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[#24]

Yeah :prayer:

Come back.

[Nuk]

Jennings is happy in Milwaukee and can see himself playing with the Bucks over the long-term.

 

"I can't complain where I am now, with a great coach," Jennings said on ESPN's "Rome is Burning" Monday. "He's been teaching me a lot this year and he's the reason why I've had a successful season."

 

Jim Rose then asked Jennings if he could see himself in Milwaukee over the long-term.

 

"I can," the rookie said. "I like it. It reminds me of Italy.  ... (a) laid back town, small little market and they're real big on sports."

 

<3

 

Espero que sim, que fique até ao fim de carreira.

 

 

 

[Gavazzo]

Heat, Johnson Have Mutual Interest

 

The Miami Heat could be a suitor for Joe Johnson.

 

``That's a great situation -- you have to look at it,'' Johnson told The Miami Herald while discussing his options. ``I'm not saying I'll go play with him or him. But being a free agent, you pay attention to everybody's salary cap, what everybody can do.''

 

Two league sources said there is mutual interest between the Heat and Johnson.

 

Pat Riley's first priority will be to re-sign Dwyane Wade and then gauge the interest of LeBron James.

 

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Raja Bell Would Like To Play For Heat

 

Raja Bell said Monday that he would welcome the opportunity to play for the Heat next season.

 

Bell, a free agent, was a guest on The Jorge Sedano Show on 790 The Ticket.

 

"I've talked a lot about it with my agent and my family," he said. "Miami is my first choice. If there would be any interest from the Heat I would give it a ponder. It's my home town."

 

Bell was raised in Miami and attended high schools there.

 

"I'm not gonna do all that," he said when asked if he'd make a pitch to Heat president Pat Riley.

 

"But I'll tell you like this, 'Pat, if you can use my services give me a call, I'm right around the corner, 36th and Biscayne. Give me a call.' "

[Taka]

Reservas do Wade? Wade a PG ou Joe Johnson a SF?

[Victarion]

huh...mais cedo seria JJ a PG, não? Ou a PG ou a SF. Não se vão a meter a mudar a posição do melhor jogador da equipa só por causa do Joe.

[andriy pereplyotkin]

Eu acho é que é para substituir o Wade... Ninguém no seu juízo perfeito tenta juntar os dois. Não enquanto o basket se jogar só com uma bola.

[Osnofa]

Gilbert says Brown still Cavaliers' coach

CLEVELAND -- The Cleveland Cavaliers are keeping coach Mike Brown -- for now.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=5189101

 

:funny:

[Nuk]

Mike Woodson despedido, agora sim os Hawks são perigosos.

 

 

[Kaz]

os Hornets bem que podiam despachar os expirings do Stojakovic e do Peterson (22M) e tentar o LeBron. 8)

 

Chris Paul

Marcus Thornton

LeBron James

David West

Emeka Okafor

 

:mrgreen:

[What]

http://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/wan/1734814253.html

[Perdigas]

O Delonte West anda a papar a mãe do LeBron :funny:

[jean-luc godard]

Doug Collins é o novo treinador dos 76ers.

[Blast]

Let the finals begin

[NIkeL]

Dany Ferry não vai renovar e Chris Grant será o novo GM dos Cavaliers.

 

EDIT

 

Estão a ocorrer mudanças importantes na equipa que poderão ditar os próximos anos do franchise. Diz-se que estamos em conversações para fazer uma troca que poderá trazer um jogador "sólido" e que no processo poderemos perder um dos principais jogadores. Queremos voltar a ter uma pick no draft e o Ferry não renovou porque não queria ir na mesma direcção que o Dan Gilbert. Basicamente o Gilbert quer um nome grande para tomar conta do basketball, como coach/GM e o Ferry nunca ultrapassou o facto de se ter despedido o Mike Brown.

[Kaz]

Legendary UCLA coach John Wooden dies at 99

Guided team to 10 titles in 12 years; coached Abdul-Jabbar and Walton

 

John Wooden: Lessons for basketball and life

 

John Wooden was UCLA's legendary basketball coach who took some of the most challenging egos in the country and fit them into a championship mold of his own making.

 

 

Former UCLA basketball coach John Wooden was an every-day Bible reader from Indiana who took some of the most challenging egos in the country and fit them into a championship mold of his own making. He did farm chores as a boy when they began before the sun came up and took hours to complete.

 

Gothic to the core, as rustic as a pitchfork, and with a haircut that always had a bunkhouse-bowl look to it, Wooden, who died Friday in Los Angeles, never looked the part of the spoiled, well-oiled cartel. He loved the concept of five players on court riding a bicycle with the same precision as the Flying Wallendas and hated the importance others placed on statistics.

 

Yet high up in every obituary you’ll read about the Wizard of Westwood is the fact that he won 10 NCAA basketball championships at UCLA. His Bruins also put together an 88-game winning streak between Jan. 30, 1971, and Jan. 17, 1974. Twenty-four of his players – and not just Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (then known as Lew Alcindor) and Bill Walton – made All-American.

 

When all-conference center Walton showed up for practice one day with a full beard and insisted that as much facial hair as he wanted was his right, Wooden didn’t argue. All John said was: “I admire people who have strong beliefs and stick by them. Bill, we’re all going to miss you!”

 

Twenty minutes later, Walton was so clean shaven that he could have made a commercial for any razor company in the world.

 

With Wooden, it was always: Get everybody in peak condition. Teach them the value of fundamentals. Drill them to play as a team and hit the open man on offense. Learn that defense is mostly hard work and can often be sustained game after game. Don’t put it all on your shooters, who are often in danger of losing their touch.

 

How to put on your socks

 

Wooden also paid rapt attention to the little things. For example, on the first day of practice John would spend half an hour teaching his players the proper way to put on a sweat sock.

 

“Wrinkles can lead to blisters,” he’d warn. “Be quick but don’t hurry,” was another of his wall mottos. Yet when fashions began to change, he did away with his mandatory coat-and-tie rule on road trips.

 

Years ago, at a dinner honoring Wooden, I asked John about the growing problem of athletes and drug testing.

 

“If they don’t want to be tested, don’t let them play,” said the man who holds the distinction of being a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach. At Purdue he was considered a mid-size guard, a three-time All-America who was always willing to take a few enemy elbows en route to the basket. On defense, he was like a piece of barbed wire.

 

“Having worked with young people all my life, I can tell you for a fact that today’s kids are crying out for discipline,” Wooden said. “Unfortunately, they aren’t getting the discipline they need at home or from most of their teachers. Until we give them the proper standards to live by, we will continue to be a nation whose young people will be in and out of trouble.”

 

“Sometimes I wonder if most people even know what real discipline is,” he continued. “The purpose of discipline isn’t to punish but to correct. It’s not there to be used to antagonize an individual, but to help and improve him. It’s not yelling at someone, because that kind of approach never gets you anywhere. You can only get the response you want by acting fairly and rationally.”

 

Wooden’s teams, like the man who masterminded them, always came prepared. The emphasis was on discipline, hard work, aggressive defense, team play, and getting everyone on the court involved as a unit. Nobody on those UCLA teams ever stood around looking bored or used profanity in or out of the locker room.

 

Part of Wooden’s success as a basketball coach was always based on upsetting the tempo and style of his opponents.

 

He did this by creating a running team, by stressing that his players controlled both backboards, and by keeping team mistakes to a minimum. His teams were also known for the way they continually harassed the man with the ball and how they always seemed to play as hard at the end of a game as they had at the beginning. Unlike most coaches, he never considered scouting opponents a top priority.

 

Wooden on college basketball today

 

Asked about today’s brand of college basketball, Wooden replied: “To me it suffers from two things: too much physical contact that interrupts the flow of the game and too much individual showmanship. I’m interested in teamwork; in the rhythm of the game; in the beauty of watching a play unfold that eventually leads to a basket.”

 

“If you’re big enough and strong enough, anyone can slam-dunk,” he continued. “It isn’t hard, and it calls attention to the man doing it. What I see mostly are too many individuals out on the court and not enough team play. I see coaches who have stopped coaching so they can become actors and get the TV cameras turned on them. Most of them have forgotten what the game and their responsibilities are all about.”

 

Early on, when Wooden was laying the foundation for the future, UCLA didn’t really have a gymnasium it could call its own. Often John had to share space with the school’s Greco-Roman wrestlers, cheerleaders, trampoline artists, or pom-pom girls. On rare occasions the Bruins would even practice on parking lots.

 

Although Wooden refused to name the two National Basketball Association teams that tried to hire him as a head coach, he was not reluctant to explain how he arrived at his decision to stay with college basketball.

 

Why he didn't go with the pros

 

“I was interested in the pros at the time because it seemed like such a big thing,” said Wooden. Financially, as I told my family, it was a tremendous opportunity and I could do a lot more for them personally if I took the job.

 

“But I left the actual decision entirely up to my wife and children,” he added. “They talked things over among themselves and decided it would be best for me to stay at UCLA. Of course, I knew when I asked them what their answer would be.”

 

At the time, Wooden reportedly was earning $32,500 a year at UCLA.

 

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2010/0605/John-Wooden-Lessons-for-basketball-and-life/(page)/2

[NIkeL]

Depois de muitos rumores ouvir e muitos treinadores ver já tenho um favorito. Tom Izzo. Fala-se muito dele e provavelmente só vem se LeBron ficar pois ele está numa boa situação onde está e o que li e vi dele gostei bastante.

[Gavazzo]

Source: LeBron, Bosh Seriously Considering Joining Wade In Miami

 

According to "an NBA source close to the discussions," LeBron James and Chris Bosh are seriously considering joining Dwyane Wade to play together in Miami.

 

All three would have to take significant pay cuts to play for the Heat. Miami is expected to have salary cap space for more than two maximum-salary contracts but well short of enough room for three.

 

 

Read more: http://www.realgm.com/src_wiretap_teams/miami/2010/06/#ixzz0qCnFYk7U

 

:mrgreen:

[NIkeL]

Ya, é isso mesmo que vai acontecer.

[Victarion]

mais provável o Lebron ir para Miami do que ficar em Cleveland.

[NIkeL]

Mais provável não é, mas ya é possível. O que é bem mais improvável é juntarem-se 3 max contracts em Miami.

[Gavazzo]

Já agora, eu acho que o LeBron fica em Cleveland e o Bosh se junta ao Wade em Miami para o ano. E vocês?

[Major Tom]

Não me parece que o LeBron fique em Cleveland.

[#24]

Em relação ao Bosh, acho o mesmo.

Ao Lebron ainda não sei. Mas estou mais inclinado para que fica em Ohio. Se não vier para os Nets bem que pode ficar onde está.

[Boo Riquelme]

omg omg, Wade, Bosh e James numa das minhas teams favoritas omg omg omg

[NIkeL]

O LeBron eu diria que há uns 60% de probabilidade de ficar e 40 de sair. Quanto ao Bosh, não sei sinceramente, é possível que vá para Miami. E apesar de achar que ficam com uma grande equipa, continuo a ter muito mais medo dos Celtics e Magic do que dos Heat... O Wade fica e o Soudemire acredito que fique em Phoenix.