NBA VS. TRUMP: Drie NBA-clubs Weigeren in Trump-hotels te Slapen

Difficult Times Ahead for Trump Hotels; NBA Action!! (Foto: WP)

Verrassend kan je het niet noemen -gezien de rol en positie die bijvoorbeeld Dallas Mavericks eigenaar Marc Cuban innam tijdens de verkiezingscampagne- maar het verzet tegen de President Elect USA -Donald Trump dus_ neemt steeds verder toe.

Er zijn experts die beweren dat het helemaal niet zijn bedoeling was daadwerkelijk President te worden, maar dat zijn kandidatuur meer gezien moest worden als een soort van uit de hand gelopen 'Reclamecampagne voor het merk Trump'.

Problemen? Geen problemen volgens Trump-voters (Cartoon van: 'tulsaworld.com/opinion/bruceplante/)

Al kort voor 8 november werd er door vergelijkbare experts gesteld dat zijn kandidatuur zakelijk weleens verkeerd uit zou kunnen pakken, omdat velen onder zijn klanten niet geassocieerd willen worden met de Trump van zijn campagne...

Dat gekoppeld aan de geruchten dat het zakelijk helemaal niet zo goed gaat met het concern Trump...zou nog weleens flinke problemen op kunnen gaan leveren.

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En dan nu dus het verhaal dat de meest progressieve onder de Leagues van de Grote Amerikaanse Professionele Sporten - de NBA/Basketball:

Ik heb het bericht overgenomen van sportnieuws.nl/, het origineel en veel meer Basketbal op die site lees je ---  Hier  ---

Drie NBA-clubs Weigeren in Trump-hotels te Slapen

Deze clubs hebben hun verblijf in de Trump-hotels in New York en Chicago gecanceld voor de rest van het seizoen. Zij slapen daar normaal gesproken voor de uitwedstrijden bij de New York Knicks, Brooklyn Nets en Chicago Bulls. Volgens ESPN is er nog een team uit de Eastern Conference dat ook overweegt om niet meer te overnachten in de hotels van Trump. De 3 ploegen mijden de Trump-hotels omdat ze niet geassocieerd willen worden met de aankomende Amerikaanse president Donald Trump, de oprichter van deze hotels. Dat maakten ze kenbaar in een rondgang van ESPN langs de NBA-teams.

'Racistisch en vrouwonvriendelijk'
Sinds de overwinning van Trump hebben 3 prominente NBA-coaches openlijk hun zorgen geuit over de nieuwe Amerikaanse president: Steve Kerr (Golden State Warriors), Gregg Popovich (San Antonio Spurs) en Stan Van Gundy (Detroit Pistons). Popovich verklaarde 'misselijk' te zijn geworden van de verkiezingsuitslag, terwijl Van Gundy de nieuwe president als 'racistisch en vrouwonvriendelijk' omschreef.

Er is in de sportwereld enorme kritiek geuit op de verkiezingsuitslag in Amerika. Zo zong Conor McGregor het liedje 'Fuck Trump', wil een Amerikaanse voetbalster niet meer terug naar de eigen land en hebben ook Nederlandse sporters hun kritiek geuit.

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NBA DRAFT: NBA Begonnen aan het Ontwikkelen van de Laatste Grote Onontgonnen Markt...India! Satnam Singh Gekozen door de Dallas Mavericks in de Tweede Ronde

Er was al zowat geen land van enige importantie over dat geen NBA-speler had - of tenminste iemand die daar dicht bij zat - behalve...India; en dat is nu dus ook 'gefixet'...

Satnam Singh: an NBA history-maker, and a new type of super-big

The Guardian.com, Friday 26 June 2015 17.32 BST Last modified on Friday 26 June 2015 17.33 BST

Singh, who was picked up by the Dallas Mavericks in the second round, is 7ft tall and nearly 300lbs – and he might change the way truly big guys are developed

Photograph: Court Side

Two springs ago, I spent a day in Bradenton, Florida with two of the biggest 17-year-olds anyone will ever see. Both were over 7ft tall, with enormous hands and sheepish smiles. Neither spoke much English – they came from the other side of the world. The taller of the two, Meng Xiang Yu, from China, was 7ft 2in and slender. The other, Satnam Singh, from India, was shorter but weighed almost 300lb. Even in adolescence, Singh looked like a NBA player.

On, Thursday Singh became the first Indian player selected in the NBA Draft when the Dallas Mavericks took him in the second round.

Satnam Singh is drafted by Dallas.

I had first met Meng and Singh a few weeks before at the IMG Academy while working on a story about a prospect in the NFL draft. I was standing in IMG’s weight room, watching football players working out, when Meng and Singh walked in, towering over the men who would soon play in the NFL. It was an odd juxtaposition: these two boys in giants’ bodies looming over grown men who were giants themselves.

When I went back to IMG a few weeks later to write about Meng and Singh, I met with IMG’s coaches, who explained they were conducting a sort of experiment with the two players. Because both came from remote places – Meng a small city and Singh a tiny farming village – they were a blank slate, uncorrupted by America’s AAU system or the European pro leagues. No coach had drooled over their height and overworked them in the name of winning games. So often, super-bigs, as players like Meng and Sing are called, get overworked. Their feet, still growing, can’t handle the stress of carrying such large bodies up and down a court. They break down.

IMG’s coaches wanted to change that. Meng and Singh’s lack of a basketball profile made them the perfect test cases. What if instead of playing a young super-big all the time as an AAU or professional coach would do, you instead nurtured their development slowly, sitting them for weeks at a time to give their bodies a chance to mature?

“Think about a triathlon runner or a marathon runner,” Dan Barto, IMG’s head basketball skills trainer, told me. “You don’t go out and run 26 miles: you run 10 one day and 18 another. It’s the same thing here. We are taking our time.”

Meng and Singh were raw prospects. They were big long before they were polished. The temptation for any coach would have been to play them constantly, to give them experience, but IMG’s coaches did the opposite. They made mandated rest, slowing Meng and Sing’s basketball growth but possibly saving their futures.

“We are wondering if patience and vision will change the culture of basketball everywhere,” Barto said that day. “That’s the goal. If we do it in the two biggest countries of the world, why can’t we do it in Europe? Why not do it in the United States? What if [then-NBA commissioner] David Stern allows guys to go straight to the NBA again? You have to have a plan for a kid. You can’t send him to the local high school and score 30 a game. He won’t be psychologically ready.”

Despite both being over 7ft, Meng and Singh had completely different styles. The lanky Meng was a perimeter player, more shooter than rebounder. Singh was more rugged, the kind of player who could stand close to the basket and push his way to rebounds as well as block shots. Of the two he seemed the more likely to someday play in the NBA.

Now that he has been drafted, it appears IMG’s experiment may have worked. He has stayed healthy when most teenagers his size would have come down with foot ailments. Last season, playing against high-level high school teams in Florida and at national tournaments, he averaged 9.2 points, 8.4 rebounds and 2.2 blocks while playing only about 20 minutes a game.

It’s hard to imagine Singh in the NBA any time soon. He had good hands and a decent shooting touch for someone so big, but there was so much still to learn. He knew few of the nuances that come naturally to most NBA prospects. He is 19 now and by most accounts he seems healthy and fresh. When he eventually gets his NBA shot he will carry the challenge of perhaps being the first from his country to play in an NBA game. But more importantly, he might be the successful result of an experiment – one tried over several years in a Florida gymnasium.

He might just change the way super-bigs are developed forever.


Satnam Singh preps for NBA Draft at IMG Academy



Originele artikel op de site van 'The Guardian' --- Hier ---


Ook Agency Court Side heeft op haar 'Digitale Newspaper' een artikel over Satnam Singh --- Hier ---

NBA / Analyse: Dallas Mavericks en de Trade voor Rondo (Business Insider)

Het was een NBA-Seizoen met veel en grote 'Trades'. Dat kon je niet los zien van de 'Nieuwe Gouden Eeuw' van de NBA waarover ik al vaak schreef; niet eerder waren er zoveel goede teams, waren er zoveel grote sterren, super-getalenteerde jonge spelers en nooit eerder was de strijd om zelfs maar in de Play-Offs te komen zo hevig. Daarom wilden veel teams op het laatste moment nog grote deals maken om hun team misschien net dat zetje te geven dat het nodig had om de Play-Offs te halen of - een maal daar - een reële kans te maken op het Kampioenschap, of tenminste een 'Deep Run' tijdens de laatste fase van 2014-2015. Zeker voor teams met relatief oude Supersterren en/of Rosters - waarvoor geldt dat het misschien wel de laatste kans op succes is met het team dat ze nu hebben, zijn nogal eens bereid wilde sprongen te maken.

Dallas Mavericks - sinds Eigenaar en Superfan Mark Cuban daar aan de touwtjes trekt - was daar so-wie-so altijd al toe bereid. Vandaar de grote deal die werd gemaakt om het - toch al niet misselijke - team wellicht nog eenmaal terug aan de Top te brengen in het 'Dirk Nowitzki Tijdperk'; de deal die Rajon Rondo naar Dallas bracht. Die deal voor Rondo - ontegenzeggelijk een Superster die het verschil misschien zou kunnen maken, maar anderzijds ook een 'moeilijke' speler die voor hoofdpijn kan zorgen - was niet onbetwist, en lijkt niet goed uit te pakken...

Een analyse van BusinessInsider.com:

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The Dallas Mavericks went all-in on the Rajon Rondo trade, and it has been a nightmare

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The NBA world was always waiting for the playoffs to judge the Rajon Rondo trade.

Though the Dallas Mavericks' offense — the NBA's best before the trade — fell off after acquiring Rondo and their defense only got marginally better, it was Rondo's playoff experience and extra gear that was supposed to be the ultimate benefit.

Regular season evidence pointed to Rondo being a bad fit with the Mavs — he was the only Maverick to play over 1,000 regular season minutes and have a negative net rating. But his championship experience and ability to post triple-doubles with ease was supposed to be the factor that turned the Mavericks into a title contender.

Instead, the Mavericks are down 2-0 in their first-round series with the Houston Rockets, and the trade looks like a disaster.

Rondo played less than 10 minutes in Game 2. He played only 34 seconds in the second half before he was benched for backup point guards J.J. Barea and Raymond Felton, who only played 29 games this season.

In Rondo's 37 minutes in the playoffs, the Mavericks have been outscored by 36 points and are being outscored by 34 points per 100 possessions, according to the NBA's stats site.

Rondo looks completely out of sorts on the court. His inability to shoot clogs the Mavericks' spacing, and thus, their offense. Rondo has also had issues with Mavs coach Rick Carlisle, as the two got into an on-court spat in February over play-calling duties and then continued to fight in the locker room afterward. Rondo was suspended the next game.

In the first quarter of Tuesday night's loss to the Rockets, Rondo meandered up the court on offense, drawing an eight-second violation for not getting the ball across half-court. According to Yahoo's Adrian Wojnarowski, there are some people who believe this was a deliberate protest of Carlisle calling plays from the sideline.

ESPN's Tim McMahon said Rondo didn't speak to reporters after Game 2, and when asked about Rondo's benching, Carlisle said, "All I know right now is that we need everybody at their competitive best."

Making matters worse for the Mavericks is what they gave up for Rondo. They lost starting point guard Jameer Nelson (who was a nice fit for the offense), backup wing Jae Crowder (who'd be the only Maverick capable of slowing down James Harden in the playoffs), backup center Brandan Wright, a 2015 first-round pick, and a 2016 second-round pick.

According to Wojnarowski, Rondo is all but gone from Dallas this summer when he becomes a free agent, especially if Carlisle is still the coach. That would be a steep price for the Mavericks to pay for half-a-season rental who arguably made the team worse.

The Mavs wouldn't necessarily be any better with their original team, but they could have used those assets to find a better fit at point guard, especially when so many were available at this year's trade deadline.

The Mavericks could still make this a series — they have two games at home and could have players returning from injury — but it doesn't seem like Rondo will be the player that helps.  

Read more: http://uk.businessinsider.com/dallas-mavericks-rajon-rondo-trade-disaster-2015-4?nr_email_referer=1&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_content=SportsSelect?r=US#ixzz3YMZxO1Xy