Posts Tagged ‘Kobe Bryant’

Olympics: Redeemers Cook With Greece

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

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If the US/Greece game was supposed to be the Redeemers first test, it’s safe to say they passed with flying colors, winning 92-69. Once again, it was a large dosage of defensive pressure, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, LeBron [...]

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Team USA Upends Team Aussies

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

If you are the coach in the above picture, I’m not sure what you’d make of your team’s 87-76 victory over an undermanned, yet gallant Australian National Team. It what was certainly their “toughest” game in their pre-Olympic exhibition tour, Redeem Team USA beat the Aussies by 11 points. Before the Australia game, [...]

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Team USA Rolls Lithuania

Friday, August 1st, 2008

The US Basketball invasion of China continued this morning and Team Redeem didn’t disappoint, dispatching the Lithuanians, 120 - 84. Led by a resurgent Dwyane Wade (and a nasty, NASTY windmill alley-oop dunk), the Americans look unstoppable on offense. True, there were some defensive lapses, however, credit Lithuania for knocking down open looks [...]

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Redeem Team Cruises Against Turkey

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

I rose this morning at 7am CST in order to check out Coach K and the gang take on Turkey and I wasn’t disappointed by what I saw. Led by LeBron’s my-ankle-is-fine 20 point outburst, the team controlled the contest throughout, although there were a few defensive lapses.
However, worries about a lack [...]

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USA Basketball - Gold or Bust

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Not to be outdone by the NFL, Team USA opened their “training camp” as well as they prepare for the upcoming 2008 Olympic games (and their Friday exhibition match-up with Canada). In what should be no surprise, Kobe, LeBron and company are preparing like anything less than the gold medal will be a failure, [...]

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A Boom Dizzle At The Clip Joint

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Baron Davis is living the Oakland area, making his way to LA’s other NBA team, the Los Angeles Clippers. In a slightly surprising move — it was indicated Davis wanted to stay in Golden State — the notoriously cheap Donald Sterling actually opened his checkbook in an effort to improve the team he owns. [...]

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