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San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama promised plenty of intensity in his first NBA All-Star Game as the league hopes its new rapid-fire mini-tournament format can bring the excitement back to its mid-season showcase. "The goal is not to chill, for sure," 21-year-old French sensation Wembanyama said Saturday as the league's luminaries lined up for media day ahead of Sunday's All-Star Game.

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Ukrainian center Alex Len has signed a free agent deal with the Los Angeles Lakers, the NBA club announced on Tuesday after an earlier trade for Mark Williams fell through.

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The short-handed Minnesota Timberwolves halted Oklahoma City's seven-game NBA winning streak, beating the Western Conference-leading Thunder 116-101 on Thursday on the eve of the All-Star break. The Thunder's defeat - the first all season in which they trailed all the way - sends Oklahoma City into the break tied with Eastern Conference leaders Cleveland for the best record in the league at 44-10.

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Luka Doncic (25) was on top of the world after making a winning start to his Los Angeles Lakers career, saying it felt 'amazing' to take to the court with his new club and lauding LeBron James (40). Doncic was traded to the Lakers by the Dallas Mavericks at the start of the month in one of the biggest - and most shocking - deals in the history of the NBA, and few debuts have been as hotly anticipated as his.

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Jamal Murray scored a career-high 55 points and Nikola Jokic added a triple-double as the Denver Nuggets pushed their NBA winning streak to eight games with a 132-121 victory over Portland on Wednesday.

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The Los Angeles Lakers' trade for the Charlotte Hornets' Mark Williams has been rescinded, the clubs confirmed on Saturday after the towering centre reportedly failed a medical exam.

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Karl-Anthony Towns (29) scored 40 points as the New York Knicks blew past the Indiana Pacers 128-115 in the latest instalment of the two clubs' bitter NBA rivalry on Tuesday. Towns produced a dominant all-round performance with 12 rebounds, five assists, and three steals to go with his 40-point game as the Pacers were outgunned before their home crowd.

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Superstar big man Anthony Davis dazzled in his Dallas debut before hobbling out hurt in the third quarter of the Mavericks' 116-105 NBA victory over the Houston Rockets on Saturday.