"I never played a game sober, unfortunately."
-Keon ClarkSource URL: http://ledger-heath.blogspot.com/2007/
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Pierce is a five-time All-Star, and Theus was twice honored. Also from Inglewood is Hornets coach and three-time NBA champion Byron Scott. Lisa Leslie is a three-time Olympic gold medalist who won two titles with the WNBA Los Angeles Sparks, was the first player to dunk in a WNBA game, and once scored 101 points in the first half of an Inglewood Morningside High game. Tina Thompson is another gold medalist and a four-time WNBA champ with the Houston Comets.
"On the record, Paul Pierce is second, or maybe third to Lisa Leslie," Scott said. "And I'm still the best to come out of Inglewood."
In the 1992 Public Enemy song "Air Hoodlum," Chuck D rapped about a basketball phenom who was "so quick at 6-foot-6, down to be picked by anyone but the Celtics."
That was the prevailing attitude. And it was rooted in ignorance.
Part of that's because, prior to the 50th anniversary season of 1996-97, the NBA never did much to promote its history. While everyone knew the role the Dodgers played in integrating baseball, most people didn't realize the Celtics were the Dodgers of basketball, the Texas Western of pro hoops.
The Celtics were the first NBA franchise to draft an African-American player -- Chuck Cooper in 1950. They became the first NBA team to send an all-black starting lineup onto the floor. The man responsible was the same guy who put together the Celtics teams of the 1980s: Red Auerbach.
Source URL: http://ledger-heath.blogspot.com/2007/
December 18, 2007 - 5:44 pm
RealGM Staff Report -
The Boston Celtics announced today that the club has requested waivers on forward Brandon Wallace. The Celtics roster now stands at 13.
Wallace signed as an undrafted free agent on July 10, 2007. The 6’9” forward out of the University of South Carolina did not appear in any regular season games for the Celtics. He averaged 1.2 points in 4.7 minutes per game during the preseason and was assigned to the Utah Flash of the NBA Development League on November 13, 2007. He averaged 12.5 points and 9.2 rebounds in six games for the Flash.
DECEMBER 18--Meet Charles Oakley. The ex-NBA All-Star was arrested early this morning after Georgia cops spotted him driving erratically. Though a Breathalyzer test showed Oakley's blood alcohol content was below the state limit, the former New York Knicks forward (who turned 44 today) was charged with impaired driving (state law makes it a crime if a motorist is "under the influence of alcohol to the extent that it is less safe for the person to drive"). A cooperative Oakley, who was nabbed around 3 AM, was also cited for failure to maintain a lane, according to Auburn Police Department reports (Auburn is about 40 miles north of Atlanta). Oakley, who was driving a 2008 Range Rover, was booked into the Gwinnett County lockup and bonded out after about three hours in custody. He is scheduled for a February 20 court appearance.Source URL: http://ledger-heath.blogspot.com/2007/
-Via The Smoking Gun as well as Deadspin
Nets star Jason Kidd is being sued by a 23-year-old model who accuses him of groping and threatening her at a Manhattan nightclub two months ago.Source URL: http://ledger-heath.blogspot.com/2007/
The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan's state Supreme Court, says Kidd "battered and assaulted" the woman in the Lower West Side club Tenjune on Oct. 10 when he "grabbed her buttocks and crotch on multiple occasions."
"He kept staring at her and then went over and grabbed her butt," the woman's lawyer, Russell S. Adler, said Friday. He said, "She told him 'Get off me! Get away from me!"' before bouncers pulled Kidd away.