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"I've always had a dream of putting together my own team in a general manager role. So this is kind of a test run for me," Cousins said. "I think I put together a pretty decent team together. So, we'll see what happens from here." In terms of his team, Loyalty is Love includes former Baylor standout and NBA first-round pick Isaiah Austin and Cousins' former UK teammate and first-round pick Daniel Orton.
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AEK Athens is expected to cut former NBA big man Daniel Orton for disciplinary reasons. Per SDNA, AEK Athens have called Orton to apologize since they are very troubled with his behaviour. Orton,in the halftime of the game between AEK and the Skyliners,was laughing in the locker rooms. Sakota admonished him and when he left the locker rooms, Orton was out of control and started to smash things. Assistant coach Angelos Koronios tried to calm him down but Orton pushed him back. What is more,the 25-year-old center in the past, had missed unreasonably a training and had abandoned a team dinner.
Daniel Orton, no29 pick of the 2010 NBA draft, is the last addition of AEK BC in the center position. The 25 years old player will debut in Eurocup next season and also in the Greek league.
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And what about the Philippines? Is that something that you just had to learn the hard way? Did you not know that you couldn't say anything bad about Manny Pacquiao? Daniel Orton: I mean, you know going into the situation -- I know who Manyy Pacquiao is. I know what he means to that country. But I didn't think I was going to be punished as bad as I was for telling the truth, for speaking my mind on it. So I guess that's just a situation where you've got to come into it and be like, 'Man, let me just keep my mouth shut on this thing.'
Were you surprised at how harsh or severe the punishment was? Daniel Orton: The fine, not so much. I mean, the fine is OK because I said something about the refs, which I didn't lie about that either. But I said something about the refs. But just to get kicked off the team was a little crazy. And then for the president of our team to compare Manny Pacquiao to Martin Luther King was just absurd, really. And I kind of just left it all alone. I didn't really want to say anything because I thought it would die off. But I'm starting to learn now that it's really not. It was on SportsCenter (a few days ago). It was just incredible to me.
Orton has reportedly been fined $5,650 and kicked out of the Philippine Basketball Association for his comments following a game in which his Purefoot Hotshots team played a pro-league game against a team with Pacquiao on it. "Professional boxer, yeah, okay... professional basketball player, no. It's a joke," Orton said at the time.
But the team's top administrator, Rene Pardo, was quoted in local media as saying Orton had been let go for insulting Pacquiao. "Everyone is angry at him... it is like he went to the United States and insulted the name of Martin Luther King," the ABS-CBN news website quoted Pardo as saying.
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Purefoods import Daniel Orton lashed out at Manny Pacquiao after the latter's Kia team surprised the Purefoods squad, 95-84. "That's a joke," the former Oklahoma City Thunder player said to the press while describing his experience of playing the nine-time world boxing champion in a professional basketball game.
Daniel Orton signed in the Philippines with Purefoods Star Hotshots. The big man comes from Chinese league where he was playing with Sichuan.
Tom Lorenzo: Daniel Orton got into a basket-brawl in China: youtube.com/watch?v=neFv8q… via @chernykh http://t.co/v2kV3Ykrga
Former NBA big man Daniel Orton was involved in a brawl during a CBA game. Per Basketball Buddha, And on Sunday, December 21st 2014, Orton lost control and took on th entire Tianjin team after one of their players pissed him off by tying him up in a semi leglock.
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