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Bucks spoil Thunder’s Oklahoma City debut (AP)

A block party filled the street with fans in blue Oklahoma City Thunder shirts. NBA commissioner David Stern walked to midcourt and welcomed the city to the league. A banner was unfurled with the team's new logo. Then the ball was tipped off and the celebration promptly ended. Michael Redd, Richard Jefferson and Charlie Villanueva each scored 20 points and the Milwaukee Bucks gave Oklahoma City's...

Party kicks off for Thunder’s home opener (AP)

Desmond Mason went through opening night for Oklahoma City's first NBA team, the displaced New Orleans Hornets. Now that Oklahoma City has a team to call its own in the Thunder, he expects crowds to be even more frenzied than they were during the Hornets' two-year stay. "It's hard to try to put in words what's going to happen tonight," said Mason, a former Oklahoma State star who joined the Thunder...

Game to pay attention to: Indiana at Detroit (Yahoo! Sports)

Indiana Pacers at Detroit Pistons A lot of you are looking forward to the pair of ESPN games, a pair that...

Fantasy Scouting Report – Northwest

Thankfully, the tip-off of the 2008-2009 NBA season is mere hours away. Thus, let's cut the small talk and get right into the final Divisional preview piece. Steven Jones (sjones@hoopsworld.com) will be covering the Blazers, Thunder, and Jazz. I'll be wrapping things up by discussing the fantasy prospects of the Timberwolves and the Nuggets.

Bryant plays briefly in Lakers’ victory (AP)

Kobe Bryant, coming back from a knee injury, made a brief appearance at the start of Los Angeles' final preseason game Friday night and appeared to be moving fine in the Lakers' 105-94 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder. "Just making sure my rhythm was good, making sure my knee was good," Bryant said.

Stoudemire dislocates finger in Suns’ win (AP)

Amare Stoudemire scored 17 points before dislocating his left pinky and the Phoenix Suns, with their regulars together for the first time, beat the short-handed Oklahoma City Thunder 102-93 on Thursday night . With the victory, the Suns (5-3) completed their fifth straight non-losing exhibition season and 19th in the past 20 years.

BDL’s 2008-09 NBA Season Preview: Oklahoma City Thunder (Yahoo! Sports)

As the NBA preseason marches on, Ball Don't Lie looks at all 30 teams, outlining off-season transactions,...

Seattle mayor still eyeing NBA’s return (AP)

Greg Nickels said he hasn't spoken to anyone with the NBA since the SuperSonics left Seattle in the summer, but the Seattle mayor feels "the door is open" to the league returning to what would be a remodeled KeyArena. Nickels said Seattle has already presented the outline of a new plan to Washington state lawmakers, seeking to authorize the use of local tax revenues currently going to the...

Fantasy Hoops Top-100 Overall Ranking

The following is my Top 100 overall rankings heading into the 2008-2009 NBA Fantasy Hoops season.

Can the Celtics be caught, can the Lakers hang on? (AP)

One turn at the top of the NBA wasn't going to make Kevin Garnett forget all those years on the bottom. And he can't believe that people would think otherwise. So when Garnett heard the theory that he, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen couldn't possibly be as driven now as they were before finally winning their first NBA title, he wondered if the skeptics had been paying attention all along.

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