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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Phoenix Suns guard Goran Dragic wants to put to rest some rumors that Arizona Republic was hearing out of Greece that had him quitting pro ball in America after his contract runs out in 2012. The paper received an email from him that assured Suns fans that he wants to stick around town for a lot longer. "This news is not correct, because I made a statement that I want to end my basketball career in Europe.

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Shooting guard J.R. Smith has just one more year left on his contract with the Denver Nuggets and it’s looking like he’ll be spending it in another town

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When the NBA season begins, Milwuakee Bucks fans are expecting center Andrew Bogut to be fully recovered from the broken arm he suffered in an on-court crash in April. But AOL FanHouse is reporting that they might want to rethink their expectations . Bogut told Australian sports network that "he still isn’t able to practice shooting and will hold himself out of the Bucks’ opening games if he’s not 100 percent," FanHouse reports.

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Rookie Xavier Henry , picked 12th overall in this summer’s NBA draft by the Memphis Grizzlies , remains unsigned while other teams  seek a trade for his rights , according to the Memphis Commercial Appeal.

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Guard Rudy Fernandez , who has two years remaining on his contract with the Portland Trail Blazers ,  doesn’t plan on showing up for training camp and has no intention of playing for the team, the Oregonian reports. Fernandez is prepared to sit out the final two years of his contract until he can return to Europe and play for his homeland of Spain in 2012, the paper reports. The 25-year-old Fernandez had already requested to be traded

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The Boston Celtics bought out the contract of 35-year-old Rasheed Wallace earlier this month before he officially retired on Aug. 10, but Paul Pierce is thinking that Wallace will be back on the roster in February before playoff rosters need to be set, according to CSN New England. Pierce tells the site, "I told him, ‘Go ahead, do all you need to do.

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Forward Louis Amundson has already played for three teams in his four seasons in the NBA and it looks like he’s about to add another. The 6-9, 238-pound free agent out of UNLV has four teams trying to sign him , according to ESPN. Amundson is close to making a decision, the site’s sources report, between the Golden State Warriors , New Orleans Hornets , Indiana Pacers and "an unidentified fourth team." The Hornets and Warriors are working the hardest to get Amundson, according to another ESPN source.

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The Denver Nuggets would love it if forward Carmelo Anthony decided to stick around for a few more years and take a shot at winning a championship in the Mile High City. The team has shown it is serious by the three-year, $65 million contract-extension offer to him that’s been on the table for some time. But, Anthony, who is entering the last year of his current deal, isn’t signing anything too quickly, according to the Denver Post.

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When the NBA free-agent period began July 1, it was hard to predict where Chris Bosh , Dwyane Wade and LeBron James would end up due to the mixed messages they were giving off. Turns out that was partially by design. Chris Bosh told the New York Daily News that he was " playing with people’s emotions " as the process moved along from being courted by teams to actually signing with the Miami Heat with his two pals

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With Tracy McGrady signing for the veteran’s minimum of $1.35 million, the Detroit Pistons have a bit of a crowded house at small forward and shooting guard. Sources tell NBA.com that even though McGrady agreed to be the backup to Tayshaun Prince and Rip Hamilton, the team is likely to trade away one of them before the season starts. Prince is the more likely candidate since he is in the last year of his contract.

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Von Wafer and Marquis Daniels are the only backups for Paul Pierce and Ray Allen , so the Boston Celtics are looking for one more veteran shooter, according to ESPN Boston.

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When Danny Ferry retired as a player from the San Antonio Spurs in 2003 after scoring 6,439 points and pulling down 2,440 rebounds in his career, he immediately joined the middle management of the Spurs front office. He worked there for two years before taking over as general manager of the Cleveland Cavaliers .

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Denver Nuggets forward Carmelo Anthony is a free agent next summer and he has told friends that he’s "eager to explore playing" for the New York Knicks when his contract is up, according to CBSSports.com. However, with a new collective bargaining agreement expected to be less lucrative for players next year, Anthony faces a dilemma: Does he take his chances as a free agent or does he sign a three-year, $65 million extension the Nuggets are offering now. CBSSports.com sources say that team owners are determined to "clamp down" on player salaries and player movement in the next CBA after all the free-agent nuttiness this summer.

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Employees of NBA teams are strictly forbidden from recruiting high school basketball players. That’s something Isiah Thomas, a recent rehire by the New York Knicks as a consultant, does all the time in his job as head coach of Florida International University.

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Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah wants to remain in the Windy City for many years so he’s already got his agent talking to the team about a contract extension , according to ESPN Chicago. The site reports that the 25-year-old is hoping to have a deal signed before the season starts in October. Noah is set to make $3.1 million in the fourth and final year of his rookie deal

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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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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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