NBA Basketball News

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Seven-time All-Star Grant Hill retired from the NBA on Saturday after 19 seasons, ending a career interrupted by injuries that included an Olympic gold medal.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Indiana staggered Miami with one more big punch Saturday night.

The Sacramento Kings will introduce former Golden State assistant Mike Malone as their head coach on Monday.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Pacers forward David West will start in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals Saturday night.

ATLANTA (AP) -- Former NBA All-Star guard Daron ''Mookie'' Blaylock was upgraded to serious condition at an Atlanta hospital Saturday, a day after his SUV crashed head-on into a van and killed a woman.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Miami forward Chris Andersen grudgingly accepted his punishment from the NBA on Saturday morning.

JONESBORO, Ga. (AP) -- Former NBA All-Star guard Daron ''Mookie'' Blaylock was in critical condition at a hospital late Friday after his SUV crossed the center line and crashed head-on into a van in suburban Atlanta, fatally injuring a passenger in the van, police said.

MIAMI (AP) -- Standing on the cusp of the NBA Finals has tended to agree with the Miami Heat in each of the last two seasons. When the Heat have gotten a game away from the title round, they've finished the task as quickly as possible.

From the moment he took over the moribund Toronto Raptors last month, Tim Leiweke vowed to make some significant changes to return the team to competitiveness in the Eastern Conference.

A new owner is in place. A new coach is on the way. And for the first time in 14 years, Sacramento Kings fans can celebrate a new era.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Chris Andersen was suspended Friday by the NBA for his altercation with Tyler Hansbrough, leaving the Miami Heat without one of their best big men as they try to finish off the Indiana Pacers in Game 6.

Four days after Larry Drew was replaced in Atlanta, the Milwaukee Bucks have swooped in to scoop him up.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Jazz forward Marvin Williams will undergo surgery next week on his right heel and Achilles tendon.

MIAMI (AP) -- The game was very much in doubt. A sold-out arena was basically silent. The chance of getting back to the NBA Finals for a third straight year could have slipped away.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Incoming Sacramento Kings owner Vivek Ranadive is already making moves to rebuild the fallen franchise.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- For a draft that has widely been panned as lacking star power at the top, the one strength of the 2013 class appears to be at shooting guard.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Golden State Warriors All-Star power forward David Lee had surgery Thursday to repair a torn right hip flexor, an injury that forced him out of the starting lineup and limited his minutes in the playoffs.

PHOENIX (AP) -- Former Phoenix Suns star Steve Nash is fighting to keep his ex-wife and three children from moving to California, where he now plays for the Los Angeles Lakers.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Miami's LeBron James and Indiana's David West and Lance Stephenson were all fined $5,000 by the NBA on Thursday for violating the league's anti-flopping policy.

MIAMI (AP) -- Several times around the start of these playoffs, Miami coach Erik Spoelstra insisted that the postseason path his team would wind up navigating had the potential to be more challenging than the route they took to the NBA championship a year ago.