Hopefully you didn’t miss former State hooper JJ Hickson’s ridiculous dunk on top of former Hole Marvin Williams. Via Deadspin
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JJ Hickson posterizes Deandre Jordan
Former NC State Wolfpacker, JJ Hickson, had quite a run this season after being traded from Sacramento to Portland. We thought you would enjoy the following video: From this entry. …combo forward J.J. Hickson continues to put on a clinic for the beautiful fans of Rip City. The 6’9’’, 250-pounder has averaged 14.3 points, 7.8 […]
JJ Hickson about to make it big…or not?
The NBA started its 2010-2011 season last night to a ‘big whoop’ in these parts. I don’t even think our message boards had a single thread about ‘The League’s’ opening night. Nonetheless, the Cleveland Cavaliers and JJ Hickson open their season against the Boston Celtics tonight. From page 76 of the August 30th, 2010 […]
Kentucky & academics like oil & water
The Dagger has an interesting blog entry titled: “Kentucky flopped in the classroom in Calipari’s first season” According to records obtained by the Lexington Herald-Leader, Kentucky had a cumulative GPA of 2.025 for fall semester, lowest among all 20 teams at the school. That was also the worst semester GPA a Kentucky men’s basketball team […]
NBA Draft entry & anecdotal underachiever analysis
Last week we had a fantastic entry and poll that you may not have seen projecting the impact of early entrants in the NBA draft on the ACC Basketball landscape that can be seen by clicking here. Tonight we thought we would open an entry for the NBA Draft which can be followed at the […]
JJ Hickson provides ESPN’s #1 play of Thursday night
JJ Hickson’s monster dunk viewable in the highlights at this link was ESPN Sportscenter’s top play of last night. NC State did not get a mention during the Sportscenter broadcast that I saw but we are mentioned in the highlight reel linked above. This serves as a pretty good follow-up to this entry from Wednesday.
NBA season tips-off with a decided Wolfpack flavor
The 2008-2009 NBA season tipped-off with three games last night that each had a very prominent NC State-related storyline when: (1) JJ Hickson began his NBA career with the Cleveland Cavaliers who lost to the defending NBA Champion Boston Celtics. (2) Hickson wasn’t the only former NC State big man to take the court last […]
Hickson turning heads early
J.J. Hickson got off to a quick start last night in his first summer league game: LAS VEGAS –Cleveland Cavaliers assistant John Kuester was on a roll Monday, thinking up new ways to praise rookie J.J. Hickson. “We’re talking about an N.C. State guy, and I’m still saying nice things,†former Tar Heel Kuester joked. […]
BBall: 2008 One-and-Doners and more
An awesome analysis of 2008’s One-And-Doners can be seen by clicking here to one of the best college basketball blogs in the country. I can’t copy and paste their comments, but they have some interesting things to say about NC State and how JJ Hickson was definitely ‘not worth it’. It really is an interesting […]
Hickson to Cleveland at #19
Sid was right – JJ went in the 11-20 window. Here’s Chad Ford’s analysis: I’m surprised they passed on local hero Kosta Koufos of Ohio State. But I do like Hickson, who’s a sleeper. He’s strong and athletic and he can score in multiple ways. He was 12-for-12 from the field in his first college […]
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