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  Basketball Articles from Digestopia
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  Walter Berry (basketball) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Walter Berry (born May 14, 1964 in New York City) is a former pro and college basketball player.
John's) and won the Wooden Award and the Big East Men's Basketball Player of the Year award in 1986, averaging 23 points and 11.1 repounds per game.
This biographical article relating to a U.S. basketball player, coach, or other figure is a stub.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walter_Berry_(basketball)   (167 words)

  
 Boston.com / Sports / Basketball / Mullin Becomes Warriors' basketball VP
Chris Mullin was promoted to executive VP of basketball operations by the Golden State Warriors, who are looking for leadership from one of the most popular players in team history.
Mullin has been groomed as a special assistant to St. Jean for two seasons since retiring as a player.
Mullin was a five-time All-Star while averaging 25 points each season from 1988-93.
www.boston.com /sports/basketball/articles/2004/04/22/mullin_taking_over_warriors_basketball   (286 words)

  
 PRO BASKETBALL NOTE
"This is a great opportunity for us to capitalize on his basketball knowledge and for Chris to learn about the business of basketball from a different perspective." In his new role, Mullin, 39, will provide assistance to the entire basketball basketball operations staff, including general manager Garry St. Jean and coach Eric Musselman.
A five-time All-Star, Mullin ranks first in franchise history in games (807), second in free-throw percentage (86.4), fourth in points (16,235) and 10th in scoring average (20.1).
Mullin also spent three seasons with the Indiana Pacers and helped them reach the NBA Finals in 2000.
www.canoe.ca /StatsBKP/BC-BKP-LGNS-CHRISMULLIN-R.html   (323 words)

  
 NBA.com: Chris Mullin
Prior to that Mullin enjoyed an outstanding 16-year NBA playing career, 13 of which were spent with the Warriors.
Selected by the Warriors with the seventh pick of the 1985 NBA Draft, the former St. John's standout was a five-time All-Star.
Mullin recently made headlines by hiring former Stanford coach Mike Montgomery as the new coach of the Warriors.
www.nba.com /features/chris_mullin_052605.html   (505 words)

  
 Redmen.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
July 11, 2002 -- Brooklyn native Chris Mullin was at the NBA Store yesterday with former teammate Manute Bol to announce a charity 3-on-3 basketball tournament benefiting the Fire Department of New York.
Mullin, one of the greatest basketball players to come out of New York City, has watched as the eyes of the NBA have wandered beyond America's inner cities and big-name colleges.
In 1985, the year Mullin was drafted by the Warriors, the SuperSonics took three foreign players with their first three picks.
www.redmen.com /print.php?sid=208   (395 words)

  
 Mullin joins Warriors' front office / Five-time All-Star will have a variety of roles to get his feet wet
The Warriors had held discussions with Mullin about coming aboard since the end of last season; coaching candidates were informed of the possibility during their formal interviews last month.
Mullin's long-term plan for where he will go is as blank as the walls in his new office at team headquarters.
Mullin, incidentally, is finished playing, even though he eschewed the teary news conference -- "I wanted no part of that," he said -- that generally accompanies the retirement of a player of his stature.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/08/13/SP175365.DTL   (635 words)

  
 Sports Articles - Warriors reshaping
Chris Mullin, named Golden State's executive vice president of basketball operations last month, declined to confirm reports that Montgomery had already been hired to replace Eric Musselman, who was fired Wednesday night.
Mullin said he has discussed the Warriors' coaching job with Montgomery, 57, and described him as an ideal candidate for the position.
But Mullin said the two friends "zeroed in on an executive position" early in their discussions, which began a couple of weeks ago.
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THOSE CONVERSATIONS must be fascinating, the ones between Chris Mullin and Billy Beane in that coffee shop out in the Diablo Valley, the dialogue between the Dream Teamer and the Moneyballer, between the man trying to resurrect a basketball team and the man trying to stay successful with a baseball team.
The truth about Mullin, 42, is he didn't plan to become an executive with the Warriors, the club that made him the seventh player chosen in the 1985 NBA Draft, not like he planned to be a player.
Chris Mullin is a New Yorker who came to California, not that 20 years of living around here has done much for his accent.
www.insidebayarea.com /portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=3111461   (726 words)

  
 Wreck Ramblin: Basketball
He played basketball for the United States in Germany two years ago, but when he and fellow Tech signee Javaris Crittenton of Atlanta left Sunday to represent the United States in the upcoming Nike Junior World Championships in Douai, France, they won't exactly be veterans.
All of GT's key basketball recruits from the '07 class, and several from the '08 class will be in action this weekend at various AAU events - with most of them playing in the Wallace Prather Memorial Classic on the Georgia Tech campus.
The 2005-06 season for the men's basketball team ended on some sour notes, but there were a number of bright spots and, most importantly, plenty of optimism for the future.
airbornecombatengineer.typepad.com /wreck_ramblin/basketball   (6344 words)

  
 Herren found kindred spirit in NBA's Mullin: 1/20/98
Chris Mullin first heard about Fall River's Chris Herren a few days after Herren went public in November about his substance abuse problem.
So Mullin went to a rehab hospital in California, which he later called a crash course "in learning about myself." Most of all, he admitted he had a problem, came to learn that that problem transcended whether he could drill jump shots or not.
His biggest challenge is what Mullin's was a decade ago, to learn how to live without drinking; to learn that while some people can go have a few beers and it's harmless, for him it's a potential minefield.
www.s-t.com /daily/01-98/01-20-98/d03sp112.htm   (933 words)

  
 On the Warpath - The Full Monty | HOOPSWORLD.com | NBA News and Information | powered by Basketball News Services
Unless Chris Mullin reverses course on his very recent and very clear statements about Mike Montgomery’s status with the franchise, it seems that the Golden State Warriors are in for a third year of Monty Mania.
Apparently Chris Mullin must still think Coach Montgomery is running a college basketball team where two straight years of 34 wins would be an extremely impressive feat.
Chris Mullin had a chance to take the keys away from Monty, but didn’t take it.
www.hoopsworld.com /article_17053.shtml   (599 words)

  
 Scout.com: Can Montgomery Succeed in the NBA?
Mullin, regarded as a straight shooter on the court and in the executive booth, added close friend Rod Higgins as his GM on Thursday.
Mullin gets the benefit of the doubt for now, but reports that Cohan has been enamored with Montgomery for some time and even offered him the Warriors’; head coaching job last year are cause for concern.
If Chris Mullin and Monty are given a free reign to build the right type of team with the right type of players, then Monty can indeed reverse the fortunes of his recent college predecessors in the NBA.
stanford.scout.com /2/261234.html   (2024 words)

  
 If Mullin's body is sound, Indiana is in great shape - Pacers' forward Chris Mullin - NBA Report - Column Sporting ...
Indiana -- the state and the state of mind -- is renowned for such a basketball species, of course.
So it will embrace Chris Mullin with all its collective might and pray he will bridge the gap between mediocrity and title contention.
Mullin, with his ability to find seams and create plays and knock down open shots with the best of them, provides a new look for an offense that too often was plodding and predictable.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1208/is_n34_v221/ai_19715008   (440 words)

  
 St. John's University -- Athletics -- Basketball Legacy Honors -- Chris Mullin
The consensus All-American's sharp outside shooting from the floor, his dead-eye accuracy from the free-throw line, his keen basketball sense, his leadership both on and off the court and his total devotion to the game of basketball led him to become, arguably, the greatest player in St. John's history.
Mullin was a consensus first-team All-America, was named UPI's Player of the Year and District II Player of the Year.
Mullin was not just a scoring machine; in his four years at St.
www.stjohns.edu /athletics/legacy/chrismullin.sju   (515 words)

  
 Piccola inducted into Xaverian Hall of Fame Coach and ’81 state championship basketball team are honored By tim ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Colts Neck High School boys basketball coach Lou Piccola stands with two of his former players, Chris Mullin and Joe Cannizzo, after his recent induction in to the Xaverian High School athletic Hall of Fame.
Mullin, of course, stayed home and had a legendary career at St. John’s University, Jamaica, N.Y., winning College Player of the Year honors and taking the Redmen to the Final Four in 1985.
He played on two Olympic gold medal basketball teams (1984 and 1992), including the 1992 Dream Team, and is still playing in the National Basketball Association.
newstranscript.gmnews.com /news/2001/0710/Sports/032.html   (877 words)

  
 The New Direction
The Warriors have finally made the move that was anticipated ever since Chris Mullin came aboard a few years ago.
Chris Mullin is now the Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations.
I don't know what Mullin sees in Montgomery that he feels that he needed to take such a huge risk and hire him anyway even considering the failures of previous college coaches.
homepage.mac.com /bhelm2/iblog/C1444940137/E1277211506   (551 words)

  
 ESPN.com - NBA - Mullin named Warriors' VP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Mullin was introduced as the Warriors' executive vice president of basketball operations Thursday.
Mullin was the Warriors' most visible and popular player almost from the moment he joined the team in 1985 following a stellar college career at St. John's.
Mullin wouldn't address Musselman's status, saying the whole organization would be under review in the upcoming weeks.
sports.espn.go.com /nba/news/story?id=1787589   (729 words)

  
 NBA.com: Chats
One of the greatest players in franchise history, Chris Mullin was named Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations on April 22, 2004 after spending the last two years in the Warriors front office as a Special Assistant.
Mullin, as a long time Warrior fan, I truly believe you have the ability the turn this franchise around and lead this team to the playoffs soon.
Chris Mullin: One of our biggest areas of improvement will be focused on defense and rebounding.
proxy.espn.go.com /chat/chatNBA?event_id=5434   (882 words)

  
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I often wonder what the show would have sounded like in 1985 when Chris Mullin was leading St. Johns to the Final Four and college basketball really mattered in this city.
As it is they ignore the sport almost entirely until a week or two before Selection Sunday at which point they bestow upon us their thoughts on how the selection committee did.
To be sure New York was never a college basketball town but there was a time when it was as important as almost any other sport that filled the time between the final game of the World Series and opening day.
slog.cstv.com /themax   (1802 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Young Basketball Player (Young Enthusiast): Books: Chris Mullin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
After a cursory history of basketball and a brief rundown of the basic rules, officials, and equipment comes the main part of the book: a series of two-page or four-page sections featuring topics such as dribbling, driving to score, passing, shooting, rebounding, and screening.
However, because it focuses on developing basketball skills, there are few of the archival photos, sidebars, and memorabilia that DK usually presents.
Basketball history is limited, and there are very few shots of NBA players.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0789402203?v=glance   (737 words)

  
 The Library Connection
Sonny, a university freshman and star basketball player, finds the pressures of college life, NCAA competition, and an unsettling relationship with his feminist cousin bring up painful memories that he must face before he can decide what is important in his life.
When the basketball coach is replaced by the science teacher, who has some rather strange ideas, the team is skeptical.
Some of the best college basketball coaches in the country offer advice and insight into what are their secrets of success.
scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/ALAN/spring97/s97-Library.html   (1777 words)

  
 Mullin's Twelve
He beat out guys like Chris Webber and Jamal Mashburn for the award- it was a pretty big deal at the time.
Mullin signed Cheaney to a contract only after Jerry Sloan assured him that Calbert was fit to play, as long as the locker room was kept free of modern technology like DVD players and post-Zack Morris cell phones.
While Derek Fisher is extremely fast in all aspects of life, the next player Mullin checked in on is a slow-moving project who tests the patience of everyone he comes into contact with.
www.sign-arenas.20fr.com /mullins12.htm   (2936 words)

  
 News & Events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Chris Mullin And Nate Thurmond To Attend Opening Ceremonies At F.M. Smith Recreation Center.
Former Warriors greats Chris Mullin and Nate Thurmond will join Warriors executive director, basketball operations Otis Smith, Good Tidings Foundation founder Larry Harper and officials from the City of Oakland at the unveiling.
The $25,000 renovation project on the F.M. Smith Recreation Center basketball court, which was funded by the Warriors and the Good Tidings Foundation, included a resurfaced playing area complete with color and striping, as well as the replacement of rims, backboards and poles.
www.oaklandnet.com /parks/news/100302b.asp   (364 words)

  
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So it seemed to Attles, who thought Mullin would be long gone by the time the Warriors made their selection.
During his career, Mullin exceeded Attles' predraft expectations and became one of the best lottery values in league history - even to this day.
Mullin started slowly at Golden State but, by his third season, he averaged 20.2 points a game on 50.8 percent shooting,.
www.sltrib.com /portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=3840716   (659 words)

  
 Getting back that Olympic moxie
The biggest news is vice president Chris Mullin heading to Los Angeles next week to begin talks with agent Arn Tellem on a contract extension for Mike Dunleavy.
Mullin attended a prestigious gathering of basketball minds in June after being summoned to Chicago by Jerry Colangelo, the managing director of the senior men's national team.
Mullin is one of only a dozen basketball players to earn two Olympic gold medals.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/20/SPGHJEASO31.DTL&feed=rss.warriors   (534 words)

  
 USA Basketball-USA Men's Senior National Team Program Working Groups
Based in Colorado Springs, Colo., USA Basketball is a non-profit organization and the national governing body for men's and women's basketball in the United States.
As the recognized governing body for basketball in the United States by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) and the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), USA Basketball is responsible for the selection, training and fielding of USA teams that compete in FIBA sponsored international basketball competitions, as well as for some national competitions.
USA Basketball also sanctions U.S. basketball team tours of foreign countries and foreign basketball team tours of the U.S., as well as oversees the certification of FIBA and USA Basketball officials and the assignment of those officials to international competitions.
www.usabasketball.com /seniormen/2005/2005-msnt_working_groups.html   (686 words)

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