Shaquille O’Nealsaid Saturday that his sore left hip hasn’t improved since he was shut down from basketball-related activity several days ago, and that he isn’t sure if the planned two-week break from playing will be enough time for the joint to heal.
Posted by: youbetcha | 01-27-2008 | 01:01 PM
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Bucks rookie forward Yi Jianlian will be an all-star in the National Basketball Association, Bucks general manager Larry Harris is convinced.
And Harris is glad the Bucks were able to land the 7-foot rookie from China in the June 2007 draft, with the sixth overall pick. Yi, who will face off against countryman Yao Ming and the Houston Rockets at the Bradley Center in one week, has been in the Bucks’ starting lineup for all 44 games this season.
Posted by: youbetcha | 01-27-2008 | 01:01 PM
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The Bucks’ 2008 second-round draft pick out of the University of Nevada, who was assigned to the Tulsa 66ers of the National Basketball Development League last Nov. 8, is in contention to compete in the second D-League All-Star Game.
Posted by: youbetcha | 01-25-2008 | 03:01 PM
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In the CLEVELAN PLAIN DEALER, Mary Schmitt Boyler writes “Earl Lloyd is extremely proud of the fact that he was the first African-American to play in the NBA. But please don’t call him the Jackie Robinson of basketball.’ I take polite umbrage,’ Lloyd said of the comparison. ?What I had to go through pales to what he had to go through. Here’s a guy, his own teammates didn’t want to play with him. The competition? They tried to maim him. The fans vilified him. For a guy to go through all that and perform in that hostile arena . . . then when it’s time for him to go into the Hall of Fame, he made it on the first ballot. Being black had nothing to do with it’. Robinson’s achievements have been well-chronicled. Lloyd’s are not quite as familiar.?
Posted by: youbetcha | 01-25-2008 | 03:01 PM
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USA Men’s Senior National Team head coach Mike Krzyzewski of Duke University and USA Women’s National Team head coach Anne Donovan have been named co-recipients of the 2007 USA Basketball National Coach of the Year Award, USA Basketball announced today. Krzyzewski and Donovan each piloted their respective USA national teams to FIBA Americas Championship gold medals and qualified both the USA men and women for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Posted by: youbetcha | 01-25-2008 | 03:01 PM
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In the ORLANDO SUN SENTINEL, Ira Winderman writes “before he can consider whether he will run again in NBA competition, Alonzo Mourning first must walk. In his first detailed comments since shredding the tendons around his right kneecap in a Dec. 19 game at Atlanta, the 37-year-old Heat center said Monday he has not closed the door on a return, but first faces months of grueling therapy. ?The thing about it is Dr. [Harlan] Selesnick said, ‘Even if you don’t come back to play, you have to rehab this like you are going to come back to play,’Mourning said outside the Heat locker room before the team faced the Cavaliers at American Airlines Arena. ?He said this is your focus right now, just being able to walk and get your strength back.?
Posted by: youbetcha | 01-24-2008 | 12:01 PM
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The Bucks’ 2008 second-round draft pick out of the University of Nevada, who was assigned to the Tulsa 66ers of the National Basketball Development League last Nov. 8, is in contention to compete in the second D-League All-Star Game.
Posted by: youbetcha | 01-24-2008 | 12:01 PM
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In the CLEVELAN PLAIN DEALER, Mary Schmitt Boyler writes “Earl Lloyd is extremely proud of the fact that he was the first African-American to play in the NBA. But please don’t call him the Jackie Robinson of basketball.’ I take polite umbrage,’ Lloyd said of the comparison. ?What I had to go through pales to what he had to go through. Here’s a guy, his own teammates didn’t want to play with him. The competition? They tried to maim him. The fans vilified him. For a guy to go through all that and perform in that hostile arena . . . then when it’s time for him to go into the Hall of Fame, he made it on the first ballot. Being black had nothing to do with it’. Robinson’s achievements have been well-chronicled. Lloyd’s are not quite as familiar.?
Posted by: youbetcha | 01-24-2008 | 12:01 PM
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In the BOSTON GLOBE, Marc J. Spears writes “Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be celebrated across the NBA today, including at the Celtics-Knicks game. And while the nation commemorates the slain leader of the civil rights movement, Hall of Famer Earl Lloyd will surely reflect on his belief that the Celtics ultimately opened the door for him to be the first African-American to play in an NBA game. Lloyd, Cooper, and the Knicks’ Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton became the first African-Americans to play in the NBA during the 1950-51 season. Boston made Cooper, a former Duquesne star, the first black ever drafted. Clifton, a former Harlem Globetrotter, was the first African-American player to sign a contract with an NBA team when he signed with the Knicks in 1950.”
Posted by: youbetcha | 01-24-2008 | 10:01 AM
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In the ORLANDO SUN SENTINEL, Ira Winderman writes “before he can consider whether he will run again in NBA competition, Alonzo Mourning first must walk. In his first detailed comments since shredding the tendons around his right kneecap in a Dec. 19 game at Atlanta, the 37-year-old Heat center said Monday he has not closed the door on a return, but first faces months of grueling therapy. ?The thing about it is Dr. [Harlan] Selesnick said, ‘Even if you don’t come back to play, you have to rehab this like you are going to come back to play,’Mourning said outside the Heat locker room before the team faced the Cavaliers at American Airlines Arena. ?He said this is your focus right now, just being able to walk and get your strength back.?
Posted by: youbetcha | 01-24-2008 | 10:01 AM
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