EARL BOYKINS RUMORS & GOSSIP

Rockets Set To Sign Boykins For Remainder Of Season

The Rockets are prepared to offer Earl Boykins a contract for the rest of this season.
Via RealGM  |  April 15, 2012

Earl Boykins Is Good For Basketball

Listed at 5 ft. 5, Earl Boykins is short by most measurable human standards. YMCA ballers would likely look right over Boykins when selecting teams, and he can blend in easily unrecognizable walking down the street, unlike the majority of his super-sized peers. So, especially in the NBA, where the average player height is just under 6 ft. 7, Boykins stands out like a sore thumb....
Via Rant Sports  |  March 28, 2012

Rockets Sign Boykins To 10-Day Contract

The Rockets signed Earl Boykins to a 10-day contract on Monday.
Via RealGM  |  March 27, 2012

Boykins ready when banged-up Rockets call

HOUSTON There was a bizarre intersection of point guards at Toyota Center on Monday that might have proven debilitating had Goran Dragic not concluded this unusual night by laughing off his twisted right ankle. Earlier in the day Kyle Lowry made an appearance at the Rockets' shoot-around looking slightly gaunt and worse from the wear of a bacterial infection that has sidelined...
Via Fox Sports Houston  |  March 27, 2012

Rockets 113, Kings 106, OT

Patrick Patterson scored a career-high 24 points and Earl Boykins hit four free throws for Houston late in overtime to lead the Rockets to a 113-106 win over the Sacramento Kings on Monday night. Boykins, who was signed by Houston earlier in the day, finished with 10 points in his first action of the season. Houston built a 107-102 lead in overtime behind four points from Chandler...
Via AP on Fox  |  March 26, 2012

Patterson leads Rockets over Kings in OT

HOUSTON (AP) -- Patrick Patterson scored a career-high 24 points and Earl Boykins hit four free throws for Houston late in overtime to lead the Rockets to a 113-106 win over the Sacramento Kings on Monday night. Boykins, who was signed by Houston earlier in the day, finished with 10 points in his first action of the season. Houston built a 107-102 lead in overtime behind four points...
Via Fox Sports Houston  |  March 26, 2012

Rockets sign Boykins

HOUSTON Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey announced today that the team has signed guard Earl Boykins to a 10-day contract. He will wear jersey 6 with the Rockets. Boykins (5-5, 133, Eastern Michigan) has averaged 8.9 points (.349, 382-1,095 3FG) and 3.2 assists in 644 career games (34 starts) with New Jersey, Cleveland, Orlando, the L.A. Clippers, Golden State, Denver...
Via Fox Sports Houston  |  March 26, 2012

Bucks Back When ... Earl Boykins, Part I

At 5-5, Earl Boykins is the shortestplayer to ever play for the Bucks,and the second-shortest in NBAhistory. (Getty Images) February 22, 2007
Via NBA.com  |  February 21, 2012

Earl Boykins and D.J. Mbenga to Olympiacos – If so, when?

So it’s not quite Kirilenko-to-CSKA, but it’s got BallinEurope on pins and needles. To wit, the ostensible signings of Earl Boykins, a free agent currently listed as the shorter player in the NBA ranks, and fan favorite D.J. Mbenga by Olympiacos. For nearly a week, the story of the Reds signing the 5’5” Boykins has been getting play from American sources to Greece-based Sentragoal...
Via Ball in Europe  |  January 04, 2012

Cavs Should Invite Cleveland's Own Brian Kortovich To Training Camp

Underdog stories about Northeast Ohioans are my favorite ones.   Like when they said Earl Boykins was too small to play in the League right up until he played a dozen years in it. Or when Kelly Pavlik wasn't good enough to beat Jermaine Taylor up until he knocked him out. Or even back when record companies wouldn't sign a rap group from Cleveland named Bone Thugs N Harmony...
Via Stepien Rules  |  November 29, 2011
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