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Hello and welcome to another edition of Big Sports News. We’ll be going to the NBA section of BSN Network! A lot today and it can help you with your fantasy needs! So let’s just get a move on, because we got some good stuff in for us! Let’s go! Anderson Varejao The Plain Dailer reports that Anderson Varejao will likely opt out in the final year of his contrac t. No one found out about this until this source was said. With Varejao gone, it will leave $6.2M for the Cavs in cap, according to ESPN. Last year, was his best year statistically ... Read Full Story

Gail Sideman is a publicist that specializes in generating exposure for sports and authors. She is @PUBLISIDE on Twitter and can be found on Facebook . It should come as no surprise that the entire sports world is reaching out to fans with social media tools. But just how engaged are these groups with the latest in communications technology? Because the National Basketball Association (NBA) is in the thick of its playoffs, we’ll use them as a guinea pig. There are a handful of NBA teams that reach out to fans better than others. The 76ers, Cavaliers, Nets, and Suns all excel at using ... Read Full Story

Orlando Magic get their first victory of the NBA final with a 108-104 win over LA Lakers in game three. The top five plays from Orlando Magic's win over LA Lakers in game three of the NBA final. Magic bounce back in NBA Finals NBA highlights - Magic bounce back Dwight Howard and Rashard Lewis each scored 21 points as Orlando defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 108-104 to trail 2-1 in the best-of-seven NBA Finals. Lakers star Kobe Bryant looked set to continue his dominance of the series with 17 points in the opening quarter. But he went on to hit only 11 of ... Read Full Story

Game one may have been a 25 point blowout, but game two was another story altogether as the Orlando Magic kept up with Kobe Bryant and company and were one missed layup away from heading back to Orlando with the series tied up at one win a piece. Neither the Los Angeles Lakers or the Orlando Magic played well in game two. Both Dwight Howard and Kobe Bryant had off games and to be honest, game two was as sloppy a game I have seen in the playoffs. It was just turnover after turnover for both teams, obviously the Lakers forced a bit more ... Read Full Story

Major television events are continuing to see good results when they integrate social media, especially using services that let people take their social networking identities with them around the web. The latest example is media conglomerate Turner Networks , which recently told AdAge about its experiment in letting users log in and chat to each other using Facebook, MySpace and Twitter while watching the NBA Eastern Conference Finals and last weekend’s NASCAR race, the Pocono 500, on Turner’s home site. Turner’s results showed Facebook came out on top in both instances, but MySpace users messaged each other more. Twitter trailed the others in both ... Read Full Story

Free NBA Picks: Orlando Magic -3.0 -110 betting odds (Mike Rose NBA Predictions | Touthouse.com ) The Lakers have been handed this series on a silver platter by an Orlando team that has been marred by mistakes at the worst possible times. To their credit, LA has been very opportunistic in the Finals taking full advantage of the young Magic. Lakers G Kobe Bryant scored 32 points adding eight assists and seven rebounds in Game 4. However, his biggest contribution came as a decoy for G Derek Fisher to hit the game-tying three that sent the contest into OT. While the Lakers hold a ... Read Full Story

Magic making their mark NBA FINALS, GAME 5 Venue: Amway Arena, Orlando Date: 15 June Tip-off: 0100 BST Coverage: Live on Setanta Sports 2, Five television and highlights on the BBC Sport website Magic on the brink after losing Game 4 By Ian Whittell Orlando may be known primarily as the vacation capital of the world, particularly to the thousands of Brits who holiday here every year, but events of the past two months in the NBA are putting the Florida city on the map for altogether different reasons. A thrilling 99-91 overtime defeat to the LA Lakers in Game Four of the NBA ... Read Full Story