Clinton has long enjoyed many sports, and also played golf in Colombia last week at a Nationwide Tour event. Heat executives Nick Arison and Alonzo Mourning met briefly with Clinton in Haiti last month, discussing ongoing earthquake relief efforts. ...

He visited Georgetown, where he has a lot of extended family in the D.C. area. He felt he fit in hanging out with the guys. Not the black guys or the white guys — the guys. Exactly at that moment, John Thompson Jr. — the coach of those Patrick Ewing,...

(Notice all the former Pistons.) NORTH CAROLINA Led by Rasheed Wallace and Vince Carter, former Tar Heels have banked $853 million. DUKE Grant Hill and Elton Brand pace the Blue Devils, who have made $809 million. ARIZONA Mike Bibby and Gilbert Arenas...

All this focus on defense is new to a JTIII team and has me thinking about great Hoya defensive players. So, without further fanfare, I present the All-Time Georgetown Defensive Team. Alonzo Mourning: No one had a better motor at Georgetown than Alonzo.

To the current players, even the tenured veterans such as Dwyane Wade and the Udonis Haslem, the magnitude of the climb is incomprehensible since their formative basketball viewing years came during the Heat's Pat Riley era, when Alonzo Mourning and...

If AI is finally willing to accept a complementary role, and he'd have no other choice at this point, he could easily put his once-in-a-generation talents to constructive use. Bill Walton did it with the Celtics towards the end of his career and won a...

"That's what happens when these guys leave school early." Bowen began to learn the intricacies of defense in the NBA after bouncing around Miami, Boston, Toronto and Philadelphia and looking hard for his niche. Once he became comfortable with his role,...

15 rebounds, including a three-point play with less than four minutes remaining in which he ripped a rebound away from freshman Dorian Finney-Smith. Florida State also finished with 15 blocks, tying the record for a Virginia Tech opponent set by...

Alonzo Mourning. (Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images) • Alonzo Mourning dining at Founding Farmers Wednesday night. The former Hoya and NBA star celebrated his 42nd birthday in a booth next to the bar, where he and a friend watched a college basketball game...

Alonzo Mourning. (Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images) • Alonzo Mourning dining at Founding Farmers Wednesday night. The former Hoya and NBA star celebrated his 42nd birthday in a booth next to the bar, where he and a friend watched a college basketball game...

Alonzo Mourning. (Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images) • Alonzo Mourning dining at Founding Farmers Wednesday night. The former Hoya and NBA star celebrated his 42nd birthday in a booth next to the bar, where he and a friend watched a college basketball game...

Marquis Teague (12 points) was one of four Kentucky players to score in double figures. (AP Photo) To say there’s never been anyone like Davis is to say he is unique. There have been tall, agile, dynamic shot-blockers—David Robinson, Shaquille O’Neal,...

Player in the league. Seikaly was a terrific rebounder in his prime, and the 1988 first-round pick averaged 9.5 rebounds per game over the course of his career. Congress intern. Shot-blocker. Linguist. Humanitarian. Is there anything that Dikembe...

I suppose.) Or is the “green” in reference to Rondo’s teammate Jeff Green, whose salary was voided this year due to his medical exemption? (Tyga released the song on December 2nd and thus could not have known this ahead of time.) Of course, none of...

What separates the great from the good is how a player performs when he's *not* at his best. Jordan or Kobe with a broken wrist or other injury were still top-10 in the league. Alonzo Mourning played the last year or two of his career after a kidney...

In fact, only nine NBA rookies have ever averaged at least 15 points per game with a higher true shooting percentage: Bill Cartwright, Buck Williams , Magic Johnson, Adrian Dantley, David Robinson, Eric Gordon, Michael Jordan, Alonzo Mourning and...

In fact, only nine N.B.A. rookies have ever averaged at least 15 points per game with a higher true shooting percentage: Bill Cartwright, Buck Williams , Magic Johnson, Adrian Dantley, David Robinson, Eric Gordon, Michael Jordan, Alonzo Mourning and...

He could deflect what appeared to be simple, routine passes. In addition, he could block shots along the baseline either while challenging his man or serving as a help defender. Noel is different in that he owns the lane in a way no high school player...

Zion. The rest of the 35 players are: Earvin "Magic" Johnson (1977), Clark Kellogg (1979), Ralph Sampson (1979), Isiah Thomas (1979), Sam Perkins (1980), Glenn "Doc" Rivers (1980), Patrick Ewing (1981), Chris Mullin (1981), Kenny Smith (1983), Larry...