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LOS ANGELES (AP) The Los Angeles Lakers have re-signed forward Metta World Peace.The Lakers announced the deal Thursday with World Peace. He won a championship ring with the Lakers in 2010 when he was still known as Ron Artest.He spent four seasons with Los Angeles, and he started...

ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) Imagine if Jack Nicholson's character kept his cool on the witness stand in ''A Few Good Men.''It wasn't until he lost it that he admitted ordering the code red, as former NBA referee and current executive Bob Delaney told officials this week.''I've been that guy...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) The Minnesota Timberwolves have promoted Calvin Booth to director of player personnel and added assistant coach Bryan Gates to the coaching staff.The Timberwolves announced the moves Wednesday. Booth joined the Timberwolves two years ago as director of player programs.Gates spent the previous five seasons in New...

MIAMI (AP) Erik Spoelstra isn't spending too much additional time looking back at what went wrong for the Miami Heat last season.To him, the exercise would be pointless.The easiest thing for the Heat to have done this summer would be to have blamed a 37-45 record - which...

EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey (AP) Brooklyn Nets general manager Billy King reached his goal of reducing the payroll and getting younger players in the NBA offseason.He didn't talk of a championship Tuesday for the first time in several years during his annual media day before training camp.''We have...

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) Detroit Pistons rookie guard Darrun Hilliard had surgery after breaking his nose playing pickup basketball last week.The team says Hilliard will be fitted with a mask for the next three weeks and will continue all basketball-related activities. The 6-foot-6 Hilliard was drafted in the...

HOUSTON (AP) Moses Malone has been remembered not only for his rebounds and three MVP trophies, but for making people smile.In a service marked by laughter from many of his NBA peers and hundreds of others at Houston's Lakewood Church, the Hall of Famer on Saturday was lauded...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Arnie Kander was retired. The well-respected physical therapist and strength coach had called it a career and was assimilating to his first summer out of the NBA in nearly a quarter century.He helped his son move to Boulder, Colorado, for grad school. He took a trip...

MIAMI (AP) If Kyrie Irving knows when he'll be back on the floor with the Cleveland Cavaliers, he's not telling.The All-Star guard will only divulge this: He's getting closer.Irving spoke Thursday about his status coming off the knee injury that kept him from all but one game of...

MIAMI (AP) Dwyane Wade is already thinking big about the Miami Heat's fast-approaching season.And missing the playoffs last season has only energized him.Less than two weeks from the start of his 13th Heat training camp, Wade joined Jack Nicklaus and Chris Evert as enshrinees Wednesday at the 21st...

MILWAUKEE (AP) A committee of the Milwaukee Common Council has endorsed a $47 million city proposal to help finance a new Milwaukee Bucks downtown arena.The Zoning, Neighborhoods and Development Committee voted 4-1 Tuesday to recommend approval to the full council, which will review the proposal at its Sept....

MILWAUKEE (AP) Energetic broadcaster Gus Johnson will be calling games for the up-and-coming Milwaukee Bucks this season.A team spokesman confirmed Monday night that Johnson would call 20 Bucks contests for Fox Sports Wisconsin.Johnson is a veteran play-by-play man who is best known for his calls of college basketball...