Nov 29, 2001 12:19 PM EST
Dan "the Horse" Issel thinks Louisville can be successful as an NBA franchise for a relocated Charlotte Hornets team. Issel comments on the possible move in today's Denver Post from his perspective as a former University of Kentucky and ABA Kentucky Colonels star. Issel doesn't think the Grizzlies would have been a success in Louisville because of the need to put a winner on the floor to attract fans and the competition from university basketball. One wonders why somebody in Michael Heisley's group didn't mention that to him when the Grizzlies moved to Memphis.
"But in Charlotte, you're getting one of the best teams in the league. There is no built in audience or student body or alumni association. You fill seats when you win. Kentucky and (nearby) Indiana are great basketball places. And you put a team as good as Charlotte in Louisville, I don't think there is any question that it succeeds."
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Nov 29, 2001 12:28 AM EST
Lately, more and more NBA players are negotiating their contracts without an agent. The Denver Post has an interesting article on this growing trend. Antonio McDyess and Nick Van Exel seem to be pretty happy without an agent. Could the Falks and Goodwins be a thing of the past? Nah, that's too much to hope for.
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It was as easy as stepping into an old pair of slippers.
Matt Harpring didn't even have to wiggle his toes to know the fit was a good one.
The Philadelphia 76ers -- who reached the NBA Finals last season on the wings of Allen Iverson and the backs of gritty role players -- have embraced Harpring's football mentality.
If everyone blocks correctly for Iverson, he will carry them back to the Finals. And that's just fine and dandy with Harpring. It's the same reason that former Magic coach Chuck Daly loved Harpring during the player's rookie season in Orlando. Harpring put on blinders and plowed full speed ahead.
"Looking in from the outside, you would think, ‘Allen gets 30 shots a game. What kind of team is that?'. " Harpring said. "But when you're with this team, it's just part of him, part of us. If he doesn't get 30 shots, it's like, ‘Allen, what's wrong?' He needs to take that many for us to be good."
Harpring, now on his third team in four NBA seasons, has hit the jackpot in Philadelphia, a team that has embraced him. He will be negotiating a new contract next summer, and it couldn't come at a better time.
He's getting more playing time (35.3 minutes per game), scoring more points (13.3 per game) and grabbing more rebounds (7.6 per game) than ever. Opportunity doesn't have to knock twice for him.
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Nov 2001 Archive
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| Nov 25, 2001
Remember that whole experiment in Indiana last season, when new coach Isiah Thomas placed 6-foot-8 Jalen Rose at point guard, his position at Michigan, in the hopes that Rose would evolve into the next Magic Johnson?
Well, that has fallen by the wayside.
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| Nov 25, 2001
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| Nov 25, 2001
Troy Murphy has been one of the NBA's best rookies after being selected No.
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| Nov 25, 2001
As Chicago teammates, Tyson Chandler and Eddy Curry talk regularly.
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| Nov 25, 2001
Just when you believed the heated, "I can't stand to look at your face" rivalries were dead in the NBA, check again.
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| Nov 25, 2001
The Associated Press reports: Jayson Williams, the former New Jersey Nets star now working for NBC Sports, was charged with pushing a police officer after an argument at a bar.
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| Nov 25, 2001
In his Sunday column, Ira Winderman of the South florida Sun-Sentinel has news from all around the NBA.
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| Nov 25, 2001
Nets coach Byron Scott scuffles with Jazz forward Karl Malone.
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| Nov 25, 2001
DAN LE BATARD of the Miami Herald recently had a chat with Magic guard Tracy Mcgrady.
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| Nov 25, 2001
This isn't the first time Chucky Atkins has felt as if he were kicked in the shins.
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| Nov 23, 2001
LEONARD LAYE of the Charlotte Observer reports: Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban called the Charlotte NBA situation "unfortunate" but said he was uncertain how the league's board of governors would vote if the Hornets apply for relocation after the current season.
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| Nov 23, 2001
Thanksgiving? Not quite.
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| Nov 21, 2001
Here's the real ending to the James Naismith story.
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| Nov 20, 2001
Are your shorts too long? If are an NBA player and your shorts hang lower than one inch above your knee, expect a $5,000 fine.
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| Nov 20, 2001
Thursday marked the first of 12 payroll deductions by the NBA, which will ultimately represent a 10 percent chunk of each player's salary.
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| Nov 20, 2001
All-Star ballots are out, and again we chortle at some of the names offered for fan voting.
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| Nov 20, 2001
Jonathan Feigen of the Houston Chronicle speculates on the idea of a three-on-three tournament during All-Star weekend.
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| Nov 19, 2001
John Delong of the Winston-Salem Journal reports: There is some sentiment around the NBA that team owners would not approve a move of the franchise should ownership strike a deal with another city.
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| Nov 19, 2001
Kwame Brown, Tyson Chandler, Eddy Curry, and DeSagana Diop all are spending a lot more time on the pine than on the court these days (well, Diop on the injury list anyway), which seems to make some of the NBA coaches happy.
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| Nov 19, 2001
The players still don't get it.
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| Nov 18, 2001
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| Nov 18, 2001
Hoop magazine, which is licensed by the NBA, has been relaunched as a lifestyle publication.
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| Nov 18, 2001
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| Nov 18, 2001
It's way too early to predict who'll finish this season as rookie of the year, but Boston's Joe Johnson continues to make a strong bid for the award.
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| Nov 18, 2001
So far, all is as expected on the comeback tour.
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| Nov 17, 2001
Word had just filtered into Philadelphia's locker room last April that the NBA would be making drastic changes to its game, allowing teams to play any defense they wanted.
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| Nov 16, 2001
NBA players received their first paychecks of the season Thursday, and the checks were not as large as normal.
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| Nov 16, 2001
The first paycheques of the 2001-2002 NBA season were distributed to the players Thursday and the take-home pay was 10-per-cent lighter than what the players would usually expect.
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| Nov 15, 2001
Former Duke star Chris Carrawell, the 2000 ACC Player of the Year, said playing in the National Basketball Association's official minor league will be his last shot at the big time.
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| Nov 15, 2001
Bimbo Coles said he'll notice the change.
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| Nov 15, 2001
Teddy Dupay was sitting in a hot tub Saturday in a Detroit-area hotel, trying to soothe his sore back.
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| Nov 13, 2001
Shareef is set to lose over $100K per month
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| Nov 12, 2001
Throw the ball to Michael and let him shoot.
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| Nov 12, 2001
They flew in from Pittsburgh to get a glimpse of Michael Jordan, to relive the past and revel in the present.
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| Nov 12, 2001
They don't know what it was like back then.
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| Nov 12, 2001
Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald reports: When Heat players receive their first paychecks Thursday, a few will be surprised to see part of their salaries missing.
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| Nov 11, 2001
One month into their NBA careers, the teens drafted in June are starting to get accustomed to the pro basketball drill: airport, plane, hotel, arena — a routine repeated day after day, week after week.
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| Nov 11, 2001
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| Nov 11, 2001
The Dallas Mavericks are on a pace to have more assistant coaches than players.
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| Nov 11, 2001
They don't know what it was like back then.
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| Nov 11, 2001
The jersey reads "Nuggets" across the chest, but apparently that is only because "knuckleheads" would have been too snug a fit.
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| Nov 11, 2001
On that fateful Thursday, Nov.
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| Nov 11, 2001
Fans of the NBA weren't shy with their pocketbooks in a series of online auctions designed to raise money for the Sept.
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| Nov 11, 2001
Heat coach Pat Riley has had a knack for finding and developing talent in the past few years.
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| Nov 11, 2001
New Jersey and Detroit are improved, but don't start printing playoff tickets.
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| Nov 10, 2001
John Denton of the Florida Today writes: Five games into this NBA season two things have become remarkably clear to the Orlando Magic: They should have drafted point guard Jamaal Tinsley last spring and the team still desperately needs a bruising big man.
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| Nov 10, 2001
From the "Oh How the Mighty Have Fallen" department: Former St.
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| Nov 10, 2001
Laker forward Robert Horry, one of the two-time defending NBA champion team's top players, has purchased a home in the Marina del Rey area for slightly more than $1.
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| Nov 8, 2001
The (AP) reports: Charlotte Hornets co-owner Ray Wooldridge said Thursday that Louisville is the leading candidate to land the NBA franchise.
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| Nov 8, 2001
Little did the NBA know that when it announced its extensive business partnership with Yahoo! Inc.
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| Nov 8, 2001
I was curious to see how Wednesday would pass.
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| Nov 7, 2001
John Nadel (AP) reports: Ten years later, he is playing ball against guys half his age.
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| Nov 6, 2001
The Associated Press is reporting that the NBA has asked a federal court to block the former owner of the Vancouver Grizzlies from suing the league for preventing the team's sale to the owner of the St.
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| Nov 6, 2001
Everywhere, there is change.
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| Nov 4, 2001
In his Sunday column, Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel writes about the results of the new rookie contracts.
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| Nov 4, 2001
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| Nov 4, 2001
After Joe Smith was drafted by the Golden State Warriors in 1995, the organization tried to re-sign him to a contract befitting other No.
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| Nov 4, 2001
It's been called the NBA's developmental league or the Leastern Conference.
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| Nov 4, 2001
On a screen, the old pictures played.
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| Nov 4, 2001
He's 6-foot-11 with red hair, a big nose, freckles and a speech impediment.
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| Nov 4, 2001
Maybe it's the World Series.
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| Nov 4, 2001
Kings @Pacers, 7 p.
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| Nov 4, 2001
It's a long haul between now and the final regular-season game.
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| Nov 4, 2001
Back when we called them Dream Teams, being part of a USA Basketball squad was a pretty good gig in the pursuit of status and image, always powerful motivators in sports and adolescence.
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| Nov 4, 2001
The Associated Press reports that Dennis Rodman will have to pay a casino dealer $80,000 for rubbing dice on him in 1997.
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| Nov 3, 2001
You work in a casino and an Average Joe rubs dice on you, 'for luck', before rolling onto the craps table? Would you be offended? What if that Average Joe was named Dennis Rodman, who is very famous and anything but average? This is what former Mirage craps dealer James Brasich alledged that former NBA star Dennis Rodman did to him back in 1997, a case in which a jury began deliberations Friday.
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| Nov 2, 2001
The Best.
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| Nov 2, 2001
Reggie Miller was selected to USA Basketball's World Championships team for leadership, experience and 3-point shooting.
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| Nov 1, 2001
Sidney Moncrief knows his NBA.
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| Nov 1, 2001
Already trailing the league in average attendance last season, the Rockets outdid themselves in Tuesday's opener with 9,500 fans, the worst since 1977 according to Jonathan Feigen of the Houston Chronicle.
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| Nov 1, 2001
Israel Gutierrez of the Palm Beach Post reports: A.
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| Nov 1, 2001
NBA Commissioner David Stern said he didn't come to the Heat's season opener against Toronto on Wednesday night at AmericanAirlines Arena to give the Heat or owner Micky Arison an award for the way the organization is run.
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