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Hawks owner Gearon fined $35K for ripping Garnett (Yahoo! Sports)
ATLANTA (AP) The NBA has fined Atlanta Hawks co-owner Michael Gearon Jr. $35,000 for publicly criticizing NBA officiating and making negative comments about an opposing player.
NBA fines Pacers coach $15,000 for comments (Yahoo! Sports)
NEW YORK (AP) Indiana Pacers coach Frank Vogel will have to pay a $15,000 fine for comments he made Thursday about the Miami Heat. NBA executive vice president Stu Jackson issued the decision Saturday. Vogel called Miami the ”biggest flopping team in the NBA” and told reporters that it would be ”interesting” to see how much flopping the officials reward.
Bulls’ Derrick Rose has surgery to repair torn ACL (Yahoo! Sports)
CHICAGO (AP) Derrick Rose had surgery Saturday on a torn knee ligament, and the Chicago Bulls said they will give an update early next week on the recovery of their star point guard.
LeBron James wins 3rd NBA MVP award (Yahoo! Sports)
MIAMI (AP) LeBron James spent two days trying to figure out the right words. An assistant jotted some ideas on notecards, which were ignored
Auto racing notebook: Points leader Biffle wins pole
May 12, 2012 12:16 am From wire dispatches Sprint Cup points leader Greg Biffle won his second career pole at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina, sweeping past the Hendrick Motorsports duo of Jimmie Johnson and Kasey Kahne to start up front tonight for the Southern 500. Biffle won this race in 2005 and ’06, the first two years that Darlington’s event was moved to Mother’s Day weekend. Biffle was the next-to-last to hit the track for qualifying with a speed of 180.257 mph and pushed past Johnson and Kahne — who each finished with the same speeds (179.556).
Up next on major auto racing circuits
Sprint Cup What: Southern 500 When/where : Today, practice (Speed, 11:30 a.m.), qualifying (Speed, 5 p.m.); Saturday, race (Ch. 13, 7 p.m.); Darlington, S.C
Nuggets rout Lakers 113-96 to force Game 7 (Yahoo! Sports)
DENVER (AP) The upstart Denver Nuggets are one win from running the lumbering Los Angeles Lakers and their star-studded cast right out of the playoffs. Ty Lawson scored 32 points, fellow spark plug Corey Brewer added 18 and the free-wheeling, too-young-to-scare Nuggets forced a Game 7 in their first-round playoff series with a dominating 113-96 win Thursday night. ”This is the biggest game he’s ever played in and Saturday will be even bigger,” Nuggets coach George Karl said of Lawson, whose 32 points were a career-playoff high
Celtics beat Hawks 83-80 to advance in East (Yahoo! Sports)
BOSTON (AP) Call him old. Call him dirty. It just fires up Kevin Garnett even more – and that didn’t work out very well for the Atlanta Hawks in their first-round playoff series against the Boston Celtics .
76ers beat Bulls 79-78 and advance to 2nd round (Yahoo! Sports)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) Andre Iguodala hopped on the scorer’s table and played to the crowd as the catchy 76ers’ anthem blared in the arena. His teammates joined Iguodala and danced along as confetti fluttered around them.
Blazers F Aldridge has surgery on right hip (Yahoo! Sports)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) The Trail Blazers say forward LaMarcus Aldridge had surgery on his right hip.