TORONTO (AP) -- Landry Fields scored 15 points, and Kyle Lowry had 14 points and six assists in his Raptors debut to help Toronto beat the Washington Wizards 104-101 in exhibition play Wednesday night.
Lowry has 14 points, 6 assists in Raptors debut (Yahoo! Sports)
17 Oct
2012
2012
We've known for some time that Iman Shumpert likes to rap, recording under the name "DeBeau" before the New York Knicks drafted him and releasing more music under his own name after a left knee injury ended his rookie season during the Knicks' first-round playoff loss to the Miami Heat. We've also seen him show the capacity to kick rhymes a capella, coming off the top with no instrumentation at a February party for Knicks season ticket holders that also saw former teammate Landry Fields sing a Travie McCoy song.
Given his skills on the mic, his willingness to go in spoken-word style and his predilection toward dressing like a member of the Native Tongues crew, it's not much of a surprise to see Shumpert get up on stage at venerable New York City music venue The Village Underground to share a poem he'd written about his late aunt. What is kind of surprising, though, is how affecting it is — even without a clearly overcome Shumpert choking up in midstream, even if you've never lost anyone to cancer, even if you've never lost anyone at all.
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The sophomore-to-be's got a way with words; it's just a shame circumstances dictated him showing us this way. Our condolences to Shumpert and his family.
In on-court news, Shumpert is not only upright and walking again (as you can see in the video above), but also dunking off one leg and continues to target a return to the court somewhere between December and February, aiming to provide a second-half boost for a Knicks team that looks thin at the two-guard.
Video via hoopdrive. Hat-tip to Sekou Smith at NBA.com's Hang Time blog.
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Jeremy Lin is still trying to sleep on his teammates’ couches
16 Sep
2012
2012
One of the many storylines that dotted Jeremy Lin's shocking 2012 ascension from training camp fodder to an NBA Player of the Week award recipient and two-time Sports Illustrated cover subject was the so-cute tale behind his time spent on former teammate Landry Fields' living room couch. Lin, who shuttled back and forth between the New York Knicks' D-League affiliate in Erie, Pa., and the big leagues before nearly being cut by the team before his breakout February, was forced to sleep on Fields' couch while he was with New York for those factors and more — including the scrunched up lockout-influenced schedule, the fact that he and Fields were fast friends, and the centuries-long lack of real estate options in the greater New York City metropolitan area.
Signed by Houston over the summer, if reluctantly, it appears as if Lin is having the same troubles in the fourth-largest city in America. As tweeted by new Rockets teammate Chandler Parsons on Sunday afternoon, Lin can't seem to get away from couchin' it up. From Parsons' Twitter account, here's a screengrab from the Rocket forward's phone:
And Parsons' quip, in light of Lin's three-year, $25.1 million contract (that will pay him near-maximum money in the third year of his deal):
Sorry to bug u, Jeremy Lin, but you can afford a Motel 6. They'll leave the light on for you. And 13 basic cable channels.
Also, Jeremy? Sorry to bug u, but never change.
UPDATE: Lin's really pressing the issue, now.
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