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JaVale McGee came off the bench on a weak Washington Wizards team last season. Yet me may well make Team USA and suit up for the squad at the World Championships in Turkey. Which illustrates just how short the American squad is on big men (Remember Brook Lopez Amar’e Stoudemire and David Lee had to…
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In Gus Johnson’s era, the game was played below the rim. Great players like Bob Cousey and Bill Russell were not leaping out of the building — but Gus Johnson was. Starting in 1962 he came in and started to change how the game was played. Elgin Baylor had started the revolution but Johnson was…
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Darren Collison's plan in Indianapolis: Be like Reggie Miller. Spike Lee watch out.
Aug 13, 2010, 12:57 PM EDT
Darren Collison may be the new savior for the basketball heartland that is Indiana, but he is a California boy. Left Coast. Land of fruit and nuts. He grew up in Southern California and went to UCLA for college. Just like Reggie Miller. He told the Indianapolis Star he wants to bring the excitement Miller…
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Michael Ilitch’s planned monopoly on the Detroit sports scene has a little competition. Two new candidates have emerged as suitors for the Detroit Pistons, according to the Detroit News. One is George Postolos, who recently headed a group that came in second to the Michael Jordan group in buying the Charlotte Bobcats. You want credentials,…
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Brandon Jennings has big plans for this season. Really big plans.
Aug 13, 2010, 11:05 AM EDT
Brandon Jennings plays a bold game. That’s part of the fun of watching him — he plays with a real swagger. That swagger carries over to his plans for this season, as he told the Milwaukee Journal. “This year I’m working hard to come back,” Jennings said. “I want to be a double-double guy. I…
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Stephon Marbury — captain of industry. That may be the sentence I least expected to write in this lifetime, but there you have it. When Marbury re-signed with Shanxi Zhongyu in China for three years this summer, the deal came with a very interesting component — the team’s ownership agreed to create a company to…
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Nobody is quite sure how he fits in or if he can fit in, but Terrico White is getting a chance. The Pistons picked him in the second round o the NBA draft and have now inked him to a two-year deal at the league minimum (the second year is not guaranteed). He gives the…
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Technically, USA Basketball has nearly two weeks — until Aug. 26 — to trim the current roster of 15 down to 12. But USA Basketball big Kahuna Jerry Colangelo told NBA.com he thinks the players who are to be cut should know before the team leaves for Europe Monday. “Maybe we do let all 12…
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Isiah Thomas doesn't work for the Knicks, but they still keep him off the radio
Aug 13, 2010, 8:15 AM EDT
Wednesday Isiah Thomas pulled out of his consulting contract with the Knicks, what with the whole “it violates league policy” thing. Thursday, Thomas was set and had been promoted to appear on 1050 ESPN Radio in New York, doing a couple hours in studio and taking calls. But that went about as well as the…
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I’m not sure how much you want to read into 24 minutes of basketball played on a colorful court on the stage at Radio City Music Hall. Basically, you don’t — the scrimmages in practice where Mike Krzyzewski got to tinker with the lineups meant a lot more than this. Still, here are few thoughts…
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Carmelo Anthony plans to go to London in 2012 with Team USA
Aug 12, 2010, 10:00 PM EDT
LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Paul, Carmelo Anthony and some of the rest of the best of Team USA sat courtside at Radio City Music Hall Thursday to watch this year’s Team USA prepare for the FIBA World Championships in Turkey. Those guys are sitting out this go around, but Anthony told the Associated Press…
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Lakers sign Devin Ebanks today, will sign Derrick Caracter tomorrow
Aug 12, 2010, 8:44 PM EDT
Devin Ebanks and Derrick Caracter have come into a great situation: Go to the NBA champions on a season when the team is looking to fill out the end of the roster with affordable guys to develop. The Lakers signed West Virginia’s Devin Ebanks to a deal on Thursday. On Friday, Caracter will get his…
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Atlanta Hawks adding novel concepts of motion, passing to offense
Aug 12, 2010, 6:56 PM EDT
Despite a team of great athletes and shooters, the Atlanta Hawks are not all that hard to defend. It was a lot of isolation basketball for Joe Johnson and Jamal Crawford. Even when Mike Woodson was calling plays, the team was blowing him off to run more isolation. Larry Drew may have been Woodson’s assistant,…
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Dolphins' Brandon Marshall wants to play NBA basketball, is serious
Aug 12, 2010, 6:20 PM EDT
Well, this is interesting. According to ESPN.com’s Adam Schefeter, Miami Dolphins wide receiver Brandon Marshall plans to play NBA basketball if there is an NFL lockout next season: Dolphins wide receiver Brandon Marshall said Thursday that if NFL teams lock out the players next year, he will try out for the NBA. Marshall said he…
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Ah, August. It’s that magical time of the year when kids get back from camp and start to get ready to go back to school, the baseball pennant races begin to heat up, and there’s at least one article about the improvements Rajon Rondo has made to his jump shot. Rondo has emerged as one…
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James Posey not looking for a buyout, will play in Indiana
Aug 12, 2010, 4:38 PM EDT
James Posey is not an afterthought. This is a quality role player, a guy who was a key part of the Celtics winning the NBA title in 2008. But in breaking down the four-team trade yesterday, the talk was about Indianapolis getting Darren Collison, the speedy point guard they desperately needed for their system. James…
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Hate them all you want — you want to see them. The Heat are in demand ‚ their gear is topping NBA sales charts (especially the LeBron No. 6 Heat jersey). And people want to see the Heat. Television ratings for their games will top what the NBA has done since Jordan suited up. If…
