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George Lynch: It was me, Eric Snow, Aaron McKie, Theo Ratliff and Tyrone Hill playing with Allen Iverson. He was the best teammate that I ever played with, like kindness, out of his heart… He practiced but he might have practiced that 50%. The difference between AI like I said, we got them tiers and he's way up here and then everybody else was down here on that team, we were all down here, he didn't have to practice like we had to practice, because we had to know what the scheme was going to be, what we were doing and all.
George Lynch: Larry Brown was teaching and he was stoppong every play, every play, and AI hated it. He was like ‘just let us play, let us go’. He can play but we can't just play, that was the frustrating part to AI. He would stay in the gym for six hours and hoop if you just let him play, but coach Brown was like ‘stop, we gotta do this, George you messed up this, whatever’. He was he's one of those ones that he you let him do what he need to do, but you know on game day he gonna give you everything. And he was going to play 82 games.
Who has assisted James the most in his career? He played the most seasons with centers Zydrunas Ilgauskas and Anderson Varejao (eight each), but they aren't known for their passing. James twice played with the same point guard for four consecutive seasons, Eric Snow and Mario Chalmers, and they would be good guesses and both are near the top. He played with Kyrie Irving for three years, though James famously chided Irving at times for not passing enough. The answer is a star-encrusted one; it's Dwyane Wade.
Theo Ratliff: You’re talking about a tremendous competitor. To this day, I still don’t know how he did the things that he did and how he was able to push through certain injuries. When he sprained his ankle, it looked like he broke his ankle, but then he’d be right back out here. His will and determination and pain tolerance was right up there with Kobe. He was just able to will himself to do certain things. When we were down, we knew where to go. We’d find him, he’d find the ball, and he would just take over games. Just from his leadership on the floor, that helped us be at our best. We had a lot of guys who were just kind of journeyman guys who hadn’t really stepped out and came into their own when we came over to the Sixers to play alongside him – guys like Aaron McKie, Eric Snow, George Lynch. He helped push us and elevated our game and our status as NBA players. He’s a tremendous guy, a tremendous person as well. Very giving, very family-oriented. He takes his time, even to this day, to speak to your kids and give his story and talk about what he did and the ups and downs of his life. He’s just a tremendous individual.
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Eric Snow (76ers guard): To be honest with you, we kind of expected it to be the Knicks. That was what we expected based on things we were hearing and how things finished (in the regular season). I don’t want to say it’s a surprise, because anything can happen, but it just wasn’t what we expected. From a team standpoint, we were kind of like, ‘Whatever happens happens.’ From a series standpoint, all you kind of heard was us playing the Knicks because of the rivalry (between the cities of New York and Philadelphia) and being close (geographically). Kyle Lowry (15-year-old 76ers fan): Come on. Come on. That was life. Philly was the Sixers, the Eagles, the Phillies. That was life, to be honest. That’s just what it was at the time.
The Raptors surely did not expect Jones and Snow to have the shooting nights that they had. Still, they had a chance to win. Just inside of the final minute, Carter set up Curry for a 3-pointer to put the Raptors within one, and the 76ers missed two chances to extend their lead, although they did manage to eat 50 total seconds off the shot clock because of an offensive rebound. After McKie took the 76ers’ final non-shooting foul, the Raptors had two seconds to make a play. With Curry, guarded by Snow, inbounding, Peterson set a screen on McKie, who was on Carter. Carter then came around on a curl. As the 76ers were switching everything, Hill left Peterson to chase Carter. Snow: When (the shot) got up I was like, ‘How did he get the ball?’ I was thinking, ‘How did he get it, out of all people?’ I was guarding Dell Curry if I remember right. I was just like, ‘I’m not letting him get the ball.’ So I was thinking, ‘How did he get the ball? Why does he have the ball?’
Chris Reichert: The Texas Legends announce Zendon Hamilton, Zachary Chu, Kelly Peters, DJ Nelson and Eric Snow as assistant coaches for 2017-18 #GLeague
"Anderson, to be in one place for as long as he was, it's hard," Snow said. "You can't find many guys who have done that. You can look at it from the standpoint of, 'Hey I got traded,' or from the standpoint of, 'Hey, I was here for 12 years.' Things happen. You move on. "He's been great for the city of Cleveland. That's not going anywhere."
Bummed that you lost to Michael Jordan in the Finals? Might as well make a little money off of it. Former NBA player Eric Snow was a member of the 1995-96 Seattle SuperSonics, a team led by Shawn Kemp and Gary Payton that managed to take Jordan’s Chicago Bulls to six games in the 1996 Finals before losing. Nearly 20 years later, Snow is auctioning off an autographed pair of the black-and-red Air Jordan XI signature sneakers that were worn by Jordan himself during Game 3 of the 1996 Finals. Grey Flannel Auctions listed the sneakers this week with an opening price of $5,000. By early Wednesday morning, bidding was up to $6,655 and expected to climb much higher before the auction ends on June 18.
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One name that makes sense is former Cavs guard Eric Snow, who was an assistant under Larry Brown at SMU this past season. He doesn't have vast coaching experience, but he seems like he'd be a Brown-type guy. He's disciplined, hard-working and no-nonsense. Snow, a Canton native, played for the Cavs from 2004-08. The Cavs could keep one of the holdovers from Coach Byron Scott's staff — Jamahl Mosley or Nate Tibbetts — or perhaps Canton Charge coach Alex Jensen. One former player who likely called Brown is ex-Cavs forward Donyell Marshall, who is living in the Cleveland area. He coached in the NBA Development League two years ago.
Jeff Goodman: SMU's Larry Brown has also hired former NBA players Eric Snow (player personnel guy) and George Lynch (strength/conditioning) - per source.
Comcast SportsNet color commentator Eric Snow still had not recovered by Saturday from an illness that kept him from working the previous night. For the second consecutive game, Sixers general manager Ed Stefanski joined play-by-play man Marc Zumoff to call the game.
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