TORONTO (AP) -- Turkish forward Hedo Turkoglu will join the Toronto Raptors after spurning the Portland Trail Blazers, according to multiple reports.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York Knicks have met with Jason Kidd on the first day of NBA free agency.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Free-agent forward Hedo Turkoglu and the Portland Trail Blazers have ended contract talks, a person close to the team confirmed Friday.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Hedo Turkoglu reportedly agreed to join the Portland Trail Blazers after helping Orlando reach the NBA finals.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Phil Jackson will return to coach the Los Angeles Lakers next season, getting a clean bill of health following a record championship season.
His heart and on-court courage have been praised for so long now that, in an odd twist, we don't actually know whether Jason Kidd has real heart and courage.
The Houston Rockets have reached a multiyear deal with free agent Trevor Ariza, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press on Thursday night.
HOUSTON (AP) -- Ron Artest is joining Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers.
BEIJING (AP) -- Houston Rockets All-Star center Yao Ming will have to wait up to a week before he knows whether he will need surgery on his broken left foot.
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (AP) -- Laughing and loose, Shaq looked right at home.
TORONTO (AP) -- Turkish forward Hedo Turkoglu will join the Toronto Raptors after spurning the Portland Trail Blazers, according to multiple reports.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York Knicks have met with Jason Kidd on the first day of NBA free agency.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Free-agent forward Hedo Turkoglu and the Portland Trail Blazers have ended contract talks, a person close to the team confirmed Friday.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Hedo Turkoglu reportedly agreed to join the Portland Trail Blazers after helping Orlando reach the NBA finals.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Phil Jackson will return to coach the Los Angeles Lakers next season, getting a clean bill of health following a record championship season.
His heart and on-court courage have been praised for so long now that, in an odd twist, we don't actually know whether Jason Kidd has real heart and courage.
The Houston Rockets have reached a multiyear deal with free agent Trevor Ariza, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press on Thursday night.
HOUSTON (AP) -- Ron Artest is joining Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers.
BEIJING (AP) -- Houston Rockets All-Star center Yao Ming will have to wait up to a week before he knows whether he will need surgery on his broken left foot.
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (AP) -- Laughing and loose, Shaq looked right at home.
BOSTON -- The Boston Celtics made their pitch to Rasheed Wallace on Thursday. And Wallace was receptive.
ATLANTA (SI.com) -- The Los Angeles Lakers are close to reaching an agreement with Houston forward Ron Artest, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Hardly anyone with an opinion on how the Ricky Rubio situation should play out is thinking about what serves the Minnesota Timberwolves best. Or even second-best.
The Pistons won't contend for a championship next season, but will they be challenging in three or four years?
CHICAGO (AP) -- A day after jumping to Detroit, Ben Gordon told a Chicago radio station Thursday that the Bulls never made a contract offer even though general manager Gar Forman claimed re-signing him was their No. 1 priority.
HOUSTON (AP) -- A person close to the situation tells The Associated Press that the Houston Rockets are meeting with Los Angeles Lakers forward Trevor Ariza.
DETROIT (AP) -- The Detroit Pistons wanted to add talent and get younger this offseason.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Free agent forward Hedo Turkoglu will visit this week with the Portland Trail Blazers, who are looking to bolster a young squad that made the playoffs for the first time since 2003 last season.
HOUSTON (AP) -- If LeBron James or Kobe Bryant are looking for a little help, Ron Artest is taking calls.
DETROIT (AP) -- The Detroit Pistons don't plan to wait long to name a replacement for fired coach Michael Curry.
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Shaquille O'Neal took his first look at his new basketball home.
DALLAS (AP) -- Mavericks owner Mark Cuban probably slept pretty soundly after his early morning meeting with Jason Kidd.
DETROIT (AP) -- Sharp-shooting Bulls guard Ben Gordon was in Michigan on Wednesday for talks with the Detroit Pistons about joining the team, The Associated Press has learned.
HOUSTON (AP) -- The Houston Rockets launched an all-out bid to sign Polish center Marcin Gortat on Wednesday, including an offer for the Orlando Magic backup player.
In Texas, we call it Snipe hunting.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York Knicks have met with Jason Kidd on the first day of NBA free agency.
All or nothing seems to be the formula for coaching the Detroit Pistons. Bring home an NBA championship or hit the road.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Kobe Bryant chose not to terminate the final two years of his contract and will remain with the Los Angeles Lakers.
Cavaliers forward Anderson Varejao did not exercise his option on a $6.2 million contract for next season, making him an unrestricted free agent.
You don't have to be standing in an unemployment line -- or more likely, waiting for your browser to grind to the next Web page -- to know this is a dreadful job market, whether you're a plumbing contractor, a paralegal or a point guard. NBA free agency was to begin at 12:01 a.m. ET Wednesday, but, rather than a starting gun, a more appropriate sound might be an index finger inserted into one cheek and popped out. As in, whoop-de-darn-do.
Mark Cuban wants to be first in line to talk to Jason Kidd.
Center Mehmet Okur has decided to stay with the Utah Jazz for the final year of his contract.
Carlos Boozer has reconsidered free agency, or at least put it off a year.
Scenes, musings and twitterings from five hours of hustling around Madison Square Garden on NBA draft night ...
You don't have to be a weatherman to know which way Ricky Rubio is blowing, but it helps. The sensational teenaged point guard from Spain officially hasn't explained what appears to be his reluctance to join the Minnesota Timberwolves, the NBA team that grabbed him with the No. 5 pick in the June 25 draft. Others -- his father Esteve Rubio and Wolves exec David Kahn -- have done most of the talking for him, and at this point it still isn't clear whether Rubio cannot get to Minnesota for the 2009-10 season (a tricky and expensive buyout to negotiate with his Euroleague team, DKV Joventut Badalona) or simply will not (doesn't want to come).
The Utah Jazz know at least one player with the option to leave is staying.
The Milwaukee Bucks have made qualifying offers to restricted free agent guard Ramon Sessions and forward Ersan Ilyasova, but will not make an offer to forward Charlie Villanueva -- allowing one of their top scorers from last season to become an unrestricted free agent.
Rockets center Yao Ming's broken left foot could be a "career-threatening" injury.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- Vince Carter is going home to Orlando, and to the Eastern Conference champion Magic.
Amid a wealth of midseason rumors that he was headed to Cleveland in February at the trading deadline, Shaquille O'Neal says another team also was trying to land him -- the Portland Trail Blazers.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Stephen Curry can get comfortable with the Golden State Warriors. Coach Don Nelson isn't sending his newest high-scoring guard anywhere else.
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Shaquille O'Neal hasn't picked out a house in Cleveland yet. He has chosen a jersey number -- his old one.
GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) -- When he was finished making picks and completing trades, Knicks president Donnie Walsh had the same thought as many draft observers.
NEW YORK -- Let's see which teams came out on top after a busy draft night at Madison Square Garden.
MIAMI (AP) -- Alonzo Mourning is returning to the Miami Heat -- as an executive.
Trades that involved selections in the 2009 NBA Draft:
The busiest week of the NBA offseason, at least until free agency kicks off next month, yielded plenty of items to dissect.
SI.com's Richard Deitsch reported from the 2009 NBA draft with all the behind-the-scenes stories, rumors and news filtering through Madison Square Garden. Steve Aschburner also contributed from Minneapolis.
Hedo Turkoglu's run with the Orlando Magic appears to be over.
ATLANTA (AP) -- The Hawks acquired guard Jamal Crawford from the Golden State Warriors on Thursday for guards Acie Law and Speedy Claxton, hours before the NBA draft.
CLEVELAND (AP) -- One is the King, a reigning MVP who at age 24 needs only a championship to complete his resume. The other is a larger-than-life personality who may be past the prime of his career but remains an undeniable force and hungers for a fifth NBA title.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Blake Griffin was the consensus No. 1 pick. Shaq to the Cavs was the consensus blockbuster.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- The Charlotte Bobcats are for sale and Michael Jordan is interested.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Blake Griffin is definitely still learning as he takes his initial steps from college to the NBA.
If you were circling the political wagons in South Carolina, an aide to humiliated governor Mark Sanford hoping to achieve some small measure of damage control, would you bring in Eliot Spitzer and Rod Blagojevich for counsel?
SI.com NBA writers examine some of the most intriguing issues surrounding Thursday's draft.
The Cavaliers have agreed in principle to acquire Shaquille O'Neal from the Suns for Ben Wallace and Sasha Pavlovic, an NBA source confirmed late Wednesday night.
The Golden State Warriors are on the verge of dealing guard Jamal Crawford to Atlanta for point guards Acie Law and Speedy Claxton, an NBA source confirmed to SI.com. An official announcement could come later Wednesday.
HOUSTON (AP) -- Yao Ming's broken foot is not healed and the Houston Rockets say the All-Star center is out indefinitely.
CLEVELAND (AP) -- The Cleveland Cavaliers are close to acquiring center Shaquille O'Neal in a trade with the Phoenix Suns, a person with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press on Thursday.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- When Tim Duncan found out Richard Jefferson didn't return a phone call from Gregg Popovich after the Spurs coach traded for the Bucks star, he fired a text message to his new teammate.
DALLAS (AP) -- The Portland Trail Blazers have moved up to the 22nd pick in the NBA draft, giving the Dallas Mavericks the No. 24 pick and two second-rounders in exchange.
Hakeem Olajuwon, for all practical purposes, was the first, and he remains the best. Dikembe Mutombo was the next logical step, arriving in the NBA a basketball generation later (in 1991 to Olajuwon's '84). In between, Manute Bol was a fascinating tale, testing the upper bounds of height (7-foot-7) while bringing smiles to our faces by cracking wise, swatting shots or jacking up three-pointers.
The Golden State Warriors are on the verge of dealing guard Jamal Crawford to Atlanta for point guards Acie Law and Speedy Claxton, an NBA source confirmed to SI.com. An official announcement could come later Thursday.
MINNEAPOLIS - A trade that brings the Minnesota Timberwolves the No. 5 overall pick in Thursday's draft has been completed.
Claiming to know the greatest draft pick of all time in each of the top 30 slots is a good way to start an argument. In this case, I leaned toward draft picks who helped create team success. While going through the lists year by year, I was reminded just how difficult it is to find impact players -- even when dealing with a top-three pick. To go through the draft lists over the last six decades is to realize that the likes of Bill Russell and Michael Jordan are rarely discovered.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- The San Antonio Spurs needed a scorer and they needed to get younger. They got both in one deal.
The Wizards and Timberwolves have agreed in principle to a trade involving Washington's No. 5 pick in the draft, a league source told SI.com on Tuesday.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The Philadelphia 76ers are going retro.
Hold off on burying the San Antonio Spurs.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- After four years of seemingly never-ending knee and weight issues, Sean May faces an uncertain summer as an unrestricted free agent after the Charlotte Bobcats decided not to make a qualifying offer to their former first-round pick.
EAST RUTHERFFORD, N.J. (AP) -- In the closing minutes of his eighth and final workout prior to the NBA draft, Tyler Hansbrough stood along the baseline of the New Jersey Nets' practice court wearing a sweat saturated gray jersey, catching his breath before another shooting drill.
WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) -- The Boston Garden will be quiet for the NBA draft.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Jia Perkins' clutch shot late in the game put an end to Chicago Sky coach Steve Key's worries about their struggles on the road.
"A season for the ages," commissioner David Stern said of this NBA year gone by. But I prefer to view it as a recasting of the 1980s: The names have changed, but the dynamics are familiar.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- New Sacramento Kings coach Paul Westphal hired Mario Elie, Jim Eyen and Leonard "Truck" Robinson as his assistant coaches Monday night.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The owner of the New Jersey Nets will get a 22-year delay on paying the full $100 million for the right to build a new arena in Brooklyn under a deal made public Monday.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Clippers remain intent on keeping the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft, and they're expected to make Oklahoma's Blake Griffin the top selection.
GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) -- Mike D'Antoni's system is in place. The New York Knicks still need help running it.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Terrence Williams was so nervous at seeing Michael Jordan he was sweating profusely -- while stretching. Gerald Henderson was drier, but had to endure relentless grief about being a Duke guy.
A primer for Thursday's draft ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Hasheem Thabeet canceled a pre-draft workout with the Grizzlies on Sunday citing a shoulder injury, but he also had plans to talk to other teams.
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) -- Kobe Bryant said he plans to stay with the NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers even he if opts out of his contract this summer. Phil Jackson said his health will dictate whether he returns as coach.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The NBA will play its first game in Taiwan in October.
BEIJING (AP) -- Houston's Yao Ming has called a possible move to Cleveland an "unknown," but did nothing to dampen ongoing speculation that the Cavaliers' new Chinese part owners want to sign him.
Time didn't necessarily begin for the NBA 30 years ago, but it sure did pivot. If one were to designate epochs in a B.C. and A.D. sort of way, everything up through June 1979 might commonly be known as B.B.J., and each season since then as A.L.M. That is, Before Bird and Johnson, and After Larry and Magic.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Tens of thousands of jubilant Los Angeles Lakers fans flooded downtown Wednesday, creating a tidal wave of purple and gold while celebrating the storied franchise's 15th NBA title with a high-energy parade and rally paid for by the city's movers and shakers.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Television ratings for the NBA Finals are down from last year.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Hedo Turkoglu emptied his locker, shook hands with teammates and walked out of the Orlando Magic's practice facility Tuesday.
After his jump shot cleared the outstretched hand of Hedo Turkoglu and buried itself in the back of the net, Lakers guard Kobe Bryant turned and pumped his fist. Orlando coach Stan Van Gundy called a timeout. He should have waved a white flag. Though more than eight minutes remained, the smile on Bryant's face as he jogged to the Los Angeles bench explained everything. The Lakers were minutes away from clinching the NBA title, and Bryant had led them there.
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Where does Kobe Bryant rate among the modern superstar NBA champions? Here is a good place to start:
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Standing on a hastily erected dais at center court in Amway Arena, Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak sported a toothy grin that extended from ear-to-ear. The team that he meticulously assembled over the last few years had climbed the NBA mountaintop, and for the next few days he would reap the rewards in the form of congratulatory phone calls and text messages from his peers and a raucous parade through the streets of Los Angeles.
If the Los Angeles Lakers didn't already exist, Hollywood would have had to create them.
An NBA postseason filled with buzzer-beaters and great television ratings ended with a Game 5 blowout Sunday in Orlando, eliminating the potential for high drama (and higher ratings) in the championship round later this week in Los Angeles. Here are SI.com's grades for ABC's coverage of the Finals:
AKRON, Ohio (AP) -- The University of Akron says it has approved a two-year contract extension for men's basketball coach Keith Dambrot.
Last spring, Syracuse basketball coaches sat with their oversized, affable freshman and spelled out the pros and cons of leaving school early. They painted a worst-case scenario for Donte Greene, one in which the 6-foot-9 big man fell out of the top-10 in the NBA draft, lost thousands of dollars as he slid deep into the first round and eventually rode the bench as a rookie for a losing team. Greene listened intently, finally promising his coaches, "Whatever cards I'm dealt, I'm ready for."
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A person with knowledge of the decision says Kevin McHale will not return as the Minnesota Timberwolves coach.
WNBA Capsules Eds: UPDATES with Lynx-Monarchs capsule. By The Associated Press
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) -- Trevor Ariza said Tuesday he would love to return to the Los Angeles Lakers next season.
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) -- Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Tuesday defended the decision to stage a victory parade for the NBA champion Lakers, saying it's important to celebrate even at a time of high unemployment and home foreclosures.
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