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Morning News Roundup

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Here are this morning’s top NBA news stories: “Dallas Mavericks have hope Dirk Nowitzki can return closer to 3 weeks after surgery,” by Tim MacMahon from ESPN.com “Leandro Barbosa unfazed by guard logjam,” by Steve Bulpett from the Boston Herald Pablo Prigioni of Knicks is NBA’s oldest rookie in 40 years,” by Nate Taylor from the New York Times “Dwight Howard has impressive debut in Lakers’ preseason loss to Kings,” by Mark Medina from  Los Angeles Daily News “Cleveland Cavaliers coach Byron Scott not happy with team’s rebounding,” by Mary

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SH Blog: McHale says Lin will have to play better, Dwight Howard’s back no longer in pain

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If you saw the box score of the Rockets-Spurs preseason game on Sunday, you may have noticed an ugly stat line from Mr. Linsanity – the electrifying point guard that shocked the basketball world last season. Lin managed to hit just one-of-10 shots with one assist while committing two turnovers in 25 minutes of play against the stifling defense of San Antonio. Lin’s biggest issue so far in the preseason appears to be the status of the knee he had surgery

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Five reasons to feel positive about the New York Knicks

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(This entry is another in a series of 30 guest columns that will run in October, when optimism reigns supreme across the NBA. The theme will be “Five Reasons to Feel Positive About … ” We encourage you to follow the authors on Twitter and visit their sites. – CS) I have often been labeled a Knicks optimist because that’s my personality by nature. Plus, it’s a combination of finding myself having to defend them against what I sometimes find to

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USA vs. Argentina: The End of a Beautiful Rivalry

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Team USA won 59 straight basketball games after allowing NBA players to compete in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. That included Olympic titles in 1992, 1996 and 2000 and a FIBA World Championship in 1994 (the U.S. sent a ragtag group of non-NBA players—Trajan Langdon, Brad Miller, Wendell Alexis—and picked up the bronze in 1998 during the NBA lockout). But ten years after Jordan and Barkley got things rolling in the right direction, the United States entrusted Baron Davis, Paul Pierce and Raef

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SH Blog: The Dwightmare continues?

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Everyone’s still focused in on London, where Team USA took on France earlier today. I’m not going to spoil the result for you if you somehow don’t know it yet, so if you’re living a few hours in the past, be sure to check out our preview of that USA-France game.  If you’re in the present with the rest of us, go ahead and read Chris Sheridan’s newest Diary of the Uncredentialed, where he describes watching that USA-France game in

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Gibson: Freeland Could Join Blazers; Andy Rautins Update

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BARCELONA — Joel Freeland could be a Portland Trailblazer next year after all. Reports surfaced last week that the 25-year-old British power forward and Trail Blazers draftee (30th overall in 2006) had signed an extension with Unicaja Malaga of Spain, lending serious doubt to his NBA future.  After a 75-65 loss to Banca Civica Sevilla in the Copa del Rey, Joel Freeland said those reports were untrue. “We’ve always been talking since day one but there’s no agreement at this point,” said Freeland. When

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