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I ran into former roundballer Dan Roundfield at the airport in Atlanta. The former Hawk and Pistons star is now a business development manager. You better remember how good he was on the court in his old hoops days…
You want to see imoprovement in a college player, look no futher than LSU’s senior center Chris Johnson…dare you to go to the stats on this guy and look up how many points he scored as a freshman, Soph, and then a Junior last year. If you’re not convinced after checking out the numbers that this guy will play professional ball somewhere you’re not a true hoops junkie. 11 points a game last year as a Junior compared to 1.3 per as a Freshman–the 6-11 center missed 7 games this past season for his SEC squad and get this, they lost every single one of those games. He also hauled in 6 boards a game and blocked 2.5 shots a contest as well…I asked him about his post LSU playing days which will arrive this time next year and he said,
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How fitting that I run into former Los Angeles Lakers (Mr durability) this weekend in the Atlanta airport especially because of the matchup this year in the NBA Finals between the Lakers and the Celtics… AC Green played more consecutive games than any other player in the history of the NBA. He won titles in LA and now he’s winning the hearts of lnner city kids by providing them with opportunity and structure through his childrens foundation. You need to check it out, www.acgreen.com. Of course I asked him to offer his thoughts on the Finals this year between the Lakers and Celtics!! His reply,
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Please tell me you know who you are looking at in this picture? Lowly me and former Georgia basketball star Lavon Mercer. an imposing figure for SEC opponents in the late 70’s and for the European league competition he played against while playing for Maccabi tel Aviv in Israel back in 1987. Now, he’s the head basketball coach at Spellman college in Atlanta and doing so much more in bringing kids together from around the world through his tutelage in the game of basketball.
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It was a pretty cool gig to host a show like Countdown to Signing Day for 3 years. We always brought in the top 10 or 15 kids each season and talked about where they were headed to college and what special talent made them stand out–Viewers would call in and write to us on-line about prospects we covered and always had a strong opinion. The show was almost an obsession in the Southeast and I sometimes sit back and scratch my head as to why it is no longer–oh well! …Michael Conley Jr. was one of our guests on the show the last year in production, and he was fantastic! humble and graceful. And as I did my pre-show research along with recruiting analyst Dave Telep (pictured next to me on my right) we found out that not only was he
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The Countdown to Signing Day Hoops crew:Greg Oden, Bobby Cremins, Dave Telep and yours truly right after our interview with the big fella. Oden is A soft spoken wonder kid who truly didn’t believe he was ready for the NBA. if you would have asked him duting his Junior year in high school if he was considering turning pro after high school he would have looked you in the eyes and said, ” I’m niot sure I am ready to evenb consider that level–a lot of players out there are better than me and i must conticue to work on my basketball skills..almost to the point that you thought he was embarrassed by the question. That is until you saw him throw down one of those thunderous dunks.
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So you’re 5 feet 7 inches tall and you are named an All American basketball player in high school. not to shabby. Yes, that’s 5 foot 7 inch Drew Lavender with me who is now looking to make it onto the next level. he’s already achieved a high mark for his 15.5 points per game at Xavier and being named to the Atlantic 10’s second team. You think you cluld stop him, just try and get on the ocurt with him. i was recently at a pre NBA draft workout watching him and 10 or so other NBA hopefuls Read the rest of this entry »
Forgive me but I couldn’t resist—I had to take this picture–it was the first NBA playoff game featuring a New Orleans team ever and I had to be there and I had to capture it with a snapshot. Yes, they won and Chris Paul could be and should be the Mayor of the city and the King of Bacchus…If only the “Pistol” Pete Maravich could see the NBA team in Nawlins now… Read the rest of this entry »
The post-season is over, yes, the Hawks made it to the post season for the first time in 9 years and actually pushed the Celtics to the brink to a game 7 in the opening round.
All I know is this, They better re-sign Josh Smith. This picture you see was taken before a regular season game when I was catching up with Josh reminiscing about the time we had him on Countdown to Signing day–The college basketball recruiting show a few years ago…at that time in 2004 Josh wasn’t sure if he would even enter the NBA draft or head to college –as there was no NBA rule preventing graduationg seniors from taking the leap directly into the NBA..Good for Josh and good for the Hawks that Josh did go pro. Read the rest of this entry »
If you’re spending your nights watching the NBA playoffs…you know how good Allan Houston was shooting the jumper! point blank reminds me of a smoother Ray Allen, can flat out fill it up–and did so many times during his but Houston’s jumper was even smoother–the former NBA sharpshooter currently doing some broadcasting and probably counting his cash–mellow demeanor and all around good guy–could give a clinic on what it meant to get a shot off with time winding down. Read the rest of this entry »