Sunday Articles

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Grant, Team USA Open Championships With Win‎

NBA Draft

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2. Fab Melo, Syracuse. NESN predicted draft position: 21. Teams generally like to see how players perform in the bell jar of March Madness, so Melo’s absence from the tournament due to an eligibility issue hurt his stock. There always seemed to be some off-court drama with Melo, which is why a near-flawless defensive prospect could be available in the latter ​

Andre Drummond, Fab Melo Lead Greatest Risk-Reward Players in ...​

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Fab Melo Emulating Tim Duncan‎​

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NBA Draft's Potential Celtics: Syracuse SF Kris Joseph‎​

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Trailblazer GM laughs at Dion promise mention

Bulls may move up to try & snare Dion

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Recruiting​

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Briscoe & Ennis have new teammate in the backcourt​

Jermaine Lawrence Indicated a Top 3 School List
Jermaine Lawrence has had an impressive spring on the AAU trail and may people were excited to see him in action against other top players in the Class of 2013.

Unfortunately Lawrence is out of action because of a wrist injury, but he expects to be back in action at full health by the time July rolls around.

Entering the camp there was some murmurs that Mike Rice and Rutgers had positioned themselves into the lead for his services. While Lawrence said that was not quite the case, Scarlet Knight fans should rest assured they are very much in the mix for the 6-foot-7 forward who attends Pope John XXIII.

“They’re up there probably, top three,” said Lawrence of RU, adding that Florida and Syracuse would also populate that list of three.

It sounds as if Rutgers will have a chance very soon to strengthen their position as Lawrence also told NBE Sports that he plans to visit their campus soon as well as making a trip out to check out UNLV soon.

Goodluck Okonoboh, an athletic 6-foot-9 big man from Tilton (NH) School gave NBE a working list of “West Virginia, Missouri, Syracuse, Connecticut, Pittsburgh, Minnesota, Gonzaga, Seton Hall, Temple, and a few more,” he said on Friday.

Okonoboh is a cousin of former UConn and current Missouri C/BF Alex Oriakhi.
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UCLA Basketball Recruiting: A Look At BeeJay Anya

BeeJay Anya at USA Basketball tryouts, ‘wide open’ recruiting

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Former Player​

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Jason Hart remembers it well - he was an opponent for the first NBA game in Oklahoma City. On that night, Nov. 1, 2005, the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets, backed by a sold-out, raucous crowd of 19,163, crushed Hart's Sacramento Kings 93-67. ​

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"It was crazy. The crowd was crazy, it reminded us of a college atmosphere," Hart said. "And I think the crowd energized those guys to come out and give us a real good spanking." ​

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A guard on the 2005-06 Kings, Hart remembers Sacramento flying into OKC for the season opener on the day of the game. Sacramento had a playoff-caliber team that season, led by Mike Bibby and Peja Stojakovic.​

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Hart's best guess as to where the OKC frenzied fandom surfaces from is the sports Oklahoma had before an NBA team. Oklahoma City's proximity to Norman, home of the University of Oklahoma, may have helped create a carryover effect in how fans act at games.​

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ACC News​

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Will the ACC realign yet again?‎​

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Around The Nation​

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UNLV adds another piece in top-100 forward Savon Goodman​

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Team USA​

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Stern wants Olympics basketball to be 23 & under ​

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[Nerlo Rangel]

no way lawrence would go to rutgers...would he?

that would definitely be a shocker.

 

[PeteCalvin]

I have a real problem with that Washington Post article suggesting that Carmelo was part of the problem on the '04 Olympic team. What a crock! All he did was help the team in scoring in qualifiers whenever Larry Brown decided to allow this "rookie" to take the floor. Really? How could Carmelo, Wade or Lebron have affected that team positively or negatively when Brown saw fit to bench them? As I recall, Carmelo was a more dangerous scorer for that team than Iverson. Melo was instant offense on a team with ZERO pure scoters. Everyone will blame his defense, but that team needed scoring on the floor. That team's offensive was second only to the John Thompson '88 team in terms of pure ugliness.

Larry Brown was the coach. He can take that '04 mess on the chin himself. He decided who played and who didn't. It's like blaming Christian Laettner for the '92 team not beating an opponent by 40 points. It's ridiculous.