Schayes: Taking full credit for Heat, Nuggets winning streaks

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Danilo GallinariThis week, two of my former teams are having fabulous winning streaks. My Denver Nuggets just ended a 15-game run to finally get noticed in the West and my Miami Heat are still going at 27 straight as they approach the all-time record of 33 consecutive wins set by my Los Angeles Lakers.

The great thing about an 18-year NBA career is that after playing on seven different teams, you always have one of your former teams to root for!

At the end of my active playing career I had either played for, played for the coach (15 in 18 years) or had a former teammate on every team in the league except the Clippers and Spurs. Needless to say, I never got lonely on the road. I always had a friend to hang out with!

With such a diverse career, no matter what happens in the league I can still take credit for it. In 15 of the last 20 years, I had played for one or both of the teams in the NBA Finals. It makes it a lot more fun to root for your former team. Or teams.

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Link to the Past: Remembering the 1993 Postseason

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As we move towards the postseason, it is worth looking back two decades to one of the most memorable postseasons in NBA history, 1993.

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SH Blog: Wade Still LeBron’s Equal? Dwight Bashes Orlando And Is NBA Moving Overseas?

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Dwyane WadeThe Miami Heat made franchise history Monday night with a 97-81 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves.

The Heat won their 15th consecutive game, a franchise record.

Of all the great players in Miami’s young history – Alonzo Mourning, Tim Hardaway, Shaquille O’Neal to name a few – none have been able to string together a streak like this. 

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Former, current players appear in ads for Obama, Romney

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We’ve had a number of political posts on our site recently, and this is another one. So if you think Raptors-Thunder is the big matchup on Nov. 6, you might not find this interesting. But we do.

Both President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney have found support among the NBA family and have put it to work in recent TV ads.

Obama’s ad is entitled, “The Greatest” and runs 60 seconds. It features Alonzo Mourning, Vince Carter, Dahntay Jones, Etan Thomas, Harrison Barnes, Juwan Howard and former WNBA player Kym Hampton.

Romney’s ad is entitled “Born and Raised in Nevada” and runs 30 seconds. It features former NBA player Greg Anthony, who says he voted for Obama in 2008 but is voting for Romney this time around.

In addition to using NBA players, both ads appear to be targeting swing states. Mourning is a fixture in Florida and Carter, Jones and Barnes all played collegiately in North Carolina. Anthony is from Las Vegas and played at UNLV.

Hat tip to Politico.com.

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Obama hoops with ‘Melo and Bosh, no media allowed

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Illustration from orangejuiceblog.com

At a certain point, word will leak out about what exactly went down when President Barack Obama played basketball with a group of current and former NBA players.

It happened after a fundraising dinner last night in New York, and the media was not allowed to watch, film or gawk.

In attendance were Carmelo Anthony and Chris Bosh, NBA commissioner David Stern, Charlotte Bobcats owner and closet Republican Michael Jordan, and retired players Patrick Ewing, Alonzo Mourning, Penny Hardaway and Sheryl Swoopes.

After dinner, Obama participated in an informal shootaround with the NBA players and other guests, according to campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki.

“He’s not taking any one-on-one game tonight,” Jordan said in introducing the president, according to Hans Nichols of Bloomberg News.

More from Nichols:

  • “Mr. Romney, my opponent, his main economic plan is to give everybody in this room a tax cut,” Obama told the NBA crowd. “Now some of you may find that appealing, but the fact of the matter is we can’t afford it.”
  • More than 250 tickets were sold at prices ranging from $2,500 to $50,000.
  • Obama’s remarks were laden with sports metaphors, and he drew a comparison with what he did for increased political participation in the 2008 election with how Jordan spurred interest among non-basketball fans in the 1990s.
  • “So this is my dream team,” Obama said. “It’s very rare that I come to an event where I am like the fifth or sixth most interesting person.” He made a point to mention NBA all-stars who played at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in a key battleground state. “We have some Tar Heels in the House,” he said. Jordan has “his North Carolina shorts under his suit,” Obama said. “And that’s important to note.”

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(Editor’s note: A few readers and Twitter followers have discouraged political-related reporting on this site, saying we should keep it all-basketball. The feedback is appreciated, but NBA players and owners are becoming more politically-involved than they were in the past, which is an evolutionary pro sports-related social development that cannot be ignored. The publisher of this site is a registered independent, and we strive to keep our coverage politically neutral.-CS)

 

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