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Entries for April, 2008

Mike D’Antoni Is Gone Too?

Although not official, Sports Illustrated reports that Phoenix Suns coach Mike D’Antoni may be on his way out after serving 5 years for the organization.  It had been speculated that D’Antoni’s future would be determined by the team’s postseason success after the team made a huge, and widely criticized gamble, by bringing in aging center Shaquille […]

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Nuggets Hopeless Against Lakers

Kobe Bryant made it very clear during his halftime interview that nobody on the Denver Nugget’s roster was able to even attempt to guard him. He is right. Bad knees Kenyon Martin and mental lapse JR Smith (and to slow Kleiza) all are great matchups for Kobe Bryant. Iverson and Anthony Carter are to small […]

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NBA Call Ups: The Power Of David Stern

 
How powerful is David Stern? Well when it comes to minor league basketball, has their been a player picked up by an NBA team that didn’t come from his minor league system (D-League)? Guys like Jamario Moon could make the NBA out of the CBA. Moon only made the NBA because GM Colangelo didn’t have […]

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Avery Johnson has been FIRED, Cuban in ?

The Dallas Mavericks fired head coach Avery Johnson today, the first of what’s likely to be many offseason moves after the team with the league’s highest payroll again flopped in the first round of the playoffs.
Johnson leaves his office with Dallas with an impressive run after three-plus seasons, but Mavs owner Mark Cuban couldn’t tolerate two straight […]

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Can you imagine your basketball team scoring 184 points!

Can you imagine scoring 184 points in a pro basketball game and ironically losing the game!?! That’s what happened to the Denver Nuggets on December 13, 1983. At the end of regulation time, their game against the Detroit Pistons was tied 145-145. After three overtime periods, Detroit finally prevailed 186-184. The combined score 370 points […]

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A great example of what could be accomplished with our basketball franchise

LAS VEGAS – Alexis Levi purchased a professional basketball franchise and settled her International Basketball League Expansion Team “the Las Vegas Stars” in Las Vegas, Nevada.
To coach her team to greatness, owner, general manager and CEO Levi hired George Tarkanian, son of former UNLV head basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian.
Also a sports agent advisor […]

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Blaze Blog:OMT

This is my first blog post so my writing style will be a little informal. I’m apologizing to all the college professors out there in advance. Yes, I am going to write in the first person. I am a big believer in OMT and plan to blog here on a consistent basis. You may have […]

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2008 First Round NBA Mock Draft

This is our 2008 NBA Mock Draft Results

1
Heat
Michael Beasley PF
Age: 19, 6′9″, 235 lbs.
Kansas State, Freshman

2
SuperSonics
Derrick Rose PG
Age: 19, 6′3″, 190 lbs.
Memphis, Freshman

3
Timberwolves
Jerryd Bayless PG/SG
Age: 19, 6′3″, 199 lbs.
Arizona, Freshman

4
Grizzlies
Brook Lopez C
Age: 20, 7′0″, 260 lbs.
Stanford, Sophomore

5
Knicks
O.J. Mayo PG/SG
Age: 20, 6′5″, 195 lbs.
USC, Freshman

6
Clippers
Danilo Gallinari SF
Age: 19, 6′9″, 209 lbs.
Armani […]

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Recent OMT developments

Just wanted to take a few minutes and let everyone know of the recent developments that’s been going on at OwnMyTeam.com. We have been very busy marketing the site, talking with people around the internet, bloggers, radio and such about what we are trying to accomplish.
The TeleGram.com and more specifically Josh Bousquet by e-mail at […]

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Bayless signs with Jeff Schwartz, other agent signings

Jerryd Bayless has signed a representation agreement with Excel Sports Management President Jeff Schwartz, ESM’s Vice President Sam Goldfeder told DraftExpress today. “It’s a done deal,” Goldfeder said in a phone conversation this afternoon.The freshman from Arizona had announced his intentions to enter the draft during Final Four weekend ten days ago, but did not […]

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