Aggressiveness wasn’t a problem for Ben McLemore in his NBA Summer League debut on Saturday in Las Vegas.The former Kansas University off guard, who dipped to seventh overall in the 2013 Draft partly because of concerns about his desire to take over games, scored 11 points off miserable ...
Ben McLemore, who wore jersey No. 23 his one season at Kansas University, has selected No. 16 for his rookie campaign with the Sacramento Kings.“No. 16 means a lot in different ways. It can also mean 7 — lucky number,” former KU guard McLemore said at his introductory news conference on ...
Sacramento, Calif. ? Tyreke Evans was scheduled to appear at Thursday’s NBA Draft celebration at Sleep Train Arena before a meeting with his agent, Arn Tellem, forced him to cancel.Perhaps that meeting prevented an awkward moment for Evans, who likely would have been asked by the media what ...
New York ? For the past few weeks, and, really, the past several months, former Kansas University basketball star Ben McLemore has heard hundreds of times how he compares favorably to 10-time NBA All-Star and two-time NBA champion Ray Allen of the Miami Heat.McLemore, they say, is about the ...
The Sacramento Kings are taking another chance on a Kansas product with potential.With Thomas Robinson’s first-round flop still fresh from last season, Sacramento’s new ownership and basketball operations team selected the latest Jayhawks standout with the seventh pick in the NBA draft ...
In letting Ben McLemore slip all the way to seventh in Thursday night’s draft, NBA general managers were guilty of obsessing on Cindy Crawford’s mole, the hitch in Jim Furyk’s golf swing, the raspy flatness to Bob Dylan’s voice.In a classic case of paralysis by over-analysis, those who ...
NBA Draft blog• Photos and videos of McLemore from the Barclays Center in New YorkNew York ? Those at Ben McLemore’s NBA Draft table at the Barclays Center on Thursday night might have been a little surprised that the former Kansas University standout was still sitting next to them when the ...
Now that we (almost) all agree that the Cleveland Cavaliers should not select a center with an injury history, let’s look at the smartest place for them to turn with the first selection in tonight’s draft, televised by ESPN.If the question is Ben McLemore or Victor Oladipo, frame it this ...
