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[andriy pereplyotkin]

Mau, ninguém fala mal do Deron aqui :-k

[Osnofa]

X1Bym51_kW8

 

Top 5 de ontem. (não há top 10)

 

Passos na #1.

[kareca]

Maxiellllllllllllllllllllllllll :badgrin:

[Bynum Lover]

nunca foi? So podia ser no ano de estreia.

 

newbie.

Oops... xD. Erro de escrita :D.

[ProkhoLov]

Passos na #1.

Tolerancia. :laugh:

[arv]

xqvSbcFYl3g

 

Que risos :lol:

[Perdigas]

Passos na #1.

True

[Bynum Lover]

Kia 2008 candidate

 

MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP!

[andriy pereplyotkin]

Fala-se que o D'Antoni poderá deixar os Suns para ir para os Bulls. Tenho alguma curiosidade em ver em Phoenix um treinador que saiba defender, ainda que o D'Antoni tenha um basquetebol que adoro.

[The Bad Blood]

Best of the Euroleague and NBA
12 Euroleague/NBA stars


Bill Bradley
Olimpia Milano / New York Knicks

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Bradley was the first player to record a remarkable trio of basketball honors -- winning an Olympic gold, a Euroleague championship and an NBA championship.

While starring at Princeton, Bradley was a member of the US national team that won the gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, beating the USSR, 73-59, in the final game. Then, as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in England, Bradley "commuted" to Italy where he played one season for Milano and led the team to its first-ever title by beating Slavia Prague, 77-72, in the 1966 Euroleague final.

After completing his studies, Bradley returned to the United States to play for the New York Knicks, helping them win their first NBA title in 1970 and a second one in 1973. He retired in 1977 and moved on to politics, eventually becoming a U.S. senator.


Bob McAdoo
Olimpia Milano / Buffalo Braves

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Although McAdoo played in Europe at the end of his career, he is viewed by many as the best American ever to play there. In four seasons with Milano, McAdoo won two Italian league titles, the Italian Cup and back-to-back Euroleague crowns in 1987 and 1988. In the 1988 Euroleague Final, he scored 25 points and had 12 rebounds, as the Italians beat Maccabi Tel Aviv 90-84. It is no wonder he is still regarded as a legend in the city.

McAdoo's success should not have been a surprise given his achievements in the NBA, which included Rookie of the Year with the Buffalo Braves (1973), three consecutive scoring titles, five All-Star selections and two NBA championships with the L.A. Lakers in 1982 and 1985. He was also the league MVP in 1975 after he averaged 34.5 points, 14.1 rebounds and 2.12 blocks a game.

After his glorious run with Milan, McAdoo spent three more seasons in the Italian league before retiring in 1993 at the age of 41.


Dominique Wilkins
Panathinaikos / Atlanta Hawks

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Wilkins' stay in Europe was brief and late in his career, but he still made his mark on Euroleague history.

The Human Highlight Film was 35 years old and 13 years into his professional career when he joined the legendary Greek club Panthinaikos in 1995. Averaging 20.9 points and 7 rebounds a game that season, he led the team to victory in the Euroleague Final Four in Paris. And he was named Final Four MVP, scoring 35 points in the Greeks semifinal win over CSKA Moscow and then helping them edge out FC Barcelona, 67-66, in one of the most thrilling Finals ever.

In the NBA, Wilkins was a nine-time All-Star and a two-time slam dunk champion. And he was instrumental in the Hawks rise in the Eastern Conference in the 1980s, although a championship eluded him. Wilkins also played for the U.S. national team that won the gold medal at the 1994 World Championship.

After his stint in Greece, Wilkins had a productive season for the San Antonio Spurs, then went on to play in Italy with Teamsystem Bologna and ended his career with a brief stay in Orlando.


Walt and Wally Szczerbiak
Real Madrid / Cleveland Cavaliers



After brief stays in the ABA and in the Eastern Basketball Association (the forerunner of the CBA), Szczerbiak was offered a one-year contract by the Buffalo Braves in 1973. But he opted instead for a five-year deal with Real Madrid. He spent seven years there as a high-scoring offensive power and played pivotal roles on three Euroleague title teams, in 1974, 1978 and 1980.

Szczerbiak, whose son Wally is currently playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA playoffs, also won four Spanish league titles during his time with Real, while his performance in an exhibition game against North Carolina earned him an invitation to the 1976 US Olympic team by Dean Smith. However, he was declared ineligible because of his time in the ABA.

After shorts stints in Italy and back in Spain, Szczerbiak accepted a role in 1986 as the "official U.S. representative" of the ACB, a role that includes assisting the placing of Americans in Spain.


Arvydas Sabonis
Zalgiris Kaunas / Portland Trail Blazers

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One major question surrounds Sabonis' NBA career: Just how good could he have been had it not been for injuries and political complications? Sabonis was 31 before he joined the Trail Blazers, by which time he had already won gold medals for the USSR at the Olympics (1988), World Championship (1982) and European Championships (1985).

The dominant center led hometown Zalgiris to three consecutive Soviet league titles and second place at the 1986 Euroleague final. He then was drafted 24th overall by the Blazers in '86. However, Soviet authorities wouldn't allow him to play in the NBA until 1989, at which point he elected to play in Spain instead -- first with Valladolid, then Real Madrid, which he helped to the 1995 Euroleague title.

Those years in Europe saw Sabonis struggle with a variety of knee and Achilles tendon injuries, meaning he had lost much of his earlier mobility by the time he finally started his seven-year career with the Blazers in '95. Still, the four-time European Player of the Year was an effective NBA player -- he played in 470 regular season games and 51 playoff games before returning to Europe.


Drazen Petrovic
Croatia / New Jersey Nets

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Petrovic is arguably the best European player ever to play in the NBA. He was the first to make a major impact, blazing a trail which has been followed by many since his arrival in Portland in 1989. His tragic death in a motor vehicle accident in Germany four months before his 29th birthday ended a brilliant career in its prime.

Petrovic burst onto the scene when he led Cibona Zagreb to back-to-back Euroleague titles in 1985 and 1986 as well as the Saporta Cup (a secondary competition) in 1987. The guard's astonishing scoring feats -- he had 51 points and 10 assists in a 1986 Euroleague game against Limoges, for example -- led Portland to draft him in the third round in 1986. But Petrovic postponed his NBA arrival and spent a season with Real Madrid, where he won the Spanish Cup and another Saporta Cup.

Finally in the NBA, Petrovic spent little more than a year in Portland before his frustration at a lack of playing time led him to demand a trade. He wound up in New Jersey, where he became a great scorer and helped transform the Nets into a playoff team.

Petrovic also won gold medals at the 1989 Europeans and 1990 World Championship while playing for Yugoslavia, and won two Olympic silver medals in 1988 and 1992 while representing Croatia.


Vlade Divac
Serbia / Los Angeles Lakers

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Divac made his reputation early in Europe, helping Partizan Belgrade (from the then Yugoslavia) reach the Euroleague Final Four in 1988 at the age of 20. But it was in the United States where the skillful center became one of the true greats of the global game.

Divac spent 15 years in the NBA with the Lakers, Hornets and Kings -- still the longest stretch for a European. His record and longevity in international basketball also explain why he remains a living legend in his homeland. Vlade was a key member of the Yugoslavian team that won two Olympic silvers (1988 and 1996) and three European Championships. But perhaps his greatest hour came in helping the nation to two gold medals at the World Championships of 1990 and 2002, where they upset the host country USA in the quarterfinals.

Before his move to the USA, Divac's European club success was limited to winning the 1989 Korac Cup because of the mastery of Croatian rivals Split, who dominated during that period. However, once in the NBA, Divac became one of the first Europeans to make an impact on the league, helping establish the Kings as a perennial Western Conference power.


Toni Kukoc
Croatia / Chicago Bulls

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The talented Croatian is remembered in the States for playing a key role in the Bulls' three-peat in 1996, 1997 and 1998. But Kukoc had already achieved that feat in Europe for the first and only time in the league's history.

The versatile forward helped build his hometown team, Split, into one of the most feared teams ever in Euroleague play, winning championships in 1989, 1990 and 1991. Will any other Euroleague-NBA crossover win three consecutive titles in both leagues?

His tournament MVP award at the 1990 World Championship for a legendary Yugoslavia team also put him firmly on the NBA radar. And by 1993, after two successful seasons in Italy with Benetton Treviso, Kukoc was on his way to Chicago, which had taken him 29th in the NBA draft three years earlier. Kukoc went on to win the league's Sixth Man Award in 1996, when the Bulls compiled an NBA record 72 wins.


Dino Radja
Croatia / Boston Celtics

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Born in Split, in the former Yugoslavia, Radja helped his hometown team become one of the greatest teams in European basketball history. Along with Toni Kukoc, they won the Euroleague in 1989 and 1990. But instead of sticking around for the historic three-peat, Radja moved to Italy, where he enhanced his reputation over three seasons by leading Roma to the 1992 Korac Cup title (a secondary European competition).

Radja was also part of arguably the greatest European national team of all time, winning the 1987 World Junior Championships, the 1989 and 1991 European Championships and a silver medal at the 1988 Olympics with Yugoslavia.

In 1993, Radja went to the NBA (he had been drafted by the Celtics in 1989) and spent four productive seasons with Boston before a proposed trade to the Philadelphia 76ers broke down in 1997, convincing him to return to Europe.


Manu Ginobili
Kinder Bologna / San Antonio Spurs

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By the age of 27, the Argentine guard had already accomplished an incredible "hat-trick" of achievements -- adding the 2004 Olympic gold medal to a Euroleague title and an NBA championship.

Born into a basketball family, Ginobili benefited from his Italian ancestry by using his citizenship rights to move there in 1998, first to Reggio Calabria and then Italian powerhouse Kinder Bologna. In two seasons with Kinder, Ginobili was named League MVP both years. He also led the team to an Italian championship and two Italian cup titles, as well as the 2001 Euroleague crown where he also collected MVP honors at the Final Four.

After a stellar showing for his national team in the 2002 World Championship, Ginobili signed with the Spurs, who had spent the 57th pick of the 1999 draft on acquiring his rights. Ginobili made an instant impression, helping the Spurs to the 2003 championship against the New Jersey Nets. Since then, he has become a part of the team's big three with Tim Duncan and Tony Parker, winning NBA titles in 2005 and 2007.

Still, the 2004 Athens Olympics may have been his finest hour -- he led Argentina to a surprise gold medal, ending USA's 16-year domination and earning tournament MVP honors.


Anthony Parker
Maccabi Tel Aviv / Toronto Raptors

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It took Parker six years and thousands of air miles to return to the NBA, but the Raptors are now benefiting from the time he spent in Europe developing his game.

Limited to 55 games in three seasons with the 76ers and Magic after graduating from Bradley University, Parker took the bold step of moving to Europe in an attempt to rebuild his reputation in 2000. He spent five of the next six seasons with the legendary Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv; the other season he spent with Virtus Roma in Italy.

In five years with Maccabi, Parker won five national titles, five national cups, two Euroleague titles and one Suproleague title. He played a major role on that Maccabi team and won back-to-back Euroleague MVPs in 2005 and 2006, as well as the Euroleague Final Four MVP in 2004.

His most significant basket, however, may have come in an exhibition game. In October 2005, his buzzer-beating shot gave Maccabi a 105-103 victory over the Toronto Raptors at the Air Canada Centre. And, by the following summer, he himself was wearing a Raptors uniform.


Luis Scola
TAU Ceramica / Houston Rockets

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Scola's rookie success with the Rockets suggests the Argentine forward is going to be the latest in a long list of Euro alumni to make their mark on the NBA.

At the age of 18, Scola took advantage of his dual citizenship to move to Spain, where he helped little-known Gijon earn a promotion from the second division to the top division of the Spanish league. A move to a larger Spanish team quickly followed, as Scola spent the next seven years with TAU. Within two years, his reputation had grown so much that the San Antonio Spurs took him 55th in the 2002 NBA draft.

In Spain, Scola helped TAU to the 2002 league championship as well as victories in three Spanish cup and three Spanish Supercup finals. But despite reaching the Euroleague final in 2001 and in three straight years during 2005-07, TAU fell short of the ultimate prize. Scola, however, did share in some of Manu Ginobili's national team successes, most notably the silver medal at the 2002 World Championship and the 2004 Olympic gold.

Scola's attempts to move to the United States were delayed by complicated buyout clauses in his contract, but he was finally able to make the move last summer after the Spurs traded him to the Rockets.

[Kaz]

o Dominique Wilkins chegou a conhecer o pesadelo da Luz frente ao Benfica.

 

http://www.fibaeurope.com/cid_f43ulKJBGLcV...undID_2567.html

 

 

8)

[Kaz]

parece que o Kobe ganhou o prémio de MVP, é pena, CP3 merecia.

[arv]

parece que o Kobe ganhou o prémio de MVP, é pena, CP3 merecia.

 

Mas estavas à espera de outra coisa? Era obvio que o Kobe ia ganhar...

 

Enfim, tendências.serious business

[Bynum Lover]

Enfim, tendências.serious business

Foi só tendências nos outros anos todos.

[Kaz]

The Best Individual Performers Of The Playoffs

 

Continuing their dominant regular seasons, Dwight Howard, Chris Paul and LeBron James are having the three most terrific individual playoff performances while a pair of Lakers trail close behind the youngsters.

 

Using our Floor Impact Counter metric, which players have performed at the highest statistical levels during the first round of the 2008 NBA Playoffs?

 

Player: Per Game FIC (Total FIC)

 

1. Dwight Howard: 25.0 (125)

2. Chris Paul: 24.2 (121)

3. LeBron James: 23.9 (145)

4. Pau Gasol: 21.5 (86)

5. Dirk Nowitzki: 21.1 (105)

6. Kobe Bryant: 20.8 (83)

7. Tim Duncan: 20.1 (101)

8. Tracy McGrady: 17.4 (104)

9. Rashard Lewis: 17.2 (86)

10. Kevin Garnett: 17.2 (103)

11. Tony Parker: 16.7 (84)

12. David West: 16.4 (82)

13. Chris Bosh: 16.4 (82)

14. Deron Williams: 15.1 (91)

15. Al Horford: 13.7 (82)

16. Hedo Turkoglu: 13.7 (68)

17. Antawn Jamison: 13.5 (81)

18. Jason Kidd: 13.1 (66)

19. Amare Stoudemire: 13.1 (66)

20. Mehmet Okur: 12.9 (77)

21. Lamar Odom: 12.8 (51)

22. Tayshaun Prince: 12.8 (77)

23. Rajon Rondo: 12.8 (77)

24. Josh Smith: 12.7 (76)

25. Marcus Camby: 12.6 (51)

 

http://realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/523...f_the_playoffs/

 

CP3 e Horford. :prayer:

[Odom]

Phoenix autoriza D'Antoni a negociar com Bulls e Knicks

EQUIPA DO ARIZONA DEVE TER NOVO TREINADOR

 

O actual treinador dos Phoenix Suns, Mike D'Antoni, foi autorizado pela equipa do Arizona a negociar um possível contrato com os Chicago Bulls e os New York Knicks.

 

"Apreciamos muito o trabalho de D'Antoni ao serviço dos Phoenix Suns nos últimos tempos e gostaríamos bastante que continuasse. No entanto, ele pediu-nos autorização para falar com outras equipas", revela a equipa de Phoenix em comunicado.

 

A imprensa local revela que as relações entre treinador e o chefe de operações Steve Kerr está cada vez mais delicada depois de uma discussão em Novembro de 2007.

 

Ao serviço dos Phoenix Suns, D'Antoni conseguiu somou 253 vitórias contra 136 derrotas.

[kareca]

Top 10 May 5th:

 

Ox4ph_OcKmY

 

Aquela do Chandler.. ainda deu um caldo ao Duncan com o gémeo :shock:

[Kaz]

o Chandler queria tirar aos pontapés a cabeça ao Duncan. :lol:

[arv]

CP3, DH :prayer:

 

E o abafo do Chandler mãe de Deus :o

[Bynum Lover]

Grandes jogadas.

 

CP3 :prayer:

Tyson Chandler :prayer:

D12 :prayer:

T.Prince :prayer:

[andriy pereplyotkin]

Phoenix autoriza D'Antoni a negociar com Bulls e Knicks

EQUIPA DO ARIZONA DEVE TER NOVO TREINADOR

 

O actual treinador dos Phoenix Suns, Mike D'Antoni, foi autorizado pela equipa do Arizona a negociar um possível contrato com os Chicago Bulls e os New York Knicks.

 

"Apreciamos muito o trabalho de D'Antoni ao serviço dos Phoenix Suns nos últimos tempos e gostaríamos bastante que continuasse. No entanto, ele pediu-nos autorização para falar com outras equipas", revela a equipa de Phoenix em comunicado.

 

A imprensa local revela que as relações entre treinador e o chefe de operações Steve Kerr está cada vez mais delicada depois de uma discussão em Novembro de 2007.

 

Ao serviço dos Phoenix Suns, D'Antoni conseguiu somou 253 vitórias contra 136 derrotas.

Já tinha falado nisso.

Deve ir para os Bulls. Que venha um treinador de PO.

[Kaz]

um treinador de PO? estão esgotados. :)

[Osnofa]

Vai Frank, é a tua oportunidade!

[ProkhoLov]

Vai Frank, é a tua oportunidade!

Era bom de mais... :carinhoso:

 

 

 

[arv]

Se o Pat fosse para os Suns passava-me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mas ele não vai. 8)