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Baron Davis has become the latest NBA player
to make the move overseas. No, he is not
following Josh Childress to the delights of souvlaki and a long hot Summer -- he won't be leaving the Clippers any time soon. Instead, Davis is the newest signing by growing shoe giant Li-Ning.
ESPN recently conducted four interviews with Josh Childress,
currently playing in Athens. Cut through the grease and
get right to the meat with this detailed analysis by Evin Demirel of The Global Hook.
Josh Childress used to play for the Atlanta
Hawks. During his four years with the team they
averaged about 27 wins per season. Good times. Well as you all know, he’s now playing in Greece for Olympiacos and likely not getting too nostalgic ...
The owners of the Greek basketball club are
paying Josh the big bucks because they want him
to win the Triple Crown, which consists of winning the Greek League, Greek Cup and Euroleague titles. Basically, Childress has to win three titles this year to perform up to par.
All types of hot Greek girls are asking
Josh Childress for his autograph, and Childress is returning
the favor. Josh takes us through a tour of the high life in Greece and is caught on camera checking out a Greek chick's butt at the 0:60 mark.
FUNNY how things work out, right? This was
January of 2006, and Brad Childress, just been hired
off Andy Reid's staff in Philadelphia to coach the Vikings, was in the market for a defensive coordinator. Childress knew precisely whom he wanted to...
ATHENS, Greece -- Josh Childress is a free-spirited,
open-minded world traveler. Perhaps that makes him the perfect
candidate to become the most prominent American-born player in his prime to take a 7,000-mile leap outside his NBA comfort zone. ...
In the Week 2 Top 10 Euroleague plays,
Josh Childress blows by the entire Unicaja Malaga team
for the two-handed baseline slam. Childress finished with 16 points on an impressive 6-9 shooting performance to lead Olympiacos to a 83-72 win over Unicaja.
Its a true opinion on some nba players
opting to go overseas
Josh Childress introduces himself to the Euroleague crowd
with a defensive play worth a top 6 entry
this week.
Los Angeles Lakers | photo: Wally Skalij for
the LA Times I'm still wearing the afterglow of
a Game 3 Phillies win. So here's an incredibly distracted edition of the Skip Pass. NBA :: LA Times: Lakers-Celtics clash in Finals would rock - LA Times columnist Mark Heisler is calling out the ...
Let’s start the new week with some exciting
stories from around the continent. Two of the best
highflyers of the Spanish ACB met this weekend: Marcus Haislip of Unicaja and Pops Mensah-Bonsu of Joventut Badalona. And both guys had a good ...
(posted by Euroleague Basketball) The 2008/09 season begins.
--- Here, the league's own choices for the ten
best plays of the opening week. --- Included: Josh Childress, Benjamin Eze, Will McDonald, Antonis Fotsis, Stephan Lasme, Pape Badiane, Fran Vazquez, Michael Hall, Simas Jasaitis, others.
Check out this cool Nike Euroleague basketball commercial.
Nike provides Euroleague with their official ball, and it
goes to show how basketball is well on its way to becoming a truly global sport, a la soccer.
Ladies Love Cool Josh. Check out Josh Childress
stuff a fellow brother (not a white guy) in
his Euroleague debut for Olympiacos (the no. 6 top play of the week), courtesy of Euroleague.
Josh Childress finally made his debut in the
Euroleague. The former Atlanta Hawks player, one of the
best sixth men in the NBA last year, was a major contributor in pushing the eventual champions, the Boston Celtics, to a seven-game playoff series ...
The first Euroleague game day of the 08/09
season is in the books - all home teams
won their games besides Avellino (Italy) who lost to Olympiacos and SLUC Nancy (France) who got killed at home against FC Barcelona. Player that impressed me ...
I saw an interview with Josh Childress on
True Hoop. Childress says: It's tougher to score here.
There's no defensive three seconds. They play zone. There's all kinds of ways that make it tougher to score; the game is a lot more physical. This is the ...
This is what the Celtics season ticket booklets
look like. Pretty sweet, huh? Thanks to Phillip for
passing along the photo. In completely self-serving news: LA Ball Talk is holding a contest to determine the best blogs for each team. ...
Great interview, that I somehow missed when it
was new a few days ago, with the former
Hawk who is playing for Olympiacos. He talks about money, the process of going to Europe, how nice the team is to him, and how a lot of NBA players seem to be ...
Welcome! Come one, come all, to the main
event! It's season preview time, and Upside and Motor
is ready to rock your world. The previews will be both concrete and lyrical in this magical world, both by numbers and by prose. To take a look at all the previews, click here . Straight Up ...
While many teams abroad are obviously interested in
acquiring top-notch NBA talent, no one has been more
vocal in expressing his feelings than Panayiotis and George Angelopoulos, the billionaire brothers behind Olympiacos (the team that signed Childress).
























Baron Davis is a Li-Ning man