Los Angeles Lakers forward Ron Artest isn’t one to back down from a fight and his hackles went up when he sensed that the Boston Celtics were using the blown-out knee of Kendrick Perkins in Game 7 of the NBA Finals this year as an excuse as to why it lost the championship to the Lakers. His anger manifested in the form of three successive tweets , according to WEEI, that read: "Boston lost to lakers because of [the] Kendrick Perkins injury. What about in [2008] when (Andrew) Bynum was injured.

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Free agent shooting guard Shannon Brown (notes) has won two championships in the last two years with the Los Angeles Lakers and the New York Knicks would love to add that kind of street cred to its roster, but Brown’s agent tells the New York Post that his client is "leaning" toward returning to the City of Angels to try for a third straight title. The final decision between New York and L.A. is expected today by the man who averaged 8.1 points, 2.2 rebounds, and 1.3 assists in an average 20.7 minutes per game.

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Guard Shannon Brown (notes) could be moving to New York City. The man who has won two championships with the Los Angeles Lakers is a free agent and the New York Knicks have made him an offer , according to CBSSports.com.

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Guard Shannon Brown (notes) could be moving to New York City to man the New York Knicks backcourt with Raymond Felton (notes) . Brown, who has won two championships with the Los Angeles Lakers , is a free agent and the Knicks have made him an offer , according to CBSSports.com.

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Guard Sasha Vujacic (notes) has helped the Los Angeles Lakers win two consecutive NBA Championships but now the team is t rying to ship him out , according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Sources told the paper that the Lakers are trying to package the 26-year-old who averaged 2.8 points, 1.2 rebounds, and .6 assists in the 8.6 minutes per game he played last season with a future first-round pick in order to unload his $5 million salary for the year from the books.

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Chris Paul (notes) expressed public happiness recently when the New Orleans Hornets hired a new coach in Monty Williams and now the team has a new general manager, Dell Demps, but CBSsports is reporting that Paul is trying to get himself out of the Big Easy before the season begins.

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Looks like Kobe Bryant (notes) and Raja Bell (notes) will get to keep battling with each other and not have to become best buddies. Bryant’s meeting with Bell last night to try and sway him to join the Los Angeles Lakers never had to happen. ESPN is reporting that Bell has signed a three-year, $10 million contract with the Utah Jazz , which had just signed Al Jefferson (notes) the day before that

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Kobe Bryant (notes) and Raja Bell (notes) have had their disagreements in the past but the five-time NBA champ Bryant is putting all that aside to meet with Bell today and try to convince him to come play for the Lakers for the $1.77 million left in its midlevel exception, according to the Los Angeles Times. As Yahoo! Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski reported yesterday, the Lakers and San Antonio Spurs are the frontrunners to land the 33-year-old Bell, who only played six games last year for the Charlotte Bobcats and Golden State Warriors . The Spurs have a little more money that it can give Bell, and according to Wojnarowski, are still regretting cutting him at the end of training camp in 2001.

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Free-agent guard Derek Fisher (notes) spent some time considering an offer to join Dwyane Wade (notes) , LeBron James (notes) , and Chris Bosh (notes) with the Miami Heat but Yahoo! Sports Marc J.

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Los Angeles Lakers assistant coach Brian Shaw left his two-day interview with the Cleveland Cavaliers as the supposed frontrunner to be the new head coach of the Cavs, but then he took his name off the list yesterday and Byron Scott’s name came bobbing back to the top.

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Nothing like waiting till the last minute. The Cleveland Cavaliers have an extremely important player that becomes an unrestricted free agent at midnight Eastern tonight and the team wants to impress him not just with wads and wads of cash for him and his friends, but also with the direction of the team. Yahoo! Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski reports that LeBron James (notes) should be expecting to hear soon that Los Angeles Lakers assistant coach Brian Shaw is the new head coach of the Cavaliers.

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Nothing like waiting till the last minute. The Cleveland Cavaliers have an extremely important player that becomes an unrestricted free agent at midnight Eastern Wednesday night and the team wants to impress him not only with wads of cash but also with the direction of the team. Yahoo! Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski reports that LeBron James (notes) should be expecting to hear soon that Los Angeles Lakers assistant coach Brian Shaw is the new head coach of the Cavaliers

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Byron Scott has told Yahoo! Sports’ Marc J. Spears that he would like to take the head-coaching job that’s available with the Cleveland Cavaliers no matter if Phil Jackson retires and leaves an opening with his former team, the Los Angeles Lakers , or LeBron James (notes) decides to go play elsewhere.

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Phil Jackson is no doubt enjoying his 11th NBA championship and just beginning the pondering process on whether he’ll continue his stellar career with the Los Angeles Lakers or call it quits.

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Rasheed Wallace (notes) was pressed into the starting five for the Boston Celtics last night when Kendrick Perkins (notes) couldn’t do it and delivered 11 points, eight rebounds, two assists, and two blocked shots in a game the Celtics led nearly the whole way before finally succumbing to the Los Angeles Lakers , 83-79, to lose the championship. Wallace has two years and $13 million left on his contract, but the Boston Herald reports that Celtics head coach Doc Rivers suggested after the game that the 35-year-old would retire this summer .

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Now that the dance with Michigan State men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo is officially over, the Cleveland Cavaliers front office is turning its attention to Byron Scott. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that the team is scheduling a second interview with Scott who just has one more game to work as an ESPN analyst in the NBA Finals. But Scott is interested in the head-coaching job that may open with the Los Angeles Lakers if Phil Jackson decides to retire.

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Now that the dance with Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo is officially over, the Cleveland Cavaliers front office is turning its attention to Byron Scott.

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Phil Jackson may only be coach of the Los Angeles Lakers for one more game, but if he can pull yet another win out of his Zen playbook, he’ll not only win his record 11th NBA championship but, according to ESPN, he’ll also be taking home an extra $2 million . Jackson’s salary is $12 million this season, but, according to the site’s "NBA coaching sources," Jackson’s contract holds a performance bonus of $2 million if his team wins the NBA Finals

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Phil Jackson might only coach the Los Angeles Lakers for one more game, but if he can pull yet another win out of his Zen playbook, he’ll not only win his record 11th NBA championship but take home  an extra $2 million , according to ESPN.  Jackson’s salary is $12 million this season, but, according to the site’s "NBA coaching sources," Jackson’s contract holds a performance bonus of $2 million if his team wins the NBA Finals.

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Game Seven of the NBA Finals is coming Thursday night and, according to ESPN, Boston Celtics 6-10 center Kendrick Perkins (notes) won’t be out on the playing floor to take on the Los Angeles Lakers . Perkins has a sprained right knee and officially he’s questionable for Thursday night’s game

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