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Lakers Forward Hill Charged With Assault

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (NBA/Newsfeed) — Los Ange­les Lak­ers for­ward Jor­dan Hill faces a felony assault charge after his girl­friend accused him of chok­ing and shov­ing her in Hous­ton ear­lier this year. Hill is charged with assault­ing 28-year-old Dar­lene Luna on Feb. 29 at his apart­ment while the New York Knicks’ for­mer first-round draft pick was play­ing for the Hous­ton Rockets. The 24-year-old Hill was charged by Har­ris County pros­e­cu­tors in March, and he has a court appear­ance sched­uled for Tues­day in Houston. Hill was apolo­getic, but said lit­tle about... 

Nuggets’ Chandler Has Surgery, Expected Ready for Camp

DENVER (NBA/Newsfeed) — The Den­ver Nuggets say for­ward Wil­son Chan­dler is expected to be ready by the start of train­ing camp next sea­son after under­go­ing surgery to repair a labral tear in his left hip. The arthro­scopic pro­ce­dure was per­formed Mon­day by Dr. Marc Philippon. Chan­dler arrived in Den­ver last year as part of the block­buster trade that sent Carmelo Anthony to the New York Knicks. He played for Zhe­jiang Guang­sha of the Chi­nese Bas­ket­ball Asso­ci­a­tion dur­ing the NBA lock­out and rejoined the Nuggets in March, sign­ing a five-year deal... 

Celtics’ Rondo Suspended Bumping Official

NEW YORK (NBA/Newsfeed) — Rajon Rondo of the Boston Celtics has been sus­pended one game with­out pay for mak­ing con­tact with a game offi­cial, it was announced today by Stu Jack­son, NBA Exec­u­tive Vice Pres­i­dent Bas­ket­ball Operations. The inci­dent occurred with 0:41 sec­onds remain­ing in the fourth quar­ter of the Celtics’ 83–74 loss to the Atlanta Hawks at Philips Arena on April 29. Rondo will serve his sus­pen­sion tomor­row when the Celtics play the Hawks in Game 2 of their open­ing round series in Atlanta. BetLM's sports betting news features unique sports betting articles as well as current sports news compiled from leading wire services. This arti­cle was dis­trib­uted by... 

Clippers’ Caron Butler Out With Broken Left Hand

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (NBA/Newsfeed) — Clip­pers for­ward Caron But­ler broke his left hand Sun­day in Game 1 of Los Ange­les’ series against the Mem­phis Grizzlies. But­ler had 12 points and two rebounds in 23 min­utes, and the Clip­pers ral­lied with­out him. They tied the NBA play­off record for largest deficit over­come at the end of three quar­ters, when they trailed by 21, and beat the Griz­zlies 99–98. The for­ward said he thinks he got hurt early in the third quar­ter when his hand got caught dur­ing a pin-down screen in the jer­sey of Griz­zlies for­ward Rudy Gay,... 

Knicks’ Shumpert Tears ACL, Out for Postseason

MIAMI (NBA/Newsfeed) — Knicks rookie guard Iman Shumpert will miss the rest of the post­sea­son after tear­ing a left knee lig­a­ment in the third quar­ter of New York’s Game 1 loss to the Miami Heat on Saturday. The Knicks announced Shumpert also tore his lat­eral menis­cus. Surgery will be sched­uled in New York and Shumpert is expected to miss approx­i­mately six to eight months. Shumpert, who started the final 17 games of the reg­u­lar sea­son after Jeremy Lin had knee surgery, was bring­ing the ball up the right side­line and tried to drib­ble behind his back when he pulled... 

Bulls’ Rose Out for Postseason With Torn ACL

CHICAGO (NBA/Newsfeed) — Bulls star Der­rick Rose will miss the rest of the sea­son because of a torn ante­rior cru­ci­ate lig­a­ment in his left knee. Rose was helped off the court late in Chicago’s 103–91 playoff-opening vic­tory over the Philadel­phia 76ers on Sat­ur­day, a stag­ger­ing blow for a team eye­ing a cham­pi­onship run. He scored 23 points and was play­ing more like the league’s reign­ing MVP after miss­ing 27 games because of injuries dur­ing the reg­u­lar sea­son, but his sea­son came to an end as the Bulls were wrap­ping up an impres­sive win. Rose... 

Lottery Odds Also Decided Last Week of Season

NBA (Helin) — We keep talk­ing about the teams talk­ing play­offs — who gets home court, Boston or Atlanta, or can Phoenix catch Utah and get the last spot in the West — but there is a tight race among teams who have long for­got­ten about the playoffs. A lot of lot­tery odds are still to be decided this week as teams are bunched up near the bot­tom. A lot of team’s chances of land­ing Anthony Davis or tak­ing a risk on Andre Drum­mond ride on this week. Make no mis­take, the Bob­cats will clear and away have the best lot­tery odds. Thanks to their his­tor­i­cally bad 7–56... 

Lakers Get Huge Double Overtime Win Over Thunder.… Without Harden

LOS ANGELES (NBA/Moore) — The Los Ange­les Lak­ers defeated the Okla­homa City Thun­der Sun­day, 112–106. In five years, that’s all that will remain from this game, in searched box scores. Those are the facts. But what hap­pened is such a big­ger story. I’ve been sit­ting here strug­gling to find a way to accu­rately por­tray this game. Can you deny that the Lak­ers played a fan­tas­tic round of bas­ket­ball down the stretch, with Kobe Bryant putting in a vir­tu­oso per­for­mance even for him? You can’t. Can you ignore the fact that the Lak­ers not only took out... 

Don’t Expect Kobe Back for Lakers vs. Spurs Tuesday

Los Ange­les, CA (Helin) — Nor­mally, this kind of game — the two seed Spurs vs. the three seed Lak­ers — is the kind of con­test where we try to gain clues about what would hap­pen if they meant in the sec­ond round of the playoffs. But this time, the game may be hard to read. For one, Kobe Bryant is likely to miss another game, tweets Mike Bres­na­han of the Los Ange­les Times. Kobe Bryant did some light shoot­ing today but isn’t expected to play tomor­row vs. San Anto­nio. It would be his 6th game missed (sore shin). On the other bench, the Spurs will be in the mid­dle... 

Derek Fisher Fires Back at NBA Players’ Union

NEW YORK (NBA/Helin) — This is get­ting ugly. First NBA play­ers’ union pres­i­dent Derek Fisher con­vinced the exec­u­tive com­mit­tee of the union to do a full-scale audit of the union and its busi­ness. Then union exec­u­tive direc­tor Billy Hunter con­vinced the exec­u­tive com­mit­tee to both kill that audit and ask Fisher to resign. He refused. They asked again. Then Fisher released this state­ment on Fri­day night. We take it from Adrian Woj­narowski of Yahoo. “I along with many oth­ers are extremely dis­ap­pointed with the exec­u­tive com­mit­tee,”...