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| quote: | Originally posted in the Toronto Sun
J.O. will likely be a no-go for the Raptors Sunday afternoon against the Boston Celtics. But the injury suffered by centre Jermaine O'Neal on Friday night to his surgically repaired left knee will probably will not keep him out more than a few days. O'Neal, who was just hitting a comfort zone with his new team, has a strain, but no structural damage according to preliminary reports, which were expected to be verified when doctors and a radiologist compared notes later on Saturday. O'Neal came down awkwardly on the knee during the fourth quarter of the 129-127 overtime loss to the New Jersey Nets. At present, he's listed as day-to-day. Coach Sam Mitchell wouldn't go public with his lineup for defending NBA champion Boston minus O'Neal, but it's likely Andrea Bargnani shifts to O'Neal's spot and the team activates small forward Jamario Moon. The seven-foot Bargnani was doing a good job the past few games at Moon's position, providing added size to an already big team with O'Neal and Chris Bosh, but leaving Bargnani at the No, 3 spot means Mitchell would be committing his last big man off the bench, Kris Humphries. New Jersey's Sean Williams was charged with a flagrant foul for tugging at O'Neal's sweater as he was airborne. |
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Thank god....
And another interesting read:
| quote: | On the situation of Basketball in Russia and Carlos Delfino
Our contact in Russia informed us about some major development in Russia. According to him the global financial crisis has a direct effect on the Russian basketball now. If you really think it about it - it just makes sense and critics of the high paying Russian investors are finally proven right.
He also explains us why Russia is having problems:
Much depends on the Dollar value. If the oil price keeps dropping - the Ruble (Russian currency) will fall. It is expected that the Ruble will fall. From here - everything will get worse. Many Russian basketball contracts are in dollars, and the sponsoring of the clubs and salaries is in rubles. - meaning the clubs will have to pay more money to their players.
If you take a look at the sponsors and their stocks it is obvious what club will or already have problems.
CSKA Moscow, Dinamo, Khimki, Triumph and CSK VVS don’t pay their salaries right now. CSKA and Dynamo just go long delays. In Khimki’s and Triumph it is much worse. The women’s team of CSKA is on the edge of bankruptcy. Its main sponsor sold his business and the new owner does not want to have any relationship with the club.
But that does not mean that CSKA will have any problems with the players. There is a delay of the payments more than a month. Vatutin, CSKA’s CEO, said that there are difficulties, but the main sponsor of the team Norilsk Nickel assured that they would continue to fully meet its financial obligations. It is not clear why CSKA has problems, because Norilsk Nickel stocks did not fall significantly for the year.
There are more problems with Khimki and Triumph. Yesterday, Carlos Delfino refused to go to play in the third quarter. Head coach Kemzura said that he doesn’t want to see a player not listening to his instructions.
I am sure Carlos does not want to see his team not paying him either. |
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Sign him up! Bring him back! He's better than what we got now, and he'd be a better backup PG with his ballhandling skills than ukic or Soloman
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