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Embiid, Towns banned 2 games after throwdown
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Thursday, 31 October 2019 16:39
The 76ers' Joel Embiid and the Timberwolves' Karl-Anthony Towns each received a two-game suspension for their roles in an altercation in their game in Philadelphia on Wednesday night.The suspensions, announced Thursday by league vice president Kiki VanDeWeghe, also noted the players' "continued escalation following the incident."Embiid and Towns became tangled in the third quarter of the Sixers' 117-95 victory and…
Kuzma practices, set for season debut Friday
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Thursday, 31 October 2019 15:07
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Barring any setbacks, Los Angeles Lakers forward Kyle Kuzma will make his season debut on Friday against the Dallas Mavericks.After participating on Wednesday in a practice with the South Bay Lakers, the team's G League affiliate, Kuzma went through his first practice with his Lakers teammates on Thursday prior to the team's flight to Dallas."Yesterday was…
Pacers' Turner (ankle sprain) week-to-week
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Thursday, 31 October 2019 12:53
Indiana Pacers center Myles Turner is listed as week-to-week after spraining his right ankle Wednesday, the team announced.The injury occurred in the first quarter of Indiana's 118-108 road win against the Brooklyn Nets.The team's 2015 first-round draft pick is averaging 14.8 points and 6.8 rebounds in four games this season.Pacers point guard Edmond Sumner has a nondisplaced fracture of his…
Center of attention: Where Tacko Fall stands in basketball
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Thursday, 31 October 2019 12:19
HE TRAINED HIMSELF to be gracious, even though no one afforded him the same consideration.When kids in Senegal taunted him simply because he towered above them, he refused to retaliate, refused to dissolve into tears, refused to scamper home and tattle to his mother, even though he was just an 8-year-old boy."I could not tell my mother," Tacko Fall says.…
KD: Draymond spat a factor in leaving Warriors
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Thursday, 31 October 2019 09:55
NEW YORK -- Kevin Durant said his altercation with Draymond Green last November was one of many factors that ultimately led him to leave the Golden State Warriors for the Brooklyn Nets in free agency."I wish that wouldn't have happened," Durant said on Thursday.Durant's comments came during a wide-ranging interview on ESPN's First Take, where the former NBA MVP discussed…
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