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Through the first month, union head Billy Hunter is failing to frame the dialogue It was Jerry Rubin, the 1960s counterculturalist, who observed that “the power to define the situation is the ultimate power.” Certainly that’s true in our government, in mass media, and in most arguments about the practicality of your kid’s latest tattoo or body piercing. It is also true in the labor dialogue between the posturing, blustering NBA owners and the players who suddenly seem mute and powerless. If you’ve been paying attention to lockout follies the past few weeks, the owners have walked out of talks, filed two legal actions, and essentially depicted the union reps as amateurs who cannot grasp the complexities of collective bargaining or the urgency of crafting a new agreement. In turn, the union, after a series of strategic shudders, has essentially kept silent and allowed the league to completely ignore the predominant business issue of the last half-decade: the gigantic revenue disparity between big-market teams and their small-market punching bags. But ask yourself how many times you heard commissioner David Stern utter the term “revenue sharing” over the last six weeks. If we’re not mistaken, it came up exactly one time during the NBA Finals and not since. Which raises three important questions: • How is it that the owners’ plan to redistribute revenues — which would essentially keep Sacramento solvent while the Lakers remain flush — hasn’t been made public, or become part of the conversation? • How can the union make reasonable concessions without knowing the owners’ new business model? • And why does players association head Billy Hunter continue to allow the owners to get away with this, and not demand that their revenue-sharing mechanism be put on the table before they sit down again? We’ve made three failed attempts to speak with the executive director, and settled for speaking with three people who work with him, and they all say the revenue-sharing issue hasn’t really come up at all. “They talked about having a ‘robust’ system, but we haven’t seen a shred of detail — either verbally or in writing,” union spokesman Dan Wasserman said. “They have given us only a couple of crumbs, nothing substantive.” And Hunter has allowed Stern — whose disciplined avoidance of the issue is very telling — to keep it entirely separate from the negotiation. That’s because the owners claim it has nothing to do with the new collective bargaining agreement, and that is specious: The revenue imbalance is the reason they need a new agreement in the first place. Only after the players see the plan can they know what split to offer, what exceptions to demand, even how hard to fight for the existing soft cap. How can the players legitimately go forward without it? “That is a concern,” Wasserman replied. A concern? It’s the drumbeat issue, if the players have any sense. And the next time Hunter dials Olympic Tower, the first thing out of his mouth should be this: “If we’re going to be partners in the growth of this league, we’ll be willing to pay our fair share after we see what share your richest owners are willing to pay with each other.” It should be a precondition to any further discussion, because that’s the largest pebble rolling around the owners’ collective shoe. Instead, the only thing we’ve heard from the players lately is who’s jumping to Europe (and it’s so thrilling to hear Kobe Bryant talk about risking the $83 million left on his contract just so he can win a Turkish League championship), and whether the rank and file can remain unified through a contentious, protracted negotiation (iffy). You can’t get anyone at the union to touch the “D” word, either: Decertification is a dirty term, even though labor experts we’ve consulted say that it may be Hunter’s only viable option in the face of management inflexibility — put it in the hands of a judge, and his first instinct is to use the last agreement as a benchmark. But that’s a discussion for another time. Again, this generation of owners is not exactly the passel of lovable old coots you remember from ’98-’99 — just think of the viperlike Dan Gilbert, after 40 percent of his Cleveland franchise value took off for South Beach. Twenty-two of them lost money during the ’10-’11 season, despite record revenues and TV ratings. This is their lockout. It belongs to Gilbert and Michael Heisley (Memphis) and Robert Sarver (Phoenix). They saw Stern shove franchise values so high and far that his old buddies — Gordon Gund, Jerry Colangelo, et al. — had no choice but to sell out to an embarrassment of riches. And these new guys all came in somewhere north of $250 million and aren’t seeing a return of any kind on their investment. They are ticked. They are out to bust the union, period. They can wait an entire year in order to do it. And they are very likely to succeed if Hunter doesn’t take appropriate measures — and it starts with framing the dialogue. Through the first month, he’s failing. Dave D’Alessandro: ddalessandro@starledger.com More from Dave D’Alessandro • D’Alessandro: Giants can’t afford to show Osi Umenyiora the money • D’Alessandro: Give NFL owners credit for helping players face a better retirement • D’Alessandro: Jack McKeon, 80-year-old Marlins manager, hasn’t lost his edge NBA Draft 2011: The Star-Ledger’s mock draft
From nj.com Picks No. 1 through 30 1. Cleveland 2. Minnesota 3. Utah 4. Cleveland 5. Toronto 6. Washington 7. Sacramento 8. Detroit 9. Charlotte 10. Milwaukee 11. Golden State 12. Utah  Texas’ Tristan Thompson slams during the Big 12 tournament this year.13. Phoenix 14. Houston 15. Indiana 16. Philadelphia 17. Knicks 18. Washington 19. Charlotte 20. Minnesota 21. Portland 22. Denver 23. Houston 24. Oklahoma City 25. Boston 26. Dallas 27. Nets 28. Chicago 29. San Antonio 30. Chicago Zach Berman: zberman@starledger.com
Irving could be top pick in today’s draft in Newark Watch video Before his player-of-the-year banner hung inside the hollowed-out church where he played, there were nights when Kyrie Irving didn’t have anyone to practice against. The bouncing ball echoed through St. Patrick High School’s worn cream-and-green walls, through the narrow hallway past the principal’s office, around the picture of Pope John Paul II and out onto Court Street. Surrounding him was little else but the three retired jerseys of the players he’d transferred there to be like — Shaheen Holloway, Al Harrington, Samuel Dalembert. Kevin Boyle, Irving’s high school coach, said they used to keep the gym door open for certain kids whom they could trust shooting at night. Irving was one of them. When desperate for a live defender, Irving would persuade the Rev. Justino Cornejo-Castillero, a Panamanian priest just out of seminary, to play against him. “Poor Father Justino,” said Joe Picaro, the school’s principal. Tonight, at the Prudential Center, he will likely join Shaquille O’Neal as the only New Jersey players selected No. 1 overall in the NBA Draft. It will mark the first time the event is held in Newark, 15 minutes from Irving’s old gym in Elizabeth. But back then, Irving worked so hard because he had to. He was once overlooked here, a high-scoring underclassman at Montclair Kimberley considered the sixth-best sophomore in the state. As an upperclassman point guard at St. Pat’s, on any given night he may not have been thought of as the best player on his high school team. For a time, he said he was hoping for any Division 1 scholarship, never mind Duke. But between the transfer to St. Patrick and the accelerated rise to first-pick consideration at Duke, his legend expanded. Somewhere inside the basement courts at the Union County YM-YWHA and the backyard hoop in his own home, Irving forged a path to Garden State basketball history. “It feels surreal knowing that last summer I was in the (Union) gym working out every single day,” Irving said. “Knowing that all that hard work is coming to fruition now and I’m achieving my dream, it’s an experience I’m going to remember for the rest of my life.” Picaro admitted he did not know who Irving was at first. Drederick, Kyrie’s father, had to leave Picaro a handful of messages before they could get the transfer process in motion. Irving’s name, just like that of any other student wanting to attend St. Patrick High, was scribbled on a piece of printer paper in Picaro’s office. But once his paperwork was finally processed, Picaro and athletic director Red Migliore went down to a summer league game at Linden High School to see the new kid play. Floored by the slicing drives and mid-traffic passes, Migliore looked back at the principal and uttered a three-word phrase that men don’t take lightly when working inside a century-old stone chapel. “Oh my God.” SUMMER SCHOOLING In the summertime, the basement of the Union YM-YWHA negates the theory that heat rises. Like a restaurant kitchen, the air is dense. A healthy sweat develops in the 15 yards between the water fountain and the doorway. Every summer in high school, Irving would be there from 2 to 6 p.m. His father played Division 1 basketball at Boston University and professionally in Australia and raised Kyrie alone after the boy’s mom, Elizabeth, died when he was 4. Eventually Drederick entrusted part of Irving’s development in Sandy Pyonin, his AAU coach who’s been working out of that same building since 1975. From the beginning of their training, which started in high school, he refused to treat Irving like a bubble-wrapped top prospect. They would play one-on-one full court. Irving would shoot 1,000 3-point jump shots. Pyonin would round up a handful of 14-year-olds to play him five-on-one. During one session, Irving and Pyonin cracked skulls in a pickup game. “His tooth hit my eyebrow and I had to go to the hospital and get stitches,” Irving said. “What Sandy won’t tell you is that his defense is, like, horrible.” All this to help shed the last glimpses of what kept him under the radar. He had all the talent, the intangibles, the sixth sense to whiz a perfect pass in motion. He was now developing the killer instinct that would come to define him. “We would think sometimes the guy is too nice,” said Chris Chavannes, Boyle’s replacement at Saint Patrick. “At first, it looked like he would almost defer to the talent around him,” Boyle said. Not for long. Shortly before Irving left for Duke — a time when he shouldn’t have been on the court — Irving was still playing in that gym, running with Pyonin’s next group of players. Pyonin remembers hearing something, turning around and seeing the Blue Devils’ next golden boy hobbling toward the locker room. He waited a few nervous minutes for Irving to return. “He came back out and played five more games,” Pyonin said, laughing. “He was old school, though.” DUKE TINKERS Even now, after all the clues, the freeze-frame moments, the accolades, Irving’s circumstances still confound those who knew him. Through his first eight games at Duke, he led the Blue Devils in scoring. Chris Collins, the team’s assistant coach who works with the guards, said the offense was tailored shortly after his arrival. His vision, his movement were just too perfect to keep things the same. By early March, two separate scouts for teams with top-10 picks were positive Irving would go No. 1 overall. That doesn’t mean the rapid rise wasn’t surprising to some. “I just played with him two years ago,” said Derrick Gordon, a teammate at St. Patrick who starts at Western Kentucky in the fall. “I never thought it was going to be first round, first pick. That right there is amazing to me.” For Irving, in New Jersey at least, his chapter ends with a fitting tribute. Down the narrow hallway from the principal’s office, past the picture of Pope John Paul II, his uniform will hang on those cream-and-green walls. Like Irving, the jersey will be as much a part of the atmosphere as the tireless echo of the bouncing ball through the old building. “My life,” Irving said, “has been changing every single day.” Conor Orr: corr@starledger.com
‘Besides being hurt, I feel good,’ Farmar says ORLANDO, Fla. — Jordan Farmar sat in front of his locker, an ice pack strapped to the back of his left shoulder. His back ached, and he admitted he was exhausted. The 24-year-old joked about getting old. With Deron Williams sitting out the last three games because of a sore right wrist, Farmar — who left the Lakers as a free agent to sign a two-year deal with the Nets last summer — has been called on to start and play heavy minutes this week. And when Ben Uzoh, just called up from the D-League, couldn’t make it to Cleveland on Wednesday, and Sundiata Gaines left the game at the end of the first quarter with a hip injury, Farmar was the only available point guard the Nets had for the final three quarters against the Cavaliers. There was no pacing himself in the situation. “You’ve got to play hard,” he said, after playing 40:55 and posting a double-double in the Nets’ 98-94 overtime victory. “We don’t have any margin for error on our team, so you have to compete.” Farmar, who finished with 10 points and 10 assists, shot just 2-for-10 from the field (including a missed dunk attempt), but made up for it by hitting 5-of-6 from the free-throw line in the overtime, when the Nets (23-47) were trying desperately to hold on against the furiously rallying Cavaliers. “I had to step up and do something to help the team win,” Farmar said after the Nets ended a four-game losing streak. “I definitely didn’t want to let this one slip away based on my performance, and everybody was fighting and clawing and trying to make some things happen. So I wanted to do something to help.” Farmar, who had started just two games in his prior three NBA seasons, has started 10 for the Nets this season, filling in when first Devin Harris and then Williams missed games because of injuries. He will continue to start if the Nets decide Williams needs more time off (Williams could miss the rest of the season) to rest his wrist. And even if Williams is cleared to play tonight when the Nets visit the Magic, Farmar is still in line for heavy minutes because Gaines has been ruled out for the game. Farmar is averaging career highs in points (9.2), assists (4.6) and minutes (23.9), but the heavy workload is taking a toll on his body. He suffered a back strain two months ago that kept him out of six games, and it now is easily aggravated and periodically comes back to bother him. He has worn a back brace, but quit doing that because the brace made him feel slow and clumsy. There was also a badly sprained ankle last month that cost him a game, and the ice pack he wore after Wednesday’s game was the result of falling to the floor after attempting to take a charge. “Besides being hurt, I feel good,” Farmar said of the way his season has turned out. “You can’t really get extra shots up, or extra work in, because you’re injured and you’re trying to save everything you’ve got for the game. It’s a tough spot.” For more Nets coverage, follow Colin Stephenson on Twitter at twitter.com/ledger_nets Colin Stephenson: cstephenson@starledger.com Also, Nets to decide whether Williams will return against Magic on Friday CLEVELAND — Cavaliers coach Byron Scott thinks the deal the Nets made to acquire point guard Deron Williams was a winner. “It’s a great trade,” Scott said tonight before his team fell to the Nets, 98-94, in overtime. “You get a top two or three point guard in the league, and he’s going to be in the top five probably for the next seven or eight years. Nowadays, the way the NBA games are played, if you have an elite point guard you have a chance to be really good. “You take a look at Utah when Deron was there, you look at New Orleans with Chris (Paul) and even when I was in Jersey with Jason (Kidd). “Look at Derrick Rose right now in Chicago,” the former Nets coach continued. “New Jersey definitely helped themselves in getting one of the top point guards in the league. I’m sure (coach) Avery Johnson is a pretty happy guy right now.” Scott said with Williams and Brook Lopez at center, the Nets have two very important positions manned by good players. “Having those two, Deron and Lopez, that’s a good start,’’ Scott said. “When you want to start a basketball team you look at all the great teams we had in Los Angeles — it was Kareem (Abdul-Jabbar, at center) and Magic (Johnson, at point guard).’’ Williams, who tonight sat out the last of the three games the Nets said he would miss because of his sore right (shooting) wrist, did not make the trip to Cleveland, going home to be with his family instead. Williams is expected to meet the Nets on Friday in Orlando, on the second leg of this three-game trip, and the Nets will decide then whether he can return to action for the game against the Orlando Magic. With Williams’ status unclear, Ben Uzoh was recalled from the D-League’s Springfield Armor, where he played yesterday in Sioux Falls, S.D., and scored 27 points with nine rebounds and five assists. However, inclement weather prevented Uzoh from making it to Cleveland and the team decided to reroute him to Orlando instead. Without Uzoh, Johnson had to scrap plans of starting Jordan Farmar and Sundiata Gaines together in the backcourt last night. Sasha Vujacic started instead at small forward in place of the injured Damion James. James missed his second straight game because of soreness in his right foot, and Johnson said he remains concerned about James’ health. For more Nets coverage, follow Colin Stephenson on Twitter at twitter.com/ledger_nets Colin Stephenson: cstephenson@starledger.com Humphries scores 18 points and grabs career-high 23 rebounds CLEVELAND — This city and this arena have been good to Kris Humphries this season. Humphries, who started his first game for the Nets here in November, enjoyed a monstrous outing on the shores of Lake Erie tonight, scoring 18 points and grabbing a career high 23 rebounds and making multiple huge plays to lead the Nets to a 98-94 overtime victory over the Cavaliers at Quicken Loans Arena. All five Nets starters, plus Travis Outlaw off the bench, scored in double figures. Humphries, Brook Lopez and Sasha Vujacic all had 18, Outlaw 17 and point guard Jordan Farmar had a double-double with 10 points and 10 assists as the Nets broke a four-game losing streak and improved to 23-47. Cleveland (13-57) lost its fourth straight. “We’ve had a tough stretch here over the last week,” Nets coach Avery Johnson said. “We had won five in a row, and then unfortunately Deron (Williams) had to sit out a few games — we just had a lot of stuffA working against usA But the guys really battled tonight, and we’re just proud of them.” Vujacic’s 3-pointer with 4:22 left in the overtime put the Nets up, 85-84, and they were able to protect the lead, hitting their last nine free throws and 11 of 14 overall in the overtime. “We needed a win,” Humphries said. “It feels good to win. A long road trip starting out on a loss, it’s going to be tough.” With Williams out and with Ben Uzoh unable to make it to Cleveland after being called up from the D-League because of inclement weather, Sundiata Gaines’ right hip injury with 1:10 left in the first quarter left Farmar as the only available point guard for the Nets. But perhaps that evened things up against the Cavs who were playing without Baron Davis (back spasms) and Antawn Jamison (broken finger. With 2:15 left, Anthony Parker’s 3-pointer tied it, 78-78, and the teams exchanged scores the rest of the way. Parker’s foul circle fadeaway put the Cavs up, 82-80, with 12.1 seconds left, but after a timeout, Lopez followed up his own miss with a dunk to tie it, 82-82, with 4.3 seconds left. The Cavs had time to try for the win, but, harassed by Farmar, Parker’s jumper at the buzzer was an airball, forcing the overtime. On Nov. 10, when the Nets visited Cleveland for the first time this season, Troy Murphy was the Nets starting power forward. But Murphy had a sore foot and was deactivated and Humphries got his first start as a Net. It was Humphries’ first start in four seasons and he took advantage that night, producing 13 points and 18 rebounds to help the Nets to a victory that ended a five-game losing streak. Johnson kept Humphries in the starting lineup the next game, and Humphries would go on to start 27 straight games before Johnson decided it was time to start rookie Derrick Favors at the position Jan. 5. “It started for him (in Cleveland) and he just continued,” Johnson said. “He’s been solid. I can’t think of a bad game for him. Maybe an okay game, but I can’t really think of a bad game. That’s a pretty strong area of consistency on his part.” Humphries downplayed his strong individual numbers, however. “It’s never been an individual thing,” he said. “I didn’t get my opportunity to play coming in putting up big numbers. It’s just about playing hard. I try to focus on play hard, rebound, run the floor and just try to play the right way. “Whatever comes from that it’s nice. It feels good to get 20 rebounds or whatever. At the end of the day we want to try and win games and compete. You can’t be out there hunting stats.” Humphries entered tonight’s game averaging 9.8 points, 10.2 rebounds all career-highs. In recent games, he has outplayed big-name power forwards like Kevin Garnett (Celtics) and Blake Griffin (Clippers). And his big year couldn’t come at a better time: He will be a free agent this summer. For more Nets coverage, follow Colin Stephenson on Twitter at twitter.com/ledger_nets Colin Stephenson: cstephenson@starledger.com Also, Kris Humphries’ double-double streak ends Damion James had never been injured before he joined the Nets. Now he can’t seem to stay on the floor. The 6-7 rookie forward was out against the Pacers tonight, and won’t play Wednesday in Cleveland against the Cavaliers. The reason for the absence is soreness in James’ surgically repaired right foot he broke back in December, coach Avery Johnson said. “We’re a little bit concerned by the soreness and the tenderness that’s in that area,’’ Johnson said after the Nets lost 102-98 to Indiana. James said the foot, which he broke Dec. 9 in Dallas, is “like 95 percent healed. It’s just like that little 5 percent. Certain cuts or something, I feel it, but it ain’t nothing serious. … It hasn’t stopped me from doing what I do.” James missed 34 games because of the foot before returning Feb. 25 against San Antonio. He then played five games before suffering a concussion in London that caused him to miss three games before returning Thursday against Chicago. During the time he was out with the concussion, he had blood taken from his arm and injected in his foot to speed the healing of the foot, but within the last few days he said he started to feel the soreness and he told the team. “I’m trying to be 100 percent (healthy) by the end of the season,” he said. Stephen Graham took James’ spot in the starting lineup. Kris Humphries’ streak of double-doubles ended at 10 games, as he finished with nine points and 14 rebounds. He fell three games short of tying the team record of 13 straight double-doubles, set by Buck Williams in 1982-83. Point guard Ben Uzoh, who was sent to the D-League’s Springfield Armor last week, will return to the Nets on Wednesday, Johnson said. “He’s doing a good job,” Johnson said. “He’s scored the ball, he’s rebounded, he’s passed it well, played good defense — just what we wanted. And with Deron (Williams) being injured now — at best case, with him coming back sometime this weekend, at worst, maybe it taking a little bit longer — we felt it was time to get Uzoh back.” Uzoh averaged 12.3 points and 6.0 assists in three games for Springfield. He will be the third point guard behind Jordan Farmar and Sundiata Gaines until Williams returns. When Farmar was credited with 17 assists Sunday against Washington, that gave the Nets three different players who with 17 or more assists in a game this season. Devin Harris had 17 assists in the Jan. 31 victory over Denver, and Deron Williams has done it three times since he was acquired in a trade by the Nets Feb. 23. For more Nets coverage, follow Colin Stephenson on Twitter at twitter.com/ledger_nets Colin Stephenson: cstephenson@starledger.com Nets drop second straight game without Deron Williams Whatever faint hopes the Nets held of getting to the postseason are over now, extinguished by an excruciating 102-98 loss tonight to the team that holds the final postseason spot in the East: the Indiana Pacers. Playing their second straight game without point guard Deron Williams, who will miss at least one more game Wednesday in Cleveland because of his sore right wrist, the Nets blew their second straight double-digit first half lead and lost their fourth straight game to fall to 22-47 overall. The Nets trail Indiana (31-40) by eight games, with 13 remaining. “It’s tough to accept,” Sasha Vujacic said of the Nets’ infinitesimal playoff chances. “We’ve been trying hard and we’ve making some progress, and mathematically, it’s still there, so we’ve got to go to Cleveland and win. We’ve got to win in Cleveland, and anything is possible.” It’s a lot less possible than it was last week, though. Roy Hibbert had 24 points and Danny Granger shook off a 1-for-10 start to finish with 20 points to lead the Pacers to their fourth victory in the last six games. Brook Lopez had 20 points for the Nets and Sundiata Gaines came off the bench to score a career-high 18, with six rebounds. But the Nets, who had blown a 17-point first half lead in Washington on Sunday, shot 39.8 percent from the floor (39-of-98) and this time coughed up a 12-point, first half lead. Trailing, 40-28 late in the second quarter, the Pacers closed the half on a 12-4 run to get within 44-40 at halftime. Then Indiana started the third quarter on a 9-0 run to grab a lead they would never relinquish. Two free throws by Darren Collison with 1:20 to play put the Pacers up, 98-90, but the Nets had one more rally in them. Travis Outlaw missed the second of two free throws, but Gaines tapped the rebound to Vujacic, who hit a 3-pointer to make it 98-94. Then, with 40.5 seconds left, a miss by Collison led to a frantic scramble for the rebound and Gaines was fouled from behind by Indiana forward Josh McRoberts, who yanked him down to the floor. Gaines lay face down on the floor for several moments and Nets coach Avery Johnson argued for a flagrant foul against McRoberts, but the referees said no. “I thought that was a horse-collar play, where we should have gotten two free throws and the ball,” Johnson said. “Obviously, they disagreed and said they’ll take a look at it after the game, but, you know, it doesn’t help us now.” The Nets called timeout, Gaines got up, stayed in the game, and eventually hit one of two free throws to pull the Nets within 98-95. Then, when Hibbert missed a right baseline hook shot, the Nets called their final 20-second timeout and drew up a play for Lopez inside with 24.6 seconds to play. But as the Nets tried to inbound the ball, Vujacic was knocked down and that blew the play up. Gaines ended up taking a tough 3-pointer that missed. The ball went out of bounds off the Pacers and the Nets got a second in-bound play, this time with 13.5 seconds to play. This time, Vujacic was able to catch the ball, but his rushed 3-point attempt fell way short. “That was a better look than I thought,” Vujacic said afterward. “I’ve seen it on the tape — for some reason, I saw the point guard coming at me and I thought I had my guy like, right on me. So I didn’t get my legs underneath. It wasn’t good. I didn’t execute it the way I should have, so it’s on me, a little bit.” For more Nets coverage, follow Colin Stephenson on Twitter at twitter.com/ledger_nets Colin Stephenson: cstephenson@starledger.com Steve Wynn Commissions Rosenquist Painting For The Cleveland Clinic’s Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health
From luxist.com Filed under: Art, Big Givers The massive oil-on-canvas painting, which is 20 feet tall and 10 feet wide, will be displayed in the Keep Memory Alive Event Center. The center was designed by Frank Gehry in his usual gleaming, spirited style. The painting will be officially unveiled in its new home at an invitation-only evening event this weekend at the Center. Chef and restaurateur Joel Robuchon, together with Alex Stratta and Paul Bartolotta will prepare a special meal for guests. Rosenquist will be in attendance to share insight into his work, which was made possible by a generous gift from Steve Wynn. The Cleveland Clinic’s impressive art collection totals more than 4,000 pieces. “We’re so proud that the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health calls Las Vegas home, and I’m thrilled to be able to support its mission with this gift,” said Steve Wynn. “I believe in the wonderful work happening there and in my dear friend Larry Ruvo’s vision for eradicating the disease that took his father, Lou.”
Some high-school girls basketball highlights from Monday
From seattletimes.nwsource I was at the ShoWare Center in Kent Monday for the West Central Bi-District girls basketball championship games in 4A, 3A and 2A. You can read the roundup on them here. Mount Rainier played awfully well and Federal Way showed its promise at times. It will be interesting to see how both teams fare in Saturday’s regionals. To be honest, I expected more from the Prairie-Wilson game. It was my first look at both teams. I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt, though, because of that late start caused by the Prairie bus delay. I think both are better than they showed, and they did have some really good moments (especially Prairie). That Wilson-Cleveland game Saturday should be very interesting. We’ll talke more about the regional matchups later this week. For now, I want to get to some highlights from the other tournament games reported Monday: West Central/Southwest 4A Big-District Tournament 3rd-4th places Kentwood 58, Rogers 50 No individual scoring reported. 5th-8th places Emerald Ridge 54, Olympia 43 Taylor Buie hit for 20 and Kayla Frank chipped in 13 for the Jags. 6th-7th places Skyview 49, Bethel 29 Brooke Bowen (13) and Jocelyn Adams (12) paced the No. 6 Storm. Karina Farr had 12 for Bethel. Regional girls high-school hoops pairings
From seattletimes.nwsource Class 4A SATURDAY’S REGIONALS Winners to quarterfinals March 1-3 at Tacoma Dome, losers out At Juanita H.S. (Kirkland) Eastlake vs. Rogers (Puyallup), 4 p.m. Emerald Ridge vs. Woodinville, 6 p.m. At Kent-Meridian H.S. Skyview vs. Lake Stevens, 4 p.m. Jackson vs. Kentwood, 6 p.m. Stanwood or Skyline vs. Federal Way, 4 p.m. Bethel vs. Mount Rainier, 6 p.m. At Spokane Falls CC Central Valley vs. Chiawana, 4 p.m. Olympia vs. Gonzaga Prep, 6 p.m. Class 3A SATURDAY’S REGIONALS Winners to quarterfinals March 1-3 at Tacoma Dome, losers out At Jackson H.S. (Mill Creek) Auburn Mountainview vs. Seattle Prep, 4 p.m. Timberline vs. Shorecrest, 6 p.m. Lynnwood or Glacier Peak vs. Lakeside, 4 p.m. Camas vs. Franklin, 6 p.m. At Rogers H.S. (Puyallup) Cleveland vs. Wilson, 4 p.m. Juanita vs. Prairie, 6 p.m. University vs. Shadle Park, 4 p.m. Lakes vs. Kamiakin, 6 p.m. 4A and 3A girls hoops rankings — Final
From seattletimes.nwsource In just 12 days, we’ll find out who the true No. 1 girls basketball teams are in the state for Class 4A and 3A (as well as the other classifications). But today I’m posting my final rankings. I feel pretty comfortable with the top four in Class 3A. I get the opportunity to see No. 1 Prairie play No. 3 Wilson this afternoon in the West Central/Southwest Bi-District championship game, so am looking forward to that. I am not sure how Heather Corral’s knee is holding up for Prairie. I heard she is playing with a brace and was coming off the bench. She had nine points in the Falcons’ 75-47 semifinal victory over Timberline. But this is no one-player team. Jackie Lanz scored 19 in that game, including five three-pointers. No. 2 Kamiakin remains the only unbeaten girls team in 3A and 4A. Shadle Park, which has won eight of its last nine (losing only to 4A Mead) and was in my original top-10, leaps back in at No. 5 and University is out. Cleveland also slips off the list after losing its last two and Lakeside comes in at No. 10. The Lions had a nine-game win streak snapped against No. 4 Franklin. Sea-King 3A District Tourney — Twitter updates
From seattletimes.nwsource I am out at the final day of the Sea-King 3A District Tournament. I will have updates all day. Boys Lake Washington vs. O’Dea, 11:30 a.m. Franklin vs. Mercer Island, 3 p.m. Seattle Prep vs. Rainier Beach, 6:30 p.m. Girls Cleveland vs. Seattle Prep, 1:15 p.m. Bellevue vs. Juanita, 4:45 p.m. Lakeside vs. Franklin, 8:15 p.m. Some high-school girls basketball highlights from Thursday
From seattletimes.nwsource It was a light schedule of girls basketball games Thursday. Here are some of the roundups we had on the web (with some additions), as well as highlights from other games reported to The Times: Sea-King 3A District Tournament Lakeside 34, Cleveland 33 Lakeside’s Kaylee Best knocked down a pair of free throws with 12.2 seconds left to help the Lions upset No. 5 Cleveland in the semifinals. Best scored 13 and Danielle Estell added 14 to lead Lakeside (19-6), which faces Franklin in Saturday’s 8:15 p.m. district title game at Bellevue College. Cleveland (19-5), which got 12 points from MyMy Ladd and 11 from Makayla Roper, plays Seattle Prep for third-fourth place at 1:15 p.m. Saturday. All four teams are assured of regional berths. Franklin 57, Seattle Prep 38 Patrice Toston scored 13 points and Janee Lewis added nine, leading the fourth-ranked Quakers (20-3) to their 16th straight win. Mary Ann Santucci led the No. 8 Panthers (19-6) with 10 points. KingCo 4A Tournament Skyline 47, Issaquah 41 Skyline pulled away in the fourth quarter in the loser-out girls basketball game. The Spartans (17-7) advanced to a Tuesday loser-out game against the No. 3 WesCo representative, Stanwood or Arlington, for a spot in the regional round of the state playoffs. Sabrina Norton scored a game-high 15 points for Issaquah (17-7). Skyline got 9 apiece from Alicia Shim and Megan Wiedeman. Tri-District 1A Tournament Bellevue Christian 35, King’s 34 At Mountlake Terrace, the Vikings got 19 points from senior guard Alina Valle and slipped past the third-ranked Knights and into the Tri-District 1A championship game. Unranked Bellevue Christian faces Lynden Christian in the final at 9 p.m. Saturday at Terrace. Lynden Christian topped eighth-ranked Cascade Christian in the other semifinal, 42-28. King’s, which was led by Karlie Storkson with 11 points, plays Cascade Christian at 10:30 a.m. Saturday for third and fourth. Seattle Christian 60, Nooksack Valley 40 No individual scoring reported from the loser-out game. The Warriors secured a regional berth and play Cedar Park Christian of Bothell for fifth and sixth places. Cedar Park Chrisitan (Bothell) 35, Vashon Island 18 Rachel Staudacher made sure the Eagles’ season stayed alive with 20 points. Charlotte Kehoe had 10 for Vashon. Tri-District 1B Tournament Grace Academy 35, Crescent 28 Kyla Emme poured in 18 as Grace Academy advanced. Crescent’s Sara Moore finished with 12. Grace Academy now plays Mount Rainier Lutheran Saturday for the fifth and final regional berth. Mount Rainier Lutheran 31, Christian Faith 27 No details reported in the other loser-out game. Sea-King 3A District Tourney Twitter updates
From seattletimes.nwsource I will be out at the Sea-King 3A District Tournament semifinals at Bellevue College today, watching all four games. I will have updates. Boys Seattle Prep (19-5) vs. No. 5 Lake Washington (19-4), 3 p.m. No. 1 Rainier Beach (22-2) vs. No. 8 O’Dea (18-6), 6:30 p.m. Girls No. 5 Cleveland (19-4) vs. Lakeside (18-6), 4:45 p.m. No. 8 Seattle Prep (19-5) vs. No. 4 Franklin (19-3), 8:15 p.m. New start for Anderson
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