NBA News
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NBA: True Shooting, PER, Net Rating, the advanced stats glossary
If you follow the NBA or modern basketball, the old box score just doesn’t cut it anymore. Social media and analysts are obsessed with advanced stats, or analytics. These metrics are built to show a player’s real impact, not just the raw numbers. So if those NBA acronyms have been leaving you lost, here is…
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NBA: Knicks agree terms with free agent John Konchar
New York have two roster spots open and 360 games of NBA experience walking through the door. John Konchar agreed a deal with the Knicks on Tuesday night.
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NBA: Clippers complete the Kawhi Leonard trade at last
Agreed on June 30, frozen by a league investigation, finalised on Monday. Kawhi Leonard is a Toronto Raptor again, and Los Angeles gets Brandon Ingram, Gradey Dick and a stack of picks.
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NBA: Ballmer takes the one-year ban and drops the fight
Twelve days that changed the tone Steve Ballmer put out a statement overnight on the Los Angeles Clippers’ X account. The owner has accepted the NBA’s penalties, his own one-year suspension included. He says he carries “deep regrets”. “This period has been very hard for everyone connected with the Clippers, and for that I am…
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NBA: Ballmer drops the fight and accepts Clippers penalties
Steve Ballmer has stopped fighting. The Clippers owner says the fine is paid, the penalties accepted, and no lawyer is going anywhere near the NBA over this one.
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WNBA: Knee surgery ends Katie Lou Samuelson’s season in Seattle
Four games left Four games remained. Katie Lou Samuelson will not play in any of them. The Seattle Storm guard has had surgery on her left knee. The franchise said she misses the rest of the season and gave no detail on the arthroscopic procedure. “Your Storm family is with you, Lou. We are sending…
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NBA: Mark Williams out for months after shoulder surgery
A torn labrum, repaired Thursday An offseason workout cost the Phoenix Suns their starting center. Mark Williams went under the knife Thursday to repair a torn labrum in his left shoulder, ESPN reported. The timeline is months, not weeks. Phoenix opens the preseason in Detroit on October 5 and the regular season in Portland on…
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NBA: Suns lose Mark Williams to shoulder surgery
Phoenix will open the season without its starting center. Mark Williams had a torn labrum repaired on Thursday, two months after signing a guaranteed $38 million deal.
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NBA : US justice investigates the Clippers
A federal probe hanging over Intuit Dome The New York Times broke the story overnight. The office of the federal prosecutor for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn has opened a criminal investigation into the Los Angeles Clippers. The focus: the franchise’s financial arrangements around Kawhi Leonard. The probe is still at an…
