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Heads raise upwards and eyes scan the sky, keeping watch for meteors, for it is National Meteor Day, also commonly known as National Meteor Watch Day. Meteors, sometimes called shooting or falling stars, glow brightly as they fall through the Earth's atmosphere. They start out as meteoroids, a small piece of space dust made of rock or metal, which may be as small as a particle or as large as a rock, and which has broken off from an asteroid or planet. Meteoroids come up against air particles, which creates friction. They then heat up and burn to the point of vaporization. The glow they produce is the hot air that remains as they burn.
Meteors may appear to be a momentary bright white light, but they actually change colors as they burn, the colors indicating the gases the rocks are made up of. Silicate burns red, sodium is orange and yellow, copper is blue or green, potassium is purple, and iron is yellow. If a meteor makes it through the Earth's atmosphere intact or without completely burning up, and reaches the ground, it is known as a meteorite. Meteorites make craters many times their size.
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Which SU players had longest NBA careers and who is nearing NBA record? (Mike’s Mailbox) (PS; Waters)
We’re mixing Syracuse basketball with the NBA and the G-League this week in the Mailbox.
Readers posed questions about NBA longevity on the one hand and recent G-League players on the other. We’ll get to those questions plus a few more.
If you have any questions relative to Syracuse, the ACC or college basketball in general, please email them to mwaters@syracuse.com.
Q: With NBA draft wrapped up, I was wondering which 10 former Syracuse players have played the most years in the NBA? Off top of my head, Bing, Schayes, and Anthony stand out.
Bill F.
Mike: Bill’s top-of-the-head guess was good for three of the top five Syracuse players in terms of NBA longevity.
For years, Danny Schayes held the Syracuse-player record with 18 seasons in the NBA, but this past year was Carmelo Anthony’s 19th in the league.
Derrick Coleman played 15 years in the NBA, while Dave Bing and Sherman Douglas both played 12.
Rony Seikaly spent 11 seasons in the league and Billy Owens lasted for 10. Wes Johnson, Etan Thomas and Jason Hart are credited with nine seasons in the NBA. Thomas missed one entire season with a heart condition.
That’s 10 SU players with nine or more years in the NBA.
There’s a four-way tie for 11th between Michael Carter-Williams, Dion Waiters, Hakim Warrick and Louis Orr.
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Jim Boeheim shares more information on Buddy and Jimmy’s NBA opportunities (TNIAAM; Wall)
Syracuse Orange head coach Jim Boeheim is just like you and me. Yesterday while driving to work and listening to sports radio he heard what he claimed was an “outright falsehood” and called in to share his take. Former Syracuse columnist Bud Poliquin (huzzah!) was doing his weekly spot on the “The Manchild Show with Boy Green” on Score 1260 and claimed that Buddy and Jimmy Boeheim were signed by the Pistons only because of the relationships between Troy Weaver, Rob Murphy and Jim Boeheim.
It was just like old times with Bud and Jim as they sparred over Bud’s comments. According to Jim both Buddy and Jimmy had four offers each. Later Jim shared that both the Oklahoma City Thunder and Charlotte Hornets offered Buddy two-way contracts but Buddy felt that “Detroit needed shooters” so that’s why he chose to take the Pistons deal. Jim also challenged Bud’s statement that Buddy didn’t have a defined NBA skill saying that Buddy’s shooting was at that level, “If you don’t see that you don’t know basketball”
Jim shared that Buddy broke two three-point shooting records during individual workouts and that former Michigan HC John Beilin said Jimmy’s workout for Detroit was a positive surprise.
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Former Syracuse men’s basketball standout Eric Devendorf instructs Fulton students at the Fulton Youth Basketball Camp on Wednesday at the Fulton War Memorial.
Former Syracuse basketball standout Eric Devendorf helps with Fulton Youth Basketball Camp (oswegocountynews.com; McGlynn)
Fulton varsity boys basketball head coach Sean Broderick is used to having help at his basketball camps. Nearly 20 members of the Fulton basketball program were on hand to help out on Wednesday, but there was one helper who came from a different basketball background.
Eric Devendorf, a member of the Syracuse men’s basketball team from 2005-2009 and one of the leading scorers in program history, was guiding the kids through drills and providing instructions at the Fulton War Memorial on Wednesday morning.
“I have a real good relationship with Coach Broderick,” said Devendorf. “I’ve been here and done numerous things with the kids, camps. ... So, any way I can help out Coach. He’s been good to me over the years. I’m more than willing to come here and help the kids.”
Broderick said he “can’t say enough positive things about Eric,” noting that he has visited the Fulton basketball program nearly 10 times in the past several years.
“And he always comes prepared, with a great amount of energy,” said Broderick. “The kids just get really excited to see him. ... He is a friend of Fulton basketball, and we are very grateful for that.”
Broderick said this week’s camp served as sort of a “welcome back camp,” after holding a series of remote and satellite camps. This week’s camp offered a Pre-K through fourth-grade group from 10 a.m. to noon, and a fifth through ninth-grade camp from 12:30 to 3 p.m, according to the Fulton Youth Basketball Facebook page.
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Axe: Wildhack says SU's Big 5 pointing in right direction after a down cycle (analysis) (PS; Axe)
Four of the five front-facing Syracuse University sports programs had tough seasons during the 2021-22 athletic year.
In men’s basketball and lacrosse, they were historically bad.
“You always want to win more. There’s no question,” Syracuse Athletic Director John Wildhack said during a media availability Tuesday to review the previous athletic season and preview the next.
“At the end of any year, no matter what sport it is, there’s only one school that’s really, really happy.
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Clover's in Skaneateles opened at 6 a.m. 06/29/2022. (Charlie Miller | cmiller@syracuse.com)
New Skaneateles diner opens to familiar crowd of regulars: ‘It’s like we never left’ (PS; $; Miller)
The seasoned home fries were just starting to sizzle on the shiny new flat-top griddle when Gabe and Graham Morris parked themselves on the bench outside at 5:48 a.m.
They would become the first customers to walk through the front door of Clover’s diner at 6 a.m. Eight other patrons snuck through the back door at the same time. That was a sign that this so-called soft opening wasn’t going to be so soft after all.
Twelve people were seated within the first eight minutes. By 8 a.m., half of the tables were full. An hour later, a small line formed of folks waiting to be seated.
“It’s like we never left,” head cook Nate Porter said as he cracked six eggs with his right hand and flipped the potatoes with his left. “It’s like riding a bike. We’ve been making this food for years for the same people. It feels great to be back.”
No more than four minutes later had Porter finished the first two orders: a ham and cheese omelet and a Triple 2′s (two giant pancakes, two scrambled eggs and two strips of bacon).
Clover’s opened this morning at 22 Jordan St. in the village of Skaneateles. In November, scrap metal tycoon and philanthropist Adam Weitsman took over the lease of the building that for years was Johnny Angel’s restaurant. He took over the popular hamburger spot to fill the void left behind when the Hilltop Restaurant announced a week earlier that it would close.
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