2011年5月31日星期二

KEEPING AN EYE ON DWIGHT HOWARD

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No one knows what free agency in the NBA will look like next summer, but if Magic center Dwight Howard terminates his contract after next season he will instantly become the next big prize. Unlike the summer of 2010 when LeBron James and friends were set to hit the open market, the uncertainty over a new labor agreement clouds everything at the moment.

Howard could be joined in free agency by players like Chris Paul and Deron Williams, but Howard is the main attraction for obvious reasons. He’s the most dominant center in the league by far, he’s never been seriously injured and he’ll be just 27 years old at 2012 and still in his prime.

As it stands the Celtics could be big players in free agency after next season (again, depending on the new salary cap rules) with under $30 million in salaries currently on the books to three players — Rajon Rondo, Paul Pierce and Avery Bradley. That number will rise obviously but the Celtics are positioned to be active players in 2012.
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Howard has the power to alter the dynamic if he chooses to sign an extension with the Magic that is reportedly on the table. He hosted a free barbecue in Orlando over the weekend and told the Orlando Sentinel that he wants to stay.

“I want to start my own path and I want people to follow my path and not just follow somebody else’s path,” he said. “I want to have my own path, and I want to start that here in Orlando.”

He also dropped Shaquille O’Neal’s name, which as SI.com’s Zach Lowe pointed out, is probably not an accident. Lowe writes:

“Howard must know that invoking Shaq’s name is a big, big thing in Orlando. It transforms what would otherwise be the latest in a series of benign pseudo-commitments to Orlando into a memorable, loaded quote in which Howard distances himself from the player who defined the franchise before him. Howard will never be able to avoid this quote if he leaves.”
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An Orlando television station reported that Howard was close to signing a two-year extension with the team, but there has been no further corroboration on anyone’s part.

This has already begun to turn into a drama much like the ones that enveloped James in his last season in Cleveland or like the one that surrounded Carmelo Anthony in Denver. Howard’s case is somewhere in the middle. While James played coy with everyone last season, Anthony forced the Nuggets’ hand by refusing to sign an extension. As long as the possibility of signing an extension exists, the Magic will wait on Howard.

2011年5月30日星期一

No Use Denying the LeBrilliance Anymore


Not to start trouble, but LeBron James is a better impressionist painter than Renoir. His revolutionary architecture rivals Frank Lloyd Wright's. His first book, still unpublished, will be more well-crafted and daring than Philip Roth's, and his foray into food will be tastier than Joël Robuchon's. James already sings with the elegance of Ella Fitzgerald, plays a meaner guitar than Buddy Guy, dances like Baryshnikov, exudes more empathy than Oprah and makes a more stylish smartphone than Steve Jobs. He could probably coach Ohio State to a few consecutive wins over Michigan.

What, do you not agree? Is any of this in dispute?

Earth is orbiting closer to a LeBron re-appreciation, willingly or not. His gaudy Heat have made the NBA Finals, which begin Tuesday night against the Dallas Mavericks at Miami's white-T-shirt space disco, and they did so largely because of James's brilliance. It isn't enough to exonerate James for recent missteps—he's still the man who turned his free agency into a egomaniacal spectacle; who left Cleveland in an aggrieved funk; who flew his Learjet to Nova Scotia to see the total eclipse of the sun. But after a series of spectacular performances in these playoffs, the conversation about James is mercifully beginning to migrate in a new direction—away from the off-season psychodrama and onto actual basketball, which is much more entertaining and far less junior-high-school cafeteria.
James has been magnificent this spring, and he has been magnificent in areas where, not long ago, his magnificence was in question. Remember a short while ago when everyone decided LeBron wasn't a closer? In these 2011 playoffs, James has been devastating in the final crunch, at both ends of the court. Versus Chicago, he smothered MVP guard Derrick Rose like a protective parent—denying him the lane, denying him his shot, denying him a school-night sleepover. When James took the ball on offense, he alternated, in an almost trance-like rhythm, between 3-point daggers and locomotive drives to the basket. He was unstoppable, and only a joyless crank could deny the obvious: This was as Michael Jordan as it got without the genuine 23 himself.

Then Scottie Pippen said it out loud. The morning after the Heat closed out Chicago in five games, the Basketball Hall of Famer gave a radio interview on ESPN in which he said that while his former Bulls cubicle mate was "probably the greatest scorer to ever play the game," it was possible that James "may be the greatest player to ever play the game."

Wha-wha-wha-whaaaat?

You could practically hear the movie-trailer record needle scatch and see the Bulls mascot cover its eyes with its hoofs. Forget that this was the hyperbole country of talk radio; forget that Pippen used the equivocal "may;" forget that a Bulls Kremlinologist would argue that Pippen was actually needling his canonized teammate ("greatest scorer" has the whiff of faint praise) more than he was lionizing a newcomer. Pippen had made a Lennon-esque "more popular than Jesus" faux pas, and now everyone would have to spend the next 24 hours tearing it apart. Round and round it went—LeBron doesn't have a single championship! LeBron had to engineer a move south! Tell him to phone Springfield, Mass., when he gets six rings!—until James himself stepped forward and said that while he was humbled by Pippen's remarks, he wasn't "going to sit here and say I'm better than Jordan or if I'm not better than Jordan. It's not about that."

Great. It was bad enough that James is performing in the clutch—now he's going to be gracious and self-aware, too?

The James vs. Jordan freak-out proved two things. One, it underlined how weirdly obsessed and overserious NBA fans are about the league's all-time pecking order—witness the recent howling when Dallas's coach dared suggest that Dirk Nowitzki belonged in the greatest-ever Top 10, as if there was the possibility the Martian All-Stars might arrive and our planet would get hammered in the low post because it opted for Nowitzki over Hakeem Olajuwon.

But it also shows how the universe is not yet ready to stop its LeBron tantrum and re-embrace a player it loved until last July. Pippen's Jordan comparison provided a fresh outrage, even if James wasn't the one doing the comparing. When it comes to LeBron, everything gets distorted. (Could you imagine the public meltdown if James had tattooed the NBA's Larry O'Brien trophy to his arm, as Mavericks guard Jason Terry did earlier this season?)

It's fun to tweak James and the Heat. They can be ridiculous. That cheesy laser-tastic celebration Miami threw upon signing James and Chris Bosh to join Dwyane Wade looked like a cruise-ship matinee gone amok. James's mighty Game 5 flop to a phantom Derrick Rose foul should get him a role in Almodovar's next movie and a contract with FC Barcelona. After Chicago's season ended, an irresistible piece of snickering commentary came from the young Bulls center Joakim Noah, who ruefully remarked: "Miami is a hell of a team. They are Hollywood as hell, but they're still very good."

Listening courtside, the TNT analysts Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley chuckled like someone had whispered a crack in the back of algebra class. "I love him, that's awesome," Barkley said of Noah.

Keep laugh, laugh, laughing. Joakim Noah is done for the year. Dallas has a better shot—the Mavericks are a veteran team desperate to win a title; Nowitzki is playing with the focus of Harrison Ford chasing a one-armed criminal—but they'll have to do it against the best basketball player in the world (post-Jordan, 2011 edition). LeBron James is on the verge of doing exactly what he wanted to do. The joke's on him, until it's on all of us.

2011年5月29日星期日

2011 NBA Mock Draft: Which Players Can Make an Impact in Rookie Season?


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The 2011 NBA Draft will showcase players who have such a developed game that they could immediately contribute to some NBA teams. Top lottery picks are often taken by teams with such dire needs that they are usually willing to chance starting the untested rookie over their other options.

We have seen players such as Kevin Durant and John Wall have instant results for the franchises that took them early in the draft.

Kyrie Irving looks to be a sure thing, and will be battling with veteran Baron Davis for the starting PG spot on the Cleveland Cavaliers. If he does not start, look for him to log big minutes coming off the bench and gaining experience in the Cavs system.

Derrick Williams, if he lands somewhere besides Minnesota or they make a trade, has the potential to be an immediate impact player as well. The man can simply score, rebound, and make basketball plays that will help whoever takes him win.

Besides the consensus top two overall picks, other players should be able to help their teams come the start of the regular season.

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Jimmer Fredette has a transcendent offensive skill set, and if he lands with the right team and system, he should be able to get a quick start in the league.

Klay Thompson is probably the most gifted three-ball shooter in the draft, and if a team looking for a long-range gunner selects him, he should log minutes early and often.

Alec Burks also has the potential to see minutes at the beginning of his rookie campaign, who has size and production capability that matches any 2 guard in the league today.

These are just a few of the players who have the experience and skill sets necessary to potentially help their teams right away.

No. 1 Cleveland Cavaliers: Kyrie Irving

No. 2 Minnesota Timberwolves: Derrick Williams

No. 3 Utah Jazz: Brandon Knight

No. 4 Cleveland Cavaliers: Enes Kanter

No. 5 Toronto Raptors: Jonas Valanciunas

No. 6 Washington Wizards: Kawhi Leonard

No. 7 Sacramento Kings: Kemba Walker

No. 8 Detroit Pistons: Jan Vesely

No. 9 Charlotte Bobcats: Tristan Thompson
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No. 10 Milwaukee Bucks: Alec Burks

No. 11 Golden State Warriors: Bismack Biyombo

No. 12 Utah Jazz: Marcus Morris

No. 13 Phoenix Suns: Jimmer Fredette

No. 14 Houston Rockets: Chris Singleton

No. 15 Indiana Pacers: Klay Thompson

No. 16 Philadelphia 76ers: Markieff Morris

No. 17 New York Knicks: Josh Selby

No. 18 Washington Wizards: Marshon Brooks

No. 19 Charlotte Bobcats: Donatas Montiejunas

No. 20 Minnesota Timberwolves: Davis Bertans

No. 21 Portland Trail Blazers: Jordan Hamilton

No. 22 Denver Nuggets: Tobias Harris

No. 23 Houston Rockets: Darius Morris

No. 24 Oklahoma City Thunder: Kenneth Faried

No. 25 Boston Celtics: Nikola Mirotic

No. 26 Dallas Mavericks: Trey Thompkins

No. 27 New Jersey Nets: Justin Harper

No. 28 Chicago Bulls: Tyler Honeycutt

No. 29 San Antonio Spurs: Jeremy Tyler

2011年5月27日星期五

The NBA and Homosexuality: Anti-Gay Slurs, Fines and "Think Before You Speak"

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 The NBA is currently under fire after a brash of anti-gay slurs were captured on camera. Joakim Noah was fined $50,000 for using an anti-gay slur at a fan. Kobe Bryant was fined $100,000 dollars for using the same slur at an official.

Shortly after Bryant used the slur, he apologized, and the Lakers announced they were teaming up with GLAAD, (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), to bring attention to the harm anti-gay remarks can cause.

Earlier this Spring, Suns' CEO Rick Welts told the world he was a homosexual. The reception around the league has been very accepting. Welts has received an overwhelming amount of support from around those involved directly with the Suns and otherwise.

His story proves you can be a homosexual and hold a prominent position in the league. The story comes at nearly the same time ESPN broke a story where ex-Villanova's basketball player, Will Sheridan, declared he was gay.

When asked about Kobe's usage of a gay slur, Welts had this to say, "He was just into the game at that point. It's not acceptable, but I consider it another step in having it be part of the conversation. It got of people talking about the use of that slur, people that wouldn't have talked about it. In some ways, it was constructive."

Welts is a representative of someone directly involved in the NBA who can also speak for the homosexual community. If speaking about the matter is constructive, the media is moving mountains.
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It's hard to believe that either Noah or Bryant intended to start a media whirlwind. I find it unlikely that they are homophobic or have problems with the gay community.

The slur they said was not in jest. They said it to hurt the recipient. Is it possible then that they were caught up in the moment? Did they choose a word that is considered offensive without thinking of the baggage the word carries, or the hurt that comes with it?

It's quite possible. It seems as though people use these words every day completely out of the context of the situation at hand. How many times do you hear statements like, "that car is gay". Clearly the car isn't a homosexual, but the personification is commonplace.
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In walks the NBA, once more. Grant Hill and Jared Dudley join the "Think before you speak" ad campaign and come out with a commercial addressing this very topic.

The commercial encourages people to stop saying phrases like "that's so gay". They encourage people to stop using gay as a substitute for the word stupid.

The NBA is making headlines on both ends of the spectrum here. Maybe players will become more cautious about what they are saying and who they are offending. Maybe fans will follow suit. Perhaps this goes beyond homosexuality and beyond the NBA
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2011年5月26日星期四

Blazers, NBA, college football – and a Vegas proposal

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Caught up with Geoff Petrie, who emphasizes he has a contract (through 2013) as senior vice president/operations for the Sacramento Kings and is not a candidate for the vacant general manager job in Portland.

“I have an important job to do,” Petrie says. “On the basketball, there is plenty of reason for optimism going forward. We have two really good young players (Tyreke Evans and DeMarcus Cousins), a great draft pick (No. 7) and an enormous amount of real (salary-cap) room.”

On the business side, the Kings have one foot out the door to Anaheim or another locale after next season unless the city of Sacramento provides public support for a new arena.

Petrie’s daughters both live in the Portland area. I think he could be convinced the Trail Blazers would be an opportunity he can’t pass on, if owner Paul Allen is willing.

• Colleague Jason Vondersmith brings up a valid point about Blazer President Larry Miller’s comment – “This whole year has been a learning experience for us” – following the firing of GM Rich Cho.

The NBA is not a place for learning experiences. There’s no time, no room for error. You have to be right with every decision, or the franchise suffers. Whether or not Cho and Kevin Pritchard were mistakes, you can’t just chalk it up to “a learning experience.”

Besides, Paul Allen has been the Blazers’ owner for 23 years. He needs more time than that to learn what the league is all about?

• Through July 1, Allen is paying off Cho and his predecessor, Kevin Pritchard, for not working for him. Cho will get checks through June 2014 unless he takes another job.

But Allen is getting off easy compared with Notre Dame, which paid nearly $7.3 million in buyouts to former football coaches in 2009 – Charlie Weis ($6.64 million) and Tyrone Willingham ($650,000). For Weis, that was in addition to about $1.4 million in salary and other compensation for that season.

Weis is now making $875,000 annually as offensive coordinator at Florida. Talk about stealing money – Charlie’s the poster boy.

• Hubie Brown started it, I think, a few years back. Lately it has spread like a contagious disease among basketball sportscasters: “The (insert team nickname) must score the basketball.”

Mark Jackson uses the phrase often. Jeff Van Gundy said it the other night. Our own Michael Holton, for criminy sakes, has said it.

Fellas, you score points. You shoot the basketball.
ESPN’s Stuart Scott, after an interview Wednesday night with new Lakers coach Mike Brown: “Hey Laker fans, don’t sleep with this man. He’s the fifth-winningest coach percentage-wise in NBA history.”

Do you think Scott meant, “Don’t sleep on this man?”
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Or what?

• Of course Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is right. He deserves a statue outside of Staples Center. No argument here.

But it is unbecoming for anyone to campaign for that in public, as the Hall-of-Famer did through a series of tweets and in an interview with The Sporting News this week.

• I’m hearing more clamor on the subject of paying college student-athletes, a popular notion among talking heads who aren’t thinking things through clearly.

Only 14 of 120 Division-I football schools showed positive net revenue for the 2009 fiscal year, according to the NCAA. Whether or not you think schools are spending their money wisely, until it gets corrected, funding is simply not available.

Scholarship athletes get tuition, room-and-board, training table, medical and dental care, tutorial, nutritional and strength-and-conditioning help and make connections that can help them springboard a career outside of sports. The situation isn’t ideal, but it’s way ahead of whatever’s in second place.

• I hate to take on a high-schooler, but ...

Kyle Kalis of Lakewood, Ohio – one of the nation’s top offensive tackles from the class of 2012 – has verbally committed to Ohio State. He says times have been tough in recent months since NCAA violations committed by coach Jim Tressel became public.
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“Ever since all of this started up, (college coaches) from all over the country have started to come watch me and the team lift,” Kalis tells The Sporting News. “They force me to sit there and listen to all their sales pitches, which is the most annoying thing anyone could ever imagine. It’s like watching the HSN channel all day, except instead of selling Dyson vacuum cleaners, they’re selling you scholarships and opportunities.”

Somebody please tell Kalis there are more annoying things than to have college scouts tell you how good you are and offer a scholarship. If he doesn’t want the sales pitch, tell them. What’s really annoying is to hear a coddled, pampered athlete complain about it.

• Texas developer Chris Milam is proposing to build what he is calling the “Las Vegas National Sports Center” – a state-of-the-art sports and entertainment complex to be built at the south end of the Las Vegas Strip.

Milam’s plan calls for a 17,500-seat arena designed for NBA games; a 36,000-seat MLS stadium that could be expanded to 50,000 for college football bowl games and to 72,000 for the NFL, and a 9,000-seat Triple-A baseball park that could be expanded to 36,000 to accommodate major league baseball.

Milam, who promises to invest more than $500 million in equity to the project, says it would require no new taxes and no redirection of existing taxes. Taxes generated only by the athletic facilities and user fees would help pay for the project.

I’m not sure if it will ever fly. But wouldn’t it be nice to have somebody with deep pockets and aspirations like Milam in Portland?

2011年5月24日星期二

Charles Barkley has moved in the sand. Sorry, Miami

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One advantage of with a nice end of the NBA regular season in his hometown of the possibility that the program of study that will take place this game in particular, to reproduce. Each year, TNT, and (sometimes) of the ABC / ESPN sent their study shows that competition before the game, recreation and obligations after the game outside the arena does live. Miami fans in attendance Tuesday / Chicago game does not have the luxury of the TNT crew observed, however, because the station has moved the entire inside of the sand to a conflict between the fans and heat to avoid TNT analyst Charles Barkley. So if you drink 12 beers, avoiding the control of the security do and still exceeded briefly with the Chuckster, you're lucky.
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Barkley by fans of the Heat and Dwyane Wade (notes) has been criticized to have the audacity, the Chicago Bulls select (a team with home advantage, they won more games than anyone in the NBA this season and a hot group swept the regular season) in these conference finals.
When the heat, players and fans over the selection complained Barkley  whiners  and then, when Barkley at the American Airlines Arena was presented on Sunday, two middle fingers were with him. Especially after this exchange:  I said to suck,  he said.  They told me that I never won a championship. I'm like, 'Come on, give me something better than that, friend.    I always laugh at this statement,  You do not have a ring.  I'm like the man who works at McDonald's. My life is much better than yours. Relax.  And he was sent inside. And in fact, was a year for the fans warm enough, right?
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First, some sold out of the team in the regular season even more important and the playoffs first. Then they were sent to be shameful  Fan Up  banner, to ask, do not know, do not be late to act interested in the games. Now it goes right by a drunk were all the Chicago Bulls on the bench in Game 3 arms, ribs, and insecurity must Barkley on the same competition.
in Barkley, but now. Ethan Skolnick, here is a picture of where you sit. Heat and the fans will engage in other activities. As might be curious to know the names of the former Miami Heat coach Pat Riley, to the exclusion and  the guy they have now.

2011年5月23日星期一

2011 NBA Mock Draft: When the piston take Kawhi Leonard?

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There are many different options for the Detroit Pistons in 2011 NBA Mock Draft, but is one of the most attractive and popular that the Pistons happen to San Diego San Kawhia Leonard with his first-round pick. According to Coleman, of Kirkland, the Detroit Free Press, Leonard is one of the names that most encounter when walking the mock drafts around the internet. If you do not know much about Leonard, here is a little piece cited Hoop Hype.

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The Pistons have a lot of the preliminary low in recent years, Summers, Daye Jerebko and even to some extent. But Leonard would be the first man to be not a question mark in this position, but an answer. The list is full of guys who could be the NBA player, while Leonard seems to have all the makings for a very good start. This
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could be a superstar, but a project of this type is a solid start something that I think the Pistons will be very happy to have.

2011年5月19日星期四

ABC schedule Marchan conversac in the NFL

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What is the reason? Is it just that the NBA is good, and the current offer ends soon 30 June?

Or is there some more?

There is another thing is that, and the thing is football, and the hundreds of millions that could cost one of the two parties at the negotiations in the NBA. In short, litigation mess in the NFL not only has the potential to give NBA players or great influence, but also the potential to destabilize, and random, so that talks could be very expensive and complicated for both parties.

And the only way the NBA and its players can achieve minimization of the impact the fight against the NFL to work quickly to an agreement.




The NFL and its players on the courts, the real value of the  nuclear option  to determine player in both leagues: Attack on the exemption from the league against the trust in the courts to fight, by revoking union certification. The next review in a few weeks now, but if both sides dig, a final settlement could end a lengthy, expensive and potentially to the Supreme Court.

to harden the end, if the courts accept  nuclear option  of players, the owners of the teeth against NBA players. On the other hand, if the legal battle for a trip to the damage caused to the owner of the NFL - and there are possibilities that could happen variosu - the players of both leagues could be found in the power seats.

A source said a resolution of this legal question can be to start negotiations in the NBA for making $ 200,000,000 in annual sales. In other words, would be a victory for the NFL owners to strengthen the position of the owner of the NBA, while the demand could, hypothetically, $ 400,000,000 in annual concessions from the players instead of 200 million 鈧?

If this number is high or low, the reality is that a lot of money involved is embarrassing for all involved, from the hands of world basketball.


There is a hearing before a panel of three judges of the Court of Appeals for the 8th U.S. 3rd Circuit June, a number of weeks later - promised the judge has something,  well before the scheduled start time [September] 2011 season of the [NFL] - give the court an opinion.

After that stop hell. Experts agree that the eighth circuit has strong signals that a position of the owner have sent to be used. But what then? Players could try mounting to bring the case to the Supreme Court. The antitrust battle could be continued at considerable cost to both parties for years.

Detailed discussion on the court for an exemption or competition of the league will likely take years. The legal fees alone, according to a source could almost nine digits. In the NBA there is a large percentage of what the union and the league to play anyway.

The cost of the missing games are almost impossible to estimate. The NBA says it is losing money to use as is - could in theory have the closure savings.

However, the NBA more than 4 billion dollars in revenue, many of which run without games. People who own and operate the stadium does not support empty seats, and we must not forget that the NBA a lot of money from corporate sponsorship for all of the stages of bars - which greatly reduces the conduct of any games.


David Stern and Billy Hunter have the respect of his constituents. Both have some ability to negotiate and process control chart a path to a place where you can declare victory and consolidate their leadership positions.

It is not easy, but they were together before, these problems will soon forge, in detail, conference rooms, endless meetings more.
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That is what is currently in progress.

The whole crazy, but it was an ear to make these procedures NFL role in the background. Like Stern and Hunter talk about beyond the country's problems and changes in their own feet, his control. Today it is a loser win tomorrow, based on knowledge of judges and lawyers in the remote rooms, sorting data in a different league as a whole.

Imagine, Stern and Hunter makes fun of an agreement on Thursday, just something going on in the NFL on Friday will ensure that your computer does not receive an offer that good again. Screams.

If you want to order (and what the leaders do not!) This is no way to negotiate. At any time if the leader could read his extremely stupid.


The twists and turns of the NFL law influence on the discussions in the NBA, and there is nothing anyone can do about it except ... Sprint.

The only way the NBA and its players can decide their own destiny is to achieve a fait accompli, before anything else happens in the NFL. Said Hunt and star chances avoid the impact of future decisions by the NFL.

End of June marks both the end of the current NBA collective bargaining agreement, and the time of the decision of the day, it is expected that in the case of the NFL.



In the race to the finish line, the league appears to be an opportunity to miss really keep the players. Imagine the NFL owners won a stunning victory in court. Would it not make sense to wait for the NBA and see if that happens? Is it less attractive when you consider that NFL owners could lose. Even less attractive when you consider following suit to introduce the game delays and costs money, lots of legal fees and the possibility that the judge would do things differently in a case of the NBA.

And even after all this the league to a new CBA in talks with the union, whose tastes are already there would negotiate. It is unpleasant and dangerous, even if it contains the possibility for both sides, ends with a great victory.
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In particular, require David Stern, commissioner of the money does not support the latter point, sometimes say things the intervention of the courts. But, but, the Commissioner of the drum explosions diplomacy.

In these negotiations, if ultimately may or may not fill the gap, you know, short term, do you know how long it to fill the gap because it is an agreement with the time and an agreement,  Stern said.

In other words, no matter what the courts of this everywhere, have with the NFL or NBA, the players and ultimately the league to sit down and negotiate an agreement on all points. The only alternative is that the league will not be deterred.

As the negotiations is the preferred method, which has quickly recommend a lot to both sides.

2011年5月17日星期二

NBA Draft Lottery 2011: New Jersey Nets are the big winners

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On the night of the 2011 NBA Draft Lottery on Tuesday, the Cleveland Cavaliers the big winners were considered, with the choice they acquired from the Los Angeles Clippers, jumping from eighth to first place. It also comes with a great movement of the Utah Jazz with the selection of the New Jersey Nets in exchange for Deron Williams has been made and from six to three, although only a 9.39% chance that this happens.

Both the Cavs and Jazz, the winners are safe, but the biggest of the night?

Only.
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That honor goes to Billy King, Mikhail Prokhorov and the networks. After all, one team is guaranteed to give the first-round pick in 2011, is one of the 10 NBA players and originally from New Jersey Williams.

Make no mistake, Cleveland fans should be happy about his future at Duke point guard Kyrie Irving and the same thing for the people of Utah to build two of the 12 draft picks. However, there is no doubt that the owner of the Cavaliers, Dan Gilbert, happiness is the first choice to send in the Garden State for Williams and the same goes for the Jazz, they knew that his ex-PG remain in the city.
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So before you start, remember about the networks not to sue to protect their choice this year because at the end of the day in New Jersey is a better player than someone who leaves this type of project.

In addition to the Clippers trading even better because it at the base, much-to the Cavaliers, the Williams have nothing to go see. Well, it's not quite right ... have Mo Williams and Jamario Moon.

2011年5月16日星期一

Charles Oakley, former NBA enforcer Casino in Las Vegas to further alleged assault

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Former NBA executors objection to Charles Oakley, the Aria Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, after what he called first May 2010  against a gang-style  by five security guards in the city, according to a report by ESPN. com.
 According to court documents in the case of Oakley was a VIP guest at the pool of Aria when the region on 28 May, last year. When he was about to enter the area, access was denied. Then he got into a verbal altercation with the security guard.

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Oakley then left the area and tried to return to his room, but he was allegedly attacked by five security guards in an isolated part of the hotel on the road.
 
The lawsuit alleges negligence, assault, excessive force, battery, false
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imprisonment and defamation. It is said that an indefinite general damages, special and punitive damages.

These are very serious allegations by the defense expert and former rebounds. Oakley was one of the best NBA player, and reportedly suffered heavy damage from this attack have. The cost of this kind are the kind that the hotels in the sink, a large chain like MGM Resorts do not face.
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More information is created in the coming weeks, as the case approaches trial, but it's hard to see, do a strong man like Oakley something like this to try and score a big salary. These are not the kind of objections to throw to, without the right information, and if true, Resorts MGM will have serious problems in their hands.

Mauldin went to court in the NBA host fundraising in June

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There's Basketball in South Carolina has a story similar to Hyde Park in Springfield Circle Mauldin.
Kevin Garnett, a native of Mauldin and NBA star with the Boston Celtics once played there at night and night to improve his jump shot.

Fifteen years ago, Garnett has given $ 60,000 to a new court in the park, which was equal to his former home to install.  There was reason to Nike Recycling, a construction provides durable and softer than asphalt.

If used properly, but the court has seen its share of wear. Spots are grown where water has seeped below the surface. The cracks began to develop.

It costs the city Mauldin about 19,000 $ for the repair, but now is the time to do so, city officials said, because there are more players in the NBA, including former Clemson University with Trevor Booker, only play.

Booker and his teammate Josh Howard, John Wall and Andray Blatch, who has the core of the young Washington Wizards form planned to organize a basketball tournament fundraiser 9th to 12 June in Springfield Park

Tournament organizer, said OT Hill, a native of Mauldin and CEO of Booker & Howard will go the tournament for the Josh Howard Foundation, which supports programs in communities with economic difficulties, and begin to generate the initial capital Trevor Booker Foundation.
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Hill said some of the proceeds would be reinvested in community centers in the areas of Greenville.

The five-tournament costs $ 500 per team of 10, can be expected with a prize money of $ 5,000 for the winner,  said Hill. The teams from across Southeast Asia, he said.

to help Wall Blatch and sponsor teams and with the other guests,  said Hill.

The tournament is open to teams of men 17 and older,  said Hill.

Mauldin is planning the same company, Ace surface, which the court was prepared to use, to make repairs, said recreation director for the city of Van Brannon.

City Manager Trey Eubanks said as a single supply, the court was using the same technology from recycled Nike sneakers to repair.
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When they cut out the damaged areas and replace, and add a layer of the whole court,  he said.

The end result will look like a fresh cut,  said Eubanks.

Itll painted royal blue with gold outline, said Brannon.

We also talked Mauldin a logo in the middle of the court,  he said.

The capital project the city has been radar, but it was not in your budget,  said Eubanks. Mauldin likely the hospitality and accommodations tax funds for tourism projects should be financed repairs are used to use.

2011年5月13日星期五

Suddenly, Boston is now an attractive city in the NBA

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Boston was very difficult to sell to free agents in the NBA. For various reasons discussed in recent years, players in their prime never seen the Celtics. That is why Danny Ainge has had a championship caliber team to develop through trade.
Doc Rivers's term of seven years in Boston has become a cold and inhospitable to recruit young players a hot spot for all to play for and a loyal fan base and intelligent. Boston is no longer a place to feel excluded from the Afro-American athletes and rivers to change this perception.

Doc looks like he has fun here. He said on Wednesday after the Celtics game 5 loss of heat, that was a Celt and always will be. To agree to extend them for five years, is an example of his commitment. This loyalty to an organization and a franchise that has seen the problems is that diversity is a selling point for those who are otherwise free of its stops between Boston travel agency.

If you ask any NBA player, the coach with, its own, the players prefer to play the, say, Doc Rivers. Shows balance and grace, even in competitive situations. Never publicly criticize the opponents, but fiercely defended their own. And he has the respect of his players earned little problem because created behind the winning smile and character of these finely tailored suits, is a demanding coach who does not hesitate with brutal honesty, not selfish with the most players.

The discipline, has earned respect around the league. His season over four years in Orlando ended poorly, but he served as an educational experience in the treatment of injured players (Grant Hill), spoiled superstars (Tracy McGrady) and those on the first (Patrick Ewing).

By the rivers in Boston to end a championship caliber coach was a downtrodden franchise has inherited. The fact that he has a major role in rebuilding the Celtics has not only consolidated his reputation as an outstanding coach, but it's hard to walk when the organization is facing another crossroads.

Other reputable coach like Phil Jackson left the organization when it seemed that the short title and the glory days were fading.
Rivers could easily do the same when screwing the Big Three began to show age spots and wrinkles.
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Rivers has always been true to Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen, and Ainge have been met, when the rivers are kept for the next season, and then watch the children play by Austin Spencer and basketball. But do Celtics fans to thank a young and dynamic duo with your father in Boston.

Austin is very independent and enjoys his father was a coach in the NBA. He is committed to Mike Krzyzewski to play, its unlikely that the Duke of four full years, ie, Doc could be a coach against his son for two years. Spencer, a child home alone, is in her second year in Winter Park (Florida) High School. Spencer enjoys visits with my father in Boston to see, shooting baskets in the yard TD and the Sports Authority Training Center in Waltham.

A family reunion last year, when Doc was the decision to return for another season, he greatly influenced. All four of her children voted for him to be the coach of the Celtics, making easier to reach on.

be Knowing that the rivers are here for the long term, an attractive free agents. Year after year, the state of Rivers, the organization for some time maintained. Many were convinced it would take some years off, then coach of the Knicks magic, warmth, or.

The fact that making rivers entered into a long-term commitment to Boston Celtics in a different category, one that failed in the rule because of the stigma of cities, a difficult place to live and work for people of color. His old stigma that has reached its course, but the perception of the reality in many cases.

Since the arrival of the Big Three, the Celtics had havent room under the salary cap, win player of quality. But after the next season when Garnett, Allen and Jermaine O'Neal, the total of $ 37 million in 2011-12 are made in the books, the Celtics have the opportunity to continue his first major free agent in a generation.
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Rivers is expected to leave the tour with her smile, recruiters in the field, and insurance status. This is perhaps the best-selling item of all.

The rebuilding of the Celtics in the post-era of the Big Three will not be easy, but the job is that Ainge has become manageable, and the possibility that not the caliber of the playoffs without Celtics Pierce, Allen and Garnett have become easier.

Two days after the removal of disappointing Celtics Miami Heat, the way back to prominence is softer.

2011年5月12日星期四

NBA: Thunder thump Grizzlies to seize series lead

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T-Shirts NBA Kevin Durant 19 points and Daequan Cook came off the bench for 18 years Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Memphis Grizzlies 99-72 in the fifth game of the playoff series.

The massive victory on Wednesday gave the Thunder a 3-2 series lead, marking the first time I was in the second round best of seven NBA playoff.   The Grizzlies are trying to level Series Game Six on Friday.
 Russell Westbrook finished with 11 points and six assists, five other Thunder players are at least nine points.
Marc Gasol led the Grizzlies with 16 points as his 72 points achieved his total for the season 2010-11. The Grizzlies have never taken more than six points.

Memphis, which was out rebounded 50-33, looked like she still tries to recover from an emotional triple overtime home loss in game four.
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We are not sorry for ourselves. We have to go home and regroup and be ready to play. The series is not over by any means ... I still believe in my team and we come back,  said coach Lionel Hollins Grizzlies.

Memphis star Zach Randolph finished with just nine points after 34 points scored in the fourth game.

The Thunder started slowly, in addition to the first seven possessions of the game. They failed to score in the first three minutes of the first, but a 46-35 advantage at halftime.

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Oklahoma City on a 15-2 run in the first half thanks to a couple of dunks by Durant and James Harden and a triple by the end of Westbrook.

2011年5月10日星期二

LeBron James sticks foot in your mouth as murky Playoff Run Heat, NBA Legacy

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say the word quietly in an interview after the match of the weekend. The first opportunity came, he apologized for using the word, and it is hoped that the end of it.


For those who do not like James and it was one more reason to make snide remarks about the NBA star. James would have known that have, and you may want to keep a better job, such comments to do themselves.

The question that originally had all this attention is a game between Dwyane Wade and Rajon Rondo in game 3 The two went into a room, and both were on the floor, Rondo, which was the worst, suffering a dislocated shoulder. When a reporter asked Wade after the game if he thought the game was dirty,  muttered James,  a delay  to the question.
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 James was careful to say nothing more, and the progress playoffs. Many in the media for sound bites, the papers or to sell the seizure of the readers are looking for. The Miami Heat is just one win to the final of the Eastern Conference to reach 2011, and some fans of the teams in the way he clings on to destroy all that had failed the heat so far this year. The fact that James has said that the word itself, not even the reporter who emphasizes a stupid question this point.

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five games. This is what people should focus on the moments that James brings another incredible series that have seen the best performance of the series of NBA fans could concentrate compete. He must now make sure that you keep comments under control, so his legacy can take a further step in the league.

NBA: Hawks, also with a 100-88 victory over things, the Bulls

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The Bulls have a big game from Derrick Rose, the MVP scored 44 points and took a 2-1 lead, but the word of the Bulls as much as Rose leads go. In this game, the Hawks are fighting to get the activation Rosa is a great victory at home.
Atlanta Hawks (44-38) held the Chicago Bulls (62-20) for the second of their three home games in this series of seven games. The Hawks have won a game to use in Chicago. The Bulls responded with a big victory on the floor of his house Hawks take a 2-1 lead, but Atlanta scored a 100-88 victory for things.
The Bulls struck a bridge Luol Deng first, but the teams traded baskets and had the game to 12 points per subject. The Hawks took the lead early behind buckets of Jason Collins and Jeff Teague, to give them a lead of 16-13. The Bulls take back to a two-point lead, 20-18 in a three-point Derrick Rose.
Josh Smith added a three-point play to tie things at 21 points and Joe Johnson had been 2:59 points to give the Hawks a 24-21 advantage. Taj Gibson made a few baskets to give an advantage for the Bulls 25-24. Jamal Crawford answered with two buckets of his own to give the Hawks a lead of three points. Taj Gibson made a late free kick to cut the Hawks lead to two points at the end of the quarter.
Omer Asik cut the lead one with a free kick, and Taj Gibson has them opened a one-point lead with a tray for the second quarter. The score was 29-28, and Josh Smith had a pair of free throws to give the Hawks the lead again. Jeff Teague to push a bridge from the Hawks lead to 32-29 and force Chicago to take a timeout.
Josh Smith and Jamal Crawford, two baskets to give the Hawks a 36-29 advantage. Carlos Boozer made four straight points for the Bulls to three points, but Al Horford made a couple of free throws for 38-33. The cops have a line that tied the score 8-2 less than 41 points. Derrick Rose made a triple later she was out with a point.
The Bulls Luol Deng bridge have to give them a three-point lead 46-43. Zaza Pachulia one of two free throws, and Joe Johnson had to give points 2:59, the Hawks go a 47-46 advantage at halftime.
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to give Jeff Teague from a bridge, the Hawks a lead of 49-46 early in the third quarter. Derrick Rose responded with a jumper and Carlos Boozer made a basket to give the Bulls a single point lead, 50-49. Josh Smith has a play in three points on a range of 7-0 to start them a lead of six points.
Keith Bogans made a run three times, the Bulls in scoring four points and get a single point. Joe Johnson had a triple, and later made a bridge to give them a 67-61 advantage. The Bulls led 8-0 on a plate with Carlos Boozer, to give them the advantage.
The Bulls were 69-67 entering the fourth quarter and Jamal Crawford had thrown a bridge with a bridge with two principles. Derrick Rose did a runner back to the head, but Josh Smith did point in terms of tying on 71 points. The teams then traded baskets and the Bulls went through 76-75.
Josh Smith played in three points for the Hawks the lead to two points before Kyle Korver tied things with 78 points each bridge. Smith has a bucket that things at 80 points each bound, and then made a couple of free throws to give the Hawks a lead of two points. Derrick Rose made a bridge that things in 82 tie.


a strange turn when Derrick Rose for three points and was dirty was. The referees called bad, but then he changed to a jump ball was won by the Hawks.
Atlanta, then enter a 7-2 run that put up 11 points 97-86. Derrick Rose made a basket late, but the damage was done.
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Derrick Rose led the Bulls in scoring with 34 points and 10 rebounds, but had only 32 shots and was 12th Luol Deng scored 13 points and seven rebounds from Carlos Boozer scored 18 points with six rebounds. Taj Gibson came off the bench to score nine points.
Joe Johnson led the Hawks with 24 points, but the player of the evening was Josh Smith, who had 23 points, 16 rebounds and eight assists. Al Horford scored 20 points and Jeff Teague had 12 points. Jamal Crawford came off the bench for 12 points.
The Hawks tied things at two games each before returning to Chicago, Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at 20:00 clock (EST). The Bulls now have home advantage with two of the last three games he won in Chicago.

2011年5月7日星期六

Magic Letters: Questions answered Denton

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Admit it, Magic fans will feel not only to this at all. This is not Mother's Day, and basketball have been saved and fading light inside the new center Amway spectacular until the next season.

If you have to wonder, it ran for a franchise-Magic fans who play basketball and used incorrectly in the spring? Two years ago the career of the unrest in April and May in the NBA Finals in June. Last season the Magic flew in the first two rounds before you in what seems the final position of the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference Finals to be.

So that's what the fans stopped chewing Magic: Orlando As a team, the Hawks defeated by 101 points in the sweep of the most wrong to lose in the history of the NBA a year ago? How to lose the magic that a team from the Hawks, who entered the playoffs with six straight and lost 14 of 21 in the final? The Hawks ?!?!?!?!?!?
We all know now that the magic, because I could not find, reliable options happens, second, third and fourth. That's because Joe Johnson and Jamal Crawford playing with unbelievable confidence and were the two best players in the league size. Magic happened because they never found their stroke from 3-point line and the title race Marvin Williams awoke performance in Game 6 and found it. It happened because (gulp!), the Hawks were the best team in the series.

Unlike the Magic team in the past, which goes on the road and won big games and has never been prone to landslides, the team went on the board at the company after the great success of 18th December. Losses bad end of the regular season had had these signs of trouble, but always believed that the Magic, Dwight Howard enough talent to make it into the playoffs.

Will reflect the Hawks fight certainly a loss to the Magic and their fans against this spring. They have many questions and we hope to answer some of the hottest topics facing the Magic have this summer? For this week, the questions of me, but also their own next week.


If the Hawks do not have success against the Bulls at Magic fans feel better or worse?

A little better but only slightly. Unlike last season when the Hawks clearly quit on former coach Mike Woodson and was a fraud in a team, they are now for very serious. Al Horford Johnson and Crawford have three players who can move 25 points a night. And by investing in the top of the NBA Draft, each year some talented players Josh Smith, Marvin Williams and Jeff Teague. Throw in all its dimensions, Larry Drews brain training style and a clear advantage Homecourt (most shocking of all) and I would not if the Hawks in the Eastern Conference Finals a few weeks might be surprised.

Let's face it: The Hawks were better than the magic of the season winning three of four C and four of six regular season in the playoffs. That is, if Howard would have had in Game 1 helped when Jason Richardson was for Game 4, where the magic is lost 21 of 23 shots for three points and if Orlando was a recovery at the end of the game 6, the pen available series might have shifted slightly in favor Magics. But that's not how it works, so give the Hawks play their part.

As the loss of the effect of the first round of the Dwight Howard of Orlando in the future?

The Magic superstar center was not very happy with the loss, especially that which comes against his team in place, the children of Atlanta. He covered the loss of magic do not play enough, but I often think of a defense mechanism Thatsit for athletes does not mean that the other team simply played better. Arent professional athletes and cable just to get to where they are, they still believe they are better quality.

Howard is already peppered with the question of free will, after waiting for the next season, but fans are curious to see how a playoff disappointment, how it affects their thinking. As with Howard future is concerned, there are two things we know, love in the midst of the Stars Orlando and values 鈥嬧€媡hat are the undisputed star of the city, and are consumed with winning a championship.

The best way to maintain long-term Magic's Howard a championship caliber team is to build around him. This is not to a larger market, and their eyes in Los Angeles lost or not met in Orlando. (After all, finished the race second, the MVP front-vote getter for the All-Star game and was headed East to fifth NBA All appearance).

Thurs Howard is growing almost daily, and that alone almost guarantees Orlando 50 wins, so it's not like magic completely blows the list.
Add a star player next to Howard C. something that I probably can not occur until the summer of 2012, C is the best way NBAS best center in Central Florida think in the coming years.

Create a support team around Howard to help you, everything to gain and hell getting old (like 30 years), in Central Florida.

What you can do magic in this summer to renew the list?

Use the links second-highest payroll, the ability to renew their equipment Magics be severely limited this summer.

Ideally, the Magic would stun many areas of problems with a move this offseason, if possible. The hope is to improve as a power forward and the player is also
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 likely to save Howard was in the middle. (A player available Clippers big man Chris Kaman comes to mind). Coach Stan Van Gundy as a decision on the position of Jameer Nelson, where the starter, Gilbert Arenas is based of the main and backup point guard Chris Duhon is the third emergency. Arenas has the structure of the Magic offense existed, but Smith expects the same structure can help to revitalize his career, Arenas again. In many ways, the opportunity to relaunch his career Arenas offseason a turning point for the Magic.

The Magic could offer Ryan Anderson or Brandon Bass in the trade because of its value in the league. Anderson is considered a bargain given the huge improvement of flowering to end the offensive and its $ 2,200,000 contract for next season, while the bass is a solid NBA power forward and affordable further to 4 million per season. If magic is an agreement on the merits, which would probably include an entry way. Duhon Quentin Richardson, both of which are suitable dissatisfied with their role as a backup, the company accepted, but no value. Nelson is admired around the league for his tenacity in the works and plays pick-and-roll. It is a favorite of GM Otis Smith, but it seems that the player most likely to occur when the Magic feeling the need to be purchased to a review of the season.

What leave to Atlanta Public Relations Vice President Arthur Triche fun two tickets for Game 1 of the Hawks-Bulls series of Jameer Nelson?


ABC cameras included the line, and the Hawks appear to use the trick of motivation against the Magic in the first round of the playoffs. Let's be realistic here: The Hawks won many reasons, but Nelson does not throw one of them.


Twitter Triche two tickets left Nelson in Chicago, and ESPN has a lot of mileage tactics, the video of the celebration of the name of the ticket allocation Triche Nelson points to them.

Good for a laugh? Yes Bad form? Indeed. As the saying goes, if you win or do something big, act like you have ever been there. But for the Falcons, one can understand why success could be in new territory for the franchise.
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T Stan Van Gundy need magic to an offense that change too reliant on shooting conditions, 3-point?

For suddenly all Magics rip a kind of game because the Hawks' loss is almost ridiculous. Do you have suddenly forgotten that the success of the style in 2009 was when the Magic reached the final in 2010, when Orlando is the final of the Eastern Conference achieved?

Van Gundy `` style is more a product of staff from the list of states that is reading this anyway. With Howard drawing double-teams on the block and attention when the arrows on the road in parts of the pick-and-roll, his commitment to create open shots on the perimeter. His formula, which is San Antonio Spurs Tim Duncan and used to win a cast of shooters to four titles.

And with Rashard Lewis, 3 power forward? Anderson seasons and has played most of last season, had the Magic often have no choice but to use one of the pieces, four outputs.

But a new trend in the NBA by collecting several 7-meter was the magic in exchange for their staff strength and ultimately change the way they play
Facilities as the Lakers (Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum), Celtics (Kevin Garnett and Shaquille O'Neal and Jermaine O'Neal), Storm (Kendrick Perkins and Serge IBAK), Grizzlies (Marc Gasol and Zach Randolph), the Bulls (Carlos Joakim Noah Boozer) and even for the Mavericks (Dirk Nowitzki, Tyson Chandler and Brendan Haywood) Han successfully completed the playoffs with the top players, their opponents PROTECT kidney and an inside.

The exception is, of course, the rival Miami Heat, the overwhelming teams with LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and to a lesser extent, Chris Bosh on the perimeter and a collection of clothing thrown in the paint.

Van Gundy would prefer that the greater the Magic next season will be better defensively and harder on the boards. But in the past, hes very reluctant players who have little use for C offensive, no matter how well defensively C offer then it may be necessary to give and take in reference to the poster and more important at a crucial moment are.

2011年5月6日星期五

John Calipari: Brandon Knight have confirmation that he wanted to

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After the University of Kentucky had to combine two days to appear his four potential recruits to the NBA, which appears at least one of the players prepared to officially make the leap.

John Calipari Kentucky coach education for the four wild - might work, before the NBA teams as many as possible - Brandon Knight, Terrence Jones, DeAndre Liggins Harrelson and Josh.
Some NBA scouts found the training useful, while others hoped to see more competition between the players and not just exercises.
 But for a wild cat to have the good news seems.

[To stay in the draft] was Brandon confirmed that he wanted,  Calipari said ESPN.com 's Andy Katz Knight.
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The two other underclassmen - Liggins and Jones - are not sure how it seems.


Each player has up to 8 May, to finally decide whether to stay in school or stay in the draft.

And while Calipari said the combination was successful, is likely the first of these events, and it is retained after the NCAA passed a law, the date for players on 10 April announce advance.
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It will never do it again if we can stop this train is moving toward that date of April,''said Calipari ESPN.  The worst thing for these players.

2011年5月3日星期二

The Rockets had a plan to pick a coach-in-waiting

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The process of hiring coaches in the NBA is usually a scientific question. Most of these buses are candidates for each job in a summer when retreaded or assistant coach of the application. Interviews and reputation to support life, and if a team wants to go more offensive or defensive. However, there is little planning in advance - often only choose the leader, coach after the end of the regular season fire.
This method allows you the following message on the search for Houston Rockets coach's booth. After their separation a few weeks ago Rick Adelman, General Manager Daryl Morey is looking for a replacement. But even if they remained Adelman, Morey had a plan to win his successor this summer. Jonathan figs from the Houston Chronicle: Although Adelman and the Rockets, Daryl Morey, General Manager met on several issues, Morey Adelman wanted to mentor a successor Morey and Rockets owner Leslie Alexander has chosen and on the staff of Adelman. Adelman was not ready to make necessary changes to his staff, advocates for the public.
Adelman, 64, always has an assistant Elston Turner ready to lead a team represented, but the Rockets were not willing to appoint Turner's successor Adelman what to decision-Turner rejected an offer to interview for the position of head coach.
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There was discussion about adding the Rio Grande Valley Vipers coach Chris Finch for the Rockets staff, both to the people close to the talks, but it is unclear whether Finch was named head coach in waiting.
Finch, it should be noted, was throwing a shoe caught on video in a bar, said he threw a kettle on it, reads two books a week and have an IQ of 142 You know what would be a good choice. Is it any wonder why Adelman disagreed with him for the role of the man.
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football programs of the university, but only rarely professional franchises. They are more interested in big changes after getting rid of coaches.
Morey has a part of the vision since he took office in Houston, it is logical to think that he would try the new plans of this kind probably a matter of time before a team goes. In a very competitive league, teams always do what they can to keep valuable assets. Assistant coaches are the next challenge.