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In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports since Tuesday. Phoenix Sun? More like Phoenix done! Steve Nash is headed to the Lakers ... the Los Angeles Lakers, that is. The Suns point guard worked out a sign...

NBA Commissioner David Stern doesn't believe this year's All-Star game in Orlando will be upstaged by Dwight Howard's uncertain future.

The move by David Stern and the NBA owners to keep Chris Paul from being traded to the Lakers was spectacularly petty.

After nearly punting away the season, the NBA released the 2011-12 NBA schedule

The NBA will finally open, two months later than usual, to which we say: Season's Greetings! Christmas Day is the right time to tip off the season.

NBA owners have their priorities, and playing games isn't first on that list.

The NBA lockout claimed a quick casualty in Day 1, when the free agency period did not open as usual on July 1.

There will be an upset. Maybe two. It just feels like something special is going to happen in these NBA playoffs, or even something crazy, like the Spurs losing in the first round.

The sports world never takes a vacation. Tonight is no exception with NFL football, a college bowl doubleheader, NCAA basketball and big games in the NBA.

It was the ultimate holiday weekend for NFL and NBA fans. The NFL playoff picture no longer seems like a complex algorithm, and the NBA gave us some major marquee matchups.

An old NBA rivalry that peaked in the early '90s returns to MSG, the Celtics vie for a 15th straight win and the Heat and the Lakers do battle at the Staples Center. And Detroit is the site for the cheesiest bowl game around.

John Branch of The New York Times: "For the founders of a fledgling athletic-shoe company, there is only one thing better for business than having an N.B.A. star endorse your new shoes: have the league say the shoes will not be allowed on its courts ...

Chad Millman, a senior deputy editor at ESPN The Magazine who regularly covers betting for ESPN Insider, looks at David Stern's forward-thinking approach to legalized betting and what it could mean for sports in the next decade.

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The New York Knicks' struggles on and off the court didn't keep the team from remaining the NBA's most valuable franchise for the third straight year, according to a list compiled by Forbes.

Forget crime, schools, weather and so on. Uni Watch ranks the most livable cities by ranking the only thing that matters: the uniforms.

The NFL should take a page from the NBA's code of conduct before it's too late.