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Stu Jackson

The NBA launched a video rulebook Thursday, a site where fans can watch detailed explanations of the league’s rules.

The rulebook is “a place of reference for everyone with respect to how our games are officiated,” Stu Jackson, the NBA’s executive vice president of basketball operations, said.

It can be found here.

The site was about 1 1/2 years in the making, according to Jackson, and features approximately 150 plays.

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Rudy Gay

Unless there is significant progress in negotiations, it appears the Grizzlies and forward Rudy Gay will not agree to a long-term contract extension before the Oct. 31 deadline.

Grizzlies general manager Chris Wallace said Thursday that the discussions, while amicable, are about where they have been since the summer.

Wallace has negotiated with Gay’s agent, Jeff Austin, since July 1. They have met in Las Vegas, Memphis and briefly in Richmond, Va., where the Griz played a preseason game against the Washington Wizards.

Wallace would not characterize their most recent talks, and it is not known where each side stands with regard to total compensation.

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Photo by Michael Sandoval

Lakers forward Lamar Odom left the team’s preseason win over the Kings on Thursday night because of a leg injury.

Odom limped to the locker room at the end of the first half after apparently getting kicked in the right shin.

After trying to play in the second half, Odom, who was clearly in pain, quickly checked out.

“I’m alright. It’ll be alright,” Odom told the Los Angeles Times after the game. “They were wrestling down there, Ron [Artest], the wrestler and [Sacramento's Jon] Brockman, they were wrestling and someone down there kicked me. Front side. Right side on my shin. Right on the muscle there. It’s a tough place to get hit. Treatment, that’s it.”

The Lakers are officially calling the injury a right leg contusion and Odom is listed as day-to-day.

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Don Nelson said he thinks Brandan Wright will miss the entire season after surgery to repair the labrum in his left shoulder.

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David Stern

NBA players will be able to take two steps before they have to stop, pass or shoot this season.

The NBA has put into writing a rule allowing players on the move to gather the ball, after driving or catching it, and then take two steps. Throughout NBA history, the rulebook said players could take one step.

The new rule reads, in part: “A player who receives the ball while he is progressing or upon completion of a dribble, may take two steps in coming to a stop, passing or shooting the ball.”

ESPN.com

Chris Bosh

Chris Bosh went to court to reclaim his online identity, and in the process liberated the Internet domain names of 800 other athletes, celebrities and would-be celebrities.

A federal judge in California has ordered a cybersquatter to surrender chrisbosh .com to Bosh settling a lawsuit filed last year. But the court went a step further — or several hundred steps.

Judge Florence-Marie Cooper of United States District Court ordered Luis Zavala and his company, Hoopology .com, to release some 800 illegally registered domain names to Bosh.

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Josh Childress

Bucks officials met in Milwaukee with restricted free agent Josh Childress during the past off-season, and GM John Hammond took a trip to Cleveland on Monday to watch him play for his Greek team, Olympiakos, in an exhibition against the Cavaliers.

The Atlanta Hawks retain the NBA rights to Childress who has an opt-out clause again next year in the three-year deal he signed with Olympiakos in 2008.

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Kevin Garnett

Kevin Garnett, acutely aware of Rajon Rondo’s negotiation for a contract extension, came to the point with his young point guard early in training camp.

“You don’t just play with it during negotiations or when you’re trying to make a point,” Garnett later said of his message for Rondo. “Every year you get a jersey, you’re trying to prove a point, trying to get better. . . . this is your mindset.”

The Celtics and Rondo have until Oct. 31 to reach agreement on an extension. Otherwise, he will become a restricted free agent next summer.

HoopsWorld

Photo by Keith Allison

Antawn Jamison injured his right shoulder while fouling Zydrunas Ilgauskas and was forced to leave Wednesday’s game.

Jamison said his arm went numb and lost sensation in his fingers after suffering the injury.

“It scared me a little bit. It scared me because I didn’t have any feeling,” Jamison said after the game.

Jamison ruled himself out against Atlanta on Monday but said he might try to be available for Philadelphia.

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