The Knicks have decided to buyout Corey Brewer, who was acquired last week from Minnesota.

The Celtics, Spurs, Mavericks and Thunder are all interested in Brewer.

The Spurs have a six-game lead over the Mavericks for the top spot in the Western Conference and the best record in the NBA, but Jason Terry has predicted that Dallas will surpass San Antonio in the standings.

"We're going to catch them sooner or later, whether it's now or in the playoffs," Terry said. "We'd rather it be in the playoffs, in the Western finals or what have you. But we're going to catch them."

The Mavericks have won 13 of their last 14 games. San Antonio and Dallas have met five times in the postseason in the last decade.

Antonio McDyess has said that this season would be his last, but he has changed his mind.

“My mind is pretty much made up,” McDyess said. “I feel like I’ll be able to lace ‘em up and go again.”

McDyess is averaging 18.1 minutes per game with the Spurs this season, the fewest in his career.

“It’s the best situation I’ve ever been in,” McDyess said.

San Antonio’s Gregg Popovich, the Western Conference All-Star coach for the 2011 NBA All-Star Game, today announced Tim Duncan will start in place of injured West All-Star center Yao Ming (stress fracture, left ankle) of the Houston Rockets in Sunday’s All-Star Game in Los Angeles.

Earlier this month, Duncan was selected to his 13^th consecutive All-Star Game. Sunday will mark his 12^th consecutive start, second most among active players behind the Los Angeles Lakers’ Kobe Bryant, who will be starting his 13^th straight All-Star Game.

Spurs coach Gregg Popovich says the team sent James Anderson down to the D-League to work on his conditioning.

“I think that will do him a lot more good than seeing if we’re up 20 or down 20 and putting him in for three minutes,” Popovich said of playing in Austin. “We want to get him back ready to be put in a game.”

Popovich called Anderson "grossly out of shape" after the rookie missed 40 games with a stress fracture in his right foot.

The San Antonio Spurs signed forward Steve Novak of the Reno Bighorns for the eighth Call-Up of the 2010-11 NBA Development League season. Novak’s call-up increases the number of current NBA players with NBA D-League experience, including players currently on assignment to their NBA D-League affiliates, to 87.

Novak played in two games with Reno, averaging 18.5 points, 6.5 rebounds and 1.0 assists in 29.5 minutes. Novak also appeared in nine games with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers in 2007-08 while on assignment from the Houston Rockets, averaging 18.2 points, 7.4 rebounds and 2.0 assists.

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

The assignment marks the 39^th time in the 2010-11 season an NBA player has been assigned to an NBA D-League affiliate, and it is the second assignment for Anderson, a rookie out of Oklahoma State.

Anderson was first assigned on Jan. 26. He played two games with the Toros, averaging 14.5 points and 2.0 rebounds in 14.0 minutes. Anderson has appeared in nine games this season for the Spurs, averaging 5.2 points and 1.1 assists in 13.0 minutes.

The Spurs selected Anderson in the first round (20^th overall) of the 2010 NBA Draft. The 2010 Big 12 Player of the Year, Anderson averaged 17.9 points, 5.1 rebounds and 1.6 assists over 101 games in a three-year career at Oklahoma State. In his final season (2009-10), Anderson averaged 22.3 points, 5.8 rebounds and 2.4 assists, and was named to the AP All-America Second Team. His career scoring average is the second highest in school history, and his 1,811 total points rank fourth.

Gregg Popovich called the Lakers the best team in the West in a news conference on Thursday, not his Spurs.

Entering Thursday's action, Los Angeles trailed San Antonio by 6.5 games for first place in the West.

"I think they are the best team in the West," Popovich said. "I think the struggles are overblown by you guys and gals. They are who they are. They've been doing this a long time. They just won two [championships] in a row again and there's no doubt perhaps there's going to be some nights when it's just not all there emotionally. We run into that now, we've got the best record and we run into that and we haven't won a championship in a long time so we don't have that excuse and it happens to us."

The Spurs went on to beat the Lakers 89-88 in dramatic fashion on Thursday night.

"I think they're the best, I really do," Popovich said. "They're put together the way they need to be put together. They got the experience. They know what they're doing. [Lakers coach] Phil [Jackson is] going to be patient with them and do what he does and they'll be there come playoff time."

The NBA announced the reserves of the 2011 All-Star Game on Thursday.

Boston's Kevin Garnett, Rajon Rondo, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen were named to the team, along with Chris Bosh of Miami and Atlanta's Al Horford and Joe Johnson.

In the Western Conference, Dirk Nowitzki, Russell Westbrook, Pau Gasol, Blake Griffin, Deron Williams and San Antonio's Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili were named to the team.

Kevin Love and LaMarcus Aldridge were amongst the most prominent snubs.

Commissioner David Stern will name at least one replacement for injured starting center Yao Ming.

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