News from February 18. The Basketball Hall of Fame announced the nominations for the class of 2011. The nominees are: Players Maurice Cheeks played 15 seasons including 11 with Philadelphia, won 1983 NBA Championship, 4 time All-NBA Defense First Team Teresa Edwards won Olympic gold medal in 1984, 1988, 1996, 2000; Georgia University went 116-7 during her 4 year college career Chris Mullin played 13 seasons with Golden State Warriors and 3 with Indiana Pacers, won Olympic Gold Medal in 1984 and 1992 Dennis Rodman won NBA Championships in 1989, 1990, 1996, 1997, 1998; played 14 NBA seasons; won NBA Defensive Player of the Year in 1990 and 1991; led NBA in rebounds 7 times Ralph Sampson acclaimed college player for Virginia, 1984 NBA Rookie of the Year, played 9 seasons in NBA Jamaal Wilkes won NCAA Championships in 1972 and 1973, played 12 seasons in NBA including 8 with the Lakers, won NBA Championships in 1975, 1980, 1982, and 1985 Coaches Herb Magee coach of Division II Philadelphia University since 1967, 920-363 record, won NCAA National Championship 1970 Dick Motta won 1978 NBA Championship with Washington, NBA Coach of the year in 1971, 24 years as head coach in NBA with Chicago, Washington, Dallas, and Sacramento Tara Vanderveer coaching since 1978, with Stanford since 85-86, won NCAA 1990 and 1992 championships, won 1996 Olympic Gold Medal Contributors Al Attles been with Golden State for 50 years as a player, coach, GM, vice president, and consultant; won 1975 NBA Championship as a coach Tex Winter 57 seasons as NBA and college coach, proponent of the triangle offense Referee Hank Nichols officiated 6 NCAA national championship games and in 10 Final Four games, officiated 2 Olympic games, national coordinator for officials for the NCAA 1986-2008 A nominee needs at least 18 of 24 votes from the Honors Committee to be inducted. In addition, the American Basketball Association and Early African-American Pioneers of the Game committees will each select one person that will be directly inducted. The announcement for the new inductees will occur April 4. The enshrinement ceremonies will take place August 12. Rookie-Sophomore Game at Los Angeles Rookies 148, Sophomores 140 1st 2nd - Final 2FG 3FG FG% FT% Rookies 71 77 - 148 .652 .359 .546 .727 Sophomores 69 71 - 140 .687 .412 .640 .650 2 20-minute halves MVP: John Wall (Was) Refs: Brian Forte, Mark Lindsay, Curtis Blair Rookies REB Player MIN FGM-FGA 3PM-3PA FTM-FTA PTS O-T AST TO PF STL BLK Blake Griffin (LAC) 14 7-10 0-1 0-0 14 0-3 0 2 2 0 1 Landry Fields (NY) 26 6-8 2-3 1-1 15 1-6 3 0 0 2 2 DeMarcus Cousins (Sac) 27 15-24 0-1 3-5 33 6-14 1 1 3 3 1 Gary Neal (SA) 26 9-15 2-6 0-0 20 1-4 4 0 0 0 0 John Wall (Was) 29 5-9 0-1 2-4 12 0-2 22 5 0 2 0 Derrick Favors (NJ) 17 4-6 0-0 1-2 9 0-0 1 1 1 0 0 Wesley Johnson (Min) 26 10-15 3-5 2-2 25 0-1 1 2 0 1 0 Eric Bledsoe (LAC) 18 3-7 0-0 0-0 6 2-7 5 6 1 3 0 Greg Monroe (Det) 17 5-6 0-0 4-6 14 6-8 3 0 0 1 0 Totals 40 64-100 7-17 13-20 148 16-45 40 17 7 12 4 Sophomores REB Player MIN FGM-FGA 3PM-3PA FTM-FTA PTS O-T AST TO PF STL BLK Taj Gibson (Chi) 18 4-7 0-1 0-0 8 2-2 0 1 0 1 1 DeMar DeRozan (Tor) 22 7-10 0-0 0-0 14 2-3 4 1 2 3 0 DeJuan Blair (SA) 26 14-21 0-1 0-0 28 7-15 2 2 4 2 2 Stephen Curry (GS) 28 5-12 3-9 0-0 13 3-6 8 2 3 0 0 Wesley Matthews (Por) 21 5-10 3-7 2-2 15 0-4 6 1 1 0 0 Brandon Jennings (Mil) 20 3-10 1-4 1-1 8 0-1 7 4 2 2 0 Serge Ibaka (OKC) 20 6-10 2-2 0-0 14 4-5 1 1 2 1 2 James Harden (OKC) 27 11-19 4-10 4-6 30 0-1 2 1 1 1 0 Jrue Holiday (Phi) 17 4-9 1-5 1-2 10 1-2 4 2 0 1 1 Totals 40 59-108 14-39 8-11 140 19-39 34 15 15 11 6 All-Star weekend - at Los Angeles Schedule for Saturday, February 19 (All times Central) East and West Practices 12:30 pm NBATV NBADL All-Star Game 4:00 pm NBATV David Stern Press Conference 6:00 pm NBATV All-Star Saturday Night 7:30 pm TNT Skills Challenge Shooting Stars Contest 3-Point Shootout Slam Dunk Contest Schedule for Sunday, February 20 (All times Central) NBA Legends Brunch 2:00 pm NBATV All-Star Game 7:30 pm TNT ---- Patricia Bender pbender@eskimo.com For Trianglons puzzles: http://www.trianglons.com For NBA stuff: http://www.eskimo.com/~pbender/index.html For Mavs stuff: http://www.eskimo.com/~pbender/mavs.html