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The Boston Celtics start as favorites after having the best regular season record, followed by the defending champions of Denver

Stars compete for an invitation to the most coveted row in American professional sports. It’s free, but it comes with conditions, as a couple of popular models have discovered the hard way

Thirty years ago, the sports world found out that one of its stars was retiring from basketball to try his hand at baseball, a move whose true, tragic reasons only became known years later

The results from the basketball competition will also count towards the regular-season standings

Kristaps Porzingis scored 15 points in his return to Washington, where he spent his previous 1 1/2 seasons

The highly rated French center scored 15 points in his first official game but the San Antonio Spurs fell to a 119-126 defeat by the Dallas Mavericks

The league’s foreign stars include Jokic, Antetokounmpo, Dončić and Wembanyama, to name a few

The Frenchman with the San Antonio Spurs is big news in the League, but his team is far from playing at the level of the teams like Denver, Phoenix, Milwaukee, and especially Boston

The 38-year-old enters this season as the NBA’s most senior player. James is 1,348 points shy of the 40,000 mark for his regular-season career

The 2023-24 championship features a new in-season tourmanent, the NBA Cup, but all eyes will be on the towering 19-year-old French rookie, the number one Spurs pick

Boston gave up two key pieces, point guard Malcolm Brogdon, the NBA’s reigning Sixth Man of the Year, and forward Robert Williams, and Portland gets two future first-round draft picks

Spain is now No. 2, and World Cup champion Germany soared eight spots to No. 3 on the world list, the best in that program’s history

Andreas Obst scored 24 points, Franz Wagner added 22 and Germany shredded the U.S. defense for much of the way in its first win over the Americans

In addition to a meniscectomy, the Pelicans said, Murphy received a biologic injection that is meant to slow or stop inflammation around the injured joint

Vaidas Kariniauskas scored 15 points, Mindaugas Kuzminskas added 14 and Lithuania beat the U.S. 110-104 in a second-round game at the World Cup

Everyone plays a role, starter or non-starter, and that’s exactly how USA Basketball wanted this roster to work when it was assembled

Spain defeated Brazil 96-78, and the Americans beat Greece 109-81

The 18-year-old son of Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James was stricken on July 24

A total of 38,115 fans came to a game, breaking the record of 32,616 set at the gold-medal game of the 1994 world championship in Toronto when the U.S. rolled past Russia for the title

Harden made public comments on Aug. 14 and Aug. 17 saying he would not perform the services called for under his player contract unless he were traded to another team

The announcement came a few months after Mallorca restructured its ownership, with club president Andy Kohlberg acquiring the shares of former Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver

Spain is the defending champion, having won in China four years ago

An 18-0 run in the final minutes saved the Americans, who finished the exhibition season 5-0

Jenkins, Langston Galloway and Eric Mika were the trio that got the call for this trip

Teams have gotten an 80-game schedule for the coming season for now. The other two games will be based on how they fare in the new tournament that starts Nov. 3

Murray joins a long list of NBA players who considered playing in the World Cup but could not because of injury issues or other rest-related concerns