His roster remains one of the youngest in the league, and he is about to lead a team through a truncated season for the second time in his NBA career, but Washington Wizards Coach Flip Saunders is entering his third season with the franchise with more stability and continuity than ever before. Saunders is not trying to teach a new system to a group of obstinate veterans, as he did in his first year. He’s not trying to lead the first year of rebuilding effort around John Wall , while also placating the former face of the franchise, Gilbert Arenas , as he did in his second year. Read full article > >

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NBA commissioner David Stern says a “tentative understanding” has been reached to end the five-month lockout.

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The NBA resumed lawsuit settlement talks on Friday at noon with the hopes of resolving the nearly five-month labor dispute in time to start a 66-game season by Christmas. Though the players’ union stopped existing when National Basketball Players’ Association filed a disclaimer of interest and disbanded in order to filed antitrust lawsuits against the NBA in California and Minnesota. Those lawsuits were consolidated into one on Monday and settlement negotiations were initiated a day later. Read full article > >

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The NBA ’s more than four-month long labor dispute effectively moved from debates in plush hotels to arguments in a courthouse when the players’ union disbanded in an effort to file an antitrust lawsuit against the NBA. And on Tuesday, players hit the league with separate antitrust complaints in Minnesota and the Northern District of California in an effort to prove that the lockout is illegal. Read full article > >

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NBA officials and player representatives met Wednesday afternoon in New York and talked until about 1 a.m. Thursday, but walked out of a Manhattan hotel after 12 hours of negotiations without an agreement and no indication that a deal was close at hand. The sides agreed to resume talks at noon Thursday. NBA Players Association president Derek Fisher cautioned that “we can’t say there was significant progress made.” Both declined to provide details of the discussions. Read full article > >

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NBA officials and player representatives met Wednesday afternoon in New York and talked until about 1 a.m. Thursday, but walked out of a Manhattan hotel after 12 hours of negotiations without an agreement and no indication that a deal was close at hand. The sides agreed to resume talks at noon Thursday. NBA Players Association president Derek Fisher cautioned that “we can’t say there was significant progress made.” Both declined to provide details of the discussions. Read full article > >

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NEW YORK — The NBA has a better chance of playing no games this season than it does to play 82 games. Commissioner David Stern announced the cancellation of games through Nov. 30 on Friday, ensuring a regular season of fewer than 82 games for the first time since the league had a 50-game schedule in 1998-99. Read full article > >

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NEW YORK — NBA owners and players called it an early night Thursday, with both pointing toward Friday as a decisive day for big moves to end the 119-day lockout. Or not. After two days of talks about the salary cap system, they will turn their attention back to the division of revenues, which derailed the negotiations last week. Read full article > >

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The owners “lied to you,” Derek Fisher said, moments after the players union president walked out of fruitless labor talks in Manhattan on Thursday night . And with that the mutual distrust and name-calling began anew. Now the NBA is again facing the prospect of a bye year . Soon, it won’t be about money. Soon, the Rev. Jesse Jackson worries, it will be personal and irreconcilable and no longer about the color green. Read full article > >

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I don’t believe the In 1987 Sarah Palin Had A One-Night Stand With NBA Star-to-Be Glen Rice story that the National Enquirer and the new Palin book by Joe McGinniss are promoting. If there’s one thing we’ve learned from the past three years, it’s that Sarah Palin Doesn’t Like Rice. (If you want more jokes, especially jokes that have Mann Act attitudes towards what the Enquirer called a “ steamy, interracial hookup ,” just go on Twitter, where they will oblige you in sickening spades.) Read full article > >

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ATLANTA — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is helping police in Atlanta and Los Angeles search for a former NBA player wanted in the killing of a woman. FBI Special Agent Steve Emmett in Atlanta told The Associated Press on Sunday that the agency is involved in the hunt for Javaris Crittenton. Authorities issued a warrant on a murder charge for Crittenton after the shooting of 22-year Jullian Jones. The mother of four was gunned down Aug. 19 in Atlanta. Atlanta police spokesman Sgt. Curtis Davenport said Crittenton was not in custody as of Sunday afternoon. He declined further comment. Read full article > >

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NEW YORK — They could go with the mop-haired, trash-talking forward who left his homeland of Czech Republic four years ago to play in a basketball-crazed nation and beamed with pride as fans serenaded him after his last game for his team. Or they could go with shy big man from Lithuania who remains unsure about whether he will even play in the NBA next season as his agent attempts to negotiate a buyout agreement with his current team. They could go with the confident forward from Turkey who is good friends with John Wall and spent an entire year as a practice player at Kentucky. Or they could go with the long-armed forward with the big hands from San Diego State. If all else fails, they could take the center from Texas who hopes to be in the analysts’ booth when his playing career is over. Read full article > >

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MIAMI My home town of Akron, Ohio, is known for being the former “Rubber Capital of the World.” In basketball circles, though, it will forever be best known as the home town of LeBron James — the NBA superstar who kicked off a national controversy last summer when he left the Cleveland Cavaliers to play here for the Miami Heat. The Heat are now tied 1-1 in the NBA Finals, meaning that James is within striking distance of a championship. That was a goal that eluded him for seven seasons in Cleveland, despite the team’s great chances, high hopes and the city’s adoration for its homegrown star. Read full article > >

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LeBron James left Ohio. So does everyone else.