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Marreese Speights: Time for me to put them back on. How many months till training camp ? lol
As personnel goes, USF men’s basketball has enjoyed a prosperous week. Five days after his new six-year deal was announced, USF men’s basketball coach Amir Abdur-Rahim announced that St. Petersburg’s Marreese Speights, who won an NCAA title (with the University of Florida) and NBA crown (with Golden State), has been hired as the Bulls’ new director of player development.
“Mo Buckets” is ready to move on from his place in the Sunshine State. The colorful nickname belongs to former NBA center Marreese Speights. The big man with the sweet shooting stroke has put his enormous home in Clearwater, FL, on the market for the tidy sum of $2,599,900.
Georgia Southern men's basketball coach Charlie Henry announced today that he has named Marreese Speights an assistant coach for the Eagle program. Speights is one of 33 players in the history of men's basketball to win a national title in college and a professional title. He won a national title as a member of the Florida Gators in 2007 and an NBA Championship as a member of the Golden State Warriors in 2015. "I'm extremely excited to add Mo Speights to the Georgia Southern basketball family," said Henry. "Mo has won at the highest levels of basketball throughout his playing career, and I'm beyond excited that he will have the opportunity to share his championship experience with our current and future players. On top of that, Mo is an incredible person and teammate with a passion for coaching and mentorship, which he has displayed during and after his playing career. We are extremely fortunate to have Mo joining us!"
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Kenny Morales: NBA champion and St. Petersburg native Marreese Speights announces he’s starting his own post-grad basketball program.
Let’s get it @TMSacademy5🙏🏾🙏🏾 pic.twitter.com/NYrwYYeTPC
— Marreese Speights (@Mospeights16) December 7, 2020
Marreese Speights: First of all, I didn't make the graphic with MJ and Kobe. I just shared it. I want to make that clear. Now, I'm a little bit older. I'm an ‘80s baby, so I kinda grew up watching Michael Jordan play. The reason I tweeted that is because it feels like the younger generation is disrespecting and forgetting the older players who paved the way, especially MJ. For me, being an NBA player and watching him as I was growing up, you can't do that, bro. That's disrespecting the game.
Marreese Speights: I'm not taking nothing away from LeBron. When LeBron is done playing, he will be one of the top-three or top-two greatest players of all-time. But you cannot disrespect these older guys like MJ and Kobe Bryant. Those guys really worked on their game, and their NBA Finals record shows that. Bron went to the Finals in nine of 10 seasons. Cool. But MJ went to the Finals and won the shit six outta six times! Kobe won five of seven times! You know what I mean? So let's keep that respect on MJ and Kobe's name. Don't try to bring them down to boost up LeBron. You can't do that. These younger guys need to stop disrespecting the older players.
Marreese Speights: To me, Jordan is the best player to ever play the game because the man just dominates. Early in his career, he didn’t win like he was supposed to. But that’s the case with just about everybody early in their career; look at Bron early in his career. Jordan won three championships and said, 'Forget it, I'mma go play baseball,' came back and won three more! Are you kidding me?! I feel like that's something a lot of young people don’t know -- or they didn’t know that until they watched “The Last Dance” recently. Do you know how hard that is?! He left the sport and then had another three-peat once he came back! Again, you just have to put respect on MJ’s name and Kobe’s name.
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NBA Central: Mo Speights sending shots at LeBron 😬 pic.twitter.com/KKve5NuZT8
Mo Speights sending shots at LeBron 😬 pic.twitter.com/KKve5NuZT8
— NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) October 14, 2020
During the most recent episode of Kerr's "Flying Coach" podcast, the eight-time NBA champion did some reminiscing: "A few years ago, we had a practice during Super Bowl week. Our guys were tired and instead of having a normal practice, we ended up throwing the football around -- having some competition where guys had to partner with one player and do patterns and run through our facility and complete passes to different spots. "I knew Steph and Klay were great athletes, but to watch them throw the football was incredible. They both have absolute cannons. And then the other guy who can throw a football about 75 yards is a guy named Mo Speights -- Marreese Speights. And here's the thing that ties it all together -- they were our three best shooters.
Here is an excerpt from "The Victory Machine" -- Ethan Strauss' new book: "You did not have to be a star or rising star to draw KD's envious ire. When former Warriors bench scorer Marreese Speights returned to Oracle Arena, he got a hearty ovation from the crowd. "Mo Buckets" had been a fan favorite, in part due to his tremendous shooting streaks and also due to the broad smile he beamed when riding a wave. He wasn't a flawless player but his enthusiasm was infectious and the fans were nostalgic for it. KD, who once complained to a Warriors fan account over Twitter Direct Message that Speights was among the players more accepted by Warriors fans than he, was not pleased. After the blowout win that followed, as he waited to take the podium stage, Durant was fixated on a TV that hung from the wall. Speights was with the local TV guys, yukking it up. "Mo Buckets," Durant loudly groused, shaking his head. "How can you call yourself 'Mo Buckets' when you never averaged twenty points a game?"
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