Fresh off last week’s foot surgery, Joel Embiid couldn’t fly from California to New York for Thursday’s 2014 NBA Draft.So the 7-footer out of Kansas University did the next best thing, enjoying the draft with family members in his agent’s house in Los Angeles, the city where he’s been ...
Tom Penn was an assistant general manager with the Memphis Grizzlies in 2006 when they struck a deal with Houston before the draft.If LaMarcus Aldridge, Rudy Gay or Brandon Roy was available when the Rockets came on the clock at No. 7, the Grizzlies would send veteran Shane Battier to Houston ...
New York ? The Cleveland Cavaliers may have ruled out former Kansas University center Joel Embiid for the No. 1 pick in tonight’s NBA draft, but that didn’t keep Embiid’s name from popping up Wednesday in Times Square.Former KU teammate Andrew Wiggins, during a 30-minute media session at ...
Dallas ? Donnie Nelson didn’t waste much time voicing his displeasure about players who join the NBA after playing just one year of college ball.“We’re not in the babysitting business,” the Dallas Mavericks’ president of basketball operations said.Under terms of the collective ...
Basketball notebook. ...Former Kansas University center Joel Embiid stirred up United States soccer fans Sunday by tweeting congratulations to Portugal soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo for setting up the tying goal in Portugal’s draw with the United States on Sunday. The draw prevented the U.S., ...
Trace the origin of most mock drafts to lies and misdirection plays. NBA general managers and their underlings for clubs holding lottery picks do their best to float the word, almost always off-the-record, as to their draft-day intentions. They do so to try to influence their competitors away ...
Miami ? Greg Oden has had years to think about the plight of his knees, and still has no good answers.The No. 1 pick in the 2007 NBA draft is a poster child for big man bad luck, an epidemic that's been sweeping the league for years. The latest victim seems to be Joel Embiid, a 7-footer ...
Joel Embiid won’t be in the NBA Draft Green Room, impeccably dressed in a new $20,000 suit Thursday night at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The 7-foot former Kansas University center from Cameroon has been ordered by doctors not to fly for 10 days to two weeks following Friday’s ...
