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Cavaliers game time changed to avoid World Series conflictCLEVELAND (AP) The NBA moved up the start time for Tuesday night's Cleveland Cavaliers game because of the World Series.The game against Houston at Quicken Loans Arena will now begin an hour earlier at 6 p.m. The NBA champions requested...

AP Sports WriterJason Terry gives young Milwaukee Bucks lift on, off courtBy GENARO C. ARMASMILWAUKEE (AP) As teammates changed around him in the locker room and made postgame dinner plans, guard Jason Terry eased forward in his seat at his locker, still in full uniform.The elder statesman of...

Thunder waive troubled F Mitch McGaryOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) The Thunder finally cut ties with troubled forward Mitch McGary on Monday.The team announced that it waived McGary, a first-round pick in 2014, along with guard Ronnie Price, forward Chris Wright and center Kaleb Tarczewski.McGary faces two drug suspensions for...

AP Basketball WriterStill got game? Ice Cube, Iverson back 3-on-3 hoops leagueBy DOUG FEINBERGNEW YORK (AP) Ice Cube and Allen Iverson are putting their star power behind a new 3-on-3 professional basketball league.The entertainment mogul and NBA Hall of Famer announced the launch of Big3 on Wednesday morning...

OKLAHOMA CITY (104)Durant 12-25 1-3 26, Ibaka 3-10 2-2 9, Adams 2-2 1-4 5, Roberson 2-3 0-0 4, Westbrook 11-20 9-12 32, Lamb 3-9 0-0 6, Perkins 0-2 0-0 0, Morrow 3-5 1-1 10, N.Collison 2-3 0-0 4, Jackson 3-8 2-2 8, Smith 0-0 0-0 0,...

LOS ANGELES (AP) The Latest on the Derrick Rose rape lawsuit trial (all times local): 1:35 p.m. Jurors have cleared NBA star Derrick Rose and two friends in a lawsuit that accused them of gang raping his ex-girlfriend when she was incapacitated from drugs or alcohol. The jury reached the verdict Wednesday...

AP Sports WriterWarriors unveil Chase Center Experience, preview of arenaBy JANIE McCAULEYSAN FRANCISCO (AP) Imagine an ice skating rink in winter with a Rockefeller Center-like feel, fall farmers markets in a sparkling new waterfront park, fireworks over San Francisco Bay during the summer and big-name entertainment events.Oh, and...

At 7-foot-1, Marc Gasol isn't a little anything.He's surely not playing like Pau's little brother.For the first time since the Gasols have been in the NBA it's the younger one putting up the better numbers, and that's a big reason why the Memphis Grizzlies have been one of the...

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Police say NBA star John Wall was kicked off a flight in Las Vegas on Tuesday after a disturbance was reported.Las Vegas police said Friday that the Washington Wizards' All-Star point guard was with a group of people on an American Airlines flight around 2:30...

NEW YORK (AP) The NBA will now seed playoff teams solely by their record, throwing out the top-four protection for teams who win their divisions.The expected change was unanimously approved Tuesday by the league's Board of Governors. Teams in each conference will be seeded from one to eight...

NEW YORK (AP) A person with knowledge of the details says Knicks coach Derek Fisher was involved in an altercation with Memphis Grizzlies forward and former teammate Matt Barnes in California on Saturday.The New York Post, citing an anonymous source, reported Wednesday that the altercation was because Fisher...

HOUSTON (AP) - Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors aren't worried about a letdown in Game 4 after taking a 3-0 lead over the Houston Rockets in the Western Conference finals.''It's easy for us to stay hungry because none of us have really experienced this before or accomplished...