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Oklahoma basketball: Buddy Hield picks up Robertson Trophy, then heads to Thunder-Lakers game

Edit The Oklahoman 12 Apr 2016
Basketball Writers Association's National Player of the Year during a ceremony at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum ... While Hield traveled to Los Angeles last week to pick up another national player of the year award, he also began working out against just a couple days after the disappointment of the Final Four loss to Villanova ... “Just working on floaters because you don't get as many jumpers in the NBA,” Hield said....

Past, present celebrated before Astros' home opener

Edit MLB 12 Apr 2016
Jeff Bagwell, the 1991 National League Rookie of the Year, threw a ceremonial pitch to Carlos Correa, the 2015 American League Rookie of the Year ... The symmetry provided a nostalgic moment for the more than 40,000 orange-clad fans at Minute Maid Park who remember the pennant-chasing days of Bagwell and Clemens, the lean years that followed, and the ......

Rockies rookie Trevor Story named NL player of the week

Edit Denver Post 12 Apr 2016
Story became one of four rookies to ever win the player of the week award, since it was first given out in 1974, during the first week of the season, after the Dodgers' Fernando Valenzuela (1981), the White Sox's Salome Barojas (1982) and the Astros' Tyler White, who ......

Warriors GM had a thoughtful explanation for letting players aim for the best record in ...

Edit Yahoo Daily News 12 Apr 2016
GM Bob Myers concurred with that philosophy and gave his explanation to Tim Kawakami of the San Jose Mercury News. ... It’s not our record; it’s not my record.’ I said that if I was an NBA player at the precipice of something like this, who is the GM to tell me that I can’t go for it? I said I would resent that ... One play shows why Karl-Anthony Towns — the 20-year-old who's locked up Rookie of the Year — is going to take over the league....

UNF's Dallas Moore eyes NBA, but leaves options open

Edit The Florida Times Union 12 Apr 2016
After guard Dallas Moore scored 24 points to lead North Florida to its first victory over a Big Ten team in 12 tries two seasons go, he was saluted by Boilermakers coach Matt Painter ... Now after an award-filled junior season, Moore is attempting to prove he can play in another league — the NBA. read more ... ....

Govt polytechnics told to undergo NBA evaluation

Edit The Times of India 12 Apr 2016
Around 45 government polytechnics in Maharashtra, including nearly 10 in Marathwada, will have to evaluate their courses through the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) before September-end ... These polytechnics have been also asked to carry out re-accreditation if the validity of NBA certification for specific programmes has already expired....

Harden, Howard keep Rockets alive with win over Wolves

Edit Austin American Statesman 12 Apr 2016
Karl-Anthony Towns was held to 12 points and five rebounds and Minnesota was just 5 for 21 from 3-point range.Houston Rockets center Dwight Howard, right, drives against Minnesota Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns, left, during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Minneapolis, Monday, April 11, 2016 ... This was the two-year anniversary of Corey Brewer's 51-point game at Target Center....

Should the Warriors be worried heading into the NBA Playoffs?

Edit WPTV 12 Apr 2016
If they can beat the Memphis Grizzlies on their home floor (where they’ve lost just once this year), they’ll notch their record 73rd win of the season — one more than Michael Jordan’s 1996-97 Chicago Bulls team ... But recently, the winner of the President’s Trophy (awarded to the team with the most points in the regular season) has struggled to win the championship....

Youth-laden Buffalo Sabres finally showing signs of progress

Edit The Oklahoman 12 Apr 2016
It's not an excuse Murray plans to be repeating a year from now after the youth-laden Sabres showed gradual signs of improvement by riding an encouraging second-half season surge to end up 23rd in the NHL standings following two consecutive last-place finishes ... The 21-year-old Ristolainen is in a position to land a lucrative offer after leading ......

Canada’s top high-school ballers put on a show at All-Canadian BioSteel

Edit Toronto Sun 12 Apr 2016
At last year’s inaugural event held at the old Maple Leaf Gardens, Gymnopoulos and Melnik served as head coaches, two of the best in the GTA who have led their programs to OFSAA gold ... There’s no timeline for the NBA to announce anything, but the league does have a history of making public all the draft-eligible players well before the draft....

Russell Westbrook collects record-tying 18th triple-double in 17 minutes

Edit CBS Sports 12 Apr 2016
In doing so, he tied Hall of Famer Magic Johnson's record for triple-doubles in a season since the NBA-ABA merger ... This was the fastest triple-double of Westbrook's career and just short of the fastest in NBA history, per ESPN's Royce Young ... Rest of the NBA has one.— ......

Russell Westbrook needs just 17 minutes to record 18th triple-double

Edit CBS Sports 12 Apr 2016
In doing so, he tied Hall of Famer Magic Johnson's record for triple-doubles in a season since the NBA-ABA merger ... This was the fastest triple-double of Westbrook's career and just short of the fastest in NBA history, per ESPN's Royce Young ... Rest of the NBA has one.— ......

Retiring ref Joey Crawford says Philly roots served him well in the NBA

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 12 Apr 2016
Due to a right knee that has been shredded because of 39 years and 2,561 games of running up and down NBA courts (second most to Dick Bavetta's 2,635), the 64-year-old Crawford is headed to retirement ... "I'd be willing to say that half, or more, of all the technical fouls that Joey called were to protect his crewmates," said Philly ......
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