Philadelphia 76ers forward Elton Brand got out of his sling Tuesday and started range-of-motion exercises on his surgically repaired right shoulder. Brand is out for the season and had surgery four weeks ago to repair the torn labrum in his right shoulder. Brand could start shooting and dribbling in about two months, and needs an [...]
Nenad Krstic scored 20 points and Malik Rose added a season-high 14 as the Oklahoma City Thunder continued their strong play without their two leading scorers, beating the Philadelphia 76ers 89-74 on Sunday night. The Thunder surged ahead by outscoring Philadelphia 20-2 to start the second quarter, and the 76ers were never able to get [...]
Struggling since the All-Star break, the Philadelphia 76ers took advantage of a last-place team to get back in the win column. They hope a meeting with another team at the bottom of its division yields similar results. The Sixers continue their fight for playoff position in the Eastern Conference on Sunday night when they visit [...]
Four days off allowed the Philadelphia 76ers to get back to the basics. And get back in the win column. Andre Iguodala scored 24 points, and Andre Miller added 20 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists as Philadelphia beat the Memphis Grizzlies 110-105 on Saturday night. The Sixers had dropped six of eight since the [...]
Former NBA star Charles Barkley began serving a three-day jail sentence Saturday for a drunken driving charge. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Barkley already had been acting like a “model inmate,” even chatting with others at Tent City, where inmates are housed in tents rather than traditional jail cells. Barkley has a private tent, [...]
The Philadelphia 76ers have had most of this week to work on ending their slump, and perimeter defense should have been emphasized. Slipping in the Eastern Conference standings, the 76ers return from a four-day break Saturday night as they look for their fifth consecutive victory over the lowly Memphis Grizzlies. Philadelphia (29-30) has lost six [...]
David West decided it was his turn to lead New Orleans. He’s playing his best basketball of the season, and, not coincidentally, so are the Hornets. West scored 30 points with 10 rebounds to lead the Hornets to their season-high fifth straight win, 98-91 over the Philadelphia 76ers on Monday night. “I’ve just been trying [...]
Thanks to some late-game heroics, the New Orleans Hornets are in position for their longest winning streak of 2008-09. The Hornets seek their fifth consecutive victory overall and a fourth straight win against the Philadelphia 76ers on Monday night, when they meet at the Wachovia Center. New Orleans (36-22) picked up its sixth win in [...]
Even when All-Star Dwight Howard has a subpar game, the Orlando Magic can never be counted out. Not with their offensive arsenal. Rashard Lewis and Hedo Turkoglu scored 23 points each and the Magic tied a franchise record with 37 3-point tries in their 106-100 comeback win over the Philadelphia 76ers on Saturday night. Courtney [...]
The Orlando Magic think their acquisition of point guard Rafer Alston at the trade deadline will eventually help them reclaim their status among the Eastern Conference elite. For now, however, it’s still abundantly clear that the team misses Jameer Nelson. The Magic look to bounce back from their latest loss in the absence of their [...]
