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 ...

In what might have been a glimpse at the future of this year's NBA final, the top teams from the Eastern and Western conferences squared off on a night Richard Hamilton would like to soon forget. Hamilton has played a lot of basketball in his life, ...

Portland Trail Blazers owner Paul Allen plans to repurchase the Rose Garden Arena, three years after he gave it up in bankruptcy proceedings. Allen said Friday that his holding company, Vulcan Inc., has signed a letter with Portland Arena Management ...

New Orleans Hornets star Chris Paul will miss at least two games and as many as four after spraining his right ankle during Tuesday night's loss to the Seattle SuperSonics. ``We've got to re-evaluate the next couple days and see if the swelling goes ...

Bob Hill's been through this before. Twice. So he's ready for talk that he may soon get fired as coach of the injury-depleted, last-place Seattle SuperSonics. About an hour before the Sonics hosted the Chicago Bulls on Friday night, a 107-101 loss fo ...