“Net Income” of Nets Daily has the story for us: Prokhorov is a natural athlete as well as a mega-billionaire playboy, and enjoys everything from playing basketball to doing flips on a jet ski.
John Wall’s rookie-year numbers weren’t bad, and the Wizards point guard definitely showed flashes of stunning athleticism and amazing court vision during his first season in the NBA.
According to ESPN.com’s Andy Katz, former Tennessee Coach Bruce Pearl has turned down a job offer that would have made him the new head coach of the D-League’s Texas Legends: Given the circumstances surrounding Pearl’s departure from his last head coaching job, it’s not surprising that he wants to stay out of the spotlight for a little while.
Okay, it shouldn’t be news that Ray Allen has an incredible shooting stroke that he can repeat effortlessly -- it’s not easy to make 2,612 threes in a career.
Lori Ewing of the Toronto Globe and Mail has the story: The Spurs forward, who played for the Raptors from 2004 to 2006, calls Canada his home in the off-season, and his wife and daughter are both Canadian.
Here’s Warriors guard and Harvard graduate Jeremy Lin launching his YouTube channel and “learning how to YouTube” from popular video blogger “Kevjumba,” who has 733,000 subcribers to his own YouTube channel.
Former NBA guard Javaris Crittenton, who was charged with shooting and killing a 22-year old mother of four less than 48 hours ago, has turned himself in to Atlanta authorities.
Like Kyrie Irving and Tristan Thompson, who we talked about earlier today, Warriors guard Stephen Curry is also making the best of a bad situation and taking college courses while the lockout rages on.
Earlier today, comedian Joe Mande made a Tumblr post (which was also posted on The Basketball Jones) that pogether a compilation of all of the pictures Magic guard Gilbert Arenas has used as his Twitter profile picture, (warning: the pictures contain adult sentiments and content and are likely NSFW) and called Arenas a “lunatic.”
Sam Amick of Sports Illustrated has an article up on Nuggets rookie Jordan Hamilton, who is eager for the lockout to end so that he can begin rehabilitating his image, which may have caused him to drop out of the lottery and fall to the 26th spot in the draft: According to the article, Hamilton is eager to meet head coach George Karl and GM Masai Ujiri that he’s extremely coachable and willing to work hard, and that the things he supposedly said about Texas coach Rick Barnes were taken out of context.
According to Scott Sargent of Waiting For Next Year, the Cavaliers’ top two picks have chosen to stay on their respective college campuses for now rather than go overseas in search of a payday.
After former Magic center and Dwight Howard backup Marcin Gortat was traded to the Phoenix Suns last season, he ended up taking the starting center job from the incumbent Robin Lopez.
The above is a picture of Spencer Hawes’ head at a charity basketball game played at Seattle’s Key Arena Saturday, the former home of the Seattle Supersonics.
From Pachulia’s Twitter: This just serves as more proof that despite basketball’s surging popularity in Europe and the high level of play over there, European teams don’t have the funds for NBA players to simply hop overseas and get paid what they want if the lockout goes on.
