AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) _ The Detroit Pistons signed first-rounddraft picks Rodney Stuckey and Arron Afflalo to contracts Friday. Stuckey, the 15th selection in last month's NBA draft, played twoseasons at Eastern Washington. His 24.2 points per ga ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The Indiana Pacers started addressing theirneed for outside shooting by looking way outside, signing LithuanianLeague star Kareem Rush. The six-foot-six guard was the Baltic League Final Four MVP lastseason. A first-round draft p ...

SEATTLE (AP) _ If David Stern has his way inside his own league,the SuperSonics will remain in Seattle. The NBA commissioner, an associate of Sonics owner Clay Bennettfor more than a decade since Bennett was the San Antonio Spurs'representative on t ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ If history repeats itself for Jim O'Brien,the Indiana Pacers will return to post-season play next season. In Boston and Philadelphia, O'Brien took over teams that hadlosing records the previous season and earned a playoff berth ...

SECAUCUS, N.J. (AP) _ The Portland Trail Blazers are no longerlottery losers _ and maybe they won't be hapless on the court muchlonger, either. A year after they missed out on the top pick despite the league'sworst record, the Trail Blazers beat th ...

NEW YORK (CP-AP) _ Phoenix Suns guard Steve Nash was a unanimous selection to the all-NBA team while Toronto Raptors forward Chris Bosh earned second team honours Wednesday. Nash's teammate Amare Stoudemire, Dallas forward Dirk Nowitzki, San Antonio ...

TORONTO (CP) _ Toronto Raptors coach Sam Mitchell has gone from worst to first. After being voted the worst coach in the NBA in an unofficial poll of players by Sports Illustrated last season, Mitchell was named the league's coach of the year Tuesda ...

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) _ Miami Heat forward James Posey was arrested early Monday on a drunken driving charge after an officer pulled him over for stopping in the middle of a road. Posey had stopped his car on a double-lane Miami Beach road, talking ...

CLEVELAND (AP) _ LeBron James invited a buddy who has even more money than he does to watch him play. Billions and billions more. Philanthropist and businessman Warren Buffett, wearing a black T-shirt with ``Witness'' glittering on the front, sat co ...

Ben Wallace surprised the Chicago Bulls by going from uncomfortable Friday morning to ready to test his bruised knee that night against the Seattle SuperSonics. The head of Miami's Udonis Haslem hit Wallace's left knee late in last Saturday's win. Th ...