Excellent week of #BWB great last day, finished up strong…rest of the day to relax, cant wait to get back to work lol — Danny Green (@DGreen_14) September 16, 2012 To those of you who clicked through because of the Nets reference, you will be happy to know that a team of campers coached by Brooklyn assistant Mario Elie posteda double-overtime victory over a team coached by FIBA Legend Sergei Panov and New Orleans Hornets assistant GM Tim Connelly. Elie’s team was
Remember when Andrei Kirilenko was young, precocious and was a nightly threat to produce one of those statistical anomalies known as a 5X5 — reaching at least five in five statistical categories? The old AK-47 was back in the Olympic quarterfinals on Wednesday, producing a beastly line of 19 points, 13 rebounds, three assists, three steals and three blocks as Russia defeated a Lithuania team that would not quit, 83-74. Timofey Mozgov also had a very strong game with 17 points, and
I am going to give you a Team USA gold-or-not prediction in this column, and I promise you a prediction that goes against the grain. That’s all I’ll say about that … for now. First, I’ll hand over the podium and relay a quote that could be the defining declaration concerning the London Olympics: “Let’s no longer beat about the bush. This summer’s Olympics Games are going to be a catalog of disasters. Not everything that can go wrong will go wrong.