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Team USA to face Argentina, Spain in exhibitions

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Team USA doesn’t plan on taking the easy path to defending its Olympic gold medal. In advance of the 2012 Olympics in London, the United States has lined up five exhibition games, including showdowns with nemeses Spain and Argentina. The U.S. also will play Brazil, the Dominican Republic and host Britain in the lead-up to the Olympics, USA Basketball announced Friday. “We have again scheduled an extremely challenging lineup of exhibition opponents for our USA Men’s National Team,” USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo

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Hamilton: Knicks need chemistry to contend

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NEW YORK – After Thursday night’s 102-88 loss to the Miami Heat, the New York Knicks have reached the All-Star break with a 17-18 record. They’re clinging to the Eastern Conference’s seventh seed and hardly resemble a playoff team, much less a championship contender. Good wins. Bad losses. Injuries, disappointments, and pleasant surprises. It’s been a long two months for the New York City Slickers. But for their sake, I hope they’ve been eating their Wheaties and taking their multivitamins, because the next two

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Rondo replaces Curry in Skills Challenge

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Two days ago, Rajon Rondo had nearly a week off for the All-Star break. Now he’s an extremely busy man. The star point guard of the Boston Celtics, added Wednesday to the Eastern Conference All-Stars as an injury replacement for Atlanta’s Joe Johnson, will also fill in for injured Stephen Curry of Golden State in the Skills Challenge on All-Star Saturday. The NBA announced the move Friday, hours before media availability begins in Orlando, Fla. Sheridan Hoops is on site and will

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Heat shut down Lin; Thunder make statement to Lakers

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The story of Jeremy Lin has been that of a fairy tale, an unscripted movie, since he took over the reins of the Knicks some three weeks ago. Capturing the hearts of basketball fans around the globe, he answered all questions and exceeded all expectations one big game after another, be it Kobe Bryant or the NBA champs. On Thursday, Lin faced LeBron James and the suffocating defense of the Miami Heat. The best team in the league came prepared to

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Fantasy Spin: Friday Feb. 24

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It was about time for Jeremy Lin to have a bad game. Everyone does. The ferocious Miami defense harassed the Knicks’ PG into eight turnovers, and held him to 1-11 shooting. Don’t panic; the Heat can do this to a lot of teams. Amare Stoudamire turned the ball over six times and had just 13 points, and while Carmelo Anthony scored 19, he shot 7-20 with five FG attempts blocked. Only J.R. Smith and Steve Novak seemed unaffected by the

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Thursday’s NBA Post-Game Notes

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Jeremy Lin became the third person since 1977-78 (when turnovers became official) to turn the ball over 8 times and shoot less than ten percent from the field. This is the first time this season each of the Heat’s Big 3 finished with at least 20 points in a single game. They had 21 such instances last season, posting an 18-3 mark in such games. The Heat post a 27-7 mark before the All-Star Break, good for a .794 win percentage. It’s

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Tweet of the Day: Jamal Crawford

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I think Baron Davis will play more second half..this is learning experience for Jeremy...playoff like atmosphere out there.
February 23, 2012 8:12 pm via Twitter for BlackBerry®ReplyRetweetFavorite
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Jamal Crawford
Crawford, an experienced veteran and former Knick, was right on point. Lin has had an incredible run, but he was simply overmatched tonight. The Heat came into tonight’s game like it was game 7, and Lin, for the first time, looked intimidated and inexperienced. Baron Davis, who just returned from injury, needed to play a lot more in the second half considering his experience and composure. Th Knicks did keep up with the Heat for most of the game,

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Freeroll tonight after Sheridan trounced in challenge

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DNP-PR is a close cousin to DNP-CD. The first stands for Did Not Play-Personal Reasons. The second stands for Did Not Play-Coach’s Decision. I had the unfortunate luck of having Lamar Odom on my roster for last night’s fantasy challenge sponsored by Draft Street, and Odom was not with the Dallas Mavericks for their game against Odom’s former team, the Los Angeles Lakers, after being excused from the game for personal reasons (a DNP-PR) to tend to a family matter. That left

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