It wasn’t just the coaches and players competing for a national championship. It wasn’t just the 70,000 college basketball fans inside Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis that 2010 evening.
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The competition is going to be fierce for spots on next year’s USA Basketball squad that will compete in the FIBA Basketball World Cup in Spain. So Kyrie Irving decided he had better get a head start at making a positive impression.
His still is an imposing figure, towering on this particular day over those NBA players sitting on chairs and listening to his every word.
Marcus Smart knows firsthand the impact cancer can have on a family. He was just 9 when his 33-year-old brother, Todd, died after battling leukemia.
At this time a year ago, Shaquile Carr was regarded as one of the hottest prospects in the West.
Now, the 6-foot-1-inch point guard at Canyon Springs High is trying to prove himself all over again to college coaches.
The Southern Nevada Bulls of Arbor View High managed just three hits Wednesday in an 8-0 loss to the AZ Firebirds at the Connie Mack Western Regional baseball tournament in Bellevue, Wash.
While most players at this week’s USA Basketball minicamp at UNLV’s Mendenhall Center are wearing traditional-looking sneakers, Anthony Davis has gone neon green.
Former UNLV basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian was wrapping up an 11-day stay in a San Diego-area hospital after suffering artery blockages and having a pacemaker installed.
Kevin Durant decided he wasn’t going to wait to declare himself as a willing participant for USA Basketball next summer. Ditto for Kevin Love.
Moments after the Golden State Warriors won the NBA Summer League championship Monday night, someone handed Klay Thompson a white “Victory in Vegas” T-shirt.
Stephen Zimmerman needed a good laugh, so a few months ago he went into his bedroom closet and grabbed his shoes.
Now that they have run the table again, in a different format with a playoff bracket and everything, it’s almost too easy to compare the NBA Summer League’s Golden State Warriors with author Roger Kahn’s “Boys of Summer.”
Did everyone in the NBA miss on Ian Clark? For one night, it appeared that all 29 teams whiffed on the undrafted 6-foot-3-inch guard from Belmont.
Among the 28 players at USA Basketball’s minicamp Monday at the Mendenhall Center, none drew a larger media crowd than DeMarcus Cousins.
The 28 invitees to USA Basketball’s Las Vegas minicamp can rest easy, knowing nobody is going to be cut this week. But they also know the window to make a positive impression is small.
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