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Yeah, he pretty much created the need for the Negro Leagues. In addition to that, for the first 13 years of Anson's career, batters got to tell the pitchers where to pitch the ball, high or low, and a foul ball caught on the fly wasn't an out.
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The NBA salary cap is a maze. I'm not sure why the Pacers get a $7.5M traded player exception, but the exception allows them to add up to $7.5M in salaries in a trade even though they are at/over the cap. It cannot be used to sign a free agent. For the brave: NBA Salary Cap FAQ
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Why didn't he play tonight?
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Scouting report on Tyrus' performance in today's summer league game.
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In addition to Adu, the PTI fact-checker(s) would be in the gravely mistaken group. Certainly possible, but I'd like to think the people who write the questions for a national sports show do their homework.
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So basically, you're OK with players uttering racial slurs or family insults on the pitch? Sounds great. That is a really nice straw man.
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What is capped? He appeared in a game. Games appeared in is measured in caps. I have no idea of the entomology of that word. Regardless, once that happened, he can pine all he wants to play for his native Ghana, but he's stuck with us. There's no system set up to deal with players who change citizenship?
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I remember them asking him which team he would play for at the next world cup, and I don't remember the part about having to play against the other.
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And will he play for the US? Screw Ghana. He is a US citizen is he not? He hasn't been forced to choose yet, although I don't see why he wouldn't choose the US. It's not like he was born and raised in Ghana and just came over here to play soccer. He was on PTI a couple weeks ago, and seemed honestly undecided.
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And will he play for the US?
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You get Insider if you subscribe to ESPN the magazine? Yep, you get Insider access if you subscribe. You also get a subscription if you pay for Insider access. The NBA draft and Hollinger info alone make it worthwhile for me. But I enjoy the NFL draft coverage and the more sabermetrically inclined baseball columnists too.
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*The Bulls, "won 41 games in 2005-06 and took Miami to six games in the first round with a front court in which Malik Allen, Mike Sweetney, Darius Songaila and Othella Harrington played major roles." *Wallace is a huge improvement on the front line and they didn't overpay severely to get him. His contract is a good deal compared to contracts signed by other centers over the past three year. *20 of the last 34 free agent signing have turned out terribly for the team. The 4-year deal drastically reduces Bulls' risk. *Wallace is a perfect fit. The Bulls are hardcore about defense. Wallace, "will take over the role previously filled by Chandler, only he'll do it much, much more effectively." The Bulls offensive system should also provide Wallace with, "more transition baskets than he got in Detroit's plodding system." *Chandler trade is a big win for Bulls on three levels: They get big 2-guard back with big-time scoring potential; frees up salary to sign core players and add additional talent next offseason; and it positions the Bulls to be major player for Garnett if/when he hits the market.
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John Hollinger. He's one of the founding fathers of APBRmetrics -- basketball's answer to SABRmetrics. He's an Insider columnist. ESPN makes a number of his basketball metrics available to Insiders. Do you have an Insider membership? Hollinger's latest article answers your comments so perfectly, it'd be a shame to have to summarize it.
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Bill Simmons is an NBA guru? Nah. Bill Simmons isn't a guru of anything other than writing Boston-centric, poorly researched articles filled with boring pop culture references and analogies. You are right about the third year thing though. I wouldn't necessarily call Bill Simmons a guru but he is fairly knowledgeable when it comes to basketball. And he hates what the Bulls are doing. Hollinger loves what the Bulls are doing, and I much prefer his endorsement over Simmons. Hollinger uses metrics to form his opinions. I put more stock in Rob Neyer's opinions versus Joe Morgan's for similar reasons.
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I likes. How about JR Smith and Sweetney for Wilcox? As long as the Bulls don't give Wilcox the 5-year, $50M deal he's reportedly seeking. Paxson's too savvy for that, though, so I'm not really worried about it.
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Don't they need somebody to score points? Plenty of room on the sunny side of Chicago sports.
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To make more money.
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That's fine. It also has no bearing on Oden's ability to succeed in the NBA.
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Yeah, Lebron James, too. Congratulations for citing the one inarguably brilliant high school player in the NBA. Need I list all the "can't miss" highschoolers who burnt out? Or the fact that Kobe Bryant was a mid first rounder? You just don't know. And as someone else said, comparing a guard/forward's talent in high school to a seven footer is apples and oranges. Did you intentionally cut out the rest of 1908's post because it proved the first half of your post wrong? No, I'm not ignoring it. I'd like to see some actual numbers to back this up though. There is also a matter of sample size here, as many, many more college players were drafted in the same span as a smaller group of high schoolers, and clearly only the best of the best high schoolers would even declare. Do you have any numbers to support your claim that high school big men fail at a higher rate than college big men? Or does that standard just apply to me?
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I like the deal even more if it includes Allen and Macijauskas. Macijauskas struggled in limited playing time last year, but he's one of the best 3-point specialists out there -- an excellent replacement for Piakowski. And I'm very happy with J.R. Smith's upside taking Eddie Basden's place on the roster.
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Is the hard to project part your opinion? Every scouting report I've read about him compare him to Duncan and David Robinson, and he'll be the consensus number one pick in whatever draft he decides to enter, barring serious injury. and tyson chandler was the next garnett, except without any coordination. there are other examples of high school big men being hard to project as well. to me, he looked flat-footed on offense and a bit plodding trying to run the court. he scored a lot of points from 5 feet and in, but so did thomas hamilton. i have no doubt he'll be the #1 overall pick-but i don't see how he can be projected as the next duncan or robinson without having played against college competition. sure he's played against the top players in the country in aau and tournaments, but most of those teams don't have people that are anywhwre close to his size. high school centers are so hard to place because any seven-footer will be dominant against some 6-4 catholic-school kid. So it's your opinion and it's based on you seeing Oden play twice. Thanks for clarifying.
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Is the hard to project part your opinion? Every scouting report I've read about him compare him to Duncan and David Robinson, and he'll be the consensus number one pick in whatever draft he decides to enter, barring serious injury.
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Yeah, Lebron James, too. It's a moot point with the new collective bargaining agreement, but high school players had a higher success rate in the NBA in terms of developing into stars and a nearly identical three-year development window to college players.