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Dallas Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle is president of the coaches association and a key member of the NBA's competition committee. What does he think about some Hoopideas, including adjustments to replay and potential rules changes?...

In ESPN The Magazine, Chris Jones asks: What do a TV doctor and Pat Riley have in common? They're both banking on a Heat three-peat. Or should we say a three-Heat?

Mark Cuban believes the NBA was "absolutely" right to heavily fine the San Antonio Spurs because the Dallas Mavericks' owner considers protecting relationships with national television partners one of the league's top priorities.

Buck Harvey of the San Antonio Express-News: David Stern said he wanted to "apologize to all NBA fans," and that was a start. Someone needed to be contrite about a schedule that matched the most rested vs. the most tired for a national television aud...

In Marc Stein's Power Rankings, the defending champs remain No. 1.

LOS ANGELES -- Time Warner Cable has cut its first major deal to receive payment for carriage of two new channels carrying Los Angeles Lakers basketball games. It said Friday it had signed up Charter Communications Inc., which has around 290,000 sub...

The NBA Finals have matched last year's average television rating with one fewer game.

The Oklahoma City Thunder's victory over the Miami Heat in the NBA Finals drew the highest rating for a Game 1 that ABC has ever had.

The Boston Celtics' overtime win over the Miami Heat has drawn the highest preliminary television rating for an NBA playoff game on cable since records started being kept in 2003.

Looks like the 32-year-old Lamar Odom will try to make it back to the NBA this fall and not do a third season of his E! reality show "Khloe & Lamar," sources have told TMZ.com. It's amazing to me that Odom might be blaming the series for his lack ...

Everyone is talking about Lamar Odom. Mark Cuban, the man who just released him from the Dallas Mavericks, said he was "negative energy." Charles Barkley, unfiltered sayer of things on his mind, thinks that Odom receiving the money that he is contrac...

Commissioner David Stern said Wednesday night that the NBA is close to finalizing a deal to keep the Hornets in New Orleans with a very favorable lease, important capital improvements, intense tax benefits and a new television deal.

Spending some time with 'Hump' and the Kardashians.

Say this for Lamar Odom: Having him on the Dallas Mavericks has provided far more drama than any Kardashian TV show. Yet another storyline unfolded in the third quarter of Tuesday's win over the New York Knicks. A rather unflattering sequence for ...

As fortune would have it, the New York Knicks will headline Sunday's national television schedule when they square off against the reigning NBA champion Dallas Mavericks at 1 p.m. ET on ABC. Basketball fans wrapped up in the Linsanity will tune i...

DALLAS -- In about 12 hours Dirk Nowitzki will address the media with something of his own state of the union. The Dallas Mavericks can only hope their chief is ready to put down the TV mic and get back to his real job. Until he does, and until he...