Once a laughingstock, Denver Nuggets center JaVale McGee is turning into a capable NBA player right before our eyes. On Tuesday night, he was one of the best players on the floor for the second time in the series in … Continue reading ?

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The 2012 NBA Playoffs schedule for Wednesday, May 9 will feature two games. On May 8, the Indiana Pacers, Atlanta Hawks, Chicago Bulls, and Denver Nuggets each moved one step towards the next round with wins over their respective opponents. Which of these four teams playing on Wednesday will win the next game of their respective series?

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Jason Terry may have broken every broom in the house , but when Game 4 was on the line, James Harden broke the Dallas Mavericks. Time and again in the final 12 minutes, Oklahoma City Thunder head coach Scott Brooks turned to Harden, his team's most gifted facilitator, to orchestrate offense and bring the West's No. 2 seed back against a defending NBA champion fighting to stave off elimination. And time and again, the 22-year-old lefty delivered. Harden had a hand in creating 24 of the Thunder's 35 fourth-quarter points — scoring 15 points of his own (6-of-9 from the floor, 3-of-3 from the line) and assisting on a pair of 3-pointers by Kevin Durant, as well as one by Daequan Cook — to bring Oklahoma City roaring back from an 81-71 deficit at the start of the fourth and lead them to a 103-97 win on the road in Game 4 of their first-round Western Conference playoff series. [Related: Atlanta's Jerry Stackhouse is going to 'take Miami to win it all' ] The presumptive Sixth Man of the Year finished with 29 points, five rebounds, five assists and three steals in 34 1/2 minutes off the bench for the Thunder, who closed out a four-game sweep of the Mavericks and will move on to face the winner of the opening-round matchup between the third-seeded Los Angeles Lakers and the sixth-seeded Denver Nuggets. L.A. leads that series two games to one, with Game 4 set for Sunday night in Denver. The Mavericks will not move on. They will go home, and we will not see them again until the NFL is running things. Last year, Dallas was the last team standing; this year, Dallas is the first team to exit the postseason. What a difference a year makes.

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DENVER (AP) The Denver Nuggets say forward Wilson Chandler is expected to be ready by the start of training camp next season after undergoing surgery to repair a labral tear in his left hip.

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The third-seeded Los Angeles Lakers will be without forward Metta World Peace when they begin their postseason run against the sixth-seeded Denver Nuggets. World Peace, who is serving a seven-game suspension for throwing a "reckless" elbow, missed Los Angeles' final regular season game and will miss the Lakers' first six games of the 2012 NBA Playoffs. Unless the Lakers-Nuggets matchup goes to a seventh game, Metta will miss the entire first-round of the playoffs.

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The 66-game regular season, mercifully, is over. The NBA jam-packed 66 games into a space where 50 usually went, and the result was a strange five-month run that had us talking about rested legs and oddball rotations more than we spoke of learning and growing and all that typically mindful stuff that comes to our heads when discussing the NBA. The playoffs start on Saturday, though, and the brains behind Ball Don't Lie are ready to break down the first round matchups. [ Related: Yahoo! Sports' predictions for the 2012 NBA playoffs ] We continue with the Los Angeles Lakers and Denver Nuggets.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) Andrew Bynum had 30 points and eight rebounds, Matt Barnes added a season-high 24 points, and the Los Angeles Lakers clinched a playoff berth without Kobe Bryant or coach Mike Brown, holding off the Denver Nuggets 103-97 Friday night.

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Veteran center Ronny Turiaf has been around the NBA, playing for the Los Angeles Lakers, Golden State Warriors, New York Knicks, Washington Wizards and Denver Nuggets -- who waived him last month after being acquired in a three-team trade (he never actually played for the Nuggets,...

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The Denver Nuggets agreed Thursday to ship big man Nene to Washington in a three-team deal, with the Wizards sending JaVale McGee and Ronny Turiaf to Denver and Nick Young to the Los Angeles Clippers, a person with knowledge of the trade told The Associated Press. Washington also picked up forward Brian Cook in the deal.

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Do the New York Knicks really need Carmelo Anthony and Amar'e Stoudemire? Perhaps now would be a good time to explore trade options, packaging both for a parcel of players not unlike the Dolan-inspired swap with the Denver Nuggets last year.

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