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Nash out vs. Heat with right thigh injury
PHOENIX (AP) — Steve Nash sat out Friday night’s Phoenix Suns game against the Miami Heat with a bruised right thigh.
The two-time league MVP was injured Wednesday when he collided with Minnesota’s Kevin Love during the Suns’ 110-102 victory.
Rookie Sean Singletary replaced Nash, who’s averaging 14.3 points […]

Spurs get Parker back from ankle injury
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Tony Parker returned from an ankle injury Friday against Memphis to give the resurgent Spurs their full complement of All-Stars for the first time this season.
Parker came off the bench in the second quarter in his first action since a Nov. 7 loss to […]

Iverson sorry for missing Thanksgiving practice
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) — AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) — Allen Iverson apologized Friday for skipping a Detroit Pistons practice on Thanksgiving and insisted it won’t happen again.
The standout guard was the only player who didn’t show up when the Pistons worked out Thursday.
“First of all, I have no excuses,” […]

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Knicks suspend Marbury one game for actions in Detroit
GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — The New York Knicks needed Stephon Marbury to play, then suspended him a game and docked him nearly $400,000 in salary Friday after claiming he refused.
The disgruntled guard insists he never told coach Mike D’Antoni “no” […]

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Western Conference Insider: Popovich teaching more than ever
 By Art Garcia, NBA.com
Gregg Popovich was strolling over to the assembled media at one end of the Spurs practice facility when he made a quick detour. Tom James, the team’s PR rep, had already begun gathering the press for the post-shootaround chat.
Pop, though, […]

WASHINGTON POWERS SMB TO REPEAT WIN OVER AIR21

Beermen end 3-game skid to firm up hold of second

Jay Washington did a little of everything in San Miguel Beer’s 98-78 repeat victory over the Air21 Express Wednesday night that snapped the Beermen’s thee-game slump in the KFC-PBA Philippine Cup at the Araneta Coliseum.
Washington registered […]

AIR21 TO SETTLE SCORE VS SAN MIGUEL IN GRUDGE MATCH

Sta. Lucia tackles Talk n Text; Mendoza sanctioned

Air21 coach Bo Perasol and his Express have a business to settle with San Miguel.
There’s a lot more at stake in this encounter than to just get even. That’s why Perasol said they should be “very […]

Air21 has something to prove

The first time Air21 and San Miguel Beer met this season, it needed two overtime periods to decide a ‘controversial’ game.
The Beermen actually won, 130-129, last Nov. 5, but the Express insisted they won it in the first OT following a three-pointer by Ranidel de Ocampo, but the referees ruled it […]

Air21, SMB settle scores

This game will sell itself — for a reason most obvious to the two protagonists and to their respective fans.
“We want to prove to everyone that we beat them the last time,” Air21 coach Bo Perasol said of his Air21 crew’s clash Wednesday with San Miguel Beer, which won their bitterly disputed […]

Slumping Bulls enlist Kings’ Holper
Red Bull beefed up its frontline yesterday with the acquisition of Fil-Am forward Mike Holper in a trade with Barangay Ginebra in a move the Photokina franchise hoped could help check its slide in the KFC PBA Philippine Cup.
The Bulls made the deal on the heels of a five-game slump sending […]