Guard UNLV Senior 6-2, 200 2002-03 Stats: PPG: 20.3 RPG: 3.4 APG: 5.5 Marcus Banks Notes: First Team All-Mountain West, Honorable Mention All-American The Skinny: Banks is big and strong, having been a football player in high school as well as basketball, and he’s listed at 220 pounds. He has […]
Month: June 2003
Jerome Beasley Profile
Forward North Dakota Senior 6-10, 242 2002-03 Stats: PPG: 26.6 RPG: 8.9 Jerome Beasley Notes: Two-time Division II Player of the Year The Skinny: Beasley is this year’s top draft prospect who isn’t a Division I or international player. The Player of the Year in Division II at North Dakota, […]
Boris Diaw Profile
Guard France 6-9, 220 2002-03 Stats: PPG: 5.8 RPG: 4.7 APG: 3.06 Boris Diaw The Skinny: Diaw (or Diaw-Riffiod, depends on who you ask) is in the draft for the third year in a row, having withdrawn the previous two years. This year it seems that he’ll stick in as […]
Michael Sweetney Profile
Forward Georgetown Senor 6-8, 260 2002-03 Stats: PPG: 22.8 RPG: 10.4 APG: 1.9 Michael Sweetney Notes: First Team All-Big East, Honorable Mention All-American The Skinny: Sweetney has been a beast on the low post since he first entered college, using his strength relentlessly to score. As he started to face […]
Nick Collison Profile
Forward Kansas Senor 6-9, 255 2002-03 Stats: PPG: 18.5 RPG: 10.0 APG: 2.2 Nick Collison Notes: NABC National Player of the Year, First-Team All-American The Skinny: A highly polished scorer similar in some respects to Raef LaFrentz, Collison won’t wow scouts or fans with highlight-film plays, but he always comes […]
Interview with Dereck Whittenburg
Will Rose Hill Bloom Again Under Whittenburg? by Adam Shandler He’s done it a couple of times now. Perform the impossible, that is. In 1983, as a member of Jim Valvano’s Wolfpack, he launched a desperation 40-footer just before the buzzer that was grabbed in mid-air by teammate Lorenzo Charles […]
Oakland
Oakland All-Stars give AND 1 Tour a Bumpy Ride by Nicholas Lozito Lonnie Harrell stands amongst a small group of reporters in the Oakland Arena’s media room. The 30-year-old forward has paid his dues since graduating from Northeastern University, having spent time in the cities of Huntsville, Tampa Bay and […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Thursday, June 19th: Today’s the day for underclassmen to stay in the NBA Draft or return to school – assuming that they haven’t signed an agent. Coming Back: Morehead State announced that guard Ricky Minard has decided to return for his senior season, thus opting out […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, June 18th: Rough Knight: Rutgers University slapped itself on the wrist to the tune of two years’ probation and a loss of 20 scholarships in 10 sports for violations of NCAA rules regarding financial aid rules and eligibility. The NCAA accepted the school’s self-imposed punishment […]
NBA Draft Early Entrants
Was This What They Were Looking For? by Phil Kasiecki After the college basketball season ended, we were flooded with news of early entry candidates for the NBA Draft. Most knew some players who would declare, but then many more questionable players declared for the draft, ostensibly to test the […]
