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Frederic J. Brown/Getty Images While routing Golden State, DeAndre Jordan and Blake Griffin found Lamar Odom entertaining.LOS ANGELES -- Not many teams could make a rivalry more intriguing with a pair of blowout games. With the Los Angeles Clippers ...

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...

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 Miami Heat and Boston Celtics will renew their battle for Eastern Conference supremacy on opening night of the 2012-13 NBA season, according to the schedule released Thursday.

It's a strange NBA world right now. Thirty-five is the new 25, and rivalries among players and teams seem to be as shallow as a Kim Kardashian marriage.

On Heat Index, Brian Windhorst recounts LeBron James' rivalry with Paul Pierce: "The closest thing James has ever had to a fight in the NBA came against Pierce, though most may not remember it. It happened way back in 2004, during a preseason game at...

Brian Babineau/NBAE/Getty Images Forget Kobe, Carmelo or Durant. The closest thing to LeBron James' rival is Paul Pierce. MIAMI - When LeBron James played his first game against Carmelo Anthony, the home opener in his rookie season in 2003, the Cle...

In 2010, Boston ousted Dwyane Wade in the first round and LeBron James in the second round. A year later, Wade and James were teammates and turned the tables, sending the Celtics into the offseason.

LeBron James and Kobe Bryant share quite an interesting dynamic.

Cavaliers-Magic Preview

Byron Scott was not the only prominent alumnus of the storied Lakers-Celtics rivalry of the 1980s that the Cavaliers approached. They also reached out to Larry Bird, ESPN.com has learned.

Kobe-LeBron in the NBA Finals just doesn't seem to be in the cards.

LeBron James welcomes a resumption of the heated rivalry with the Celtics, Brian Windhorst writes.

Magic-Cavaliers Preview

Bill Livingston of The Plain Dealer: "The Cavs and Los Angeles Lakers are an event. But if events like Cavs 93, Lakers 87 on Thursday night keep up until the NBA Finals, it will get to be a rivalry -- and for more than the way the teams' individual s...

CLEVELAND -- As soon as the question was asked after the Lakers' shootaround on Thursday, Kobe Bryant turned his head and shot the reporter a look as if he'd just been asked the most preposterous question he'd ever heard. "Is this a rivalry, this Ca...