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| Ankle sidelines Carmelo for third straight game |
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01/29/2010 |
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -NBA scoring leader Carmelo Anthony missed his third straight game with a sprained left ankle Friday night when the Denver Nuggets played at Oklahoma City. Nuggets coach George Karl put Anthony on the inactive list and said the All-Star had regressed since Denver played in Houston two nights earlier. Karl says Anthony's ankle had swollen up during the flight to Oklahoma City and it would be a ``wait and see process'' to determine when he'll play again. The Nuggets play at San Antonio |
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| Kaman, Lee headline list of All-Star snubs |
NBA Basketball |
01/29/2010 |
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| ronto on Thursday night. "Everybody that made it was well-deserved and having a good season, and I'd never talk bad about anybody that did make it. I just thought I had a good chance, and it didn't work out that way." 3. - Chauncey Billups - Guard - Denver Nuggets Billups is so good and so steady, he's taken for granted. At the age of 33, Billups is putting up career-highs in points per game (19.2 ppg), while continuing to shoot well (41.4 percent from beyond the arc), and distributing as effectively as ever. |
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| Rockets hope to end home skid in clash with Blazers |
NBA Basketball |
01/29/2010 |
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| he Houston Rockets are still in search of a win on their current six-game homestand and will play host to the Portland Trail Blazers this evening from the Toyota Center. Houston fell to 0-3 on the residency following Wednesday's 97-92 setback to the Denver Nuggets. Aaron Brooks had 22 points and Luis Scola tallied 20 points and 11 rebounds for Houston, which is last in the Southwest Division and 13-8 at home this season. Trevor Ariza had 19 points and 10 boards in defeat. "We weren't getting stops," said Broo |
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| Ice storm threatens Nuggets and Thunder |
NBA Basketball |
01/29/2010 |
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| (Sportsbooks) - The surging Denver Nuggets expect to have All-Star forward Carmelo Anthony back in the lineup Friday night as they shoot for their ninth straight win vs. the improved Oklahoma City Thunder. Weather could pose a problem, however. A severe ice storm in Oklahoma City has made conditions very dangerous and there has been talk of a postponement. Meteorologists in Oklahoma City have described the storm, which has brought freezing rain and snow, as one of the worst the area has ever seen. Denver |
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| Denver's Karl earns All-Star coaching spot |
NBA Basketball |
01/29/2010 |
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NEW YORK (AP) -Denver Nuggets coach George Karl will direct the Western Conference in the NBA All-Star game next month at Cowboys Stadium. With Dallas' loss at Phoenix on Thursday night and the Lakers' Phil Jackson ineligible to coach the team, the Nuggets clinched at least a tie with the Mavericks for the second-best record in the conference through this Sunday's games. Karl has the tiebreaker over the Mavericks' Rick Carlisle because he coached the East in 2004, and Karl's last appearance came in 199 |
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| Anthony out again |
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01/28/2010 |
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| Houston, TX (Sportsbooks) - Denver Nuggets forward Carmelo Anthony was inactive for Wednesday's 97-92 win over Houston due to a sprained left ankle. This was the second straight game Anthony has missed with the injury, which he suffered with 1:04 left in a 116-10 overtime win over New Orleans Saturday night. Anthony rolled his ankle by landing on the foot of New Orleans guard Devin Brown. Anthony, who is second in the league at 29.7 points per game, had missed five straight contests from January 2-9 due t |
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| Lawyer calls off lawsuit against J.R. Smith |
NBA Basketball |
01/27/2010 |
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HOUSTON (AP) -Denver Nuggets guard J.R. Smith made a last-minute, ``good-faith'' payment to a Houston attorney before Wednesday's game against the Rockets to stall a lawsuit filed against him. Smith was named as the defendant in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Harris District Court by high-profile lawyer Rusty Hardin, a Rockets' season ticket holder. Hardin was hired to represent Smith in 2006, after Smith was accused of breaking a player's jaw in a pick-up game at a Houston recreation center. That case was |
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| Streaking Nuggets kick off road trip in Houston |
NBA Basketball |
01/27/2010 |
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| (Sportsbooks) - Carmelo Anthony should be ready to play tonight for the Northwest Division-leading Denver Nuggets, who will try to extend their winning streak to eight games in the opener of a three-game road trip against the Houston Rockets at the Toyota Center. Anthony, who is second in the NBA with 29.7 points per game, missed Monday's 104-93 home triumph versus the Charlotte Bobcats because of a sprained ankle. The Nuggets didn't seem to suffer without him, as Chauncey Billups carried the load with 27 |
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01/27/2010 |
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| Fined Denver Nuggets forward Kenyon Martin $35,000. |
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| Nuggets' Martin fined |
NBA Basketball |
01/26/2010 |
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| New York, NY (Sportsbooks) - Denver Nuggets forward Kenyon Martin was fined $35,000 by the league for his actions in Monday night's win over the Charlotte Bobcats. Martin was ejected from the game in the second quarter for arguing a foul call on teammate J.R. Smith. |
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