Landry Fields was the most impressive. Jeremy Lin benefited the most. Omar Samhan turned some heads. Jerome Randle should look for work in Europe. Those interested in a concise report on how local players did in the NBA summer league may digest those sentences and get on with their day. Of course, anyone interested in how ...
The NBA Draft is old news, but it takes us a few days to make a snap judgment. Our next piece of instant analysis will be an evaluation of Portland Trail Blazers’ choice of Sam Bowie instead of Michael Jordan with the second pick of the 1984 NBA Draft. (It’s a rather short article titled ...
Our faith in NBA scouts’ expertise was restored at about 8 p.m. Thursday, when the New York Knicks took Stanford standout Landry Fields early in the second round of the NBA Draft. Now, we understand that using the Knicks as a standard for “expertise” is taking a few liberties, given the team’s administrative screwups in ...
John Wooden’s passing conjures more images than can be articulated by the countless testimonies about Wooden’s pyramid for success, pithy sayings and basketball expertise. So let’s not spend time making a value judgments about the man who won 10 NCAA titles. Let’s just pick some categories associated with Wooden, do a little arbitrary ranking and let the evidence ...
We proudly present the first JakesTakeOnSports “Man, Were We Close!” Award, sponsored by Avis, to the University of Washington for its work in the field of basketball recruiting. (Hold the applause, please.) Ranking the Pac-10’s 2010 recruiting class requires an introductory statement. No, we’re not talking about the traditional intro about how ranking college recruiting ...
Anybody got a can opener handy, because we’ve got this can of worms that needs to be opened. Oh, wait a minute, the top has already been pried off by Terrence Jones with some assistance from Brandon Knight. These basketball players are still in high school, but they found a way to open up this ...
If you’re the type who’s willing to jeopardize his marriage by spending entire evenings surfing recruiting sites, believing that next basketball commitment could be the one that takes Cal or Stanford to the national championship, then the May 1 High School Academic All-American Classic all-star basketball game was for you. Eight players headed to Bay ...
A few items of interest — well, we think they’re interesting anyway: Item – We love interesting coincidences, which is why we mention the fact that a Stanford twin has replaced a Stanford twin in the starting lineup for the Phoenix Suns in the NBA playoffs. It’s not getting a lot of attention, because, quite ...
Emerson Murray, an outstanding athlete from Vancouver, British Columbia, signed a letter of intent on Thursday to play basketball at Cal next fall. Slam magazine calls him “the Canadian clone of John Wall,” which is is the type of overstatement we have come to expect from Slam, so don’t get too excited. Murray is a 6-3 combo guard, ...
Remember Phil Mathews? He was San Francisco’s head coach before Jessie Evans, who was replaced by Eddie Sutton, who was succeeded by Rex Walters. But it was under Mathews that the Dons made their most recent trip to the NCAA Tournament. Well, Mathews has been named an assistant coach on Ben Howland’s staff at UCLA, ...
