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The new Phoenix G League team had the right to select up to 14 unprotected Returning Players, and they could not select more than two unprotected Returning Players from a single existing team. The Valley Suns will retain the League rights to these selected players for two seasons, beginning with the 2023-24 season. Below is the list of players selected: Garrison Brooks (Westchester Knicks) Chaundee Brown Jr. (South Bay Lakers) Gary Clark (Salt Lake City Stars) Matt Lewis (Westchester Knicks) Didi Louzada (Cleveland Charge) Theo Maledon (Sioux Falls Skyforce) Emmanuel Mudiay (Iowa Wolves) Mychal Mulder (Capital City Go-Go) Jahlil Okafor (Delaware Blue Coats) Justin Smith (Delaware Blue Coats) Denzel Valentine (Raptors 905) Quinndary Weatherspoon (South Bay Lakers) Lindell Wigginton (Cleveland Charge) Trevion Williams (Sioux Falls Skyforce)
Clutch Points: Jaylen Brown shared on IG what he failed to replicate on All-Star Saturday Night. The Dee Brown tribute was supposed to happen in mid-air, as seen on test dunk over Kai Cenat 😅 (via @marc_damico) pic.twitter.com/bLvJkrajQE
Jaylen Brown shared on IG what he failed to replicate on All-Star Saturday Night.
— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) February 22, 2024
The Dee Brown tribute was supposed to happen in mid-air, as seen on test dunk over Kai Cenat 😅
(via @marc_damico)pic.twitter.com/bLvJkrajQE
Sean Menard (299 Queen Street West) has been set to direct the docuseries The Sneaker Boom, on basketball shoe marketing of the ’90s, for RTG Features, the sister studio to basketball-focused media company Slam. RTG Features CEO Aron Phillips is among the producers of the project, which Sean Menard Productions is co-producing.
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The story of The Sneaker Boom is told through the lens of ’90s NBA legends including Dee Brown, Larry Johnson, Penny Hardaway and Grant Hill — who were respectively sponsored by Reebok, Converse, Nike and Fila — and the unsung brand marketers and advertising creatives that brought their popular campaigns to life. The project is described as picking up where Prime Video’s recent Nike pic Air leaves off.
Former Illinois star and NBA player Dee Brown is the new coach at Roosevelt University in Chicago, the NAIA school announced Monday.
Harrison Faigen: List of players the Lakers are working out today, per the team: Austin Reaves - Oklahoma , Trey Murphy III - Virginia, Oscar Da Silva - Stanford, Nah’Shon Hyland - VCU, Chaundee Brown Jr. - Michigan, DJ Funderburk - NC State
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Dino Radja and Dee Brown, together again at last. The wheels for their reunion kicked into gear about a year ago, when Radja, a walking bucket with the Celtics from 1993-1997, finally joined Instagram. At 53 years old, the Naismith Hall of Famer is not IG’s target demo. “I don’t like this new social media technology,” says Radja, from his home in Zagreb, Croatia. “It makes us all more stupid. But it reconnected me with Dee, and I’m so happy for that.”
Brown spent eight years in Boston, three as a captain. He’s still sixth all-time in steals, one of two Celtics to win a dunk contest and two Browns to wear the No. 7. He’d never met a player like Dino – “He was one of my better friends when I was playing.” – so he was happy to get the message. Still, he never imagined he’d end up at a hotel in Zagreb, waiting for a ride to his old friend Dino Radja’s house. He certainly never imagined that old friend, all 6-feet-10-inches of him, would arrive in a Smart car. “He picked me up and I was like, ‘Dino, what are you doing driving around in a two-seater? This is so European.’ He was still the same guy. So humble.”
Dee Brown: (Laughs loudly) That’s not true. P never beat me in practice. He never beat me in a drill. He never beat me in one-on-one. I told him, “Hey, I don’t try to go and rap. Don’t try to come on the basketball court and shoot jumpers with me. You ain’t got a chance.” I told him that to his face. He tried. He tried hard. And yeah, as a rookie, I’d run him off screens, I’d throw an elbow here, Antonio Davis would give him a little hip-check there. So yeah, he went through it. But as far as me, I was one of the captains, one of the five or six best players on the team. I wasn’t worried about Master P, trust me. I was worried about freaking Greg Anthony and Mookie Blaylock. I wasn’t worried about Master P.
When I think about Reebok, I think about Allen Iverson and I think about you. What’s it like to have your name connected to a shoe company for so long? Dee Brown: I think the one shoe is obviously The Pump. It doesn’t matter where you are, what country I’m in, what city I’m in. Either once a day, or twice a day, I get a no-look dunk or someone bending down, pumping their shoes. The funny thing about The Pump is that I could see guys, grown men with loafers on, in suits at their jobs, bend down and pump up their penny loafers. It doesn’t matter, it’s just the action of what I did. Obviously, the shoe is the shoe, but they don’t have to have on pumps to that. People bend down and pump up their flip flops.
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