The Portland Trail Blazers signed veteran free agent guard Andre Miller to a three-year, $21 million deal on Friday. Miller, whose NBA career has spanned 10 seasons with four teams, averaged 16.3 points and 6.5 assists as a starter for the Philadelphia 76ers last season. "I'm just looking forward to the challenge, you know?" Miller said in a conference call.

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Kevin Durant was invited to practice with USA Basketball two years ago and nearly made the U.S. team. Greg Oden called in sick. That's been the way it's gone since they were chosen with the top two picks in the 2007 draft: Durant on the fast track to superstardom, Oden having trouble getting on track at all.
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The Portland Trail Blazers signed veteran free agent guard Andre Miller to a three-year contract on Friday. Miller, whose NBA career has spanned 10 seasons with four teams, averaged 16.3 points and 6.5 assists as a starter for the Philadelphia 76ers last season. "I'm just looking forward to the challenge, you know?" Miller said in a conference call.

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Restricted free-agent forward Jamario Moon is joining the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Miami Heat said Friday they had decided not to match the offer sheet Moon signed with Cleveland. Moon finished last season with Miami. The Cavaliers had roughly $3.2 million of its midlevel exception to sign the 6-foot-8 Moon.
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The Portland Trail Blazers signed veteran free agent guard Andre Miller to a multiyear contract on Friday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Miller, whose career has spanned 10 seasons with four teams, averaged 16.3 points and 6.5 assists as a starter for the Philadelphia 76ers last season. "I hope to provide veteran leadership to a young talented nucleus and help Portland take the next…
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New Jersey Nets owner Bruce Ratner has been getting feelers from individuals interested in buying a piece of the struggling NBA team that hopes to move to Brooklyn in 2011. "We have received interest from potential investors in the team," Nets chief executive Brett Yormark said in a statement the team sent on Friday.
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Nike says it is returning videotapes it confiscated of NBA star LeBron James getting dunked on at a recent basketball camp. Nike said it is giving back tapes to two accredited journalists who filmed Xavier's Jordan Crawford dunking over James during a recent pickup game at a skills academy run by the superstar at the University of Akron.
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Kobe Bryant ran drills for a group of Hong Kong youngsters as the Los Angeles Lakers star arrived in China for the final leg of his summer Asian tour. "It's great to be back in Hong Kong," Bryant said Friday after walking into a packed basketball stadium in Hong Kong's Wan Chai office district to chants of "Kobe, MVP." After watching a group of local youngsters play in…

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Kobe Bryant ran drills for a group of Hong Kong youngsters as the Los Angeles Lakers star arrived in China for the final leg of his summer Asian tour. "It's great to be back in Hong Kong," Bryant said Friday after walking into a packed basketball stadium in Hong Kong's Wan Chai office district to chants of "Kobe, MVP." After watching a group of local youngsters play in…

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Clippers coach Mike Dunleavy said he doesn't expect Blake Griffin's shoulder injury to have a lingering effect on the No. 1 overall pick in the NBA draft. The club revealed on Wednesday that Griffin has a strained right shoulder that will require three to four weeks of rest. He was hurt in a July 16 summer game against Memphis in Las Vegas and will miss this week's minicamp for USA…
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