Rico, next the world? At least that's the plan as the USA Basketball team of NBA players qualified to play in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing with a...

Every night another small, poor or Third World country is getting slaughtered by USA basketball players. We're back, baby! The USA may be having trouble in various spots around the...

The FIBA Tournament of the Americas opens Wednesday in Las Vegas with the USA basketball team of NBA players a good bet to win one of the spots for the...

These have not been the greatest times for the U.S. There's the mess of the presidential campaigns and talk of a compromise candidate, perhaps Rosie O'Donnell. She, of course, left...

This wasn't a four corners or a stall. NBA Commissioner David Stern took on what he acknowledged was potentially the greatest crisis in NBA history Tuesday with an appropriate mix...

Let's see. How about Joey Crawford, Steve Javie and a future No. 1 for Tim Donaghy, Violet Palmer ... . Tough to break old habits, but I was on vacation....

1. Portland Greg Oden Ohio State 7-0, 257 No big surprise, and also no big surprise, with Oden and LaMarcus Aldridge, that Zach Randolph was traded to the Knicks. 2....

It's been quite the arc for Joakim Noah, the Bulls' 2007 No. 1 draft pick who has overcome a flood of doubts to make an impressive voyage from rarely used...

The days leading up to Thursday's NBA draft have been a heck of an adventure. Call it "Where's Garnett?" There are all these little faces in the crowd such as...