SI.com - Writers - Chris Mannix: Francis eyes bounce-back year in return to Rockets - Monday August 13, 2007 4:25PM
sportsillustrated.cnn.com 8/15/2007 — NEW ORLEANS -- Steve Francis had a good reason for delaying an interview. " Can you hold on a minute, man? " Francis asked politely. " I need to get in this hot tub. My whole body is killing me. " Since signing a one-year, $2.4 million contract (with ...

Pierce Loves Perk Too
celticsgreen.blogspot.com 8/15/2007 — I included this in the Fiddlin' and Diddlin' section, but the more I thought about it, the more I thought is needed to be in a separate post. In the Herald's report on Pierce's interview , Pierce singles out Perk for some praise. “This is going ...

Shaquille O’Neal Ballin’ In Beijing
thebasketballjones.net 8/15/2007 — It’s tough to tell thanks to the Robitussin -less camera work, but I’ve got Shaq’s final stat line down at: zero points (on 0-2 shooting), two boards, one assist, one block, one steal and one blatant walk in just two ...

Shaq: I will give Yao fancy new wheels as wedding gift
chinadaily.com.cn 8/15/2007 — NBA superstar Shaquille O'Neal will give Yao Ming 24-inch car rims as a wedding gift when China's Houston Rockets star celebrates his third wedding ceremony later this year. O'Neal, the Miami Heat's All-star center, is currently on a tour of China ...

CCTV International
cctv.com 8/15/2007 — Source: CCTV.com 08-15-2007 11:12 There seems to have been a long list of stars from the NBA coming to China in the last few months, no doubt motivated in some part by the potentially huge market here. Most recently, it was the turn of Miami Heat ...