 Atlanta Hawks
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| With the NBA free agency period only two days away, a blurb from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has Mike Bibby leaving the Atlanta Hawks and Josh Smith named as the latest player being sent to the Phoenix Suns for Amare Stoudemire.
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 Boston Celtics
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| The Boston Celtics are pressing Rasheed Wallace for a decision, according to the Boston Globe.
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| Danny Ainge, the President of Basketball Operations for the Boston Celtics, told the Boston Globe Monday the team will make a qualifying offer to forward Glen "Big Baby'' Davis.
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 Charlotte Bobcats
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| The Charlotte Bobcats are for sale and Michael Jordan is interested. It remains unclear if Jordan is close to securing the investors and money needed to buy the team, for which Johnson paid $300 million.
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 Dallas Mavericks
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| Is playing in New York, rather than in Dallas, worth $12 million? Jason Kidd will have to decide if it is.
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 Detroit Pistons
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| Former Pistons coach Doug Collins withdrew his name from consideration, which would appear to open the door for former Dallas Mavericks coach Avery Johnson.
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| Joe Dumars proved Wednesday he is a very swift and efficient shopper. On the first day teams could negotiate with free agents, Dumars locked up commitments from his two top choices.
detnews.com |
| Doug Collins has politely declined a return engagement as the Pistons head coach. Collins, who coached the Pistons from 1995-1998, has withdrawn his name from consideration for the vacancy created when Michael Curry was fired on Tuesday
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| After failing to gain the respect of his players and refusing to reconcile with a disgruntled star, the Detroit Pistons fired Michael Curry as coach on Tuesday. yahoo sports |
 Golden State Warriors
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| The Warriors traded for a point guard Wednesday, a player once considered one of the finest in the nation, but fans shouldn't take this the wrong way. Acie Law, acquired along with guard Speedy Claxton in the deal for Jamal Crawford, is not considered the team's point guard of the future.
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 Houston Rockets
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| 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. nytimes |
| Rockets center Yao Ming's broken left foot could be a "career-threatening" injury. Dr. Tom Clanton, the Houston Rockets' team physician, told the Houston Chronicle on Monday that Yao's injury "has the potential for him missing this next season and could be career-threatening."
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 Los Angeles Clippers
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| The Los Angeles Clippers reportedly cleared some cap space for 2010, sending forward Zach Randolph to Memphis in exchange for forward/guard Quentin Richardson. miamiherald.com |
 Los Angeles Lakers
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| Los Angeles Lakers head coach Phil Jackson, fresh off a record 10th NBA Championship as a coach, announced on Friday he will return to the bench next year for a 10th season in LA and 19th as an NBA head coach.
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| Free-agent forward Ron Artest told CBSSports.com last night that he was leaving the Houston Rockets to join Kobe Bryant and the NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers. philly.com |
 Memphis Grizzlies
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| All-Star guard Allen Iverson has through representatives told the Grizzlies he would like to play in Memphis, an NBA source told the Memphis Commerical Appeal Thursday. yahoo sports |
 Milwaukee Bucks
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| The Milwaukee Bucks are in the market for a replacement for traded forward Richard Jefferson(notes). Could Josh Childress(notes), of the Atlanta Hawks, be that man? The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported Childress met with representatives of the Bucks Thursday.
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| The Milwaukee Bucks have reportedly extended a qualifying offer to guard Ramon Sessions but not to forward Charlie Villanueva, making the latter an unrestricted free agent.
miamiherald.com |
 Minnesota Timberwolves
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| While NBA executives across the league try to pry Spanish sensation Ricky Rubio away from the Timberwolves, team president David Kahn is in no hurry to deal.
miamiherald.com |
 NBA
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| On a day of head-turning trades around the NBA, the Los Angeles Clippers started Thursday night's draft with the obvious choice: Griffin, the only player considered a sure thing in a class full of question marks.
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 New York Knicks
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| The New York Daily News reports representatives of the New York Knicks will meet Wednesday with free agent and former Dallas Mavericks' guard Jason Kidd(notes). yahoo sports |
| David Lee(notes) and Nate Robinson(notes) become free agents on Wednesday, and the New York Knicks say they would like to keep both.
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| The Memphis Grizzlies have agreed to send Darko Milicic to the New York Knicks for Quentin Richardson and cash considerations. espn |
 Phoenix Suns
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| Suns General Manager Steve Kerr spent a few hours at Grant Hill's Orlando house Wednesday to begin re-recruiting him, and team personnel put in calls to free-agent big men Antonio McDyess, Channing Frye, Sean May, Joe Smith and Chris Wilcox.
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| The Phoenix Suns will hold this season's training camp at the University of San Diego.
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 Portland Blazers
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| Hedo Turkoglu has reached an agreement in principle to join the Portland Trail Blazers, according to sources.
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| The "news" that Rudy Fernandez is "infuriated" with the Trail Blazers for their interest in Hedo Turkoglu comes as a surprise to coach Nate McMillan and general manager Kevin Pritchard, both of whom had separate conversations with the guard earlier this week on the phone.
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| Channing Frye's two-year stint with the Trail Blazers officially ended Monday when general manager Kevin Pritchard said the team has decided not to make a qualifying offer to the 26-year-old free agent power forward.
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| 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. si.com |
 Toronto Raptors
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| In what would be a brazen bid to usurp the Portland Trail Blazers on Hedo Turkoglu, the Toronto Raptors are considering making an offer to the free-agent forward, league sources said.
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| The New Jersey Nets have traded Vince Carter and Ryan Anderson to the Orlando Magic for Rafer Alston, Tony Battie and Courtney Lee.
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 Utah Jazz
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| Carlos Boozer has a tough decision ahead of him tomorrow. Boozer has until 5 p.m. on Tuesday to decide whether to exercise a player option on his contract with the Utah Jazz. The contract is set to pay Boozer $12.7 million next season if he opts in. Could he make more than that on the open market? espn |
| Utah Jazz forward Kyle Korver elected to remain with the team through the 2009-10 season, declining a chance to opt out of his contract and become an unrestricted free agent.
miamiherald.com |
 WNBA
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| Phoenix Mercury star Diana Taurasi was cited for drunken driving a few hours after she helped lead her team to victory over the Seattle Storm miamiherald.com |
