Archive for September 13th, 2007
Thursday, September 13th, 2007
Calderon Leads The Way As Spain Beats Up Germany 83-55
Spain’s point guard Jose Calderon paced his team with 17 points, and it was party time early in Madrid, as the Spanish Team pasted the Team from Germany Thursday, 83-55. Spain shot 57% from the field and held the Germans to 33% as Dirk Nowitzki was high scorer for Germany with 11 points. Calderon lost a heart breaking […]
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Thursday, September 13th, 2007
Russia Beats France At Charity Stripe Win Game 75-71
The French Team’s Boris Diaw scored 17 and teammate Tony Parker added 15, but France could not connect at the free throw line, and it cost them the game losing to Russia 75-71 Thursday. Russia’s J.R. Holden made two critical shots from the charity stripe to give Russia the lead at 71-69 with 24 seconds […]
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Thursday, September 13th, 2007
Blazers Expect Oden To Probably Miss The Season
The Portland Trail Blazers have scheduled a news conference for Thursday afternoon to announce that the Number One Pick in the 2007 NBA Draft will most likely miss the upcoming NBA season. Former Ohio State center Greg Oden had microfracture surgery Thursday to repair damage in his right knee. He was originally getting an arthroscopic […]
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Thursday, September 13th, 2007
LBJ Gets Lasik Surgery
How can you improve on perfection? Well Cleveland Cavaliers All-Star forward LeBron James who arguably has the best court vision of his generation in the NBA is trying to take it up a level. James had Lasik surgery over the weekend. The report comes from Dr. Kerry Assil of The Assil Eye Institute located in Beverly […]
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Thursday, September 13th, 2007
Diaw Leads France Over Turkey 85-64 To Advance In Euro Games
Phoenix Suns guard Boris Diaw led the French national Team over Turkey on Wednesday by a 85-64 margin to advance in the Euro-Basket Tournament in Madrid. Diaw who had been in a shooting slump earlier in the Tournament broke out of it with a game high 18 points. The French team did not need the victory […]
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Thursday, September 13th, 2007
Jasikevicius Misses Second Half But Lithuania Still Beats Slovenia 80-61
The Lithuanian National Team was without their team leader point guard Sarunas Jasikevicius in the second half but were still able to hold off Slovenia Wednesday and win their game 80-61. Lithuania with the victory remains the only unbeaten team in the Euro-Basket Tournament which is being held in Madrid. Jasikevicius, who is a backup […]
