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August Issue of “SLAM” and DC Basketball

June 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment

In the latest issue of “SLAM” magazine (the Jordan cover and NBA top 50 ish’), there’s a section on DC players in the NBA on page 26, Elgin Baylor is named their 11th greatest NBA player of all time on p. 52 (in an entry that states without Baylor, there’d be no Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant), and in the “Dime Drop” feature on p. 85, two young guns from Rockville’s Montrose Christian High get proppped.

http://www.slamonline.com/online/the-magazine/features/2009/06/the-new-top-50/

“…Understand this, if you understand nothing else: Without Elgin Baylor, there is no Michael Jordan, no Kobe Bryant, no LeBron James. Elgin took a ground-bound game skyward, transformed the entire sport…”  Russ Bengston, August issue, SLAM magazine

Not bad for a month.

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Mayor Dave Bing

June 18, 2009 · 2 Comments

Here’s a bio on the Spingarn grad:

http://www.jockbio.com/Classic/Bing/Dave_Bing_bio.html

 

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DC Basketball’s Sports Illustrated Cover Boys

June 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment

For a half century, basketball players from Washington, D.C. have graced the cover of our greatest sports weekly:

http://www.dcbasketball.com/

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Lake Braddock Point Guard Morra Signs With Augusta State

May 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment

His high school has prodcued athletes such as Mia Hamm, and two-sport All-Met Hubert Davis:

 

http://www.wjbf.com/jbf/sports/college/article/augusta_state_inks_point_guard/13647/

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On Local Product Jonathan Ford

May 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Recent story here:

http://www.goupstate.com/article/20090512/NEWS/905139976/1088/SPORTS?Title=Area-Briefs-Clemson-edges-Charleston-5-2

Hat tip to Ray LeBov of the Association for Professional Basketball Research.

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Prince George’s County Basketball

May 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment

 

D.C. suburb produced Wilbur “Ducey” Smith, “Fatty” Taylor, Matthew Gantt, Harld Fox, Thurl Bailey, Len Bias, Kevin Durant and Ty Lawson:

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?section=magazine&id=3775073

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Archbishop Carroll’s Lemuel Gartrell Stars at Belmont Abbey

May 7, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Years ago, Coach Al McGuire helped place Belmont Abbey on the college basketball map. Today, former Archbishop Carroll guard Lemuel Gartrell is continuing the tradition.

http://www.abbeyathletics.com/profile.asp?playerID=626

We wish him, and all our local grads, the best.

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Carroll’s Rodney McGruder Finds Sunny Future in Florida

April 29, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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Forest Park Grad Wright Aims to Get Better

April 29, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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Marty Lentz Was The Real Deal

April 18, 2009 · 2 Comments

Dick Heller’s Washington Times article on an All-Met player from Mount Vernon High:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/19/the-night-lentz-didnt-let-up/

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