Monday, Apr 21Toronto 100 Orlando 114Magic lead series 1-0
Denver 114 LA Lakers 128Lakers lead series 1-0
Philadelphia 90 Detroit 8676ers lead series 1-0
Atlanta 81 Boston 104Celtics lead series 1-0
Cleveland 116 Washington 86Cavaliers leads series 2-0…
CLEVELAND — The NBA superstar, the one who recently became the first African-American male to appear on the cover of Vogue, looking imposing with one of those wafer-like supermodels, jauntily sauntered out of the arena Saturday.LeBron James…, feelin’ good after playing like a bad man, wore wraparound sunglasses, fat diamond earrings and a smile as wide as the mouth of the Cuyahoga River.Even if his fashion sense was questionable — the Cleveland Cavalier wore a dark, pinstriped suit jacket over a pair of fancy jeans — there was nothing lacking in his basketball shrewdness. Or his boldness.
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LOS ANGELES — Two NBA Western Conference powers met Sunday with a lot on the line.One — the Los Angeles Lakers — emerged as the front-runner in the crazy Western battle to finish with a No. 1 seed in the playoffs and left the Staples Center pleased with their defensive intensity and offensive unselfishness.The other — the San Antonio Spurs — took a step back into a dogfight among a handful of other Western teams looking for favorable playoff positioning and left Los Angeles with worries about their health and their offensive firepower.The Lakers won going away 106-85, holding
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While his teammates practiced their free throws, LeBron James worked on a trick shot where he stands under the basket and heaves a ball off a nearby wall, trying to ricochet it back through the hoop.He hasn’t made one yet.“I’m working on it,” he said.He’s got time to.James was held out of Cleveland’s practice on Monday to rest his back, which has been tightening up and bothering the Cavaliers’ All-Star forward for the past few weeks. His back spasms got so severe during a recent game against Chicago that James was unable to sit in a chair during timeouts.James’
