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(AP) — Based on the results from Oakland, California, last night, there is currently no doubt who the class of the NBA is. The reigning league champion Warriors played host to their closest rival this year, San Antonio, and walked off with a blowout 30-point win, 120-90...

The Golden State Warriors are tearing through the NBA like the other teams are a bunch of small fry squads, while the Philadelphia 76ers are limping through like they're one of those small fries other teams long to play.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kobe Bryant has decided to retire after this season, ending his 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers. The 37-year-old Bryant made the announcement in a post on The Players' Tribune on Sunday. The third-leading scorer in NBA history wrote a poem entitled "Dear Basketball" to announce his decision...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — LaMarcus Aldridge scored 23 points in his return to Portland, leading the San Antonio Spurs to a 113-101 victory over the Trail Blazers on Wednesday night. Aldridge, who played nine seasons in Portland before leaving as a free agent this summer, added six rebounds...

DENVER (AP) — J.J. Hickson scored 19 points and rookie Emmanuel Mudiay hit two game-sealing free throws with 18.3 seconds remaining, helping the Denver Nuggets beat the Portland Trail Blazers 108-104 on Monday night. Mudiay finished with 18 points and Kenneth Faried added 17 — and drew a key late charge — as the Nuggets ended an eight-game skid to the Trail Blazers...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Damian Lillard had 34 points and seven assists, and the Portland Trail Blazers beat Minnesota 106-101 on Monday night after the Timberwolves honored fallen coach Flip Saunders with an emotional pregame tribute. Lillard made 14 of 25 shots, C...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Blake Griffin scored 22 points and Paul Pierce had 19 as the Los Angeles Clippers defeated the Portland Trail Blazers 115-109 in the preseason finale for both teams on Thursday night. Pierce scored 14 in the fourth quarter and the Clippers came back from 28 points down in the first quarter and an 18-point halftime deficit...

PAHRUMP, Nev. (AP) --€” Authorities say former NBA and reality TV star Lamar Odom has been hospitalized after he was found unconscious at a Nevada brothel. Nye County Sheriff Sharon A. Wehrly says the department got a call Tuesday afternoon requesting an ambulance for an unresponsive man at the Love Ranch in Crystal, Nev...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Meyers Leonard scored 19 points to help the Portland Trail Blazers beat the Utah Jazz 88-81 in preseason action Monday night. The Blazers improved to 2-2 despite Damian Lillard sitting with a left ankle injury...

(AP) — The man known as "Chocolate Thunder" because of his dunking ability in the NBA, Darryl Dawkins, has passed away. Dawkins, who played in the NBA for 14 seasons, died at the age of 58. Because of his backboard-shattering dunks, the use of breakaway rims was instigated in basketball worldwide...