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Russian tycoon Mikhail Prokhorov knew the Nets were rebuilding when he agreed to spend $200 million to buy the NBA franchise and help move it to Brooklyn.

Who: Charlotte Bobcats versus Orlando Magic What: NBA Basketball - Bobcats Home Game When: 11/10/2009 at 7pm EST Where: Live at Time Warner Cable Arena in the Queen City or on Fox Sports Carolinas The Matchup: Injuries: Charlotte: None Orlando: Rashard Lewis - Out; Ryan Anderson - Out; Vince Carter - DTD; Matt Barnes - DTD Starting Lineups Kind of ...

ORLANDO, Fla. a ' Ryan Anderson had 20 points and 10 rebounds, Dwight Howard scored 25, and the short-handed Orlando Magic defeated the previously unbeaten Phoenix Suns 122-100 Wednesday night.

Ryan Anderson had 20 points and 10 rebounds, Dwight Howard scored 25 and the short-handed Orlando Magic defeated the previously unbeaten Phoenix Suns 122-100 on Wednesday night.

Chauncey Billups and Carmelo Anthony woke up the unbeaten Nuggets in a 44-point third quarter and Denver continued its best start since 1985-86 with a 122-94 victory over the winless Nets on Wednesday night in East Rutherford, N.J. The win was the fifth straight for Denver, one shy of the 1985-86 start, and it handed the Nets their fifth straight ...

After getting off to great starts the past two seasons, the Celtics are at it again.

Vince Carter #15 of the New Jersey Nets dribbles against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden March 18, 2009 in New York City.

Aside from the requisite fire-breathing backboards, it was a subdued celebration the Magic hosted Wednesday night, their last season opener at Amway Arena.

After four-and-a-half seasons with the Nets, Vince Carter was traded to Orlando on draft day.

The Orlando Magic will have to manage without their starting forward Rashard Lewis for the first ten games of the '09-'10 season.

Coming out of the University of California, Ryan Anderson was unknown to most casual fans last season as a rookie.

Ryan Anderson scored 22 points to help the Orlando Magic remain unbeaten in the pre-season with a 121-86 victory over the New Orleans Hornets on Tuesday night.

Ryan Anderson tallied 16 points with five rebounds to lead Orlando over Miami, 90-86, in preseason action.

DO YOU KNOW how Russian oligarchs buy NBA team? They read that they bought the team, which is not true, get aggravated and buy the damn team.

With the 2009-10 preseason officially underway with a sanctioned, real-live training-camp workout, Nets coach Lawrence Frank made the first of what will likely be countless pleas for defense throughout the course of the season.

The basketball coverage crew at the Orlando Sentinel has put together its preseason NBA power rankings, complete with predictions we have no business making in September.

But as the years passed with no championships to show for it, one by one each player was sent packing with each attempt of contesting for a legitimate spot at the title coming up short.

On Thursday, the Orlando Magic star Dwight Howard was at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, N.J., to film a part in "Just Wright," a movie about a sports trainer who finds herself falling in love with a member of the Nets , whom she is trying to help rehabilitate from a career-threatening injury.

And regarding Courtney Lee, the Nets hope the time is coming very soon. According to Dwight Howard, Lee's good friend on the Magic, the young 6-foot-5 wing still is hurting about being traded from Orlando to the Nets.

Now that Vince Carter is no longer with New Jersey, and the team may not ever be headed to Brooklyn, it's all about moving on.