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Power forward Blake
Griffin is a Clipper no more, he’s been traded to the Pistons along with Brice
Johnson and Willie Reed for Tobias Harris, Avery Bradley, Boban Marjanovic, a protected
first-round pick and a 2019 second-round selection, according to Adrian
Wojnarowski of ESPN. This certainly
qualifies as a blockbuster trade, have the Clippers decided they can go no
further with the talented but often injured Griffin? Secondly is this trade the first of several future
moves to be made by the Clippers?
The specter of Tiny
Shades of Nate “Tiny” Archibald, in
1972-73 as a member of the Kansas City Kings he would
lead the NBA in scoring and assists. 34
points and 11.4 assists per game were his numbers a feat which has never been
repeated in the NBA. While it’s not
occurred in the NBA it just might occur in Division I basketball. As this is written Oklahoma point guard Trae
Young is leading the nation in scoring (29.6 points per game) along with 9.6
assists. Archibald was the first and
last to accomplish this feat in the NBA, Young might be the first and last to accomplish this feat at the D-I level.
A brave soul
I’ve got to applaud Russell Westbrook,
standing in the lane attempting to draw a charge on
7-foot 2-inch 250-pound Joel Embiid.
Westbrook was the winner however his Thunder team managed to beat the
Sixers and Embiid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S-QdhrCMqs
Please fans stop making excuses
I certainly hope I’m not in the number, that number crying about their team losing a game. You can make excuse after excuse until the cows come home it ain’t gonna change anything. After a tough loss against Arkansas a Mizzou fan wrote: “We should have never lost this game plus Utah, Illinois and Florida.” We could include Mississippi State in the number too, see the direction of this rant.
On the surface
sounds legitimate except down the stretch for a variety of reasons Mizzou did
not execute the game properly. It might
have been a crucial turnover, missed shot or unforced error we don’t know. Losses are difficult for most fans to endure
(me included) however it’s not the end of the world. In conclusion I hope this is not me…. harping
over a game Mizzou or the Lakers lost. Naw, its not me, don't like it but I manage to move on.
Will this Moses lead
them to the promised land?
He’s a 7-foot 2-inch
235-pound big man, a Rivals 5-star and McDonalds All American. Moses Brown is from Queens New York and
attends Archbishop Molloy High School. He might be the best big man to emerge
from New York City since Andre Drummond from Mount Vernon (NY), Drummond played
at UConn and was drafted by the NBA Pistons.
Beyond that we must travel back in time to Lew Alcindor and Power
Memorial.
In case you wondered
the boroughs and metro have produced a considerable number of players however
few have stood 7-feet. Although he’s a
Class of 2018 prospect he’s yet to make his college commitment known. Several heavyweight programs have offered
scholarships to Brown, among them Duke, Kentucky, UCLA, Kansas and Florida to
name a few. Which ever of the 18 schools
he chooses the hope is he will lead the school to the promised land....an NCAA Championship. NOTE: On January 22nd
Brown announced he is headed to the west coast and UCLA.
