UK recruit skips U.S. team to meet LeBron
kentucky.com 7/11/2008 — highly regarded point guard prospect John Wall put an interesting variation on the subject of choice. He had to choose between church and state, so to speak. As a hero worshiper of ­LeBron James, Wall had the chance to play in the Skills Academy sponsored by the celebrated Cleveland Cavalier. Yet, Uncle Sam invited Wall to participate in the tryouts for the 18-and-under U.S. national team ...

Film Session: USA vs. Argentina, 8/30/07
upsideandmotor.blogspot.com 7/11/2008 — The members of Team USA may be on a break before pre-Olympic training camp, but rest assured that I'm not. I'll be going through game tape of last summer's FIBA Tournament of the Americas, which is the closest thing we have to a precedent for Team USA's play in Beijing. Not surprisingly, this game was the highlight of the preliminary rounds. Both teams entered the game undefeated, and the ...

Monday quibbles: LeBron again?
topnbavideo.com 7/11/2008 — Even if the New York metropolitan area might soon have two teams with two fanbases expectedly desperate and slavishly devoted to counting every bean they can in hopes that James will jet to either Manhattan or Brooklyn in the summer of 2010, and that Cleveland’s Midwestern corps can be a healthy and vocal lot, the combined power of this triptych will not be enough to drown out the sheer ...

Sole Junkie - Sneaker Guru
blog.cleveland.com 7/11/2008 — Sneaker-shod, socks or bare, put your feet up. Sole Junkie is in the blog. Artist, innovator, blogger; there's nothing more appealing than an all round nice guy with a vision.

Fiddlin' and Diddlin' - Daily Links 7/11
celticsgreen.blogspot.com 7/11/2008 — Links Links LInks!!!

Mavericks Bring Back Diop, Barea — NBA.com: News 7/9/2008
Gana Diop and J.J. Barea are back in the fold, as both signed contracts Wednesday with the Mavericks. The two fan favorites, who entered the offseason as free agents, inked their deals on the first day after the league moratorium. It's a return for ...

Diop rejoins Mavericks 6 months after trade — FOXSports.com News for NBA 7/9/2008
DeSagana Diop signed a five-year, $31 million deal with the Dallas Mavericks on Wednesday, six months after Dallas sent him to New Jersey in the Jason Kidd trade. The Mavericks used their entire midlevel exception in their second free-agent deal with ...

Nuggets' Anthony Inspires Through Charity Tournament — NBA.com: News 7/13/2008
One of the oldest neighborhood axioms around is that you never forget where you came from. Carmelo Anthony is living proof of that. The Baltimore native, in town to promote his annual 3-on-3 basketball tournament, showed up at the Cloverdale Park ...

Wade returns to court in charity game (AP) — Yahoo! Sports - NBA News 7/14/2008
Dwyane Wade took a pass off the backboard from Chris Paul, leaped with arms outstretched and effortlessly threw down a fierce two-handed dunk. Less than 30 seconds after tip-off, Wade reminded Miami fans what they missed last season. OK, so it was ...