Willie Wise Basketball player Willie M. Wise (born March 3, 1947) is an American former professional basketball player. A 6'6" forward from Drake University, Wise earned a spot on the American Basketball Association's (ABA) Los Angeles (later Utah) Stars in 1969. He would prove to be ...
who has carved out a role as a designated long-distance shooter on a deep team. It helps to have Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown around to draw double-teams. That said, Pritchard still must hit the open shot, and do it consistently since the Celtics aren...
The son of a professional basketball player and a Dutch model, Parker spent his early years in Europe before moving to the United States to pursue his own career in sports. He demonstrated an innate talent for the game from an early age, honing his skills in France's INSEP academy and ...
First place in the Western Conference is still very much up for grabs. Three teams are in the hunt there. There's still plenty of potential shuffling from fifth through 10th place in that conference, as well. The Boston Celtics may have first wrapped up in the East, but there'...
This dude is more than just a player; he's a basketball force of nature. Standing at 6 feet 9 inches, he's like a freight train with handles – call him the locomotive of the game. Bron's got the finesse of a point guard, the power of a center, and the hops of an MVP, ...
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• 2010 -- Did not punt, reached state title game. • 2011 -- Punted once, won state championship. Kelley holds other unorthodox views of kicking downs. He almost always has Pulaski onside kick, reasoning that the roughly one-in-three chance of recovering (thus creating a turnove...
Worse, the franchise moved from Connecticut to a place where basketball will always be king. The Hurricanes share the RBC Center with North Carolina State, which may not be thought of in the same breath as Duke and North Carolina, but true students of college basketball know just how importan...
"French Lick had a population of 2,059, most of whom came out to watch Springs Valley High School's home games in a state that takes its schoolboy basketball very seriously. Attendance often reached 1,600—and they were all there to watch the blond-haired shooting whiz with a funny smile...
Larry Rivers was a pioneer for high school basketball in the state of Georgia. Rivers participated on the all-Black Beach High School team that won the first Georgia High School Association basketball tournament to include B...