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Mumbru to NBA?

If you’ve watched Team USA during the Olympics you likely got the opportunity to check out Alex Mumbru from Spain. He had a solid summer averaging 6.1 points and 2.1 rebounds for the Spanish National Team. Mumbru played about 17 minutes per game with the National Team, and that is about 7 or 8 minutes […]

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Europe Needs a Salary Cap

First, just let me say I’m writing this with the mindset that OMT could one day own a team in Europe. Personally, I could care less that Josh Childress signed with Olympiacos Piraeus and left the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks. I’m not trying to keep anyone in the NBA and make Europe less competitive. Actually it […]

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Wolves and Kings Display New Jerseys

Both the Kings and the Wolves released photos of exactly what their new jerseys will look like. Out with the old and in with the new. With Ron Artest supposedly gone the Kings finally released their new jersey. Anyone surprised by the timing? I sure wouldn’t want “The Franchise Killer” ( copyright OMT…just joking) modeling […]

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Nuggets Trade for Renaldo Balkman

Credit the Denver Nugget’s front office for doing something right this off season. They went out and got Balkman for a bag of chips. Balkman came Denver’s way for a scrub backup point guard, barely used Bobby Jones, and a 2010 second round draft pick. It is baffling that the Knicks would trade him after […]

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Breaking News: Bojan Malesevic informs OMT of NBA/NBDL Plans

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While Peja Stojakovic was draining threes in the NBA, Bojan Malesevic was promoted from the junior/cadet team to Beopetrol Beograd in Serbia. Unfortunately this was also the year the United States was forced to intervene militarily in Serbia. Despite the turmoil of war Malesevic persevered to become a professional basketball […]

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NBA Rumors - Tim Hardaway Back To The NBA?

One of my favorite former players in the nba and one of it’s most entertaining players Tim Hardaway is apparently trying to get back into the NBA.  Hardaway who was best known for his killer crossover dubbed the ‘UTEP Two-Step’ to some changed the game by his signature move which is still used by a […]

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Minor League Basketball - Great Basketball Without The Expense (Part 1)

The people at OwnMyTeam feel as a group that we are pretty smart (most of the time anyhow). I get emails all the time asking if we are going to purchase our own NBA franchise. We are smart enough to know that the likelihood of raising hundreds of millions of dollars for a expansion franchise […]

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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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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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