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During the 2011 NBA lockout, Iman Shumpert couldn't have any contact with the Knicks, but he did have a connection to a seasoned veteran who helped him prepare for his rookie season. That would be fellow Yellow Jacket Jarrett Jack, who Shumpert wi...

DALLAS -- The Mavericks have been a profitable business since the NBA lockout. That doesn't necessarily please owner Mark Cuban. Cuban confirmed a Forbes report that the Mavs turned a profit last season for just the second time during his ownershi...

After years of shelling out top dollar to the DeSagana Diops and Jerome Jameses of the league, cash-strapped owners went into the many long, closed-door meetings that made up last year's NBA lockout searching for a reprieve. And when both sides em...

After years of shelling out top dollar to the DeSagana Diops and Jerome Jameses of the league, cash-strapped owners went into the many long, closed-door meetings that made up last year's NBA lockout searching for a reprieve. And when both sides em...

DEERFIELD, Ill. -- By all accounts second-year Chicago Bulls guard Jimmy Butler did everything asked of him this past summer as he looks to improve on an up-and-down rookie year. Butler missed a lot in his first offseason, due to the 2011 NBA lockout...

The NBA lockout was supposed to end Monopoly-money deals for role players, but recent signings suggest that isn't the case.

The Atlanta Hawks have requested waivers on guard Jordan Farmar, one of five players acquired from the Brooklyn Nets in the deal for All-Star Joe Johnson.

June 25, 1999: Hakeem Olajuwon, John Stockton and Karl Malone, Charles Barkley, and the Shawn Kemp/Gary Payton combo helped delay David Robinson's shot at an NBA title. Then, in 1999, the NBA lockout pushed it back even more. But finally, on this day...

Last August, I watched Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra hoist a giant jug of coconut wine in his uncle's backyard in Los Banos, Philippines, and tell his family that next year, he hoped to bring back an NBA championship trophy. It was the closest Spoe...

Bradford Doolittle runs a simulation of the Heat-Thunder NBA Finals series and discovers that while this one should be a very close matchup, Miami holds a slight edge.

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The changes LeBron James made after his NBA Finals meltdown help give the Heat a shot at redemption.

The Lakers officially promoted Glenn Carraro from general manager of the Los Angeles D-Fenders, the Lakers' D-League affiliate, to assistant general manager for the Lakers on Thursday.

If the Twittersphere has taught us one thing, it's that athletes can be completely absurd individuals. The NBA lockout was a prime opportunity to observe how millionaires spend their non-basketball time, and while every day of these NBA playoffs is t...

The Drew League has been a summer basketball league in Los Angeles for nearly 40 years, but it exploded onto the national scene last year during the NBA lockout when stars like Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James made appearances in games. ...

Hey, remember the shortened NBA regular season? Now that the playoffs have started, it feels like the regular season only existed to serve as a talking point for diagnosing Derrick Rose's torn ACL. The 66-game season was actually a blessing for d...