TAG: Emeka Okafor
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Apr 11, 2013 / 1:11 am
By Dime Magazine
Steve Blake offensive rebounds. Pau-to-Dwight lobs. Kobe Bryant M-V-P chants reverberating through the arena. With the way the Lakers’ 113-106 win in Portland ended, you would’ve thought all was right for L.A. They had finally held off the hot-shooting Blazers, going on a 17-2 run to start the second half and then an 8-0 run in the middle of the fourth before putting the clamps on Portland for the final five minutes. Read More »
Tags: Andre Drummond, Andre Iguodala, Damian Lillard, denver nuggets, Detroit Pistons, Emeka Okafor, JaVale McGee, John Henson, john wall, kobe bryant, los angeles lakers, Miami Heat, Michael Carter-Williams, Mike Dunleavy, Milwaukee Bucks, Nikola Vucevic, Orlando Magic, pau gasol, Philadelphia 76ers, Portland Trail Blazers, ray allen, Thaddeus Young, Tobias Harris, Washington Wizards
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Jan 27, 2013 / 12:44 am
By Dime Magazine
The NBA All-Star Game is a showcase normally reserved for the great players who actually win games, and yet we haven’t heard one complaint about how Jrue Holiday is going to Houston next month. He’s been so good this season (remember, this cat is still only 22 years old) that everyone forgets his team kind of sucks. In a 17-point beating of New York, Holiday had 31 points at the end of the third quarter, finishing with a career-high 35. Read More »
Tags: Amar'e Stoudemire, Brook Lopez, Brooklyn Nets, Charlotte Bobcats, Cleveland Cavaliers, Deron Williams, Emeka Okafor, gerald henderson, Houston Rockets, Jamal Crawford, Jrue Holiday, Kyrie Irving, Los Angeles Clippers, N.C. State, New York Knicks, Nic Batum, Northern Illinois, Omer Asik, Pablo Prigioni, Philadelphia 76ers, Royce White
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Nov 29, 2012 / 1:17 am
By Dime Magazine
With so much softness leaking into the modern game, we’re always anxious to annoint the next great rivalry. Where is the next Bulls-Knicks going to come from? Or the next Sacramento-Los Angeles? Everyone loves when players get a little nasty, and last night in Boston, the Celtics and Nets put on the first real throwdown of the season. Late in the first half, the Celtics weren’t getting any foul calls, and were getting run off their own floor. Read More »
Tags: Andrew Bogut, Ben Gordon, boston celtics, Brooklyn Nets, Charlotte Bobcats, Detroit Pistons, Emeka Okafor, Gerald Wallace, Golden State Warriors, James Harden, Kevin Durant, kevin garnett, Kris Humphries, lamar odom, Los Angeles Clippers, michael jordan, Minnesota Timberwolves, Oklahoma City Thunder, Rajon Rondo, Serge Ibaka, Tommy Heinsohn, Washington Wizards
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Nov 11, 2012 / 8:52 am
By Dime Magazine
Once the Lakers finished off their all-you-can-eat buffet of a summer, there was really only one man for the job. Sure Mike Brown was the coach at the time, but all along, didn’t this job have Phil Jackson‘s name written all over it? The job is his to lose now, with everyone from Kobe Bryant calling him the greatest coach in sports to Jim Buss sitting on his ego for once and acknowledging PJ is the man to even Jackson himself phoning his old assistants to check on their availability, according to the Los Angeles Times. Read More »
Tags: boston celtics, Danilo Gallinari, Emeka Okafor, Ersan Ilyasova, George Hill, Indiana Pacers, los angeles lakers, Michael Kidd-Gilchriss, Milwaukee Bucks, Monta Ellis, Nicholas Batum, Paul George, paul pierce, phil jackson, Tommy Heinsohn, Vince Carter
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By Sean Sweeney

Yes, Emeka Okafor came out with a mixed bag in Washington’s 10-point loss in Brooklyn last night. But he did have a move in the opening minutes that literally made me jump off the couch. Taking advantage of a mismatch on the block with Joe Johnson, Okafor drop-stepped and then brought the hammer down on Kris Humphries‘ head. Read More »
Tags: Bradley Beal, Brooklyn Nets, Emeka Okafor, Kris Humphries, Washington Wizards
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Oct 16, 2012 / 12:46 am
By Dime Magazine
Brooklyn’s executives had to be happy with the Nets’ opening night at the Barclays Center. Not only did they get the Wizards, one of the league’s worst teams, but they got them with people like John Wall and Nene out in street clothes. Washington has more injury problems than perhaps everyone outside of their neighbors from Baltimore (the Ravens), so it wasn’t surprising to see Brooklyn open up the new arena (at least basketball-wise) with a 98-88 win behind 18 points and 11 rebounds from Brook Lopez. Read More »
Tags: A.J. Price, Andray Blatche, Andrew Bynum, boston celtics, Bradley Beal, Brook Lopez, Brooklyn Nets, Cleveland Cavaliers, Dallas Mavericks, Danilo Gallinari, Darko Milicic, denver nuggets, Deron Williams, Doc Rivers, Emeka Okafor, glen davis, Golden State Warriors, Houston Rockets, Jae Crowder, Jason Terry, Kris Humphries, Kyrie Irving, Marcus Thornton, O.J. Mayo, Orlando Magic, Philadelphia 76ers, Spencer Hawes, Ty Lawson, Washington Wizards
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Oct 15, 2012 / 3:00 pm
By Mirin Fader
Think back. Can you remember who shot the Bulls back into contender form with countless threes in between the post-Michael Jordan and pre-Derrick Rose eras? He’s a two at heart in a point guard’s body. He was drafted No. 3 in 2004 after leading UConn to a national championship. Ben Gordon is 29 now, in his ninth season in the league, and as all the expectations that he would lead Chicago back to the promised land faded, so did his name. Read More »
Tags: Ben Gordon, Emeka Okafor
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By Andrew Greif
Kevin Ollie takes over today as coach of Connecticut, succeeding his current boss and former coach at UConn, Jim Calhoun. Both were part of a combination farewell/introductory press conference today in Storrs that took listeners through his rocky beginning at Boston’s Northeastern, his drive down to his own introductory presser at UConn with the Boston Globe‘s Jackie MacMullan, and his three national titles. Those 26 years are hard to sum up, with his history with the NCAA’s infractions committee abutting his three title plaques, in one easy way. There are so many moments from that span that you’ll see a lot of top-10 lists. Read More »
Tags: Emeka Okafor, Jim Calhoun, Ryan Gomes, University of Connecticut
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Sep 7, 2012 / 2:15 pm
By Sean Sweeney
Thirty names. The best 30 names. The dramatic summer of 2010 crafted the landscape of the NBA, when LeBron James and Chris Bosh landed in Miami, Amar’e Stoudemire joined up with the Knicks and fans everywhere started burning jerseys at an alarming rate. The following two summers lacked the same drama, and honestly, it would be foolish to expect another 2010 summer anytime soon. Those two-to-three months were game-changing. Read More »
Tags: Al Jefferson, Andre Iguodala, Andrew Bynum, Brandon Jennings, Chris Kaman, chris paul, Darren Collison, David West, DeMar DeRozan, dwight howard, Emeka Okafor, feature, gerald henderson, J.J. Redick, James Harden, Jeff Teague, josh smith, Jrue Holiday, kevin martin, lamar odom, manu ginobili, Monta Ellis, Nikola Pekovic, O.J. Mayo, Paul Millsap, Stephen Curry, Taj Gibson, Tiago Splitter, Tony Allen, Ty Lawson, Tyreke Evans
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Jun 21, 2012 / 3:51 am
By Dime Magazine
Interesting. It says here that this “National Basketball Association” has other teams besides the Miami Heat and Oklahoma City Thunder. Who knew? With Wednesday being a day off from the Finals — albeit not a day off from everybody overreacting to the Finals — some of those other teams were able to borrow the spotlight while figuring out how they can get where the Heat and Thunder are right now … The lowly Hornets and even lowlier Wizards pulled off a trade: Rashard Lewis and a 2nd-round pick to New Orleans for Emeka Okafor and Trevor Ariza. Read More »
Tags: 2012 NBA Finals, dwight howard, Emeka Okafor, Jeremy Lin, Kemba Walker, Kevin Durant, kevin garnett, Miami Heat, New York Knicks, Oklahoma City Thunder, Rajon Rondo, Rashard Lewis, ray allen, Russell Westbrook, Steve Nash, Trevor Ariza
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