Chris Bosh was born in Texas in 1984. He grew up playing basketball and baseball and started gaining national exposure as a star basketball player after his high school team finished the season 40-0 and won the Class 4A State Championship. Bosh went on to win the High School Player of the Year award by Basketball America and was named "Mr. Basketball" in Texas by the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches. Bosh began receiving scholarship offers from the majority of the best Division one schools in the nation and ended up deciding he would play at…
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Once Mike Krzyzewski agreed to return as coach of the U.S. national team, Jerry Colangelo figured most of his staff would follow. Jim Boeheim was the one mystery to him. "`Jim, how you feeling about coming back?"' Colangelo recalled asking. "Because I wasn't sure whether or not he wanted to.
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Serbia knocked defending champ Spain out of the world championship Wednesday when Milos Teodosic made a long 3-pointer with 3.1 seconds left for a 92-89 quarterfinal victory. Spain erased an eight-point deficit in the final 4 minutes to tie it on Marc Gasol's basket with 25 seconds remaining. After a timeout, Serbia patiently ran its offense until Teodosic — 1 of 7 on 3-pointers at that point…
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That's Linas Kleiza. You haven't seen him in the NBA in a little while, but he'll be back next…
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Linas Kleiza and Lithuania had no expectations coming into basketball's world championship. Now they are thinking about a medal. First, they have to get past scoring leader Luis Scola and Argentina. The Lithuanians remained unbeaten and moved into the European-dominated quarterfinals of the tournament Tuesday by beating China 78-67.
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Masai Ujiri aims to meet with Carmelo Anthony and try to sell him on the franchise’s future.
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