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LeBron James is coming back to his home region to play against the Cleveland Cavaliers, the NBA team he spurned to join the Miami Heat, with his new teammates on a historic win streak.

Philadelphia 76ers center Andrew Bynum will undergo surgery on both knees on Tuesday, meaning he will miss the entire NBA season due to injury.

Dwight Howard scored a season-high 39 points and grabbed 16 rebounds to lead the Los Angeles Lakers over the Orlando Magic 106-97 in a homecoming game against his former NBA club.

Phoenix Suns starting center Marcin Gortat will miss about the next three to four weeks of the NBA season with a sprained foot, the team announced on Thursday.

As US sports pundits ponder whether the NBA's Miami Heat or National Hockey League's Chicago Blackhawks are on the more impressive streak, players from each traded congratulation messages on Twitter.

LeBron James scored the game-winning layup with 3.2 seconds remaining to give defending NBA champion Miami a 97-96 victory over visiting Orlando, stretching the Heat's win streak to 16 games.

Dwyane Wade and LeBron James starred as the Miami Heat won a franchise record 15th consecutive game with a 97-81 win over a depleted Minnesota Timberwolves.

The National Basketball Association slapped Orlando Magic forward Hedo Turkoglu with a 20-game ban Wednesday after he tested positive for steroids.

Eric Bledsoe had 27 points, six rebounds and six steals as the short-manned Los Angeles Clippers defeated the Orlando Magic 86-76.

Jeremy Lin drained five of Houston's record-equalling 23 three-pointers as the Rockets romped to a 140-109 NBA victory over the Golden State Warriors.

Arron Afflalo scored 30 points and JJ Redick added 21, including the go-ahead three-pointer with 42 seconds left, to lift Orlando to a 104-101 NBA victory over the Los Angeles Clippers.

The Miami Heat edged the struggling Dallas Mavericks 119-109 in overtime behind 32 points from LeBron James who flirted with a triple double.

LeBron James delivered the go-ahead basket in overtime and Dwyane Wade followed with a steal and a dunk to seal a 112-110 victory for the NBA champion Miami Heat over Orlando.

Miami blew open a close contest with a 17-6 run in the fourth quarter as they beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 103-92 behind a 24-point performance from Dwyane Wade.

Greg Smith scored 17 of his career-high 21 points in the second half to help ignite a Houston rally that shot the Rockets to a 107-105 NBA victory over the Los Angeles Lakers.

Andrew Bynum's troublesome knees will keep the Philadelphia center out of NBA action indefinitely, the 76ers said in an update on his status.

Philadelphia 76ers big man Andrew Bynum said he's had a setback in his effort to return to NBA action from a knee injury.

The Los Angeles Lakers and superstar Kobe Bryant are chasing twin milestone titles as the 67th NBA season opens Tuesday, counting on two key additions to help them regain Western Conference supremacy.

Jane Lynch and Reichen Lehmkuhl have added their names to the global boycott of Amway Corporation. Jane Lynch and Reichen Lehmkuhl have added their names to the global boycott of Amway Corporation. Former GOP presidential candidate Fred Karger is leading the boycott against the Orlando Magic and Amway over a donation given by the president of the companies in support of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the nation's most vociferous opponent of gay marriage. At a press conference in Las Vegas to announce the boycott, Karger said that Doug DeVos gave $500,000 to the National Organization for Marriage Education Fund through his Douglas & Maria DeVos Foundation. Karger told MLive.com that Lynch, who plays coach Sue Sylvester on Fox's Glee, and Lehmkuhl, who appeared on cabler Logo's The A List: New York, both signed postcards chiding DeVos for his donation. Karger said he has collected 50 signatures so far. In an interview with the Grand Rapids Press, Rich DeVos, Doug DeVos' fa

Newcomers Dwight Howard and Steve Nash joined the Los Angeles Lakers for Monday's first day of training camp as Kobe Bryant looks for a sixth career NBA title and Pau Gasol bids for his third.