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Bryant hails 'retiring' NBA superstar Yao

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 03:40 AM PDT

Kobe Bryant on Wednesday hailed fellow NBA superstar Yao Ming for the Chinese giant's contribution to basketball amid reports the Houston Rockets centre would soon retire.

NBA to host 11th BWB camps, minus active players

Posted: 12 Jul 2011 11:01 AM PDT

The NBA is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Basketball without Borders program, the first that won't involve active players because of the lockout. Camps will be held in Slovenia, Johannesburg, South Africa, and Rio de Janeiro. The Slovenian camp will be the first held in one of the former Yugoslav republics, where the 50 campers who attended the inaugural camp in 2001 came from.

NBA hosts 10th BWB camps, minus active players

Posted: 12 Jul 2011 10:26 AM PDT

The NBA is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Basketball without Borders program, the first that won't involve active players because of the lockout.

Bobcats begin laying off workers amid NBA lockout

Posted: 12 Jul 2011 03:07 PM PDT

With the NBA lockout less than two weeks old, at least two NBA teams have begun cutting staff. One of the first to resort to layoffs: Michael Jordan's Charlotte Bobcats. Radio play-by-play announcer Scott Lauer was one of at least seven employees let go by the Bobcats in the past week. A person familiar with the situation says the Detroit Pistons fired 15 people two weeks ago.

NBA to host 10th BWB camp sans active players

Posted: 12 Jul 2011 12:35 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) -- The NBA is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Basketball without Borders program, the first that won't involve active players because of the lockout.

NBA players who go abroad may not like what they see

Posted: 12 Jul 2011 11:04 PM PDT

NBA stars ruminating about the option to bolt overseas this fall if the lockout persists are in for a nice check. Make that a reality check.

AP Sources: NBA players to get escrow money back

Posted: 12 Jul 2011 08:07 PM PDT

Locked-out NBA players will have their escrow money returned to them for the first time because salaries fell below 57 percent of league revenues last season, two people with knowledge of the situation said Tuesday. The players will get about $160 million back when a final audit of league revenues is completed later this month.

PBT: NBA returns $160M in escrow money to players

Posted: 12 Jul 2011 06:22 PM PDT

In the one move since the start of the NBA lockout, the NBA announced Tuesday that it is going to give the players back money they already earned. It's a good thing in terms of thawing the ice, but it's not going to really change things. As for what happened… this is going to take some explaining.

Amidst 2011 NBA Lockout, Jeremy Lin Has No Desire To Play In Asia

Posted: 12 Jul 2011 10:57 PM PDT

Jeremy Lin continues to defy NBA conventions. He's of Asian ancestry in a profession that doesn't have many phenotypically Asian people. He played college basketball at a school that is associated more with brains than braun. Amidst the NBA lockout, Lin continues to be an NBA anomaly. With NBA stars and subs considering international opportunities and paychecks, Jeremy Lin wants to stay state ...