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Before we look at the key matchups, it’s worth noting that the league has tried to reduce the wear and tear on the players. There’s the absence of four games in five nights and the reduction of back to back games per team. No team has more than 16 back to backs and no team has fewer than 13 (last year the range was 14 to 18). But whether your favorite NBA team is taking on division rivals, grudge matches or racking up the air miles with trips to inter-conference rivals, keep track of all the latest five key matchup dates announced as we guide you through the NBA season schedule here....

“I was thinking about it since we lost to them,” Kyrie Irving said yesterday. “I remember players from other teams asking about what’s going on when we were 10-10.” But they got their revenge this time around. Boston’s offensive machinery worked smoothly right from the tip-off, and left no room for error for the visitors as they coasted to 128-100 blowout win. Let’s take a look at a few key takeaways from this redemptive run by the Celtics....

76ers: Field Goals 39-84 (46.4 percent), 50 rebounds, 31 assists, 10 turnovers. Mavericks: Field Goals 38-88 (43.2 percent), 49 rebounds, 27 assists, 15 turnovers. Coming off a five-game road trip and with the Dallas Mavericks in the Wells Fargo Center, the 76ers secured a great win with Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons shouldering the team. Jimmy Butler missed his second consecutive game due to upper respiratory infections. The 76ers went on to lead the game by as much as 19 points in the second half....

At the same time, some factors helping us out here are obvious: the Pistons are back to earth after back-to-back losses to the Celtics - at home and then on the road. The Raptors lost their first game of the season at the hands of the Bucks when both teams rested their starting MVP-caliber small forwards, but they put away the Sixers today like breakfast on a leisurely day. So, who reigns atop our power rankings?...

Publisher Take-Two Interactive announced last year that NBA 2K21 on next-gen consoles would cost $70 rather than the more common $60, and Take-Two was one of the first companies to stride confidently into the change. Though some in the gaming industry thought this would hurt NBA 2K21’s sales, it didn’t have a major impact, and the game has been a financial success for the company. Take-Two believes gamers are ready for $70 games, but it seems the company also wants to experiment with the mobile subscription market....

RELATED: NBA 2K22: Best Free Agent Cards In MyTeam, Ranked Playing against a team with even one Galaxy Opal card is bad news. Any more than that and opponents may start to quit the match before it starts. Not just any such card will do, though. NBA 2K22 has now released many cards with this designation, grabbing the best of the best is what the top-tier players are doing....

“This does nothing,” one agent told Sporting News. “This is BS. This is the NCAA trying to take its problems and pass them off to someone else so that they can say they did something. They didn’t do anything, though. This is still something the NBA is going to have to fix itself.” NBA POWER RANKINGS: Warriors still on top; Lakers make big jump For NBA types, two of the rules are especially pertinent....

ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported Thursday night that the Oklahoma City Thunder were trading Russell Westbrook to the Houston Rockets in exchange for Chris Paul and multiple first-round draft picks. MORE: NBA players react to Rockets-Thunder megadeal The blockbuster trade was the latest move in an NBA offseason that seems to get crazier with each passing day. Not only has the balance of power seen a major shift in recent weeks, so have the Vegas odds for who is favored to win the 2020 NBA Finals....

Butler, 38, played from 2002-2016 with his longest NBA stints coming with the New Orleans Hornets/Pelicans (four seasons) and Heat (three seasons). He also spent time with the Clippers, Bulls, Pacers, Wizards, Raptors and Spurs. He most recently participated in the inaugural season of Ice Cube’s Big3 League. LaBelle, 31, was an R&B singer signed to Epric Records who finished 12th on “American Idol” back in 2003. MORE: NBA community mourns death of player agent Henry Thomas...

Collins became the league's first openly gay player when he signed with the Brooklyn Nets last Sunday, and his No. 98 jersey has been the top seller on NBAStore.com. He chose the number in tribute to Shepard, who was killed in a gay hate crime in 1998. Collins met Shepard's parents on Thursday when the Nets played in Denver. The league says Friday the donations will total no less than $100,000, and it will also auction off Collins' autographed, game-worn jerseys to benefit the same organizations....

Two National Guard representatives will testify at the Thursday afternoon hearing, which is examining reports of waste and abuse in Army National Guard sponsorship and marketing contracts. The hearing of the U.S. Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee on financial and contract oversight will be presided over by Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. MORE: Kansas race predictions | How a NASCAR draft might go “I'm a fan of NASCAR, too,” McCaskill told USA Today....

While the early signing period has become the de facto national signing day — only nine players of the top 100 players in the country remain unsigned — there still are plenty of talented players left who have yet to make their collegiate decisions. Where they sign will go a long way in determining the final class rankings for 2020. Follow along as Sporting News tracks the official signings of the class of 2020 (all class and recruit rankings reflect 247Sports Composite):...

While to many it is a symbol of cold sugary goodness, the history of the ice cream sundae reads more like a Shakespearean tragedy. Firstly, there is much contention about where the name “sundae” came from. According to What’s Cooking America, some historians believe that it was created in response to the “Blue Laws” which stopped the selling of ice cream sodas on Sundays because it was a religious day....

It could be the start of an off-color joke, but the rest of this story is 100 percent a thing that happened in real life. MORE: Every MLB team’s most pressing free-agent need The Nationals visited the White House and President Trump on Monday to celebrate their World Series championship. Aside from it involving a local team, the ceremony was nothing out of the ordinary: Everyone was rah-rah, the president heaped praise upon the team, the president got a jersey, and some players said nice things about their host....

Dave Daubenmire, a former high school football coach who now leads Pass the Salt Ministries in Hebron, took a group to pray at the Great Serpent Mound near Peebles on Sunday. The American Indian Movement of Ohio’s executive director Philip Yenyo and other members met Daubenmire’s group in the site’s parking lot after finding out about the event, which was planned to coincide with the winter solstice. Yenyo is seen telling the prayer group to leave in a video posted of the encounter on YouTube with the title “PAGANS TRY TO PREVENT PRAYER....

Oleksandr Danylyuk, who headed the council under President Volodymyr Zelensky in 2019, told Newsweek that while last week’s failure of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group to agree on provision of Leopard 2 MBTs was disappointing, the ongoing discussions have set the stage for a positive decision in the near future. “I was watching for and expecting a decision for tanks,” Danylyuk said. “This is something new that we didn’t think about at the beginning of the war....

Symptoms Bell’s palsy symptoms typically appear suddenly and reach their peak about 48 hours after they start. In most cases, only one side of the face becomes paralyzed. The condition may vary in severity, from mild muscle weakness to complete paralysis. Facial distortion is common among people with Bell’s palsy. Symptoms may also include: Twitching Unable to close the affected eye which leads to excessive tearing Dry eye Drooping of one eyelid Drooping in the corner of the mouth Drooling Dry mouth Impairment of taste...

When it comes to the sale of Chrysler, the union is in the driver’s seat. For starters, Gettelfinger sits on DaimlerChrysler’s 20-member Supervisory Board, the European equivalent of a board of directors. Daimler’s board meets Wednesday to discuss the suitors swirling around Chrysler and possibly pick a favored one with which to negotiate exclusively. And while one voice among 20 might not sound like much, Gettelfinger brings much more to the table....

The studio has been building buzz for The Last of Us 2 with several story and gameplay demos since the game was unveiled in 2016, but so far Naughty Dog has focused on the post-apocalyptic action title’s single-player campaign since the original title’s multiplayer won’t be included in the new game. RELATED: The Last of Us 2 Delay Confirmed With New Release Date Vinit Agarwal, a lead game designer at Naughty Dog, shared an opening for an online systems programmer position at the studio, stating that the developer has “big ambitions” for the future....

The new collection will be bringing a remastered version of Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End and the spin-off game The Lost Legacy to PS5 and PC, which chronicle the current end of Nathan Drake’s story. While Naughty Dog will be making the game’s PS5 version, the PC port will be handled by Iron Galaxy, which previously managed the PC ports for games like Destiny, Overwatch, and Skyrim. RELATED: Uncharted 4 PC Port Plans Revealed in PlayStation Document...