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| Blazers sign draft pick Batum |
NBA Basketball |
07/22/2008 |
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| ts Network) - The Portland Trail Blazers signed forward/guard Nicolas Batum to an undisclosed contract Tuesday. Portland traded its rights to Darrell Arthur, the 27th overall pick in the 2008 NBA Draft, and Joey Dorsey, the 33rd overall pick, to the Houston Rockets for the rights to Batum, the 25th overall pick, on draft day. The 6-foot-8, 190-pound Batum spent the past three seasons playing for MSB Le Mans in the French ProA League, where he averaged 12.3 points, 5.0 rebounds and 3.6 assists a season ago. Bat |
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| Rockets sign F Greene |
NBA Basketball |
07/14/2008 |
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| Houston, TX (MySportsbook) - The Houston Rockets signed forward Donte Greene to a multi-year contract on Monday. Per club policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed. Greene was selected 28th overall by the Memphis Grizzlies in the June 26 draft before his rights were traded to Houston that night along with a 2009 second round pick in exchange for the rights to forward Darrell Arthur, who the Rockets took one pick earlier. The 6-foot-9 Greene entered the draft after one season at Syracuse, where he led the |
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| Rockets extend qualifying offer to Landry |
NBA Basketball |
06/29/2008 |
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| Houston, TX (MySportsbook) - The Houston Rockets extended a qualifying offer to restricted free agent forward Carl Landry on Sunday. The offer establishes the Rockets' first right of refusal and they will now be able to match any other team's offer. The 24-year-old averaged 8.1 points and 4.9 rebounds per contest over 42 games of his 2007-2008 rookie season with Houston. |
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| Memphis Grizzlies |
NBA Basketball Transaction |
06/27/2008 |
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| Acquired the draft rights to forward Darrell Arthur from the Houston Rockets; traded the draft rights to forward Donte' Greene and a 2009 second round pick to the Houston Rockets, who previously acquired the draft rights to Arthur and Joey Dorsey from Portland in exchange for the draft rights to Nicolas Batum. . Miami Heat - Acquired the draft rights of guard Mario Chalmers from the Minnesota Timberwolves for two future second-round draft picks and cash considerations. |
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| Donaghy's claims bring back bad memories for Kings |
NBA Basketball |
06/13/2008 |
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| was a tough loss and to rehash it all, to have everybody calling from years gone by, it is tough because it brings up bad memories.'' But Maloof, whose family's involvement in the league dates back nearly 30 years to his father's ownership of the Houston Rockets, dismissed Donaghy's accusations. ``We've always felt that David and the league has been forthright and upfront and honest with us,'' Maloof said. ``So we don't have no reason to believe that it's true.'' Former Kings center Scot Pollard, now an |
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| Ex-NBA referee: playoff series manipulated |
NBA Basketball |
06/10/2008 |
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| ficials. The letter also alleges that the opposing team's coach later was fined $100,000 after revealing an NBA official informed him of the behind-the-scenes instructions. That would correspond with the 2005 first-round playoff series between the Houston Rockets and the Dallas Mavericks, in which Mark Cuban complained to officials and Jeff Van Gundy was fined. Donaghy's letter said that in the first of several meetings with prosecutors and the FBI in New York in 2007, he named names while describing ``var |
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| West: Don't count out Kobe and Lakers |
NBA Basketball |
06/09/2008 |
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| ed the Lakers. I knew somebody was going to get their (butt) whipped,'' Celtics guard Sam Cassell said. ``You whip somebody's (butt) now, it's going to cost you a lot.'' Cassell remembers having to ice for hours after the game as a rookie when his Houston Rockets beat New York in the 1994 finals. He said it's impossible to get away with the rough tactics teams like those Knicks used. ``Them days are over with,'' he said. ``We have all these cameras in here ... we got a floating camera nowadays picks up eve |
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| Job for Celtics PGs: Get the ball to the Big 3 |
NBA Basketball |
06/06/2008 |
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| s. ``Elton Brand went down. Shaun Livingston went down,'' Cassell said. ``In the Western Conference, when your two horses go down, you are done.'' But Cassell, who won back-to-back titles as a backup in his first two years in the league with the Houston Rockets in 1994 and '95, wasn't done. So after the Clippers bought him out he quickly signed with Boston for just such as situation as the Celtics are in now. ``Sam has been great in these moments,'' Allen said. ``Sam has been in these moments his whole l |
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| Rivalry didn't start - or end - with Magic and Larry |
NBA Basketball |
06/04/2008 |
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| that I had, to compete against a team either better or on an equal level as we were. It was an extraordinary time.'' Bird said the anticipation of meeting the Lakers each year was so intense that he was actually disappointed when they lost to the Houston Rockets in the 1986 Western Conference finals. ``I know all of us felt down a little bit because we weren't going to be able to play the Lakers again,'' Bird said. ``(But) when you think of the Celtics and Lakers, it didn't start with me and Magic. It goe |
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| Suns to interview Pistons assistant Porter again |
NBA Basketball |
05/31/2008 |
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| e facility on Saturday, the day after the Boston Celtics eliminated them in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals. The Suns have been searching for a head coach since Mike D'Antoni resigned to lead the New York Knicks. Candidates include Porter, Houston Rockets assistant Elston Turner and former NBA player and TV analyst Mark Jackson. Porter was Flip Saunders' lead assistant in Detroit the past two seasons. He led the Milwaukee Bucks' from 2003-05, helping them win 41 games and earn a spot in the 2004 pl |
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