jewishjournal.com - 10/15/2009
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Sports October 14, 2009 Israeli Casspi Set for NBA Debut Kings and Lakers face off in Las Vegas preseason game Oct. 15. by Chris Tomasson Though he hails from Yavne, in the center of Israel, Omri Casspi is going to have a lot of American basketball fans offering to treat him like family this ...
sacbee.com - 10/13/2009
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sacbee.com —
The exercise balls have been removed from the
Sacramento Kings' weight room and stored in a dark...
storage space, with no word yet whether a sacrificial burning of the rubber menaces is yet to come. Kings co-owner Joe Maloof ordered an e-mail sent ...
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Sacramento Kings warn other NBA teams after exercise ...
sportsbybrooks.com - 10/16/2009
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sportsbybrooks.com —
ESPN 710 host Lakers broadcaster and John Ireland
said yesterday that “ people close to the team...
” told him that it “ isn’t in the cards ” for the Kings to stay in Sacramento and that the team eventually is ...
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ESPNer: NBA Will “Force (NBA) Kings To Move”
nba.fanhouse.com - 10/20/2009
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nba.fanhouse.com —
by Matt Steinmetz SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Sacramento Kings
coach Paul Westphal continues to maintain he hasn't yet...
settled on a starting small forward. He talks of possibly using either Kevin Martin there or perhaps rookie Tyreke Evans . But ...
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Mason Looking Like Kings' Starting SF
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Tomasson on Omri Casspi
Sactown Royalty —
Tomasson on Omri Casspi
My FanHouse colleague Chris Tomasson has a Casspi profile in the latest Jewish Journal.
Casspi Wasn’t a Sniper
SLAM Online —
... Casspi wasn’t ready to enter the NBA in 2007, primarily because he was busy serving his required three years in the Israeli army. He was discharged shortly before last June’s draft. “He was a sniper in the Israeli army, so how much pressure can be on him now?” said Scotty Sterling, the Kings’ scouting director. “He wasn’t in combat, but he said they taught him to shoot a rifle. But he said he’d rather shoot a basketball than a rifle.” ...
Who Does Omri Casspi Have To Shoot For You To Believe He Wasn’t An Israeli Sniper Around Here?
Hooped Up —
... record, saying he wasn’t a sniper. Still, the story has been making the rounds.“I don’t know where that rumor started,” Casspi said. “I wasn’t a sniper. It’s not true. I was in basic training. But I did hold a gun, and I shot a lot.”
Sacramento selected Casspi because of his athleticism and smarts he displayed for the World Select Team at the 2007 Nike Hoop Summit. But I’m thinking the sniper rumor totally put him over the top for the Kings.
via Jewish Journal
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