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Wizards get Jamison, Foye back in lineup
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Directing his players at Tuesday's practice session - the first in more than a month with all his core players healthy - coach Flip Saunders had to feel relieved. Antawn Jamison, one of the cornerstones for the Washington Wizards, was back for the second straight day. Randy Foye...
Grizzlies terminate Iverson's contract
12 days ago by
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. | The Allen Iverson experiment with the Memphis Grizzlies is over. Memphis announced Monday the team has ended its one-year contract with the 10-time All-Star and former league MVP in what it called a mutual agreement. Iverson began an indefinite leave of absence Nov...
Jamison expected to play Wednesday
12 days ago by
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The Washington Wizards had a completely healthy Antawn Jamison back on the practice court for the first time in five weeks, and he is expected to make his season debut Wednesday when the Cleveland Cavaliers come to town. The two-time All-Star power forward, who in the past two seasons...
First Down
13 days ago by
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WEEKEND REWIND IN CASE YOU MISSED IT Virginia Tech dominates Maryland -- Saturday's loss to the Hokies dropped the Terps to 2-8 on the year and set a up an alarming, if not likely, possibility. With games at Florida State and against Boston College, it's possible Maryland...
Arenas trying to have fun again
13 days ago by
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He tried serious. Surly even. He declared Agent Zero dead and retired the Hibachi. Once the most media-accessible star in the NBA, Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas aimed to be so focused on basketball that he had to be forced by the NBA - in the form of a $25,000 fine - to...
Tom Knott: Drama queen role fit for King James
13 days ago by
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Perhaps a Nike representative whispered into the ear of LeBron James and told him that all this talk of his impending free agency comes across as being disrespectful to his teammates and to the Cavaliers organization. Other than the Witnesses living in the Cleveland region, no one...
Wizards' slide reaches six
14 days ago by
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It had the makings for a storybook ending. There was Washington Wizards shooting guard Mike Miller putting on a gutsy performance, although he probably shouldn't have been playing with a badly sprained left shoulder. There was 5-foot-5 Earl Boykins, who wasn't even in the...
Wizards Plus
14 days ago by
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SEEN AND HEARD AT VERIZON CENTER Saturday's matchup between the Wizards and Pistons was reunion night for multiple reasons. First, it represented the first regular-season game Flip Saunders coached against Detroit since he guided the team to three straight Eastern Conference...
Outcome again dismal for feeble Terrapins
14 days ago by
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Virginia Tech arrived at Byrd Stadium in all-white uniforms. Maryland countered with black jerseys and pants and played under a dreary gray sky. By the time it was over, the Terrapins were left feeling blue - again. The No. 20 Hokies put on a name-your-score performance, routing...
Wizards could receive partial fix
15 days ago by
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The Washington Wizards, desperate to snap a five-game losing streak, anxiously looked to this weekend for what they anticipated would mark both the season debut of team captain Antawn Jamison and the return of starting shooting guard Mike Miller. Jamison and Miller - as well as backup...
Tom Knott: Injuries stink up the joint again
16 days ago by
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Another loss, another compromised joint. That apparently is the lot of the Wizards, hurting both mentally and physically. The only break the Wizards have been able to catch is the one to the left hand of Mike James. Randy Foye is the latest member of the team to succumb to the injury...
Boykins feeling at home with Wizards
16 days ago by
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It wasn't his first choice, but Earl Boykins wasn't about to let himself complain. When he didn't get the interest he wanted last year from NBA teams, he signed with Italian team Virtus Bologna for a contract reportedly worth more than $3.5 million, which made him the...
Wizards, Boykins agree to contract
17 days ago by
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Down to one healthy point guard, the Washington Wizards signed 11th-year veteran Earl Boykins on Wednesday to back up Gilbert Arenas while the club waits for the healthy return of three other players at that position. "Earl is a proven veteran point guard who will provide us...
Tom Knott: Iverson always starts with an 'I'
18 days ago by
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Anyone who paid attention to Allen Iverson's me-first carping with the Pistons last season should not be surprised that his stopover in Memphis soured in about a nanosecond. Iverson balked at coming off the bench with the Pistons, just as he is balking now with the Grizzlies...
Sloppy Arenas provides scare
18 days ago by
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MIAMI | Gilbert Arenas gave the Washington Wizards a scare about an hour before Tuesday night's game against the Miami Heat. After running through pregame warmups, the guard and team trainers informed coach Flip Saunders that the sore right calf that had kept Arenas out of Monday...
Anemic offense slowing Wizards
19 days ago by
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Rather than dwell on his team's fourth straight defeat, Gilbert Arenas chose instead to point out a positive: The Washington Wizards, he says, finally have shored up a long-standing weakness - defense. The numbers back up Arenas. The Wizards (2-5) ranked among the worst teams...
NBA's Dudley shoots for statehouse
19 days ago by
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SALEM, Ore. | Chris Dudley's free-throw shots were always iffy propositions. Now the former Portland Trail Blazer is in a new arena, taking aim at a governor's chair — and Oregon's Republicans think he can score. The one-time pro basketball star has not formally...
Wizards 'out of gas,' lose fourth straight
20 days ago by
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Gilbert Arenas knocked down a 20-foot jumper in Steve Nash's face late in the first quarter and brought back his old Hibachi move. Palms up, he waved his hands back and forth as if warming them on an imaginary grill, then he ran back down the Verizon Center floor Sunday. Then...
Tom Knott: Not taking a pass at working together
20 days ago by
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The Wizards already are immersed in self-doubt. They are out of sync and out of sorts, found wanting in purpose and cohesiveness. They are not a pretty sight, whether it is Caron Butler missing three shots at the rim or Randy Foye, inexplicably, making an ill-advised move to the...
Wizards drop fourth in a row
20 days ago by
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The Washington Wizards were unable to break out of the funk that has plagued them the past week and suffered their fourth straight loss Sunday, falling 102-90 to the visiting Phoenix Suns. The Wizards put on a better showing than they did in Friday's blowout loss at Indiana but...
Bad flashback for the Wizards
21 days ago by
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INDIANAPOLIS | So this is what it was like, huh? Gilbert Arenas found himself thinking that Friday night after a 102-86 loss to the Indiana Pacers. He finally realized how Antawn Jamison and Caron Butler felt during the Washington Wizards' 19-63 season a year ago. Arenas, sidelined...
After loss to Pacers, Jamison blasts effort
22 days ago by
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INDIANAPOLIS | The one-armed team captain stormed from the locker room alone after unleashing a vicious, expletive-laced tongue-lashing. Antawn Jamison, still recovering from a partially dislocated right shoulder, had just watched suit-clad from the end of the bench as his Washington...
Listless Wizards fall on the road
22 days ago by
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INDIANAPOLIS | Flip Saunders threw darn near the entire kitchen sink at the Indiana Pacers on Friday night at Conseco Fieldhouse. He tried the traditional lineup (although it was his third different one of the season thanks to injuries). He tried a small lineup. He played Gilbert...
'No setbacks' as Jamison rehabs
23 days ago by
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Antawn Jamison took another step in his rehabilitation Thursday, reporting no problems after participating in noncontact drills for about 45 minutes at an optional practice before the Washington Wizards boarded a plane to Indiana for Friday's game against the Pacers. "I...
Ankle injury slows Carter
24 days ago by
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From combined dispatches Orlando Magic guard Vince Carter was sidelined against the Phoenix Suns on Wednesday night with a sprained left ankle. Carter was first injured Friday against New Jersey. Magic coach Stan Van Gundy said Carter aggravated the ankle Tuesday against Detroit...
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