Antawn Jamison

Cavaliers scoring leader Antawn Jamison has left Cleveland's game against Phoenix with a bruised left leg and ankle. The forward was injured while battling for a rebound midway through the first quarter Sunday. Phoenix center Marcin Gortat and Jamison fell to the floor together, with Gortat landing on Jamison's leg. Jamison was on the floor for several minutes clutching his leg. He walked to the locker room on his own. Jamison is averaging 18.4 points.

Marreese Speights had 17 points and 10 rebounds, Marc Gasol also scored 17 points, and the Memphis Grizzlies beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 109-101 Monday night for their fifth straight win. Rudy Gay scored 15 points, O.J. Mayo had 14, Tony Allen added 13 points and a franchise-record eight steals and Mike Conley had 12 for the Grizzlies, who won their 10th straight at home. Gay and Mayo led a rally that allowed Memphis to finally put the game away in the closing minutes. The Grizzlies pulled one-half game behind the Los Angeles Clippers for fourth place in the Western Conference and...

Prize rookie Kyrie Irving scored a season-high 26 points and Antawn Jamison matched his season high with 23, helping the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Phoenix Suns 101-90 on Thursday night. Irving, who played only 11 games at Duke before being drafted first overall, topped his previous high of 21. Anderson Varejeo contributed 15 rebounds for the Cavaliers. Steve Nash led six Suns players in double figures with 16 points, becoming the 15th active player to reach 16,000 points.

Danny Green scored 19 points against a Cleveland team that released him last season, Tony Parker added 19 and the San Antonio Spurs coasted to their eighth straight win, 125-90 over the Cavaliers on Tuesday night. Green played his rookie season for Cleveland, which cut him at the end of training camp in 2011. He's found a new home with the Spurs, who built a 22-point lead in the first half and rested Parker, Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili for most of the fourth quarter while pushing their lead to 37. Rookie Kyrie Irving scored 13 points for the Cavs in his return after missing one game with a...

Chauncey Billups made his first three shots of the fourth quarter, leading the Detroit Pistons to an 87-71 win over the Cavaliers last night at Cleveland in the first matchup between the clubs since last season's playoffs. Billups, who was just 1 of 9 from the floor after three quarters, dropped three jumpers -- two 3-pointers -- in the first 3:02 of the fourth as the Pistons went on a 14-3 run to open a 71-58 lead with 8:19 left. Billups scored 17 points, including 12 in the fourth, and added 10 assists.

Carmelo Anthony and Marcus Camby both had double-doubles, Earl Boykins scored half of his 20 points in the fourth quarter, and the Denver Nuggets beat the Wizards, 108-105, last night in Washington for their fourth consecutive victory. Camby had 24 points, 14 rebounds, and 6 blocks, including one on Gilbert Arenas's 3-point attempt just before the buzzer. Anthony had 28 points and 11 rebounds, and his 18-for-22 free-throw shooting set career highs for makes and attempts. Arenas led the way with 36 points and 10 assists for the Wizards, who lost their fourth straight...

Carlos Boozer had 31 points and 11 rebounds, and Derrick Rose added 23 points and 12 rebounds to help the Chicago Bulls beat the Pistons, 95-92, in overtime last night in Auburn Hills, Mich. Rose also had eight assists. Tayshaun Prince led Detroit with 17 points. The Pistons sent the game to overtime when Charlie Villanueva tipped home a missed shot with 0.6 seconds left. Detroit missed three shots on the possession, but grabbed three offensive rebounds. Clippers 108, Suns 103 — Rookie Blake Griffin posted his 18th straight double-double with 28 points and 12 rebounds...

Shaquille O'Neal wasn't at his best. Again, it didn't matter -- Dwyane Wade saw to that. Wade controlled the game last night with 31 points, including a critical 3-point play with 1:05 left, and added a career-high 15 assists, helping the Miami Heat stay perfect in these playoffs with a 108-102 win over the visiting Washington Wizards. Miami leads the Eastern Conference semifinal series, 2-0. Tomorrow's Game 3 is at Washington, where the Heat have won 11 times in their last 14 tries.

Coaching his first game of any sort since a spot on the bench in his daughter's youth league in 1993 - "We won, but she complained about playing time," he said - Ed Tapscott juggled a few things and guided the Wizards to a 124-100 blowout of visiting Golden State last night, breaking Washington's five-game losing streak and avoiding the worst 12-game start in franchise history. Caron Butler scored a season-high 35 points, Andray Blatche had season highs with 25 points and 12 rebounds, and Antawn Jamison added 25 points and 11 rebounds as the Wizards improved to 2-10 with their best...

Caron Butler scored 29 points, Antawn Jamison had 28, and the Wizards beat the Toronto Raptors, 101-97, in Washington last night in a game in which each team was missing its best player. Butler went 10 for 18 from the field and added seven assists. Jamison was 11 for 18 and had 14 rebounds for the Wizards, who broke a two-game losing streak by shooting 56 percent. The Wizards improved to 5-4 without Gilbert Arenas, who is out several months with a knee injury, while Toronto is 1-1 without Chris Bosh, who did not make the trip because of a strained right groin.

Cavaliers scoring leader Antawn Jamison has left Cleveland's game against Phoenix with a bruised left leg and ankle. The forward was injured while battling for a rebound midway through the first quarter Sunday. Phoenix center Marcin Gortat and Jamison fell to the floor together, with Gortat landing on Jamison's leg. Jamison was on the floor for several minutes clutching his leg. He walked to the locker room on his own. Jamison is averaging 18.4 points.

Marcin Gortat and Markieff Morris scored 22 points apiece and the Phoenix Suns never trailed in a 108-83 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Sunday. Steve Nash added 13 assists for the Suns, who have won six of eight to get back into the Western Conference playoff race. Phoenix improved to 11-4 since the All-Star break. Rookie Kyrie Irving scored 16 points for Cleveland, which has lost six of seven. Gortat scored the game's first 10 points, including two dunks and three layups, to push Phoenix out to a 12-0 lead.

Joe Johnson hit a tying 3-pointer at the end of regulation and knocked down a baseline jumper with 10 seconds left in overtime, giving the Atlanta Hawks a 103-102 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday night. The Hawks rallied from 16 points down early on and a six-point deficit in OT, pulling even on Johnson's third trey of the night and a three-point play by Josh Smith, who led Atlanta with 32 points and 17 rebounds. Cleveland reclaimed the lead when Tristan Thompson made one of two free throws.

Kyrie Irving hit a driving layup with four seconds left to cap a seesaw battle in the final minutes and the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Denver Nuggets 100-99 on Wednesday night. Irving scored 10 of his 18 points in the fourth quarter, all in the last 2:36 of the game, and Antawn Jamison had 33 to help the Cavaliers snap a six-game skid. Al Harrington had 22 points and Andre Miller 16 for the Nuggets, whose four-game win streak ended. Neither team could pull away in the fourth quarter.

Jordan Crawford had a burst of offense midway through the fourth quarter that spurred the Washington Wizards to a 10-point lead. Then he could only try to keep Cavaliers guard Kyrie Irving from erasing it. Irving led a Cleveland rally in the final minutes but came up just short as Washington held on for a 101-98 win Saturday night. Crawford finished with 31 points, including 10 during a 14-5 run in the fourth quarter that gave the Wizards a 96-86 lead with 3:45 left. Irving scored 20, including eight of the Cavaliers' nine points in the final 2 ½ minutes.

Prize rookie Kyrie Irving scored a season-high 26 points and Antawn Jamison matched his season high with 23, helping the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Phoenix Suns 101-90 on Thursday night. Irving, who played only 11 games at Duke before being drafted first overall, topped his previous high of 21. Anderson Varejeo contributed 15 rebounds for the Cavaliers. Steve Nash led six Suns players in double figures with 16 points, becoming the 15th active player to reach 16,000 points.

Andrew Bogut had 24 points and 20 rebounds in his third career 20-20 game, and the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Knicks, 83-67, last night in New York for their third straight victory. Limited to just 5 1/2 minutes at Madison Square Garden three weeks ago because of a migraine, Bogut played 36 this time and overwhelmed the Knicks’ smaller front line. He shot 12 of 15 from the field in his first 20-20 game since Dec. 13, 2008, against Indiana, according to STATS, LLC. John Salmons scored 15 points for the Bucks, who forced the Knicks into their worst offensive performance of the season and completed a...

Vince Carter scored a season-high 43 points to become the 41st NBA player to reach 10,000 points, and Jason Kidd had his 62d triple-double in the New Jersey Nets' 107-97 overtime victory over Philadelphia in East Rutherford, N.J., last night. Kidd finished with 22 points, a season-high 16 assists and 11 rebounds in leading the Nets to their season-high fifth straight win at home and their eighth in 11 games. Ron Mercer added 14 points, all in the fourth quarter and the overtime.

J.J. Hickson’s athleticism and potential made him a budding NBA star. His inconsistency made him maddening and expendable. On Thursday, the Cleveland Cavaliers decided it was time to move on without him. Clearing out a logjam at power forward, they traded the enigmatic Hickson to the Sacramento Kings for forward Omri Casspi and a future first-round pick. Hickson spent three mostly productive seasons in Cleveland, but his days were numbered when the club drafted Texas forward Tristan Thompson with the No. 4 overall pick last week.

The Cleveland Cavaliers lost their way into the NBA record book in fitting fashion — not with a blowout, but with the kind of head-slapping plays typical of a team that can’t do anything right. Like a 7-foot center losing a jump ball to a 6-foot-2-inch guard. And a decent outside shooter deciding to pass as time expired instead of putting up a potential tying 3-pointer. The miscues doomed the Cavs to a 99-96 loss to the Mavericks last night in Dallas, making it 25 straight losses, the most in league history no matter how it’s counted.