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Al Jefferson on being traded for Kevin Garnett: I understood from Boston's point of view
Al Jefferson on being traded: I understood from Boston's point of view. KG at that time, you already had Ray Allen. I was thinking, you know, first KG said he wasn't coming. So, it's going to be me, Paul, and Ray Allen, and all of a sudden, I'll never forget. I'm in Jackson, Mississippi, heading to the airport to fly to Boston. Danny Ainge called me and said, 'Yeah, don't come. The trade is probably about to go down.' I said, 'What trade?' He said, 'Yeah, it's probably going to happen.' I appreciated that he told me, and for drafting me.”
Al Jefferson: "That was Doc Rivers’ first year. Let me tell you what happened. This was in May, right? I’m flying to Boston for my first NBA workout, and I have no idea what to expect. Now, it’s 90 degrees in Mississippi, so I’m wearing a Paul Pierce jersey with the sleeves cut off and some shorts. I show up in Boston, and it’s cold as hell. Chris Wallace, the GM, had just bought a new car and lost it in the airport parking lot. We walked around for 45 minutes trying to find his car. Finally, we had to call for one of those airport carts to drive us around until we found it."
Jackson State head men’s basketball coach and former NBA all-star Mo Williams has been named to the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2025. The Jackson, Mississippi native coached at fellow SWAC HBCU Alabama State before returning to his hometown to coach at Jackson State in 2022.
Gray Television, Inc. and the New Orleans Pelicans jointly announced that they have reached an innovative new sports right deal that will make ten of the Pelicans games during the 2023-24 NBA season available to fans on leading local television stations serving audiences throughout Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. The first game scheduled is Friday January 12, 2024 as the Pelicans take on the Denver Nuggets at 8pm. The new distribution agreement with Gray will make Pelicans games available to more than three million households across three states.
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In 1996, then-NBA Commissioner David Stern suspended Abdul-Rauf, who received death threats. The home in Mississippi that he was building for his family was burned down by the Ku Klux Klan. “I wasn’t surprised that that was the reaction,” he said. “Why? Because history has shown, in particular, when young or African American athletes, entertainers, whoever, step outside of the athletic box and speak out on something else, ‘You’re condemned.’”
Barkley is giving another million to Jackson State University in Mississippi. He's previously made donations to Alabama A&M, Clark Atlanta, Miles College, Morehouse College, Spelman College, and Tuskegee University; all are HBCUs.
The Spurs as a team bused to a local theater on Monday to watch the film “Till,” which tells the story of the brutal murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi 67 years ago. “It was really good,” said forward Isaiah Roby, who grew up in Dixon, Ill., not far from Till’s hometown of Chicago. The vicious, racist torture and lynching of the Black teen shocked the nation and served as a catalyst for the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
The Silver City, Mississippi native turned into a Las Vegas local. Haywood has left a legacy on the court, but now he's looking to make his mark in Southern Nevada. "Why not take a space in Summerlin next to Roseman University and build this retirement center in this retirement area for the NBA and the WNBA," Haywood.
"Yeah, but let me explain it to you," Haywood says. "In this small town in Silver City in Mississippi, it ain't no silver and it ain't no city. It's population of like 370 people and you had no doctors, you had no anything, so my mother was doing it in a biblical standpoint that you gotta be circumcised." Haywood says he had help from his brothers during the procedure ... and has a perfectly logical explanation for taking care of business himself. "We did it to the hogs so why not do it to the humans? It's country!! It's country-folk!!"
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Murray State forward KJ Williams is declaring for the NBA Draft. The 6-10 junior from Cleveland, Mississippi made his announcement with the heading “Thank You Racer Nation” on Facebook.
Mississippi legend and NBA champion Mo Williams has accepted a job to become the new men’s basketball coach for Jackson State University, according to Jeff Goodman with Stadium. The news comes after a report by Goodman earlier this month stating that Wayne Brent was expected to retire at the end of the 2021-22 season.
Some teams, including the Hawks, have started getting vaccinated. Kerr said he considered taking the Warriors into nearby Mississippi — where vaccines are more easily obtainable — on their Memphis trip, but that “wasn’t something we actually executed.”
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