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By Henry Abbott
Here's a fun little project I'd like your help with: Let's name the NBA's twenty all-time dirtiest players. I have a brainstorm list working, but I'd like your ideas, your anecdotes, your YouTube links ...
To get you in the mood, here is the recently retired Bruce Bowen, ...
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Bruce Bowen
Michael Jordan
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Eddy Curry has lost so much weight he's almost unrecognizable. (He's the one in the headband.)
By Henry Abbott
He has only played 11 minutes, but as Chris Sheridan just explained , slimmed-down Knick big man Eddy Curry is already playing a pivotal role in the ...
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Eddy Curry
New York Knicks
William Wesley
By Chris Sheridan
GREENBURGH, N.Y. - Eleven minutes of Eddy Curry helped doom the possibility of 71 games of Allen Iverson.
That was one of the nuggets of information revealed by Knicks president Donnie Walsh this afternoon as he explained New York's decision to pass on the opportunity ...
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New York Knicks
Allen Iverson
Eddy Curry
By Henry Abbott
Dirk Nowitzki vs. the Spurs. A killer shooting night, with a killer soundtrack .
Thunder GM Sam Presti must cringe, just a little, at seeing Kevin Durant say this in the Oklahoman : “I always was a big Antoine Walker fan."
Sam Bowie has applied to become the ...
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Houston Rockets
By Henry Abbott
Yesterday, Sonny Vaccaro explained why he feels defensive about Brandon Jennings.
Jennings, says Vaccaro, has endured criticism -- and perhaps was drafted artificially low -- as punishment for playing his post-high school year playing professionally in Italy, instead of ...
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Brandon Jennings
Sonny Vaccaro
Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times: "Making his season's first appearance after sitting out the first 11 games because of a hamstring injury, Pau Gasol took the Staples Center floor against the Chicago Bulls to an ovation that was less than standing. Folks cheered, but only slightly ...
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By Henry Abbott
Larry Brown making a collection of unbelievably insightful points about Allen Iverson . For instance, that the fact that his family wasn't in Memphis may have been the key factor in Iverson leaving the Grizzlies, that the Knicks would be perfect for Iverson, and that the ...
NBA
Allen Iverson
While the rest of the basketball world was marveling over Brandon Jennings' on-court exploits during his 55-point explosion last weekend and poring over highlight reels of the game, Steve Shenbaum's evaluation consisted not of Jennings' incredible game, but of the rookie's post-game interviews ...
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Brandon Jennings
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By Henry Abbott Sonny Vaccaro is very proud
of the fact that he has played a major
role -- for instance, by promoting young players and getting shoe companies to sponsor coaches -- in building up NCAA basketball to be the massive business that it ...
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Sonny Vaccaro: Brandon Jennings broke the mold, part one
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By Henry Abbott
It's one of the ballsiest basketball offenses imaginable.
A player is suspended for five games for fighting. His team will really miss him. So they hatch a cunning plan, and on a road trip where they hope nobody will notice the difference they slip him onto the court in a ...
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Mark Bradley of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "The Hawks won their 10th game of the nascent season Wednesday night. In 2004-05, this franchise managed 13 victories over 82 games. A team once so far down it had to improve to get lousy is now, with the same coach and same power forward, ...
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By Henry Abbott It wasn't the flashiest performance
of the night, but it was meaningful. After a
summer of losing weight, and early season of injuries and ridicule, Knick big man Eddy Curry checked into an NBA game tonight with 1:32 left in the ...
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Big step: Eddy Curry plays a little
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By Henry Abbott Magic Johnson vs. the credit
crisis . The Chicago Bulls vs. the 1980s' last
shreds of musical dignity . How not to guard Brandon Jennings , in still-frames of Monta Ellis and Mikki Moore. Operative quote: "This is wrong." ...
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Wednesday Bullets
By Henry Abbott
Just happened across this quote from Alonzo Mourning's 2008 book "Resilience," which I'd recommend heartily to anyone who could use a little shot of resolve in overcoming a major challenge:
You can wait and hope, or you can go make it happen . Rebounds and rebounding from ...
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Alonzo Mourning
John Reid of The Times Picayune: "In the locker room after Tuesday night’s game against the Los Angeles Clippers, New Orleans General Manager/Coach Jeff Bower had his players gather around him. He told them they gave a good effort, but he was caught off guard when injured point guard ...
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By J.A. Adande
Hmm, could there be some latent frustration in Phil Jackson about Pau Gasol’s slow-to-heal right hamstring?
Before the Lakers played the Pistons Tuesday night, Jackson said Gasol went through practice Monday and shootaround Tuesday morning and Jackson hoped Gasol ...
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Phil Jackson
Pau Gasol
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By Henry Abbott Turkey is home to some
of the world's best professional basketball. Two days ago,
for instance, rivals Galatasaray and Fenerbahce squared off, and the court was littered with past and future NBA players. The Bulls have high hopes ...
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Turkey's best basketball, marred by violence, again
By Henry Abbott
TrueHoop reader Reid Sassman writes the following about his 2001 visit to Duke University:
Duke had just won the National Championship in March when I was a junior in high school. I visited Duke with my friend Travis to see if we wanted to go there for college, and we ...
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Shane Battier
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By Henry Abbott Eleven years ago, in the
1998-1999 season, the NBA featured a veteran big man
called Jayson Williams, a blue chip pro prospect at Duke named Jason (later "Jay") Williams, and wild-eyed, over-tattooed rookie point guard called ...
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The Return of Jason Williams
By Henry Abbott
We'll be hearing about the happy marriage between Stephen Jackson and the Bobcats, and I'll be remembering when Stephen Jackson was enthusiastic about his great relationship with Warriors president "Bobby" Rowell, and Rowell was emphatic that Jackson's contract was a good ...
