SPECIAL GIFT
MJ and wife get huge wedding card
Michael Jordan has made the Upper Deck trading card company lots and lots of money over the past 30 years, so the company decided to repay him and his new wife Yvette Prieto with a very impressive wedding gift. Jordan and Prieto’s wedding present came in the form of a giant trading card bearing their likeness as well as the autographs and well-wishes of 16 notable sports figures...
Michael Jordan Marries Yvette Prieto
Michael Jordan married Yvette Prieto over the weekend in a lavish ceremony in Palm Beach, Florida near his home. MJ wed in front of 500 of his closest friends and family at Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church and then joined 1,500 more guests for the ceremony. Scottie Pippen, Toni Kukoc, Patrick Ewing, Spike Lee, Tiger Woods and more were all on hand and joined Jordan & Prieto...
PARTY ON
Michael Jordan throws massive wedding bash
Michael Jordan took the walk down the aisle for the second time in his life. Yes, his Airness married model Yvette Prieto Saturday in a super private, super exclusive wedding in Palm Beach. Earlier Saturday, we told you the wedding was expected to have 2,000 guests. Shiny Sheet tweeted that guests included ex-NBA players Scottie Pippen and Patrick Ewing, as well as film maker Spike...
Wolves Tuesday: Kirelinko questionable
MINNEAPOLIS After straining his right quad at the end of the second quarter of Monday's loss to Portland, Timberwolves small forward Andrei Kirilenko is questionable for Wednesday's game against the Spurs. If he were to miss the game, it would be just his fifth missed game this season; he sat for four in late November and early December with back spasms.
In other Kirilenko...
Wolves Tuesday: Kirelinko questionable
MINNEAPOLIS After straining his right quad at the end of the second quarter of Monday's loss to Portland, Timberwolves small forward Andrei Kirilenko is questionable for Wednesday's game against the Spurs. If he were to miss the game, it would be just his fifth missed game this season; he sat for four in late November and early December with back spasms.
In other Kirilenko...
Sweet retro stuff I’d buy on eBay if I only had $68
For some of us in 2013, disposable income is a figment of imagination. It’s not real – it’s only something we can dream about. We live our lives paycheck-to-paycheck, and see our earnings instantaneously sucked into payments on rent, car, cable, electricity, etc. After all, it’s hard to play RBI Baseball on a Nintendo NES without power.
But imagine, if you will, that you...
Missner's Manifesto: Point Guard? We Don't Need No Stinking Point Guard
In many ways, the core of my basketball knowledge came from my first writing experience dealing with basketball. From 2004 to 2007, I was the “hometown correspondent” for ESPN Fantasy Basketball for the Milwaukee Bucks. I watched 75+ Bucks games and enjoyed it, even though we didn’t yet have access to DVR technology. I don’t know how I managed. The Bucks were (as they have...
The Dream Team Would Dominate Team USA 2012 … Right? Not So Fast
Arvydas Sabonis. Detlef Shrempf. Toni Kukoc. Drazen Petrovic. Dino Radja. Oscar Schmidt.
Those were the six best players in the 1992 Olympics – other than the guys who donned the Stars and Stripes.
Over the years, the legend of “The Dream Team” has grown to unfathomable heights. After last month’s documentary, it’s almost Un-American to say anything bad about those “heroes”...
Random Athlete of the Day- Toni Kukoc
The Chicago Bulls of the 90’s were not only the locale of Jordan, Pippen, and Rodman; they also featured some of the deepest benches in basketball. An integral piece in the Bulls’ second three-peat was the sixth man and versatile Croatian Toni Kukoc, a 6’11” Small Forward that fits the stereotype for what we’ve come to know about European players. Kukoc was drafted with...
Scottie Pippen Couples up with Toni Kukoc
What happened to our 90's swag T?
The Chicago Bulls won two threepeats during the 90′s — Scottie Pippen was Robin to MJ’s Batman, but what did that make Toni Kukoc? Check out Pip and Toni hanging last night at the Bulls playoff game. Kukoc looks like a grandfather. Pretty scary. -TO
Pippen Spotted With Woman Who Isn’t His Wife
Toni Kukoc Beneficiary of Elite Prostitution Ring
Bucks Acquire Kukoc, Smith, First-Round Pick
Toni Kukoc picked up three rings in his run with the Bulls.
Q&A with Toni Kukoc
December 9, 2005
Tonight, the Chicago Bulls will retire Scottie Pippen's #33 jersey at a halftime ceremony when they host the Los Angeles Lakers at the United Center. Bucks forward Toni Kukoc was a teammate of Pippen's for five seasons in Chicago and will be present for the jersey retirement ceremony.
Kukoc spoke with Bucks.com about Pippen, tonight's ceremony...
Sons of Evil - 10 Things You May Not Know About JT III
Kim Jung Un and John Thompson III have much in commonKim Jung Thompson leads his band of international incident inducing thugs into the Carrier Dome tonight to take on the noble Syracuse Orange. Like his kindred spirit Kim Jung Un, Thompson inherited the reigns of an evil regime from his father and like North Korea, the world knows while he's mildly incompetent, he must be kept...
What every young player needs: playing time
Even in these days of internationalism, certain constants remain in European basketball vis-à-vis player development. BallinEurope’s Marko Savkovic takes a brief look at the current situation in the countries of the former Yugoslavia, with particular reference to Partizan’s Danilo Andjusic and Nemanja Nedovic of Red Star Belgrade.
Ask any coach what a young player needs to...
What makes the Partizan “system” of basketball?
BallinEurope today welcomes Marko Savkovic into its corps as the Serbia-based writer takes a look at just what has made Partizan Belgrade basketball tick through its many years of success…
In December, Armani Jeans Milano denied Partizan Belgrade from playing in its sixth consecutive Top 16 phase of the Euroleague. And yet again, in what is now considered a trademark display of...
Escape from Levien
Game #8-394: Pennsylvania Quakers at Columbia LionsJanuary 13, 2012 7:00 pmLevien GymBBState Stats/RecapFor those who have not been to a Columbia Basketball game, the experience is slightly maddening. Levien Gymnasium is a high school gym, which in itself, is not the problem. Rather, it is tucked underground between a new engineering building and the outdated student fitness center...
Monday Bullets
Classmates of Kim Jong Il's son, Kim Jong-un, testify that the presumed successor in North Korea wasn't all that interested in politics when he was at school in Switzerland. What really got him going was basketball. "He worshipped basketball players in the NBA. A friend who visited his apartment at #10, Kirchstrasse, Liebefeld, recalls that Kim had a room filled with...
North Korean Heir Is Basically That Guy You Knew In 1996 Who Always Wore A Toni Kukoc Jersey
Kim Jong Il is dead. In 2009, we met his youngest son and presumptive heir, Kim Jong Un—a basketball fan, it turns out. Originally published July 16, 2009. More »
Lockout videos: The ‘best’ of the rest from the ‘vault’
Just like the NBA and its players, we (principally, me) had some ideas constructed during the lockout that sounded good at the time, but didn't exactly flesh out properly in reality once executed. Like the idea of lockout videos, which were supposed to make you giggle and suffer another day over the five-month labor negotiations, but instead probably just served as a reminder...
Penn Edges Manhattan At Palestra
Former Sixer Toni Kukoc's son Marin saw his first serious action of the season and had a career-high 11 points off the bench.
Read more at Philly Sports Daily
Vlade Divac: The BallinEurope/YouTube career retrospective
BallinEurope sends out hearty congratulations to Serbian great Vlade Divac on his nomination for possible entry into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame’s “Class of 2012.”
While Divac may be known as a famous trivia answer (“Who was traded for Kobe Bryant?”) or by the dreaded “F-word” (i.e. “flopper” as used in – really – this Los Angeles Times blog...
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