The San Antonio Spurs today announced that they have recalled rookie James Anderson from the Austin Toros of the NBA Development League. He will be active for San Antonio’s game tonight against the Houston Rockets at the AT&T Center.

Anderson, a 6-6, 215-pound guard, was assigned to the Toros on January 26 for a rehab assignment.

He has been out since November 11 when he was diagnosed with a stress fracture in the fifth metatarsal of his right foot.

In Austin, Anderson played in two games, averaging 14.5 points and 2.0 rebounds in 14.0 minutes per game. He shot .556 (10-18) from the field, .444 (4-9) from three-point territory and .714 (5-7) from the free throw line.

The Knicks have surpassed the Lakers as the NBA's most valuable franchise, according to findings from Forbes.

New York is valued at $655 million, while the Lakers are close behind at $643 million.

The Bulls, Celtics and Rockets comprise the remainder of the top-five.

In the wake of LeBron James leaving in free agency, the Cavaliers had a single-year decrease of 26%.

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Spurs guard James Anderson was assigned to the Austin Toros, San Antonio's NBA Development League affiliate, it was announced Wednesday. 

The assignment marks the 33rd time in the 2010-11 season an NBA player has been assigned to an NBA D-League affiliate, and it is the first assignment for Anderson, a rookie out of Oklahoma State.

Anderson has appeared in six games this season for the Spurs, averaging 7.0 points, 1.5 assists and 1.0 rebound in 17.7 minutes. Anderson, whom the Spurs selected in the first round (20th overall) of the 2010 NBA Draft, has been out since Nov. 11 with a right foot injury.

Tim Duncan tweaked his left knee in San Antonio's win over Golden State on Monday night.

The sight of Duncan laying on the floor, clutching his knee was a scary one for the Spurs.

"Bad, bad memories," Tony Parker said. "I thought something was seriously wrong with his knee."

It turned out to be fine as Duncan returned without a problem in the second half.

He finished with 16 points and seven rebounds in the 113-102 win.

San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich will coach the Western Conference All-Stars for the 2011 NBA All-Star Game, to be played on Sunday, Feb. 20.

With San Antonio’s 113-102 win over the Golden State Warriors Monday, the Spurs (38-7, .844) have clinched the best record in the conference through games played Feb. 6.

This season, Popovich has guided the Spurs to the league’s best record, earning consecutive Western Conference Coach of the Month honors for games played in October/November and December.

James Anderson was in uniform on the San Antonio bench on Wednesday for the first time since November 6th, but Gregg Popovich had no intention on using him.

Anderson is scheduled to join the Spurs’ Austin Toros NBA D-League team early next week on an assignment coach Popovich said is intended to get his rhythm back.

“It’s more likely he can get 15, 20 or 30 minutes there than he could here right now,” Popovich said. “I’m not going to put him in a game 20 or 30 minutes right off the bat. Down there, he can get those minutes and get into a rhythm a lot more quickly rather than waiting for me to get him into a game.”

Antonio McDyess expected this season to be his last in the NBA, but he's now rethinking that plan.

McDyess decided this would be his final year in the league even before he signed with the Spurs two summers ago.

"If I could play here another year," McDyess said, "I would definitely contemplate it."

McDyess says he's still leaning towards retirement, but he could return for a 16th season if he can remain with San Antonio.

"I'm not going to say never," McDyess said.

Spurs guard Gary Neal has been a major contributor off the bench this season.

After spending three seasons playing basketball in Europe, the 26-year-old rookie hopes to never wake up from his NBA dream.

"I couldn't have written a script that would have been better than this is right now," Neal said.

"As far as the team goes, we've got the best record in the NBA, and as far as me playing, I'm playing more, and better, than I thought I could play."

He is averaging 8.7 points in 18.7 minutes per game.

While he would love to participate in the Rookie-Sophomore game scheduled for All-Star weekend, he isn't getting ahead of himself.

"To be honest with you, we have 15 games before then, and anything could happen between now and then," Neal said. "The rotation could change, or anything. I just take it day to day, one game at a time."

Tim Duncan knows titles aren't won in January, but he told NBA.com that the Spurs were looking to get off to a hot start this season in hopes of securing homecourt advantage when the playoffs do roll around.

"We just want to continue to play," Duncan said. "It's great to get off to this start and we wanted to get off to a fast start coming into this year. We want to be able to have homecourt advantage, if at all possible, in the playoffs."

San Antonio is currently on pace to win 70 games and they have a 5 1/2 game lead over the Lakers for the top spot in the Western Conference.

Despite the team's hot start, Gregg Popovich continues to insist his team isn't the conference's best right now. He's imparted that belief onto his players.

"The Lakers are right on our tail in terms of record, they're the three-time conference champs, two-time NBA champs and to start talking NBA Finals is early," Richard Jefferson said.

"The only thing we can talk about is trying to get the No. 1 seed. I think that's the only thing as far as looking to the future that would even be respectable."

The San Antonio Spurs signed forward Larry Owens of the Tulsa 66ers to a 10-day contract Saturday for the second call-up of the 2010-11 NBA Development League season.

Owens' call-up increases the number of current NBA players with NBA D-League experience to 71.

He started in all 23 games he has appeared in this season for the 66ers, leading the team to a Western Conference-best 18-6 record.

Owens averaged 12.7 points, 5.5 rebounds and 3.2 assists in 31.1 minutes per game. He's scored in double figures 18 times, including a season-high 22 points versus Iowa on Nov. 26.