On Basketball: Donât Be Surprised if Durant Delivers Big
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At the moment of his first 40-point, 20-rebound outburst, the world will realize what Kevin Durant is hiding behind his smile.
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Seattle rookie Kevin Durant found out what the rest of the NBA has discovered through two months of the season Â slowing down Boston's new Big Three isn't easy.
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Steroids boost the body but donât expect a âgotchaâ in a playerâs statistics.
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New York _ For the first two months of the season, the Phoenix Suns and Seattle SuperSonics were the toast of the NBA. For one night, however, neither team was all that special.
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OAKLAND -- -- It makes for a neat little fantasy to suggest that if the Golden State Warriors had only held onto Antawn Jamison, Gilbert Arenas and Larry Hughes, they&#39;d be having the kind of success the Washington Wizards are enjoying right now.
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Kevin Durant is the cornerstone of the Seattle SuperSonics' future. P.J. Carlesimo gets the first opportunity to teach Durant the ways of the NBA.
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Kevin Durant, chosen second over all in the N.B.A. draft by the Seattle Supersonics, is a candidate for rookie of the year with about one-quarter of the regular season behind him.
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In other sports, the All-Star game is a necessary evil. In the NBA, it's the occasion for a party -- and this year's in Vegas will be the biggest yet
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Billed as the deepest in years, with two franchise players at the top, the 2007 NBA draft also is one that is prompting tons of trade talk, and thus makes any kind of prediction a risky endeavor. Suffice it to say that we know Greg Oden and Kevin Durant are going 1-2, or maybe 2-1, and Al Horford appears to ...
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The Orlando Magic should be used to disappointment. Shaquille O'Neal left a decade ago, and the Magic got nothing in return. Tracy McGrady left three years ago, and Orlando got little more than a headache for him.
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Rajon Rondo might not play. The offense is sluggish. The defense is passable, but getting lazy. What a perfect time to be seeing the hottest team in the NBA!
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Kevin Durant matched his career-high with five 3-pointers and scored 32 points to lead No. 19 Texas to a 68-58 win over Oklahoma on Saturday. It was the seventh 30-point game of the season for the Longhorns' sensational 6-foot-9 freshman, and his first since he scored 32 in a 73-72 loss to Kansas State on Feb. 3.
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Although the Golden State Warriors did a pretty sharp impersonation of the fast-breaking, high-scoring Phoenix Suns, it wasn't quite as good as the genuine article.
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The Nets started the fourth quarter against the Orlando Magic with a surprising burst from their supporting cast, and finished it with the expected contribution of their stars.
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When his name was announced in the starting lineup for the first time as an NBA player last night, Glen Davis was more nervous than even one would expect a rookie to be. But by the way "Big Baby" played in a 90-78 victory over the Sacramento Kings at TD Banknorth Garden, it was hard to view him as a ...
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The Magic couldn&#39;t stop Kobe Bryant in the fourth quarter Friday night, but they discovered something many NBA teams may be learning this season -- they didn&#39;t have to.
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The Sporting News - Hope comes in many forms in the NBA.\