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[SidVish]

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Mikhail Prokhorov @Fake_Prokhorov

Is shame Kevin Love is suspend from NBA after step on player face. If he true professional such as myself, he would have hire someone else.

[TheMatrix31]

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Yesterday, 2/6, was the four year anniversary of Part II of III of "The Death of the Suns"

**** that day.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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Death of the who?

[Jasong7777]

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Death of the who?

On February 6, 2008, the Phoenix Suns traded Shawn Marion and teammate, Marcus Banks, to the Miami Heat for center Shaquille O'Neal. His last basket with the Heat was a game-winning dunk against the Chicago Bulls. <SUP id=cite_ref-8 class=reference>[9]</SUP>
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[SidVish]

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Randy Wittman to 106.7 on JaVale: "One thing we preached to him was transition defense, but the problem with that was we had the ball."

[Drewski]

Welp. RT @dcsportsbog: Wittman to 106.7 The Fan: "Hey, I don&rsquo;t want this job. I didn&rsquo;t come here to be the head coach of the Wizards."

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[ProfessaPackMan]

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Welp. RT @dcsportsbog: Wittman to 106.7 The Fan: "Hey, I don’t want this job. I didn’t come here to be the head coach of the Wizards."

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Eventually, Wise asked Wittman if he ever calls Flip Saunders to ask, sheesh, what have I gotten myself into here. Wittman chuckled again.
“Hey, this hasn’t been fun for anybody,” he said. “When you replace a coach, a guy loses his job, a good man, a good coach, hey, I don’t want this job. I didn’t come here to be the head coach of the Wizards. I came here to help Flip and help these young players become better players. Yeah, trust me, there are times — like you mentioned that Clippers game — [where you think] what in the world have I gotten myself into. But they’ve been great, too, guys.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/post/2012/02/07/gIQApc4twQ_blog.html

[BlueNGold]

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LOL Wizards.

This ones for you, John Wall:

Spoiler

[TheBrothers24]

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Randy Wittman to 106.7 on JaVale: "One thing we preached to him was transition defense, but the problem with that was we had the ball."

Man that is sig worthy right there lol

[JaySmooov]

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Welp. RT @dcsportsbog: Wittman to 106.7 The Fan: "Hey, I don&rsquo;t want this job. I didn&rsquo;t come here to be the head coach of the Wizards."

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At least he kept it real. I can't imagine anyone being excited to coach the Wizards these days lol.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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I'm guessing people didn't read the full quote or just chose to ignore it altogether?

[Ermolli]

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[BlueNGold]

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http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=mc-spears_kendrick_perkins_lebron_james_blake_griffin_020712

OAKLAND, Calif. – Oklahoma City Thunder center Kendrick Perkins has seen the replays of Blake Griffin dunking on him. He’s also read all the Twitter buzz about what is being called one of the greatest slams in NBA history.

But if Griffin challenges him again, Perkins doesn’t plan to run for cover.

“If I was in the same position, in the same rotation, I’m going to jump again and again and again,” Perkins told Yahoo! Sports. “I don’t care. A lot of people are afraid of humiliation or don’t know how to handle embarrassment or would even get embarrassed. I don’t care.

“I’m the same Perk you’re going to see. I’m still going to sign autographs the same way. I ain’t going to change. The people that move out the way and stuff are the people who have insecurity problems.

“That’s my job. How will my teammates look at me if next time I just back out the way and just let him dunk when I’m supposed to be defensive-minded, a shot-blocker? That would be a coward move on me. He’d just have to dunk on me again.”

Perkins respected Griffin for not making a spectacle of the dunk afterward or gloating about it. But he wasn’t too appreciative of LeBron James tweeting praise to Griffin.

Several NBA players commented about the dunk on Twitter and in media interviews, but the only one that bothered Perkins was James.

Shortly after the dunk, James tweeted, “Dunk of the Year! @blakegriffin just dunked on Kendrick Perkins so hard!!! Wow! I guess I’m No. 2 now. Move over #6.” James was referring to his alley-oop dunk he threw down after jumping over Chicago Bulls guard John Lucas III a day earlier.

“You don’t see Kobe [Bryant] tweeting,” Perkins said. “You don’t see Michael Jordan tweeting. If you’re an elite player, plays like that don’t excite you. At the end of the day, the guys who are playing for the right reasons who are trying to win championships are not worrying about one play.

“They also are not tweeting about themselves talking about going down to No. 2. I just feel [James] is always looking for attention and he wants the world to like him.”

Even Perkins admits Griffin’s dunk was “nice; a nice finish.” He also remembers the advice his former Boston Celtics teammate, Kevin Garnett, once gave him: To be an effective post defender, you have to risk getting dunked on.

“It’s part of the game,” Perkins said. “If you are a shot-blocker, you don’t pick and choose when you are going to jump with somebody or when you are going to rotate.

“You’re not going to lose no friends about it. You might get talked about. But who cares at the end of the day.”

Thunder coach Scott Brooks was playing for the Houston Rockets when Phoenix Suns guard Kevin Johnson threw down his famous dunk over Rockets center Hakeem Olajuwon. Brooks loved that Olajuwon was never afraid to challenge a shot – and he sees some of the same qualities in Perkins.

“There are sorry defenders, the guys that don’t want to defend or the guys that run away because they don’t want to put themselves in position like that,” Brooks said. “Perk is not going to run. If it happens again, hopefully it will be a different result. But he is going to put himself in that position again.

“That’s what he is about.”

[Jasong7777]

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Gotta love Perk. Dude gets it.

[Boltman]

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It's a bit old and may have been posted before (apologies if so) but it's pretty interesting.

http://achinesestory.wordpress.com/2011/01/05/my-first-published-feature-u-s-export-basketball-players-in-china/

Chinese have had a long love affair with basketball, beginning even before Yao Ming’s dramatic entry into the NBA in 2002. However, Yao Ming is an exception, as the massive numbers of basketball fans and players in China have not yet translated into a consistent source of premium talent.

American players dominate Chinese pro basketball.

In fact, just one of the top ten Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) scorers in the 2009-2010 season was Chinese. The rest were all U.S. “import players” – a term the CBA uses for foreign players – and seven of them came from the NBA.

This disparity has prompted complaints from some Chinese commentators.“The CBA has become the NBA’s backyard,” writes Liu Zhengning, an editor from People’s Daily.