The Atlanta Hawks agreed to terms with rookie guard Jeff Teague on Monday. Details of the contract were not disclosed. Teague, who was selected with the 19th overall pick in the first round of the 2009 NBA Draft, played his college ball at Wake Forest. In his second and final season with the Demon Deacons, Teague averaged 18.8 points, 3.5 assists, 3.3 rebounds and 1.9 steals in 31 games. He was also named to the ACC All-Freshman team a

The Los Angeles Clippers acquired guard Sebastian Telfair, forward Craig Smith and forward Mark Madsen from the Minnesota Timberwolves in exchange for forward Quentin Richardson on Monday. Richardson has now been traded three times this offseason, having first been dealt from New York to Memphis on draft night in June and then sent from the Grizzlies to the Clippers last Friday. Telfair, 23, averaged a career-high 9.8 points, 4.6 as

The Indiana Pacers announced they will not match the four-year, $20 million offer sheet point guard Jarrett Jack signed with the Toronto Raptors last week. After three productive seasons in Portland, Jack performed well in his first year with the Pacers in 2008-09, averaging career-highs of 13.1 points and 3.4 assists while playing in all 82 games. In 322 career games, Jack has logged 10.4 points and 4.0 assists in 28.6 minutes p

The National Basketball Association will play a preseason game in China this fall, as the Indiana Pacers and Denver Nuggets will square off on October 11 in Beijing. This will be the eighth NBA game played in China and the third in Beijing. The contest will be staged at the refurbished Wukesong Arena, formerly known as the Beijing Olympic Basketball Arena. "The Wukesong Arena is an outstanding facility that we are proud to call the hom

The Kevin McHale era in Minnesota is over. New basketball chief David Kahn is now running things in the Land of 10,000 Lakes and hopes to build on a nucleus that includes one of the top power forwards in the game, Al Jefferson, and the emerging Kevin Love. McHale stumbled on recent draft days, taking studs like Brandon Roy and O.J. Mayo and then dealing them. Coming into the draft, Kahn has three first round picks at his disposal and needs a natural point guard al

Injuries to star guard Gilbert Arenas and center Brendan Haywood crippled the Washington Wizards last season as the team tied a franchise record for fewest wins in an 82-game season with 19. Bad luck followed the Wizards to the offseason and the lottery where the team had a 17.6 percent chance to get the No. 1 overall pick, but managed to fall out all the way to No. 5, the lowest possible pick for them. New coach Flip Saunders will have little trouble improving on

The Atlanta Hawks are reportedly close to finalizing a trade that would bring them guard Jamal Crawford from Golden State. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and other media sources are reporting the deal, in which the Hawks would send guards Acie Law and Speedy Claxton to the Warriors. Crawford averaged 19.7 points, splitting his season between the Warriors and New York Knicks. The 29-year-old also came in with 4.4 assists and

The Toronto Raptors acquired forward Reggie Evans from the Philadelphia 76ers on Tuesday in exchange for guard/forward Jason Kapono. Evans, a seven-year veteran, averaged 3.3 points and 4.6 rebounds in 14.4 minutes per game last year for Philadelphia over 79 contests. The Iowa product has career averages of 4.3 points and 6.9 rebounds per game in 514 contests having also played for Denver and the former Seattle franchise. "

The Lakers declined to jump out on Rafer Alston after two horrible shooting games. Alston made them pay with 13 first-half points, and despite 21 points from Kobe Bryant, hot shooting has buoyed the Orlando Magic to a 59-54 halftime lead in Game 3 of the NBA Finals. The Magic, who came into the game shooting just 36 percent from the floor, shot a NBA Finals record 75 percent from the floor (24-of-32) thanks in large part to a 5-of-7 effort from Alston an

Dwight Howard scored 21 points with 14 rebounds, as Orlando finally put the ball in the basket and watched Kobe Bryant miss several shots and commit a key turnover down the stretch, as the Magic beat the Los Angeles Lakers, 108-104, to take Game 3 of the NBA Finals. Rafer Alston scored 13 of his 20 points in the first half, Rashard Lewis donated 21 points and Hedo Turkoglu recorded 18 points with seven assists and six rebounds. Th