NEW YORK — Have you cooled off yet, guys? The next step in the NBA lockout is likely to be a phone call placed from the league office to the players’ association. It’ll be a courtesy call to inform the union that an announcement is forthcoming that another chunk of games is being canceled. The call could end there, or it could include a kicker: “Feel like sitting down together again?” Let’s face it: At some point, the logical and inevitable thing to
Zagoria Column: Should Andre Drummond Come Out After One Year?
By Adam Zagoria of ZagsBlog Everything is all set up for Andre Drummond to be one-and-done at the University of Connecticut. The 6-foot-11, 277-pound center was named the Big East Preseason Rookie of the Year. He has been named to the Wayman Tisdale Award Preseason Watch List for the nation’s top freshman. And he is projected as the No. 2 overall pick in the 2012 NBA Draft by DraftExpress.com. But just because Drummond can go as a lottery pick in next year’s draft, does that mean he should? “He has transcendent athletic ability and
Guest Column: Shirley on playing in Europe
By Paul Shirley Professional Basketball In Europe: Thrown Chairs, Missed Payments, And A Plane Called The Mosquito This summer and fall, as threats of an NBA lockout changed to confirmation of an NBA lockout, players and agents began casting their eyes toward Europe. There was talk of this season as an opportunity for the amalgamate that is the European leagues to chip away at the NBA’s stranglehold on the world’s top basketball talent. This didn’t happen quite as expected, in part because Europe
Hubbard column: The side with the most islands wins
By Jan Hubbard As far as I can tell, there is no truth to the rumor than in the last couple of weeks, people who participate in the illegal activity of cockfighting have been naming their roosters “David” and “Billy.” NBA commissioner David Stern and union chief Billy Hunter pecked at each other quite a bit after Stern cancelled the first two weeks of the NBA season. As always, Stern was the aggressor. In a series of radio and television interviews, Stern came
Sheridan column: What they’re fighting over
By Chris Sheridan NEW YORK — So they’ll all be back in the same room together Tuesday, this time with a federal mediator presumably presiding over and standing between the owners and the players. When collective bargaining talks resume Tuesday, mediator George Cohen will be trying to get the main players in the NBA lockout to compromise on the major differences keeping them apart, and it’s anyone’s guess whether he’ll have any luck. Positions tend to harden whenever a work stoppage goes past
Heisler Column: War is hell. Just ask JaVale McGee
By Mark Heisler Ask JaVale McGee if war isn’t hell. I’m not sure who else thinks the situation is “definitely critical,” other than the Wizards center and, of course, the press. It’s definitely not the NBA owners, who laughed their rear ends off at McGee’s, uh, candid reporting at last week’s union meeting in Beverly Hills, Calif. Cutting out an hour early, JaVale told a press throng in the lobby of the Beverly Hilton that “some guys ready to stand strong” but noted, “there were,
Zagoria Column: After Long Road, Karron Johnson Hoping for 2012 NBA Draft
By Adam Zagoria of ZagsBlog No one has ever doubted Karron Johnson’s basketball talent. At 6-foot-8, 240 pounds, Johnson, of Division II Shaw University, has drawn comparisons to Tracy McGrady and Marquis Daniels. Johnson’s father was murdered when Karron was 5, and a series of academic and off-the-court issues prevented the Richmond, Va., native from ever making it into the Division 1 basketball ranks. “Karron’s talent has never been an issue,” said James Black, Johnson’s North Carolina-based mentor. “He does have NBA talent. But his path is going to be
Gibson Column: Euroleague ready to begin
By Nick Gibson of EuroleagueAdventures.com BARCELONA — With the NBA set to resume labor talks on Tuesday, only one thing’s for sure: there will be a Euroleague box score from Monday night for the sides to check out, if they so choose, in their respective caucus rooms. It will include the names Ty Lawson, Andrei Kirilenko, Sonny Weems, Nenad Krstic and DeJuan Collins. The Euroleague opens Monday night with CSKA Moscow playing Zalgiris Kaunas, and Wednesday there are four more contests before six on Thursday. On Friday, a little dessert: Bilbao vs. Olympiacos. Mmm…my
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