washingtontimes.com - 9/29/2008
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Mike Jones ( Contact ) Sunday, September 28, 2008 RICHMOND | Late in the Washington Wizards ' first practice of training camp, an errant shot ricocheted off the backboard and in an instant, center Etan Thomas exploded upward, snatched the ball from the air and then looked for an outlet. ...
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... and grow. On Saturday, the $111 million man tried to mask his frustration over the third surgery on his left knee in 1 1/2 years by working with the team’s young players as they opened their training camp at Virginia Commonwealth University. Etan Thomas is probably one of the most eager for the start of the season. Thomas returns tot he Wizards after missing all of last season because of a leaky aortic valve that was repaired via open heart surgery. Thomas was given the clean bill of health in June and has been steadily growing stronger and working out harder since. ...
Training camp link dump
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I didn't really do any of these in the offseason, but with training camp underway, there's a lot of information out there that should be passed along. Without further ado:
Might as well start off with Dave Johnson's live-blogs from camp. Here's today's morning blog, which is the only one of the day since the evening practice was cancelled. Dave's quite the optimist, but he's a great guy and his optimism is shared by a lot of people that aren't working for the official Wizards website. As a few here can attest, he's also really attentive to reader questions.
Tom Knott actually does some reporting and it makes his ...
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In the WASHINGTON TIMES, Mike Jones writes "late in the Washington Wizards' first practice of training camp, an errant shot ricocheted off the backboard and in an instant, center Etan Thomas exploded upward, snatched the ball from the air and then ...
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