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J.R. Smith, who played 25 minutes in Game 3 on Saturday night despite a high fever, sat out of the Knicks' morning practice Sunday. Kenyon Martin also missed practice.

New York Knicks coach Mike Woodson has all but ruled Amar'e Stoudemire out for the team's opening-round playoff series against the Boston Celtics.

MIAMI -- LeBron James had just been officially introduced as a member of the 2012 USA Basketball team last July in Las Vegas when he sat down at a small table in a large conference room for yet another session with the media. As the conversation turn...

New York Knicks center Tyson Chandler missed his seventh straight game, sitting out Tuesday against the Boston Celtics, due to a small bulging disk in his neck.

What do we make of the once-mighty Lakers and Celtics moving forward? Our panel weighs in.

BOSTON -- Don't tell Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers that Thursday's game against the rival Los Angeles Lakers has lost any of its luster because of the two teams' struggles over the first half of the season. "They still wear that same color. And ...

Paul Pierce scored 24 points and led a third-quarter surge as the Boston Celtics routed the Lakers 116-95 on Thursday night in Dwight Howard's return for Los Angeles.

Kobe dishes on Celtics rivalry, Rondo's injury and talking trash with Pierce.

For five years we had a renewed Celtics-Lakers rivalry. Now both have put their future hopes in players who don't score first. It won't be an easy transition for either, but with Rajon Rondo's injury, it will be tougher for the Celtics.

Mitch Lawrence of the New York Daily News: Too bad the Knicks and Lakers are done playing for this season . . . unless they meet in the Finals. Amar'e Stoudemire added some fuel to the New York-L.A. rivalry when he heaped praise on Mike Woodson on We...

Rivalries haven't disappeared, they have just evolved from the 1980s Celtics-Lakers template.

In an era when many rival players would rather be friends than foes, Kevin Garnett's competitive fire still runs hot - and Ray Allen is now feeling the burn, writes Howard Bryant in ESPN The Magazine.

LOS ANGELES -- As Blake Griffin leaned against the wall outside the Clippers' locker room Friday night, he smiled thinking back to when the Clippers would play the Lakers just a couple of years ago. "The biggest difference between these games now ...

The Celtics don't play the Heat for three months, but the rivalry won't cool off.

ESPN's Stephen A. Smith went on a more-than-6-minute-rant on the Celtics-Heat rivalry that kicked off when he was asked which team was the biggest challenger to the Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference: "It's clearly the Boston Celtics," Smith sai...

Ray Allen's defection is just the latest twist in the Celtics-Heat drama.