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Lin played a great first half only to do the basketball equivalent of "pitching to contact" in the second half Chris Chambers/Getty Images In the middle of the third I found out that Whitney Houston died.

Despite career-high averages across the board in his first full season as a starter and a 16-11 record for the overachieving team he commanders, Houston Rockets' point guard Kyle Lowry was egregiously left off the Western Conference All-Star reserves list when it was announced last Thursday.

Many wonder if Carmelo Anthony will disrupt the chemistry Jeremy Lin has established when the All-Star forward returns from injury.

I found Cupid sitting in a cubicle. He was working on a computer. He wore a coat over his wings.

Even if Danny Green wanted to, he couldn't ignore the scope of his shooting futility over the past week.

Ty Lawson scored 27 points to lead the Denver Nuggets to a 113-109 win over the Indiana Pacers on Saturday night.

Lin hit a free throw with 4.9 seconds left to overcome a dreadful second half and lift the New York Knicks to their fifth straight victory, 100-98, over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Saturday night.

Jeremy Lin hit a free throw with 4.9 seconds left to overcome a dreadful second half and lift the New York Knicks to their fifth straight victory, 100-98, over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Saturday night.

Tony Parker has 10 points and Tim Duncan has seven. The Spurs are shooting 53.6 percent and lead the Nets 35-26 with 6:23 left in the second quarter.

The NBA has played a Rookie versus Sophomore challenge during the all star weekend for a few years now.

Atlanta at Orlando, tonight ; Orlando at Milwaukee, tomorrow . We are careening toward the Feb.

Finishing the game was critical for the Milwaukee Bucks as they went down to the wire with the San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday night.

In honor of Manu's imminent return, here's a comic look at the contrasting fashion of TJ Ford and Manu as they sat together behind the bench.

Skiles got himself ejected on purpose, picking up two quick technical fouls in the third quarter, and the Bucks rallied for a 113-112 win in overtime Friday night against the Cleveland Cavaliers, who played without rookie Kyrie Irving and lost center Anderson Varejao to a sprained wrist.

Manu Ginobili will return to the San Antonio Spurs' lineup on Saturday in New Jersey after missing more than a month with a broken left hand.

Today is the first day of its kind in the season. It's a second day in a row without a Spurs game.

Even with this wacky compressed NBA schedule and its extended road trips and homestands and three-games-in-three-nights grinds, there are some constants that carry over.

Before we start writing about last night's Knicks' 10793 win over the Wizards , we're going to pause and watch this GIF over and over and over again.

After 13 trips to the NBA All-Star Game, Spurs forward Tim Duncan has a pretty good idea of what an All-Star looks like.

The Dallas Mavericks may not be matching their championship-caliber performance from last season, but Dirk Nowitzki is still playing well enough to make the Western Conference All-Star team.