http://www.yardbarker.com/content/player/4466 Recent articles about Adonal Foyle en-us No, Adonal Foyle will not be playing center for the Warriors next year, so you can breathe your sigh of relief right now. Unfortunately, and for some inexplicable reason, his original contract figure with the W's will still count next year. Lucky for Chris Mullin and the organization, the team holds an option for the 2009-2010 season. Hopefully, they'll cut him then, but you never can tell with the Warriors. Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:58:05 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/254934 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/254934 NY + CT has Artest, Odom, Camby, Gordon, and Skip to my Lou. PA + MD has Kobe, Rip, Gay, Durant, and Sheed. Who will win? These 2 teams are facing off in my NBA State Tournament to see who represents the West Region in the Final 4. Click to view the matchups and vote for which team you think would win. Voting ends on March 31st! Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:32:05 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/215554 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/215554 The East Region is the most competitive one in my NBA State Tournament, so I saved the best for last. Skip to My Lou, Ben Gordon, Artest, Odom, and Camby represent for the New York/ Connecticut squad, but can they get past the likes of Butler, Deng, Bynum, Brad Miller, and Harrington? Get your votes in ASAP. The 1st round is almost complete! Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:22:49 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/193245 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/193245 With the NBA season passed its midpoint I feel it necessary as a true Recliner GM to give out some accolades - and stir up some healthy debate. I almost coped out and gave double the awards but that would have satisfied too many ppl (not the goal). With that said, let's start the debate. Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:24:47 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/114616 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/114616 The internet is dominated by short and very short articles, but my full game reports are extremely long, averaging about 4500 words these days. I know some people will never have the time to read articles that long. Short articles on extremely important topics are great for fans without a lot of time to check out and to give their opinion on. So from now on, as time permits, I will extract very important parts of game reports and post them as separate reports. Here are the real player ratings for the Nuggets-Magic game. For an explanation of the Real Player Rating, go to: http://nuggets1reference.blogspot.com/2007/12/real-player-ratings.html SCALE FOR THE REAL PLAYER RATINGS 1.60 More Rare Superstar Plus-Above Normal Even For Michael Jordan 1.40 1.60 Superstar Performance Plus-A Michael Jordan Type Game 1.20 1.40 Spectacular Performance 1.05 1.20 Star Performance 0.90 1.05 Outstanding Game 0.80 0.90 Very Good Game 0.70 0.80 Good Game 0.60 0.70 Mediocre Game 0.50 0.60 Poor Game 0.40 0.50 Very Poor Game 0.25 0.40 Bad Game-Near Disaster Less 0.25 Total Disaster NUGGETS-MAGIC REAL PLAYER RATINGS All players who played 5 minutes or more are included. Any player who played only 5-9 minutes is noted. 1. Linas Kleiza, Den 1.419 2. Carmelo Anthony, Den 1.315 3. Anthony Carter, Den 1.247 4. Maurice Evans, Orl 1.015 5. Allen Iverson, Den 0.988 6. Keyon Dooling, Orl 0.950 7. Dwight Howard, Orl 0.932 8. Keith Bogans, Orl 0.884 9. Jameer Nelson, Orl 0.831 10. Rashard Lewis, Orl 0.786 11. Marcus Camby, Den 0.738 12. Kenyon Martin, Den 0.621 13. Carlos Arroyo, Orl 0.460 14. Adonal Foyle, Orl 0.460 15. Hedo Turkoglu, Orl 0.373 16. J.R. Smith, Den 0.140…Smith played only 5 minutes. 17. Eduardo Najera, Den 0.086 OBSERVATIONS ON THE REAL PLAYER RATINGS In the friendly confines of the Pepsi Center in Denver, Kleiza and Carter played two of the best games of their respective careers. Carmelo Anthony was spectacular, while Iverson was merely outstanding in this one. Dwight Howard is a better player than what he showed in this game, and Rashard Lewis should in theory be a better player than what he showed. Camby and Martin were a little off but it didn't mean much, mostly because of the Turkoglu disaster. The Najera disaster was the first one in many, many moons. Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:10:14 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/72808 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/72808 Meet Nathan Jawai, yet another "The Next Shaquille O'Neal" type player to introduce yourself to. Haven't we heard this enough with the likes of Adonal Foyle, Eddie Curry, Stanley Roberts, Michael Olowokandi, and the smaller versions Robert Traylor and Glen Davis? Read the article an see for yourself if your buying the hype on this huge Aussie Star. By the way, the next Shaq might just be playing for the Orlando Magic already, but goes by the name of Dwight Howard. Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:50:03 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/50761 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/50761 Brains, brawn, baby hooks and slow as molasses in the dead of winter. That's just not going to work in Nellie's run, gun and run some more schemes. So, it looks like it is over for the longest-tenured Dub — Adonal. My man is far from poetry in motion — but it's really hard NOT to like the guy on so many fronts... Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:40:22 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/23487 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/23487 Just wanted to finish ESPN's sidebar from their Garnett trade article today that found Adonal Foyle and his storied allegiance to the Golden State Warriors among rare company. They left out just one crucial statistic that we felt obligated to add: Minutes played (career) Kevin Garnett 35,536 Kobe Bryant 28,379 Tim Duncan 27,964 Adonal Foyle 11 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:07:10 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/21548 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/21548 Matt Barnes will be up for a new contract at the end of this season, which looks to be fast approaching for the Warriors, who have found themselves surprisingly in an 0-2 hole against the Utah Jazz. Barnes is probably going to be worth around 5 years and $27 million, a good increase to his situation as of last year, where he was unemployed before the season began. The Warriors will likely have to choose between he and Mickael Pietrus, because Baron, J-Rich, and Adonal Foyle are all taking up considerable cap room. Thu, 10 May 2007 21:11:05 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/13869 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/13869 Great video clip included in this post. And to think, he was taken right before McGrady in the 1997 draft. Some franchises are just destined to lose. Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:47:35 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/5008 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/5008 This is part of my series of articles previewing all 30 NBA teams and the upcoming season. New coach, new system... same talent. Can then succeed and finally end the playoff drought? I think the Warriors are going to end it this season and sneak in under the radar of the bottom teams in the West. They need a few more seasons to contend and get some more talent involved, but this could be a good start in building. Thu, 09 Nov 2006 23:12:26 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/4809 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/4809 Finally the season is under way, and not soon enough as my fantasy football team is getting killed and my Chicago Bears got mauled by Miami of all teams. So without further ado, time for some MMPG: 1. Shaq Injured: The winner of the "Shaq's first fake injury pool" was... bruised left knee. So time to cash in, I believe the odds were 3:1. Other "fake injury odds" were: Tendonitis - even Ankle Sprain - 2:1 Phlebitis - 10:1 The Clap - 250:1 Vaginal Irritation (or Josh Howard Syndrome) - 1000:1 Seriously, we all know that Shaq will miss about 30-35 games this year, I'm just shocked he started so soon. But then again didn't he get his "ankle sprain" last year in the second game? So I guess he's right on schedule. My question is, how does his teammates, who are going to battle for the entire 82-game season, respect the guy? 2. What's wrong here: Interesting little factoid given during the "balanced" Miami Heat broadcast. The longest active tenure with one team (top five): Kevin Garnett, Minnesota: 12-years Allen Iverson, Philadelphia: 11-years Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles: 11-years Tim Duncan, San Antonio: 10-years Adonal Foyle, Golden State: 10-years Three of the five have won MVP's and Kobe's the other one, so how the hell is Adonal Foyle in this group? Obviously it's because of his gaudy career numbers of 4.6 ppg. and 5.2 rpg. The funny thing is that Foyle's contract is guaranteed through 2008/09. And you wonder why Golden State hasn't made the playoffs since 1993-94. 3. Sign that Amare Stoudemire is not 100%: As Brett wrote in the in the courtside report, "Amare Stoudamire is not even close to the monster he was before..." Here's a good example: During the first half, Amare got the ball at the freethrow line with only Chris Kaman between himself and the hoop. Instead of blowing by the Clipper center for a ridiculous dunk, Amare looked at Kaman and passed the ball out. Let me say that again... he passed off a one-on-one with Chris Kaman. This is a guy who once jumped over Elton Brand for a dunk in 2005 and now he's passing on Chris Kaman. Not a good sign. 4. Reason 2,345 why I hate Miami: Antoine Walker is the worst front runner in the NBA. So while the Heat are getting blown out by the 76ers on Sunday, Antoine Walker gets hot in garbage time. Hitting three consecutive uncontested W-I-D-E O-P-E-N three's to cut the 76ers lead to 10 with 2 plus minutes left, Antoine Walker turns, looks right at A.I. and twice yells, "You can't stop me!" So out of the timeout Philly puts defensive maven, Kyle Korver (???) on him for the next possession. How does Walker respond? Firing a brick from three that glances off the front of the rim with Korver in his grill. Miami eventually loses 107-98. 5. Why is Doc Rivers still coaching? There are very few guarantees in life: death, taxes, getting some on anniversary night... You should always win the home opener dedicated to the life and death of your franchise icon! On a very emotional night where the Celtics honored the memories of Red Auerbach, the C's lost to NOOCH 91-87. Simply embarrassing and Rivers should have been given his walking papers as he left the floor. Now they sit 0-3, how much longer do Celtic fans have to put up with this? For pics check out theassociationblog (dot) com. Mon, 06 Nov 2006 18:09:58 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/4589 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/4589