LeBron James scores 26 points with eight assists and six rebounds to lead the Cavaliers past the Bucks, 113.104.
Milwaukee Bucks vs Cleveland Cavaliers - March 23, 2016
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Utah Jazz vs Houston Rockets - March 26, 2016
Gordon Hayward heats up for 22 points with 6 rebounds as the Jazz edge past the Rockets 89-87.
Remember -1v1 basketball on Alcatraz - Red Bull King of the Rock Finals
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Tarron "The Beast" Williams wins the international one-on-one basketball competition held on Alcatraz Island for the final time. Two-time champ, Baby Shaq upset in second round. It has been 50 years since Alcatraz was home to America's most notorious criminals. This year, for the fourth and final time, 64 of the toughest international street ballers gathered on one of the world's most iconic and recognizable locations for the Red Bull King of the Rock Finals before the one-on-one basketball competition heads to Taiwan. The talent pool was better than ever, as half of the final eight players were from outside of the U.S.
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Spanish city of Zaragoza to host 2016 FIBA U17 World Championships; Egypt and Italy to stage 2017 FIBA U19 World Championships
MIES, Switzerland - FIBA's Central Board on Saturday announced that the 2016 FIBA U17 World Championships for Men and Women will take place in Zaragoza, Spain and also revealed the hosts of the 2017 FIBA U19 World Championships.
The Egyptian capital of Cairo will be the backdrop of next year's FIBA U19 World Championship, the first-ever FIBA world youth event staged in Africa. Meanwhile, the Italian cities of Udine and Cividale Del Friuli will host the FIBA U19 Women's World Championship.
This summer's FIBA U17 World Championships for Men and Women will be played jointly for the first time ever - as part of a youth world basketball festival - from 22 June-3 July. This comes after FIBA endorsed the Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB)'s proposal of having a unique and innovative sporting event that combines all the elements most attractive to youth basketball players - competition, fun, shared experience, music and technology.
The young players from 16 men's and 16 women's national teams - and united by the excitement of basketball - will have the opportunity to be part of a diverse community, sharing experiences with people of the same age group from different cultures and backgrounds
Here are the countries that qualified and will compete in the 2016 FIBA U17 World Championships for Men and Women:
MEN (23 June-3 July)
Host: Spain
Africa: Egypt, Mali
Americas: USA, Canada, Argentina, Dominican Republic
Asia: Korea, Chinese Taipei, China
Europe: Bosnia & Herzegovina, Lithuania, Turkey, France, Finland
Oceania: Australia
WOMEN (22 June-2 July)
Host: Spain
Africa: Mali, Nigeria
Americas: Canada, Brazil, USA, Mexico
Asia: China, Japan, Korea
Europe: Czech Republic, Portugal, Italy, Latvia, France
Oceania: Australia
The Egyptian capital of Cairo will be the backdrop of next year's FIBA U19 World Championship, the first-ever FIBA world youth event staged in Africa. Meanwhile, the Italian cities of Udine and Cividale Del Friuli will host the FIBA U19 Women's World Championship.
This summer's FIBA U17 World Championships for Men and Women will be played jointly for the first time ever - as part of a youth world basketball festival - from 22 June-3 July. This comes after FIBA endorsed the Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB)'s proposal of having a unique and innovative sporting event that combines all the elements most attractive to youth basketball players - competition, fun, shared experience, music and technology.
The young players from 16 men's and 16 women's national teams - and united by the excitement of basketball - will have the opportunity to be part of a diverse community, sharing experiences with people of the same age group from different cultures and backgrounds
Here are the countries that qualified and will compete in the 2016 FIBA U17 World Championships for Men and Women:
MEN (23 June-3 July)
Host: Spain
Africa: Egypt, Mali
Americas: USA, Canada, Argentina, Dominican Republic
Asia: Korea, Chinese Taipei, China
Europe: Bosnia & Herzegovina, Lithuania, Turkey, France, Finland
Oceania: Australia
WOMEN (22 June-2 July)
Host: Spain
Africa: Mali, Nigeria
Americas: Canada, Brazil, USA, Mexico
Asia: China, Japan, Korea
Europe: Czech Republic, Portugal, Italy, Latvia, France
Oceania: Australia
Stephen Curry, Golden State Warriors
1. Stephen Curry, Golden State Warriors
Last week's ranking: No. 1
Curry Hits 41
Stephen Curry explodes for 41 points with 13 rebounds to lead Golden State over Orlando.
An uncharacteristic performance in a loss to the Los Angeles Lakers Sunday kicked off an interesting week for the man who is threatening to go wire to wire in the No. 1 spot on this list. Curry shot just 6-for-20 (including a hideous 1-for-10 showing on 3-pointers) and finished with 18 points, six rebounds and four assists in that matchup against the Lakers. But he bounced back the next night with a 41-point barrage in a win over the Orlando Magic that saw him shoot 58 percent (14-for-24) overall, 53 percent (7-for-13) on 3-pointers while notching 13 rebounds, four steals and three assists. Then on Wednesday he shot just 4-for-12 from the floor (3-for-9 from deep), finishing with 12 points, 10 assists, three rebounds and three steals in a win against the Utah Jazz.
Kevin Durant, Oklahoma City Thunder
Kevin Durant, Oklahoma City Thunder
Last week's ranking: No. 3
Durant's Big Night In Milwaukee
See highlights from Kevin Durant's 32 point night against the Bucks.
No team needed a signature win this week worse than Durant and his Thunder. And they delivered with Wednesday's 120-108 win over the Los Angeles Clippers. It wasn't the same as a win over the Golden State Warriors or San Antonio Spurs, but it's a start. Durant roasted the Clippers for 30 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists as he continued a wicked stretch that has seen him pile up points and rebounds (30.2 and 11.2, respectively, over his last five games) as well as turnovers (5.6 during that same stretch). Durant has scored at least 25 points, grabbed at least 10 rebounds and dished out at least seven assists in seven straight games heading into tonight's home game against Minnesota (8 ET, NBA League Pass).
LeBron James, Cleveland Cavaliers
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LeBron Lets Loose
J.R. Smith lays the dish off the backboard, and LeBron James hammers home the left-handed slam.
LeBron made sure to check both boxes in his final tilt against Kobe Bryant and the Lakers Thursday night at Staples Center. He dazzled the crowd, as usual, with highlight reel plays during his 24-point, seven-assist, five-rebound, two-block night while also making sure his Cavaliers didn't fall victim to an energized Lakers team that popped the Golden State Warriors last Sunday in their final game against Kobe. As much as the past few weeks have been about deciphering cryptic tweets and whatever other messages he's tried to communicate to his teammates (and perhaps even his fans), the Cavaliers' four-game Western Conference road trip is about LeBron fine-tuning things as he prepares for another playoff run while helping his team find its identity.
Splash Bros. go on three spree, but Iggy hobbled in rout of Trail Blazers
OAKLAND, Calif. -- After the Golden State Warriors marched along, Andre Iguodala limped away, using an umbrella as a cane to ease the burden on his sprained left ankle as he departed Oracle Arena, the building where the Warriors have won 47 consecutive games.
The Warriors are calling him questionable for Saturday night's home game against the Phoenix Suns, but Iguodala sounded as if he knew what would happen next -- and it wouldn't be conducive to playing.
"It's going to swell up," Iguodala said. "A couple of days. [Then] hopefully, right back. But who knows?"
"OK, there it is," he told himself. The bounce was back. He moved without thinking through every step. He saw everything on the court clearly.
He played an efficient 15 minutes against the Portland Trail Blazers on Friday night, keeping the flames lit after Klay Thompson and Stephen Curry ignited for a combined 71 points in a 128-112 victory. Iguodala had 8 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists. Golden State's lead went from nine points to 21 points after he checked in midway through the first quarter, and he was on the floor when the lead swelled to 32 points in the third quarter.
But then, with two minutes left in the third, he and Portland's Damian Lillardpursued a loose ball, and Lillard wound up undercutting Iguodala and rolling over his ankle.
"He got it good," Iguodala said.
Iguodala stuck around to shoot the free throws, then the Warriors fouled to stop the clock and he hobbled to the locker room. His absence was notable at the start of the fourth quarter, when the Blazers scored 10 consecutive points during what would have normally been Iguodala's turn to be the floor general.
"It's definitely a miss when he's not out there with the second group," Brandon Rush said.
"He defends, he pushes the ball, he makes plays, and he stays aggressive the whole time. That's what we need on the second unit."
This week two NBA executives told me how important they think Iguodala is to the Warriors, maybe even more than Thompson and Draymond Green. It gave some validity to the sometimes-criticized selection of Iguodala as the NBA Finals MVP.
Iguodala did miss the game against the Lakers on Sunday, which was only the second Warriors loss since Jan. 16. The other was to the Trail Blazers, by 32 points on Feb. 19, and that surely had the Warriors' attention Friday night. So did a video session Thursday afternoon.
One point of emphasis was turnovers, perhaps the Warriors' weak spot, and they cut them down to eight Friday.
"A bunch of nit-picking," Green said of the video session. "But much-needed nit-picking. Because if we want to go where we envision us going and accomplish the thing that we want to accomplish, the things we were nit-picking needed to be nitpicked."
Usually Igoudala is the chief nitpicker. He even found himself nit-picking while watching the rest of the game on TV from the locker room. That's one thing the Warriors might have to go without again for the short term, in addition to his defensive versatility. This might even be a helpful, if unwanted, learning period.
"I think it'll be good for them to try to emulate what our second unit does when I'm not out there," Iguodala said. "We've got to get to that point. Sometimes when I'm not out there with the second unit, we might struggle a little bit or we might get a little selfish. It'll be a good test for us."
The Warriors sound eager to ramp up to playoff readiness. Curry and Thompson, who hit 15 3-pointers between them, sure looked prepared to unleash destruction on the league. But Harrison Barnes is still in a shooting slump (7-for-28 his past four games) and the defense isn't airtight. It's a reminder that this Warriors season, which still could reach an altitude unprecedented in NBA history, hasn't been one smooth continuous takeoff down the runway.
"I'm trying to get to where we're peaking and everyone's on the same page and we don't have to talk to each other because we know each other's movement," Iguodala said.
First Iguodala has to get back to moving smoothly. He also needs to upgrade his cane game, perhaps even a silver scepter like Prince had when he took in a Warriors game and performed a concert at Oracle Arena the next day.
"It had diamonds in it!" Iguodala marveled.
That's the type of thing that gets Iguodala excited. Not a 58-6 record. That merely constitutes a work in progress, a task that will be a bit tougher without him on the court.
CHRIS BOSH REMAINS HOPEFUL TO RETURN THIS SEASON
Chris Bosh said he currently is not dealing with active blood clots and that he remains hopeful he can return to help the Miami Heat make a playoff push this season.
Bosh released a statement Thursday announcing that he does not currently have deep vein thrombosis -- or blood clots in his leg. "I know there have been many questions regarding my health and when I will play again," Bosh said. "My situation this year has never been life threatening. I am feeling great and currently I do not have deep vein thrombosis."
Source: ESPN
BULLS’ JIMMY BUTLER DAY-TO-DAY WITH KNEE SORENESS
Chicago Bulls All-Star swingman Jimmy Butler remains day-to-day as he continues to recover from a left knee injury. Butler was examined by renowned surgeon Dr. James Andrews on Thursday and the Bulls were hopeful he would be able to return to the floor soon.
"Dr. Andrews gave a confirmatory opinion and supports the current management of Butler's condition and return to play. Butler will resume workouts today, be monitored and will return to play when appropriate," the Bulls said in a statement.
Source: Nick Friedell of ESPN
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