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With the Lakers formally introducing Byron Scott as their new head coach, Johnson, who frequently clashed the past few years with Lakers brass, couldn't contain his giddiness.

Clippers forward Blake Griffin has a small fracture in his back and dropped out of the World Cup for Team USA to make sure he is healthy for the start of next season.

Phoenix forward P.J. Tucker was charged with 'extreme drunken driving' two months before he signed a three-year, $16.5 million contract - $12.7 million guaranteed - with the Suns.

Former Kentucky guard James Young says he is "good to go" after a concussion that kept the Boston Celtics' first-round draft pick from playing in the NBA's summer league.

He did it! Cancer survivor, 16, whose insurance company refused to pay for dentures after radiation destroyed his teeth manages to raise the $11,000 on his gofundme page in just 20 hours Jesse Ventura wins $1.8million defamation suit against estate of America's deadliest sniper: Chris Kyle's widow ordered to pay up over story of 2006 bar fight ... (more)

The first round of free tickets for the Aug. 8 show at InfoCision Stadium in Akron was released Monday, and fans claimed them within hours.

A U.S. Army War College official says the Department of Defense has taken the unusual step of overseeing a plagiarism investigation against Sen. John Walsh of Montana.

Authorities in Sacramento said a suspect has been taken into police custody after he allegedly murdered the aunt of NBA player Matt Barnes.

A judge approves the record-setting $2 billion sale of the Los Angeles Clippers, as Donald Sterling loses his bid to block the sale made by his estranged wife.

Shelly Sterling says she can finally get some rest now that it looks like she will be able to sell the Los Angeles Clippers for $2 billion.

Man, 34, is arrested for kidnapping Abigail Hernandez as 15-year- old's mother says she was NOT pregnant and didn't run away Pictured: Wedding photographer on the run for two years for molesting two young boys is killed after shooting two U.S. Marshals and an NYPD detective in mid-day Greenwich Village gun battle Qatari prince, a fashion ... (more)

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Timberwolves get free agent Mo Williams Williams is coming off an up-and-down season with the Portland Trail Blazers.

Kendall Jenner was seen ''flirting'' with NBA star Chandler Parsons at the weekend during a meal with her sister Kendall and some friends.

Revelations over the past few years about how U.S. security officials have the ability to track people through phone, email and other electronic records are making it harder for journalists to report on what the... Revelations over the past few years about how U.S. security officials have the ability to track people through phone, email and other ... (more)

You've probably heard by now: LeBron James is going back to his original No. 23 Cleveland Cavaliers jersey.

Only final arguments and a ruling remain in the trial to determine whether Donald Sterling's estranged wife can sell the Los Angeles Clippers to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for $2 billion.

Rose on Monday will be one of 18 players at USA Basketball's five-day minicamp in Las Vegas.

Paul Millsap has long been one of the more underappreciated players in the NBA, a do-it-all forward who has toiled in anonymity while playing in Utah and Atlanta.

A spokeswoman for an aid organization says an American doctor is receiving intensive medical treatment in Africa after he was infected with the deadly Ebola virus.