"With little chance left to sign 6-foot-8, 245-pound free agent Reggie Evans, the Timberwolves have offered 7-foot-1, 275-pound free agent Andreas Glyniadakis a contract."


On Detroit Pistons not winning championship last season: "I thought we lost our edge," (Joe) Dumars said. "I thought we stopped being the hunters and we accepted being the hunted and you can't do that. You have to maintain your edge, you have to maintain your hunger and you always have to walk out on the court and have the mentality I've got something to prove here tonight.' "

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Simple, concise, and pretty damn hard to argue with.

Wow, looks like Glinny is making a name for himself.

Blaha on TV full time?
link: Blaha on TV full time? - 09/07/06 - The Detroit News Online

yeah, no kidding. how come it didn't seem so easy to figure out while it was happening?

I'd be more impressed with team fines for public statements like "If it ain't rough, it ain't right."

Joe's stating the obvious. The team needs to be hungrier. The issue is, can they be?

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If they can't be, knowing the opportunities they've pissed away the last 2 years, then Joe will blow it up. I think we'll find out this year who can come back to earth and who will remain permanently in orbit. IMO, Rip and Tay are the least-likely space cadets. Absolutely no clue about the two others.

The Rattler is back in the East.... (courtesy of hoopshype)


Ratliff to provide blocked shots, leadership for C's
By Scott Souza/ Courtside View

At one end of the court were eight members of the Boston Celtics -- all 24 years old or younger -- engaged in a pickup game that included all the wisecracks, trash talk and schoolyard bickering you would expect out of a video game generation.

At the other end of the court were a group of assistant coaches slouched in their folding chairs watching over the collection they hope to help mold into a winning basketball team starting next month.

Then there was Theo Ratliff as the man in the middle. Closer in age to some of the coaches than his new teammates, the 33-year-old center certainly stood out in the crowd of players all more than nine years his junior during an informal workout this week at the team's Waltham training facility.

Cowens likely to join staff of Pistons - 09/12/06 - The Detroit News Online

Cowens likely to join staff of Pistons
Chris McCosky / The Detroit News

AUBURN HILLS -- The Pistons are close to adding a Hall of Famer to their staff.

Dave Cowens, a Hall of Fame player for the Celtics and former coach of the Celtics, Charlotte Hornets and Golden State Warriors, is expected to join Flip Saunders' coaching staff.

Davis facing five charges from hotel incident
link:http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/lester_munson/09/15/dale.davis/index.html

The old football player is the judge who will be presiding: Edward Newman, 55, who played for the Miami Dolphins from 1973 through '84, graduated from the University of Miami law school in '87 and was elected to his first judgeship in '94.
The basketball player is Dale Davis, 37, of the Detroit Pistons, who faces five misdemeanor charges -- including assault, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest without violence -- stemming from an incident last month at a South Beach hotel that ended with Miami police shooting him with a stun gun.

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