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Written by MARK HALE
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Friday, 25 June 2010 11:44 |
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When NBA teams spoke to Cincinnati coach Mick Cronin about Lance Stephenson, he filled them in on the Brooklyn native. The gist? In the 2011 draft, he'd be snapped up in the lottery.
"I'll tell you what I told all the teams that I talked to -- that if he had come back to school he'd be a top 10 pick next year," Cronin told The Post hours before last night's NBA Draft.
"So my message is you might get a guy [with pick] 20 on down that would have been a lottery pick next year. So you've got to take him a year early and develop him."
The 19-year-old Stephenson, a 6-foot-5 freshman guard at Cincinnati and a Lincoln HS alum, went to the Pacers with the 10th pick of the second round, 40th overall.
Actually, Larry Bird, the Pacers' president of basketball operations, thought Stephenson would have gone in the first round.
"Lance is young and has some growing to do, but he's very talented," Bird said. "I'm surprised he made it through the first round."
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Written by STEVE KNOX
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Saturday, 19 June 2010 20:55 |
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I'm sitting in the Norske Nook drowning my marathon disappointment in a strawberry pie as big as my head. The morning I ran Grandmas Marathon in Duluth. It was a nice, but windy run. The neat part of the past few days wasn't the race itself, but the people I encountered.
Last night I enjoyed the spaghetti dinner at the expo. I normally steer clear from these because the events normally charge way too much! Not last night. I found a spot to sit and a few of us "strangers" struck up a conversation. Janesville was the topic. The Forbes magazine article was the focus. The folks I sat by knew of Janesville because one was a truck driver who makes frequent trips to Rockford and the other couple were huge Twins fans and they knew Terry Ryan was born in Janesville. GM came up and they offered their two cents on a rebirth. Good conversation.
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Written by Ricky Doyle
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Friday, 18 June 2010 09:17 |
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Game 7 is a time for big players to step up in big moments, and many Celtics legends have spoken about Thursday’s game.
One such Celtic is Sam Jones, who perhaps knows more about Game 7 success than anyone in the history of the game.
Jones, who was 9-0 with 27.1 points per game in Game 7s, is hoping to pass his success off to the some of the current Celtics players prior to Game 7 against the Lakers.
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