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Sports of The Times: Like Super Bowl, N.B.A.’s Glamour Weekend Carries Air of Labor Gloom

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

The All-Star weekend falls in an intriguing time in sports labor history, with stakes higher than ever and each side attempting to curry favor with the public.

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NBA Standings

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

All Times EST EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division.

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Live Chat: NBA All-Star Game 2010

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

Filed under: NBA All-Star Game

Our live coverage of NBA All-Star Weekend continues with tonight's historic main event -- the 2010 NBA All-Star game at the gigantic Cowboys Stadium figures to be played in front of the largest attendance ever assembled to watch 10 men chase a leather ball around a court. Join FanHouse's roster of NBA writers, including Brett Pollakoff sitting courtside at the Jerry Dome, in tonight's live chat. The fun starts at 8 PM ET.

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NBA Projected to Lose $400 Million This Year

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

DALLAS (Reuters) - The NBA could lose around $400 million this year because of the flagging economy and a crippling labor agreement, according to commissioner David Stern.

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Video: Inside Cowboys Stadium Before the 2010 NBA All-Star Game

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

Filed under: NBA All-Star Game, NBA Videos

DALLAS -- This year's All-Star game will set a worldwide attendance record for the most people ever to witness a professional basketball game, and there's an obvious reason for that: Cowboys Stadium is ridiculously huge.

For a look inside the building and to get an idea of what the players will be seeing when they're on the court, check out the following video, which was taken about three hours before tip-off.

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Legends Brunch Honors Mavs of the ’80s

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

Filed under: Lakers, Mavericks

DALLAS -- Derek Harper still thinks his group of Dallas Mavericks were good enough to reach the NBA Finals, but unfortunately, the Los Angeles Lakers kept getting in the way.

Harper, along with teammates Rolando Blackman, Sam Perkins, Mark Aguirre and James Donaldson, were honored Sunday at the 11th annual Legends Brunch as part of All-Star Weekend returning to Dallas.

They played together for much of the '80s, often the second, third or fourth best team in the West, but always well behind the legendary Lakers, who won five NBA titles that decade.

Among those in attendance Sunday were NBA greats Bill Russell, Oscar Robertson, Magic Johnson, Spencer Haywood, Dolph Schayes, Bill Walton, and Moses Malone.

"The Lakers were always our nemesis. If it wasn't for them, we probably would have gone to the Finals, and this franchise would have won a championship,'' Harper told FanHouse after the ceremony. "But it is what it is. The Lakers had 4-5 Hall of Fame players. They were just better than us."

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Have the Mavericks Started a New Arms Race?

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

Filed under: Cavaliers, Celtics, Heat, Mavericks, Wizards, NBA Rumors

On a Texas-sized weekend of frivolity, the hometown team pulled off a Texas-sized trade that could have enormous implications for the second half. Texas-sized implications.

Everything's bigger in Texas, and this Caron Butler swap is no exception. Before their slump, the Mavs were the surprise team of the West. Adding Butler, who when he's locked in functions like an All-Star; the hugely underrated Brendan Haywood; and loose cannon cum defensive specialist DeShawn Stevenson, should get them back on track and more.

All they had to give up was injured, and expiring, Josh Howard (albeit quite a player when healthy), blotchy big man experiment Drew Gooden, and whatever nebulous shot they had at pursuing a 2010 free agent. It's a financial move by the Wizards, a team that's trying to figure out the sturdiest way to off itself. Regardless, this deal is as lopsided as everyone thought the Pau Gasol was in the spring 2008.

There's another parallel with the Gasol-to-L.A. deal that threw the league into a panic. That transaction spurred Dallas's acquisition of Jason Kidd, the Suns's wholesale conversion to the church of Shaquille O'Neal, and the Cavs trading their entire team and coming up with Delonte West where once Larry Hughes was. Gasol put the Lakers over the top, Kidd solidified Dallas, and the Cleveland did a good job of cutting costs and adding useful role players. The Suns, well, that's another story. But at the time, it felt like everyone was loading up for the end of the world.

We had expected this coming summer to be the next major shock wave. With even some of the top teams facing the possibility of coming up big or left alone, weeping, and empty, the operative idea for 2009-10 seemed to be letting teams play. But the Wizards wanted to get a jump on cutting costs, Dallas's slump put a damper on their "I told you so" start, and the Lakers, Cavaliers and Celtics find themselves beset upon by the scourge of injury.

For the Mavs, it was a fine time to make a move. Butler was there for the taking, their 2010 hopes were always slim -- locking down Dirk should be enough -- and Kidd's days are numbered. But all of us little people want to know: Will this deal set off another arms race, or be seen as an isolated case of opportunism?

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Video: DeMar DeRozan’s ‘Perfect’ Dunk From All-Star Saturday Night

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

Filed under: Raptors, NBA All-Star Game, NBA Videos

DALLAS -- Overall, the Slam Dunk Contest was one of the weakest in recent memory: Shannon Brown was a let down, and Gerald Wallace barely bothered to show up, so it was left up to DeMar DeRozan and Nate Robinson to save the day.

And DeRozan almost came through.

Sure, Robinson's T.O. act with the pompoms and his off-the-backboard reverse in the final round sealed it, but think about this: had DeRozan saved his second dunk of the night for the final round, he probably would have ended up taking home the trophy.

Since DeRozan's second slam -- one that started with a pass off the side of the backboard from Sonny Weems and ended with a windmill at the front of the rim -- was the only one that received a perfect score of 50 from the judges, that's the one we're hyping in the space below. Enjoy.

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