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For the longest time, the New York Knicks were an NBA laughingstock. This season, however, the Knicks are off to a blazing start, dominating their opposition. Are they championship bound?

The first week of the 2012 NBA season is in the books, and we've seen a few teams and players unexpectedly struggling. Which team do you think is the biggest letdown thus far?

Last night, the NBA kicked off its 2012-13 season with three games. In the marquee matchup, the defending-champion Miami Heat defeated the Boston Celtics 120-107, in a rematch of last year's Eastern Conference finals. Unfortunately for Boston (and the rest of the NBA, really), it looks like the Heat have only gotten better...

The NBA's 2012-13 season begins on Tuesday night with three games, including the world champion Miami Heat hosting the Boston Celtics. Several major stars changed teams this past off-season, but the majority of the franchises that were dominant in last season's lockout-shortened campaign are still among the league's best...

At this time last year, NBA fans were facing the very real possibility of a canceled NBA season. This year, the league is gearing up for one of its most anticipated campaigns in recent memory. The 2012-13 NBA season starts tonight, with three games on tap: Wizards-Cavaliers at 7 p.m. (ET), Heat-Celtics at 8, and Mavericks-Lakers at 10:30.

The NBA season kicks off in just under a week, on October 30, and going into this season, some familiar faces are in different uniforms. Who's feeling the most pressure?

There seems to be a changing of the guard in the NBA. While Kobe Bryant was the man for years, he is getting older, and LeBron James is rising.

All signs point to the New Orleans Hornets taking Kentucky standout Anthony Davis with the first pick of Thursday’s NBA Draft. Davis is widely considered to be the most NBA-ready player in the crop of players vying for the top spots. If the Hornets do select Davis, he’ll instantly be shouldered with the burden of turning around the struggling franchise.

Before the drama that was the NBA lockout, we had a very exciting finale to the NBA season that saw Dirk Nowitzki leading his Dallas Mavericks to both his and the franchise’s first NBA championship.

After a whirlwind romance of less than a year, reality star Kim Kardashian married NBA player Kris Humphries in Montecito, California on Saturday night. The 450 guests in attendance included fashion designer Vera Wang, Kim’s ‘Dancing with the Stars’ partner Mark Ballas, ‘Desperate Housewives’ star Eva Longoria, ‘American Idol’ host and ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ producer Ryan Seacrest, tenn

The folks at the blog Letters of Note have gotten hold of a charming, and grammatically flawed, love letter written by an 18-year old Michael Jordan to a young lady named Laquette. In the handwritten (in cursive!) note, penned as Jordan sat in high school chemistry class, the future NBA legend apologizes for a misstep and concedes, "I made you look pretty rotten after the last night." Hi

Dirk Nowitzki had been a one-man wrecking machine throughout most of the 2011 NBA playoffs. But on the night his Dallas Mavericks clinched their first-ever NBA championship by defeating the Miami Heat 105-95, he had a lot of help from his teammates.