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Garrett W. Ellwood/NBAE/Getty Images Play a ton of minutes in the regular season, like Stephen Curry, and injuries are common. A while back I found that players who play a ton of minutes don't win NBA titles anymore. It used to happen all the ti...

David Thorpe has his doubts the Thunder can even beat the Rockets, let alone win a title. And Russell Westbrook's injury is only part of the story....

A who's who of NBA players are on the shelf. A team made of Russell Westbrook, Derrick Rose, Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash, Rajon Rondo, Danny Granger, David Lee, Danilo Gallinari, Amare Stoudemire, and Lou Williams would contend. Instead all those players...

A franchise long defined by Dr. Jerry Buss, Phil Jackson and Kobe Bryant is coping with a dizzying array of injuries and changes. We examine with J.A. Adande: ...

Doug Pensinger/Getty ImagesThe NBA isn't doing everything it could to prevent blows like this one. For a "noncontact" sport that allegedly doesn't have a concussion problem, basketball sure does feature a lot of blows to the head. A partial list ...

Andrew D. Bernstein/Getty Images Dwight Howard's ongoing experiment in living without credibility takes a bad turn. There's an unwritten rule in sports that nobody questions anyone else's injury. It's how you'd like to be treated, too. Assume ev...

Pedro Portal/Getty Images/Getty ImagesWith his record, no one can accuse Gregg Popovich of not trying to win as much as possible. Six times more likely. Research shows that serious injuries are six times more likely in professional soccer players wh...

James Harden and Jeremy Lin on video, talking about "Ron" Jeremy, Harden as a cranky video game player, and Lin's perfect math test. Malcolm Lee, you're working hard, trying to get up to speed as a Timberwolves injury replacement in this toughest o...

Michael Lee of The Washington Post: Nene sat out the final game of pool play for Brazil on Monday with soreness in his left foot, but the Wizards have been monitoring the injury and remain optimistic that it will not be a problem when training camp b...

Gary Washburn of The Boston Globe: The Celtics are not expected to have Avery Bradley for the rest of the season because of a left shoulder injury. A source close to Bradley told the Globe that the percentile is in the "high 90s" that Bradley will be...

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The Sixers were literally the best team in the NBA to start the season. And now, without any big injuries or other evident cause, they have lost at home by 20 to the Raptors and appear to be slipping at precisely the wrong time. What's happening? ...

Broderick Turner of the Los Angeles Times: Clippers guard Chauncey Billups suffered a left Achilles' tendon injury Monday night, and there were concerns within the team it could be ruptured, which would end his season. "It felt like somebody kicked ...

Tim Tucker of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: While injuries are a big part of any NBA season, a compacted schedule increases the number of games lost to aches and pains that ordinarily might be nursed on days off. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram coun...

Worst fears of the lockout? Clippers broadcaster Ralph Lawler points out injuries have already taken a massive toll on this season. Another sign of the lockout: Matt Bonner outscoring Tim Duncan and Dirk Nowitzki combined. Rip Hamilton was famously...

Anthony Rieber of Newsday: The discombobulated Knicks had one of their stars and their prized rookie back from injury Wednesday night. They had fresh memories of Monday's home loss to the Raptors and a warning from coach Mike D'Antoni to not let it h...