NBA Southeast Division

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Every contender this season can deploy a lockdown defender—the quick, smart, tough player who makes life miserable for the hotshot scorers

Global icon? Champion for the ages? Consummate team player?

has been to the playoffs before—three times with the Kings—so when Charlotte's leading scorer called the 2008--09 season "a success story," he had some perspective. The Bobcats, who were 7--18 last December, battled...

Nightlife. No state income tax. What more could a free agent want? That's the decidedly nonrhetorical question the Heat needs to answer for one of the NBA's most eligible, Dwyane Wade, who is clearly keeping his...