NBA Basketball News

JONESBORO, Ga. (AP) -- Former NBA All-Star Daron ''Mookie'' Blaylock is out of the hospital and in jail, charged with vehicular homicide in a car crash south of Atlanta.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- Moments after getting his championship ring on the night this NBA season opened last October, Mike Miller walked to midcourt, grabbed a microphone and addressed the delirious crowd.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- Somehow, some way, the San Antonio Spurs seem to have discovered a secret that every team in the league desperately searched for all season long. They have figured out a way to slow down LeBron James.

MIAMI (AP) -- Mario Chalmers marched toward midcourt with a message.

MIAMI (AP) -- LeBron James had another decision to make.

MIAMI (AP) -- There were no miracles from Tony Parker in Game 2.

MIAMI (AP) -- Jason Kidd is interested in the Brooklyn Nets' coaching position and plans to talk to the team this week, a person familiar with the situation said Sunday.

MIAMI (AP) -- Chauncey Billups wasn't familiar with the touching tale of friendship between Jack Twyman and Maurice Stokes.

MIAMI (AP) -- Mike Budenholzer is in his final series on the staff with the San Antonio Spurs. David Fizdale is now often mentioned as a candidate for jobs that could take him away from his job with the Miami Heat.

MIAMI (AP) -- The NBA Finals. Just being here can be memorable - and miserable.

BOSTON (AP) -- NBA veteran center Jason Collins, the first active athlete in one of the four U.S. major professional sports leagues to come out as being gay, marched Saturday for nearly three miles in Boston's gay pride parade with U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III, his onetime roommate at Stanford University.

MIAMI (AP) -- Danny Green smiled as he stepped behind the interview podium and a crowd of reporters gathered around him to talk about the NBA Finals.

MIAMI (AP) -- With six simple words, LeBron James explained the philosophy behind the way he now plays the game.

MIAMI (AP) -- Finishing games is becoming a concern for the Miami Heat.

DENVER (AP) -- Denver Nuggets President Josh Kroenke said Friday that it was hard to let both the NBA's executive of the year and its coach of the year get away following a franchise record 57-win season, ''but I'm not here to win awards, I'm here to win banners.''

NEW YORK (AP) -- The NBA Finals' television viewership for Game 1 was down 12 percent from last year.

MIAMI (AP) -- For all the playoff slugfests he has endured over the years, for all the elbows to the ribs he's taken in the post, for all the postseason runs between this NBA Finals and his last one, precious little has changed for Tim Duncan.

MIAMI (AP) -- If LeBron James played for the San Antonio Spurs, Gregg Popovich might have a message for him.

MIAMI (AP) -- A day later, Tony Parker's shot was still the talk of the NBA Finals.

MIAMI (AP) -- Dwyane Wade's first three trips to the NBA Finals all were accompanied by a statistical oddity. The Game 1 winner in each of those series wound up watching the other team celebrate a championship.