Basketball

MINNESOTA, (Reuters) – Kevin Durant scored 30 points   and added 11 rebounds as the Oklahoma City Thunder dug   themselves out of an early hole to stun the Minnesota   Timberwolves 111-103 on Wednesday.

DALLAS, (Reuters) – The Dallas Mavericks registered   a 10th consecutive victory with a 105-100 triumph over the   Golden State Warriors on Tuesday, the win lifting the home   team to within a half-game of the Western Conference lead.

DETROIT, (Reuters) – The National Basketball  Association could not sit idly by while the New Orleans  Hornets’ losses mounted and risk a fire sale that would weigh  on the values of all its teams.

MILWAUKEE, (Reuters) – The Miami Heat are starting   to look more like the elite team many envisioned in the   off-season as they defeated the Milwaukee Bucks 88-78 on   Monday for their fifth straight win.

DALLAS, (Reuters) – The struggling Miami Heat held   a players-only meeting that lasted 20 minutes following their  106-95 loss to the Dallas Mavericks on Saturday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Cleveland Cavaliers head coach  Byron Scott has been fined $35,000 for criticising game  officials, the NBA said yesterday.

Guyana’s junior national basketball team’s long and arduous training leading up to the Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) paid dividends when they defeated French Guiana 69-62 Friday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

– As Seniors edge Linden in overtime On the heels of claiming the Junior All-Star title, Georgetown’s Senior All-Star team clinched a 78-77 victory in overtime over Linden’s Senior All-Stars to sweep the Linden-Georgetown All-Star games of Wildfire Entertainment’s All-Star Basketball Weekend at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Saturday night.

NEW ORLEANS, (Reuters) – The New Orleans Hornets  remained the only undefeated team in the NBA after a dominant  107-87 win over the visiting Portland Trail Blazers on  Saturday.

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NEW ORLEANS, (Reuters) – The New Orleans Hornets  pulled off a tight 96-93 victory over the fast-finishing Miami  Heat on Friday to record their fifth successive win and the  franchise’s best start to a season.

CLEVELAND, (Reuters) – The Cleveland Cavaliers began  the post-LeBron James era with a stunning 95-87 victory over  the heavily favoured Boston Celtics on Wednesday.

The Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) will bounce off two more competitions on their events calendar for 2010 when they stage a Division Two and Division Three knockout tournament under lights from Saturday at the Burnham basketball court.

Coach of the Junior National Basketball team, Mark Agard is currently preparing the basketball squad that will represent Guyana at the basketball events of the upcoming Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) and he says the team is definitely ready for the November 19-21 event.

-Miami slips to defeat against Celtics in LeBron’s debut BOSTON, (Reuters) – The Boston Celtics spoiled the  opening act of LeBron James’s latest quest for a NBA title by defeating the Miami Heat 88-80 on Tuesday in a highly anticipated match-up of Eastern Conference powerhouses.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – The Los Angeles Lakers were  indebted to bench players Shannon Brown and Steve Blake as they  launched their NBA championship defense with a nail-biting  112-110 win over the Houston Rockets on Tuesday.

BOSTON, (Reuters) – It will take little time to get  accustomed to all of the talent on the Miami Heat, LeBron James  said after his side were beaten 88-80 by the Boston Celtics in  their highly anticipated season-opener on Tuesday.

Ever since LeBron James signed with the Miami Heat back in July the air of expectancy towards this season’s NBA championships has been nothing short of electric.

Promoters of the upcoming All-Star Basketball Weekend received a significant boost from Giftland Office Max when they were presented with a number of trophies, basketballs and basketball nets at the company’s location on Water Street on Friday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – LeBron James and the Miami  Heat may be the centerpiece of the NBA’s three-ring publicity  circus, but it is the Los Angeles Lakers who experts feel are  poised to win another championship.