Basketball
Mavs big Wood sidelined with fractured thumb
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Thursday, 19 January 2023 13:12
DALLAS -- Mavericks center/power forward Christian Wood fractured his left thumb and will be re-evaluated next week, the team announced Thursday.Wood sustained the injury during the second quarter of the Mavs' 130-122 loss to the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday but finished the game, scoring 22 points and grabbing nine rebounds.Wood, a summer trade acquisition who opened the season as a…
Proposals, PSG Academy and more sights from Pistons-Bulls in Paris
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Thursday, 19 January 2023 11:58
The Detroit Pistons and Chicago Bulls are in Paris for the NBA's second-ever regular-season game in France.Perhaps no one was more excited than Pistons guard Killian Hayes, who grew up in France and played professional basketball for Cholet Basket."I think it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," Hayes said, per NBA.com. "There are 30 [NBA] teams, and we're fortunate enough that they picked…
Giannis, KD 1-2 in East, LeBron tops AS voting
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Thursday, 19 January 2023 10:32
PARIS -- Milwaukee's Giannis Antetokounmpo has passed Brooklyn's Kevin Durant for the All-Star Game voting lead among Eastern Conference players, putting him on track to be a captain for the Feb. 19 game in Salt Lake City.Antetokounmpo had 5,970,196 votes entering Thursday, the NBA said in the third update of the All-Star balloting. Durant is 132,014 votes behind, with 5,838,182.LeBron…
The NBA's long and winding road back to Paris
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Thursday, 19 January 2023 09:01
Joakim Noah takes just seconds to cast his mind back and remembers his first time seeing an NBA team. It was 1997, and the Chicago Bulls were in Paris for the McDonald's Championship, a tournament that brought together the best teams from various parts of the world to face off against each other. The tickets had been bought by his…
Despite a lack of on-court success, the Bulls remain a global phenomenon
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Thursday, 19 January 2023 09:01
CHICAGO -- WHEN THE Chicago Bulls first came to Paris for a pair of exhibition games in the 1997 McDonald's Championship, they were on top of the basketball world.Fans lined up outside the team hotel to catch a glimpse of Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman and the other Bulls, who were coming off a second consecutive NBA championship and…
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