Nets coach Byron Scott was less than impressed when New Jersey forward Kenyon Martin was named NBA Rookie of the Month for averaging all of 11 points and seven rebounds in November. “This shows the potential that gets you excited about a person,” Golden State coach Dave Cowens said. Jamison’s consecutive 51-point games last week against the Sonics and Lakers made the Golden State forward the first player with consecutive 50s since Michael Jordan did it in three consecutive games in April 1987. So maybe the Warriors didn’t make such a hideous mistake trading Vince Carter for Antawn Jamison straight up during the 1998 draft. Great, does that mean more salutes are in the offing for the officials? “It definitely made the officials watch the game.”Įven Silas said, “Once I got thrown out, they called it the way it should have been called.”
“We got five straight calls in a row,” Hornets assistant Jerry Eaves said. Silas offered the gesture to referee Jim Kinsey last week against Indiana, and his team got more than his ejection in the come-from-behind victory. The latest coaching technique apparently involves an extended middle finger. “What you do against the West is definitely going to make a difference down the road,” Brown said.įor the Heat, that road begins tonight in Sacramento. His Heat having thrived against the West during his tenure in Miami, Hornets power forward P.J. “It might be that the team does well against the West might emerge over here, because it’s so even.” “That’s a distinct possibility,” Hornets coach Paul Silas said. Still, with the East so competitive - just not as competitively strong as the West - the seedings could come down to how East teams fare in their 28-game schedules against the West. But, that said, Cleveland is beginning to sag, Philadelphia could have to go two months in the injury absence of Snow, the Nets and Wizards have just about packed it in, and Rick Pitino likely will open his mouth again in Boston. Things could get better in the East, with the Heat coming together in the continued absence of Alonzo Mourning, with the Magic getting Grant Hill back this week, with Vince Carter returning for Toronto. That is known as hyperbole, but the point is well taken. I don’t know if they’d make it, but they’d fight for one.” It has reached the point where Knicks coach Jeff Van Gundy said last week of the Clippers, “If you put them in the East, they’d fight for a playoff spot. More significant is that some good teams might miss the playoffs in the West, while some bad teams likely will make it from the East. The top three at every position might be in the West.”Īll-Star Games are the least of the concern in this imbalance. After the incident, Oak blamed Clippers’ coach Alvin Gentry for telling the league about it, and reportedly went after Coach Gentry.Said Spurs guard Terry Porter, “The difference is huge. So the next time Oak’s team, the Raptors at the time, played McInnis’s Clippers, Oak found McInnis sitting on the bench and clocked him in the head. Oak went looking for him that night, but didn’t find him. I don’t imagine that was a pleasant moment for Jeff McInnis. Oak called her one night, and McInnis was there.
Supposedly, McInnis was after a girl that Oakley was dating in Charlotte.
Jeff McInnis was another to earn the wrath of Charles Oakley, apparently over a woman. Told of Drexler’s comment, Oak said, “He can blow me.” After the game, Clyde Drexler, a teammate of Barkley’s at the time, called Oakley a dirty player. According to Peter Vescey of the New York Post, Oak slapped Barkley at a union meeting during the lockout and told him, “Every time I see you, I’m going to slap you.” In a later game, Oakley threw Barkey to the floor just three minutes into the first quarter, and Charles got up swinging.
Not even Charles Barkley was too bad for Oak to mess with. If he didn’t pay me $108,000, he didn’t pay me.” Hill later reportedly did pay all $108,000, probably a wise move. “He’ll say ‘Where’s Hill at?”‘ Why was he looking for Tyrone Hill? Apparently, Hill owed $54,000 to Oakley from a dice game. “Every time we play each other Oakley says something about Hill,” Philadelphia’s Eric Snow said. Before a regular season game, Hill was leaving the floor after a shootaround, and Oak started tossing basketballs at him, one of them hitting Hill in the face. Before the game even tipped, Oakley found Hill and slapped him in the mouth, they started scuffling, and they were both ejected. When Oak was with the Raptors, they had a preseason exhibition game against Hill’s Sixers. Ask Tyrone Hill, Charles Barkley, or Jeff McInnis. In the NBA or in lockdown, people don’t get any harder than Charles Oakley.
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