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For those who want to send a note or get well wishes to Massive Mike Williams, who is in an Atlanta hospital after being shot, here are details:
Mike Williams
Intensive Care Unit
Grady Memorial Hospital
80 Jesse Hill Jr. Dr. SE
Atlanta, GA 30303-3050
****Speaking of Mike Willimas...here's the TRIVIA QUESTION(S)!!
In the only game Mike Williams ever played AGAINST Bradley, how many points did he score AND how many minutes did his opposing center play that night?
Western Carolina has a couple new posts daily on their message board but nothing at all yet about their upcoming game vs. Bradley.
http://forums.delphiforums.com/catamountpride/messages
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Nice story about starting center at SIU Nick Evans..
http://thesouthern.com/sports/college/salukimania/article_a3ade456-e07b-11de-a275-001cc4c03286.html
--also some mention about Carlton Fay getting a new do...a haircut....a shave possibly??-
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In the wake of the New Jersey Nets being so bad this year and starting out with record numbers of losses since the start of the season, one guy has a fond memory of an ISU player...one of only three ever from ISU who ever played in the NBA (see below).
"Remember Bubbles Hawkins? Of course you don't.
Post-Erving, this southpaw guard showed excellent
promise as a go-to scorer until one night, riding the
team's wobbly charter, he vomited in the lap of Kevin
Loughery, who happened to be his coach.
Hawkins was soon gone, replaced by a catalog of
others doomed to suffer a similarly ignominious fate."
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/21/sports/sports-of-the-times-and-now-introducing-the-no-name-nets.html
-oh an until OE actually helps his team make the NCAA, there really can be no useful discussion about the comparison between King O and Anthony Parker..who is now going on his 13th pro year!
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Here's an interesting blurb....ex-ISU commit, who reneged and went to Washington, Justin Dentmon, sounds a bit miffed and bitter that he's not in the NBA and is relegated to playing in Europe...
Just maybe he'd have been able to make it to Europe similarly had he stayed at ISU, and he wouldn't have lost much of his playing time as his career wound on like he did at Washington..
Looks like his shenanigans failed to pay off as he had planned...so sad...
http://www.eurobasket.com/Israel/basketball.asp?NewsID=178829
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Here's another little blurb about ex-Wichita State guard Gal Mekel...
he is under contract with Maccabi Tel Aviv, Anthony Parker's old team, but...
Gal isn't happy, he's not getting much playing time....
so to make him happy, his team (currently in 1st place) has "loaned" Mekel to another team, namely the team that is right behind Maccabi and in 2nd place!
Could this be a sort of sabotage??
This is weird that a player can be loaned from one team to another especially two teams battling for first place!http://www.eurobasket.com/Israel/basketball.asp?NewsID=178671
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Drake's loss last night to SIUE signals a new low for Valley teams.
Seriously, even the worst Valley team can NOT lose games like this at home!
Having said that we are set for a repeat performance with ISU hosting Central Michigan tonight in a "trap game".
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Highly touted 7-footer Ehimen Orupke, Wichita State commit, is kinda struggling at Three Rivers CC.
He is barely averaging 5 pts, 5 rebs a game...
and shouldn't an athletic 7-footer at the juco level get those kind of numbers even sitting on his butt at mid-court??
Shang Ping put up monster stats by comparison!!!
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ex-Braves commit, Anthony Grundy is 2nd in all of Italy in scoring at 18.9 ppg.
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a couple of odd high school scores from last night-
St. Patrick's, with two D-I recruits, including Jacob Williams, scores only 27 pts as a team, and loses 41-27.
http://yourseason.suntimes.com/boys_basketball/1922060,120409-boys-basketball-benet-st-patrick.article
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Nnana Egwu gets 12 but his team loses again...
http://yourseason.suntimes.com/boys_basketball/1922048,120409-strita.article
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Jereme Richmond's team, rated #2 statewide narrowly escapes upset...
but it sounds like Jereme might have been outplayed.
http://yourseason.suntimes.com/boys_basketball/1922518,120409-boys-basketball-waukegan-deerfield.article
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Here's a ranking of which Valley teams have sent the most players to the NBA...and all of BU's players who made it to the NBA were guys who played in the Valley, while a lot of the other teams' guys never played in the Missouri Valley.
BU 21
Drake 14
CU 13
WSU 12
SIU 10
InSU 9
UE 6
MSU 3
ISU 3
UNI 0
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See if you agree or disagree....
But -- unless it's done along the lines of the signing of Ann Meyers -
who in 1979 was signed as a pure publicity stunt....and evidence now clearly proves there was never any intent of actually having her on the team,
there just isn't much chance that any woman will play in the near future in the NBA unless just to hype their pet project of promoting women's pro ball.
This is from an Ian Thompson (Sports Illus.) interview with David Stern the NBA Commissioner...
Question: Is there a possibility of a female player breaking into the NBA?
Stern:
"Sure," he said matter-of-factly. "I think that's well within the range of probability."He later went on,
I asked if we might see a woman playing NBA basketball within a decade.
"I think we might," said Stern. "I don't want to get into all kinds of arguments with players and coaches about the likelihood.
But I really think it's a good possibility."
OK, let the debate begin...and I have evidence of how the very best women in the world would stack up against men, since the women's
Olympic Dream team has routinely worked out and scrimmaged & played against men in preparation for their runs at the Gold Medal...
seriously, who else would they scrimmage against, since when competing together, the Women's Dream Team are so far better than any
collection of other women that could be put together, that it only makes sense to have them compete against men rather than women...
But do you know who they choose to compete against??
NOT professional men scout teams....not even college men, as those guys would and on past occasions HAVE ripped and shredded the women to pieces..
The "scout" teams that they scrimmage against are complete amateur groups of men who often aren't even guys who play on a regular basis...
they aren't even accomplished players and most have never even played in college although most have played HS ball.
And yet most of these men dominate the women anyway...but that's what the women's teams want...they sure don't want to play against a weak scout team that offers no challenges.
They use pick-up teams of men from college campuses, amateur teams, and army bases...guys who commonly are physically strong in order to challenge the women,
but not necessarily accomplished basketball players because that doesn't matter when simply working out the Dream Team. Yet the men typically win anyway....
and if they didn't the women would look for stiffer opponents to work out against.
So I ask...if the very TOP pro women in the world are roughly on par with amateur men that wouldn't even make an NAIA or DIII college team,
then tell me again how one of them is gonna legitimately make a MEN's NBA team within the next few years??
This is one I'd give 1000 to 1 odds and still bet the farm.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/ian_thomsen/12/04/countdown/index.html
actually, the mention of Eddie Gaedel in this column makes me think that as a publicity stunt and to help bail out the failing WNBA franchises,
it actually might happen but not on its own merit...but as a pure stunt....
and I am not the only one thinking that..http://bleacherreport.com/articles/302971-david-stern-is-looking-for-wrong-things-from-womens-sports-and-wnba
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a couple comments from some premium recruiting stories hint that BU "representatives" were on hand in Connecticut and Ohio recently to watch recruits....watch for more...
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