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The suspension given to Charlotte's Jeffery Taylor by Commissioner Adam Silver is in the latest NBA News. ''Excessive, without precedent and a violation of the Collective Bargaining Agreement'' is how the suspension was described by the executive director of the NBA Players Association.

Taylor made NBA News after being suspended for 24 games without pay on Wednesday.  The forward pleaded guilty last month to misdemeanor domestic violence assault and malicious destruction of hotel property. Taylor will lose nearly $200,000 of his $915,000 salary this season.

According to the league, Taylor will get credit for the 11 games he has missed, and will sit out an additional 13 for a total which is slightly more than one-fourth of the league's 82-game schedule.

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In other NBA News:"I was feeling good, I think the best I've felt in the NBA," Rubio said Thursday, almost two weeks after severely spraining his left ankle in a game against Orlando on Nov. 7.  I was feeling like I'd found my tempo. I was leading the team. But it's something that happened, you can't take it back. Just have to get back as soon as possible to help the team and feel that way again."

This is what Rubio said in a interview that he did after getting injured and making NBA News again.

Rubio signed a four-year, $55 million extension on Oct. 31 and then had 17 assists in a loss to Chicago the next night before collecting 14 points, 12 assists and eight rebounds in a win over Brooklyn to start a six-game road trip on Nov. 5.

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In other NBA News, the NBA says there will be a Basketball without Borders camp in New York in February during All-Star weekend.

The camp will be held Feb. 13-15 at Baruch College and feature the top 40 players born in 1997 from Africa, the Americas, Asia/Pacific and Europe. They will work with NBA, WNBA, and international players and coaches.

Basketball without Borders camps, run by the NBA and basketball governing body FIBA, began in 2001 and has been held in 19 countries on five continents. There have been 33 campers who went on to be drafted by NBA teams.

The players are not only making NBA News for what they do on the court but for the charitable work that they do off it as well.

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An ambiguously titled sneaker which has the No. 3 - Iverson's number - on each back heel and the red, white and blue colors of the Philadelphia 76ers has made the latest NBA News. Neither Iverson nor the Sixers are named on the sneaker or on the branding for the shoe, which were expected to be released later this year or in early 2015.

Iverson's lawyer sent a letter to Nike this week objecting to the shoe.

Nike spokesman KeJuan Wilkins said in a statement Thursday that the version of the shoe Iverson protested won't hit stores.

The retired player who made NBA News throughout his career protested against the new sneaker because of a contract which he signed with Reebok, a rival company to Nike.