The Los Angeles Clippers have signed forward Ike Diogu (6'8''-F/C-83, college: Arizona St.) to bolster their injury-depleted frontcourt.
The Clippers signed the former first-round draft pick on Wednesday, hours before their home game against Houston.
Chris Kaman, Craig Smith and Brian Cook all are out of the Clippers' lineup with injuries.
Diogu has been out of the NBA since Detroit cut him during training camp. After playing in 29 games during the 2008-09 season with Sacramento and Portland, the five-year NBA veteran missed all of last season following left knee surgery.
Kaman is out for a month with an injured left ankle, and the Clippers learned Tuesday that Smith will be out for at least two weeks after getting an epidural for a herniated disc in his lower back.
Courtesy of www.azcentral.com
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Friday, November 12, 2010
Basketball Scam to get foreign players to South Africa
Eurobasket usually stays away from similar cases trying to focus on strictly basketball (games, rosters, etc.) coverage. However we decided to post a warning for the scam going on, especially that it already affected some players.
So far players, who own a profile on chancesforallsports.com have been contacted by supposedly agents about playing for a team. The method is always the same. The supposedly agent tells the player about a great offer in Australia, offering 5000$ a month plus benefits. Questions about the team, what league they play in or further information, are ignored. As next step, the player is told that the team in Australia completed their roster, but that there would be a team in South Africa, which is looking for a new player, only issue - the player is asked to pay his own flight ticket, but would be reimbursed later.
The man, who acts as agent, is either named Richard Marante and uses the email-address topfameoverseabasketball7@gmail.com, or Anold Church, using the email-address anoldchurch@yahoo.co.uk. The name of the African team is Kwazulu Marlins in Durban South Africa, with the team email-address: kwazulumarlinsbasketballteam@gmail.com and the name Myles Delport is used as contact person for this team.
Victor Shakineza, who is the creator of the website mybasketball.co.za, did some research in those cases and contacted Myles Delport personally, who clarified that he had nothing to do with the emails sent out, and also confirmed that there hasnt been a league in South Africa for several years. It is not sure, if Richard Marante and Anold Church are the actual names of agents or if they are just other victims in this scam.
Players should watch out for offers like this, and look out for red flags such as paying for your own transportation, no names or information on the team that is looking for a player, and also the requirements of the agents as i.e. Anold Church requested to receive 20% of the players salary, instead of 10% as normally. He also signed one email with the name Allen instead of Anold.
Furthermore, the players were aware of the fact that the last roster of the team on afribasket.com is from the season 2006/07, and when they asked the supposedly agent about this, the answer was afribasket.com wouldnt be up to date. There is always a way to find out the truth, contact the actual writer for this section of eurobasket.com and all eurobasket- co-workers will be glad to assist you with the information you need.
If you are interested in more information about this scam, you can read more details about one potential victim under http://mybasketball.co.za/2010/09/basketball-scam-to-get-foreign-players-to-south-africa/
So far players, who own a profile on chancesforallsports.com have been contacted by supposedly agents about playing for a team. The method is always the same. The supposedly agent tells the player about a great offer in Australia, offering 5000$ a month plus benefits. Questions about the team, what league they play in or further information, are ignored. As next step, the player is told that the team in Australia completed their roster, but that there would be a team in South Africa, which is looking for a new player, only issue - the player is asked to pay his own flight ticket, but would be reimbursed later.
The man, who acts as agent, is either named Richard Marante and uses the email-address topfameoverseabasketball7@gmail.com, or Anold Church, using the email-address anoldchurch@yahoo.co.uk. The name of the African team is Kwazulu Marlins in Durban South Africa, with the team email-address: kwazulumarlinsbasketballteam@gmail.com and the name Myles Delport is used as contact person for this team.
Victor Shakineza, who is the creator of the website mybasketball.co.za, did some research in those cases and contacted Myles Delport personally, who clarified that he had nothing to do with the emails sent out, and also confirmed that there hasnt been a league in South Africa for several years. It is not sure, if Richard Marante and Anold Church are the actual names of agents or if they are just other victims in this scam.
Players should watch out for offers like this, and look out for red flags such as paying for your own transportation, no names or information on the team that is looking for a player, and also the requirements of the agents as i.e. Anold Church requested to receive 20% of the players salary, instead of 10% as normally. He also signed one email with the name Allen instead of Anold.
Furthermore, the players were aware of the fact that the last roster of the team on afribasket.com is from the season 2006/07, and when they asked the supposedly agent about this, the answer was afribasket.com wouldnt be up to date. There is always a way to find out the truth, contact the actual writer for this section of eurobasket.com and all eurobasket- co-workers will be glad to assist you with the information you need.
If you are interested in more information about this scam, you can read more details about one potential victim under http://mybasketball.co.za/2010/09/basketball-scam-to-get-foreign-players-to-south-africa/
Champions Club Zone-3: Royal Hoopers end ABC invicibility
Nigeria DStv league runner-up Royal Hoopers basketball club Thursday end the invicibility of Abidjan Basket Club, ABC with a 60-44 points victory in highly defensive game.
The Game-7 pairing between both sides came at a time both teams were enjoying excellent run in the FIBA Africa Champions Club Zone-3 Qualifiers with odd favouring the Ivories since they are not new on the African stage but the Nigerian debutant put pressure on the Abidjan-based ABC opening a ten points lead in the first quarter of 16-06 points.
Effort by ABC to fight back in the second quarter was rebuffed by the Hoopers who are determined to make it to the final round of the continent biggest club championship slated for Cotonou, Benin Republic between December 10-19, 2010, though Royal Hoopers lost the second quarter 12-13 points but they were able to maintain a nine points lead of 28-19 at half-time.
The Hoopers players who were pleased with their performance against ABC sustain the pressure winning the third quarter by 21-14 point and drew level with their opponent by 11-11 in the fourth quarter for a final score-line of 60-44 points to move to the second position behind Kano Pillars.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
1992 Dream Team, Pippen, Mailman are Hall of Fame Finalists
The 1992 U.S. Men’s Olympic Basketball Team, better known as the Dream Team, the first Olympic team to include NBA players, are one of the finalists for the team category for induction into the Jame Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
The powerful, star-studded team cruised to victory in both the Tournament of the Americas and Barcelona Olympics with an average victory margin of 43.8 points.
Eight members of that legendary team, that played 14 games in 1992, are already in the Hall of Fame as individuals, and will likely to be joined by at least two more – Scottie Pippen and Karl Malone, who are amongst the individual finalists this year. The remaining players from the Dream Team that have yet to be inducted are Chris Mullin and Christian Laettner.
Karl “the Mailman” Malone was the NBA’s MVP in 1997 and ‘99 and finished his career as the league’s number two scorer with 36,928 points behind only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Arguably the best power forward in NBA history, he still never won a title despite joining a star-laden Lakers team in 2004.
Another reason Malone never got a championship ring was because Pippen’s Bulls teams blocked the path both times the Utah Jazz made it to the finals. Pippen teamed up with Michael Jordan to win six championships in the 1990s.
Malone and Pippen would also play on the 1994 U.S. Team, or Dream Team II – a team that also featured original Dream Teamers John Stockton, Charles Barkley, and David Robinson, as well as Shaquille O’Neal, Reggie Miller, and Hakeem Olajuwon.
Returning finalists include fellow Dream Teamer Mullin, Boston Celtic’s guard Dennis Johnson, coach Don Nelson and four-time WNBA champion Cynthia Cooper from the now-defunct Houston Comets.
Friday, February 19, 2010
First Bank, First Deepwater rivalry good for Nigeria basketball Coach Aderemi
Head coach of Nigeria and Africa champions Club for Women, First Bank Basketball Club of Lagos, Adewumi Aderemi, is looking forward to another intensive rivalry between his team and NBBF/ Zenith Bank Womens League runner-up First Deepwater Basketball Club of Lagos when the new season dunks off.
First Deepwater, who in her first season in the elite womens basketball league last year, ended the Elephant Girls seven-year unbeaten run in the local scene, winning 80-72 at the National Stadium, Lagos, on the last day of the 2009 season,.
But the highly experienced First Bank got its pound of flesh back when it walloped First Deepwater by 88-48 in the quarter-finals of the FIBA Africa Champions Club for Women in Benin Republic, on its way to winning the title.
Coach Aderemi believes the rivalry is good for the development of the game in Nigeria.
He said, 'The First Deepwater issue last year was very good; I liked the way they took the league by storm, challenging every team. We witnessed one of the best leagues last season and because of them, the standard of the womens league was very high last year. Its a welcome development.
'What helped us (First Bank basketball club) was that we won the first and second phase, which put us in good stead to win the league, and that is exactly what we are going to do this year again, the coach popularly called 'owolo' said.
On preparations for the new season, Coach Aderemi said his team was not under pressure to defend its titles in 2010
First Deepwater, who in her first season in the elite womens basketball league last year, ended the Elephant Girls seven-year unbeaten run in the local scene, winning 80-72 at the National Stadium, Lagos, on the last day of the 2009 season,.
But the highly experienced First Bank got its pound of flesh back when it walloped First Deepwater by 88-48 in the quarter-finals of the FIBA Africa Champions Club for Women in Benin Republic, on its way to winning the title.
Coach Aderemi believes the rivalry is good for the development of the game in Nigeria.
He said, 'The First Deepwater issue last year was very good; I liked the way they took the league by storm, challenging every team. We witnessed one of the best leagues last season and because of them, the standard of the womens league was very high last year. Its a welcome development.
'What helped us (First Bank basketball club) was that we won the first and second phase, which put us in good stead to win the league, and that is exactly what we are going to do this year again, the coach popularly called 'owolo' said.
On preparations for the new season, Coach Aderemi said his team was not under pressure to defend its titles in 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
2011 Afrobasket for Men Bid: Nigeria Federation president confidence of chances
President of the Nigeria Basketball Federation President (NBBF), Tijjani Umar, has expressed confidence on the chances of the country winning the 2011 FIBA African Championship for Men.
Umar affirmed that it is only a matter of time before the country would be announced as the substantial host of the competition by the continental ruling body, FIBA Africa.
The NBBF boss says the federation has the endorsement of the Nigeria Minister for Sports, Engr. Sani Ndanusa to pursue the bid to its logical conclusion as the federation set machinery in motion to receive FIBA Africa team who are expected in the country to inspect facilities of the country bid city, Abuja.
We have the full support of the Federal Ministry of Sports and the Government of Nigeria to bid for the 2011 Afrobasket for Men. We have prepared well and we have all the facility needed for this level of championship, so we are very optimistic to emerge as the host country for the 2011 event, Umar said confidently.
The NBBF boss who led a four man delegation comprises of the 1st Vice President Mukthar Khaleh who is also a member of the Central Board of FIBA Africa as President of FIBA Africa Zone-III, Tagwai Yusuf and Mustapha Suleiman to formally present the bid document to the Central Board of FIBA Africa last weekend in Cairo, Egypt.
He added that the continental basketball body has set up an inspection committee that would visit the bidding countries soon to inspect facilities on ground.
The inspection team will be led by the Secretary General of the African body Dr. Alphonse Bile and other members of FIBA Africa will be in the country to inspect facilities at the Abuja National Stadium in April this year.
Nigeria is bidding for the 2011 Africa biggest basketball showpiece The Nations Cup which will serve as 2012 London Olympic Games qualifiers alongside, Cote dIvoire and Madagascar.
It will be recalled that Nigeria stepped down for Libya as host of the 16th edition of the competition won by Angola last year
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