Sentences with phrase «swingmen hedo»

But now the Pacers, the very team that had peddled him to Denver last June, had dealt swingmen Vincent Askew and Eddie Johnson for center Lasalle Thompson and Jackson.

The team has a nice young mix with rookie forward Dwight Howard, point guard Steve Francis and swingmen Hedo Turkoglu and Cuttino Mobley, but there's not enough depth and experience for Orlando to be an elite team.

On the Spurs, who have added center Rasho Nesterovic, forward Robert Horry, and swingmen Hedo Turkoglu and Ron Mercer:

The Hogs went 19 - 14 in 1986 - 87 despite the drug problems of swingman William Mills, a hellacious schedule and the death from leukemia of coach Nolan Richardson's daughter Yvonne.

Swingman James Jones, who at week's end led the NBA in three - point shooting (53.2 %), was with Indiana when the Pacers won 61 games and with Phoenix when the Suns won 115 games over two seasons.

«It's not that we wrote [the year] off, not by any means,» says swingman Martell Webster.

Pacers president Larry Bird still expects George to return this season, but all parties want to make sure the star swingman is as close to 100 percent as possible before coming back, and he doesn't know when that'll be.

Meanwhile, DonnNelson, president of basketball operations and general manager, has reworkedthe end of the rotation, adding free - agent swingman Devean George, who earnedthree rings as a Los Angeles Laker; bringing defensive - minded guard GregBuckner back to Dallas as a free agent; and trading for 6» 10» forwardAustin Croshere, who can hit the boards and three - point shots, from thePacers.

Consider: Deadeye guard John Jenkins (from Hendersonville, Tenn.), an SEC player of the year favorite, often overhears the French Skype conversations of his roommate, backup center Steve Tchiengang (Douala, Cameroon), who loves playing FIFA on his Xbox against quadrilingual swingman and NBA prospect Jeff Taylor (Norrk √ ∂ ping, Sweden), who rooms near forward and erstwhile U.S. Open ball boy Lance Goulbourne (Brooklyn), who was raised 2,440 miles away from another suitemate, point guard Brad Tinsley (Oregon City, Ore.).

Most of Turk's stars, like Randolph Keys (see box), live reasonably near the campus, but coach Turk did spirit away «Ville - killer John White, a 6» 7» swingman, from under the Cards» nose.

Swingman extraordinaire Alan Tucci was the League's Leading scorer in Week 1 with his 32 points.

(Forward Alex Jensen, the team's second - leading board man in 1994 - 95, is serving an 18 - month Mormon mission in England and will return to the program next fall; swingman Brandon Jessie, who hauled in 5.2 rebounds a game last season, was drafted by the Connecticut Pride of the CBA in June.)

«He's a poor man's Sean Elliott,» says Utah assistant coach Donny Daniels of 6» 8» swingman Ashante Johnson.

Scrapping their plan to convert Larry Hughes into a point guard (he's back to being a swingman), the Warriors have handed the position to 6» 3» Gilbert Arenas, a second - round pick.

He had to persuade swingman Derek Anderson to accept playing 20 minutes off the bench.

Is he a point guard, a shooting guard (his career - best 42.5 % from the field limits him as a perimeter threat) or a potential swingman?

Rudy Fernandez, G, 6» 5», Spain, 19 Europe's top swingman prospect is comfortable filling lane or leading break.

The swingman hit 10 threes on his way to 34 points as Cleveland blew out Philadelphia, 111 - 93.

Through most of this season Ricky Davis appeared to be sliding into obscurity: He was an oft - injured 6» 7» swingman with a career scoring average of 4.6 points, playing for his third team in four years.

With Seattle clinging to an 88 - 85 lead in the final two minutes of a recent game at Indiana, Payton threaded a pass to Desmond Mason under the basket, only to see the second - year swingman fumble the ball out - of - bounds.

On Jan. 15 at Villanova, senior swingman Darrel Owens hit two free throws with 0.1 on the clock to give Georgetown a 66 — 64 win.

Harkless is a young swingman with promise who averaged 8.2 points, 4.4 rebounds and 1.2 steals per game as a rookie last season.

The Cougars» two Top 25 victims, ironically, have recruited away top Houston talent (Arizona landed swingman Jawann McClellan, and LSU snatched guard Tack Minor), while the U of H has of late been largely ignored by local stars.

The Portland swingman (right), another dunk hopeful, sings a bilingual ballad imploring fans to «vote for me, vótame,» while strumming nonsensically on a acoustic guitar.

«People are going to say, «Let's see if he can win a championship without Michael,»» says Houston swingman Eddie Johnson.

If you recall not only how promising swingman Kevin Parrom looked in 2010 — 11, when Arizona went 30 — 8 and reached the Elite Eight, but also the cruel tragedies and injuries that spoiled his following season, you like Arizona because Parrom can finally say, «I'm getting back to my normal self.»

... One key to the stellar play of Hornets center Vlade Divac (12.9 points, 9.2 rebounds and 2.2 blocks per game through Sunday): He gave up his habit of 10 to 15 cigarettes a day... After being traded twice in three days last month — from the Mavericks to the Nets to the Lakers — swingman George McCloud made only nine field goals in his first nine games with L.A. Twice this season with Dallas he made nine field goals in one game... «The pick - and - roll has been killing us,» says Kings guard Mitch Richmond.

Among Elmore's former clients is Greg Minor, a reserve swingman for the Boston Celtics who is a standard - bearer for irresponsible fatherhood.

But, if they were to draft, they'd probably look for a swingman.

To beat the Spurs, Detroit has to prepare for the headlong assaults of swingman Manu Ginobili.

On Mutombo's first day of practice with the 76ers, swingman Aaron McKie broke the ice with a parody of the big man's voice.

The Toronto Raptors swingman had been looking forward to this for years, forcing himself to watch postseason basketball on TV when he'd rather not.

It also had a top - 50 recruit in Arizona - bound swingman Brandon Randolph and also wing Cameron Reddish, a top - five recruit in the class of 2018.

Most, including us here at SB Nation, ridiculed the Pacers for procuring a journeyman swingman and an uninspiring, yet young big man for a multi-time All - Star.

The same consistency issues could be said for the Raptors, who have leaned upon heavy doses of DeMar DeRozan in the last two outings but have struggled to free point guard Kyle Lowry or get second - year swingman Terrence Ross off the ground.

Before the teams» first meeting this season, someone told Bobcats swingman Sanjay Adell that Thundering Herd assistant coach Jeff Boals had made disparaging comments about him on the eve of the game.

Swingman Rodney Hood returned from a back injury but played only 18 minutes before being shut down.

6 - foot - 4 swingman Luke Winfield averages 23 points and seven rebounds for the No. 10 seed.

When forward Carlos Boozer broke his foot late that season, Coach K rejiggered his lineup, forcing senior swingman Nate James to the bench in favor of a quicker freshman guard, Chris Duhon.

As if this veritable Edinburgh Festival of NBA culture weren't enough, we can also look forward to albums from Lakers swingman Kobe Bryant, Milwaukee Bucks forward Tyrone Hill and Sacramento Kings forward Chris Webber, who has also acted on Fox's New York Undercover, which is not to be confused with HBO's Oz, on which Lakers forward Rick Fox has supplemented his own NBA paycheck.

The Cal - bound swingman was the most electrifying player for the Bay Area's best regular season basketball team in 2012 - 13.

Senior swingman Justin Johnson leads a very balanced roster that is underrated defensively.

«Otis comes to work, both in practice and in games,» says superstar swingman Grant Hill.

Adidas and the NBA have been debuting several commercials promoting the new NBA Swingman jersey.

Check out Joakim Noah's Swingman commercial.

«The Nets outlet to midcourt, run off of rebounds and baskets and get their big men on the break,» marveled Buck swingman Junior Bridgeman.

6 STEPHEN JACKSON Pacers Acquired from Hawks for Al Harrington Swingman answers three Indiana deficiencies: three - point shooting, toughness, Finals experience

By signing swingman Rick Fox, late of the Boston Celtics, to a one - year, $ 1 million contract last week, the Los Angeles Lakers assured themselves of having someone in the lineup who can act.

Golden State also has its full taxpayer's mid-level exception of $ 5.192 million, an amount the team is rumored to be interested in using on swingman Nick Young.

I never liked the idea of him being a tradition so point and wanted to see him as a 2/3 swingman with his length.