News from February 15. Chris Bosh (Mia) was selected to replaced the injured Rajon Rondo (Bos) as a starter for the East in the All-Star game. The replacement starter is selected by the East coach (Eric Spoelstra (Mia)) from the All-Star players. The Basketball Hall of Fame announced the nominations for the class of 2013. The nominees are: Players Maurice Cheeks played 15 seasons including 11 with Philadelphia, won 1983 NBA Championship, 4 time All-NBA Defense First Team Tim Hardaway played 13 seasons, 5 time NBA All-Star, won 2000 Olympic Gold Medal Spencer Haywood played 12 seasons in the NBA and 1 season in the ABA, won 1980 NBA Championship, won 1968 Gold Medal, 1970 ABA MVP and Rookie of the Year Bernard King played 14 seasons in NBA including 4 with New York Knicks and 4 with Washington Bullets, lead NBA in scoring in 84-85 with 32.9 points Gary Payton played 17 seasons in the NBA including 13 with Seattle, won 2006 NBA Championship, 1996 NBA Defensive Player of the Year, won 2000 and 1996 Olympic Gold Medals Mitch Richmond played 14 seasons in the NBA, 1989 Rookie of the Year, won 2002 NBA Championship, won 1996 Olympic Gold Medal Dawn Staley won Olympic gold Medals in 1996, 2000, 2004; college player of the year in 1991 and 1992, 5 time WNBA All-Star Coaches Sylvia Hatchell won NCAA 900 games, won 1994 National Championship with North Carolina, 3 time National Coach of the Year Tom Heinsohn coached Boston 69-70 - 77-78 with a record of 427-263, won NBA Championship in 1974 and 1976, NBA Coach of the Year 1973 Guy Lewis coached 30 years in college with over 600 wins, National Coach of the Year in 1968 and 1983 Rick Pitino coached 1996 NCAA Championship with Kentucky, won over 600 college games Jerry Tarkanian won 990 college games, won 1990 NCAA Championship, 4 time National Coach of the Year A nominee needs at least 18 of 24 votes from the Honors Committee to be inducted. In addition, the American Basketball Association Committee selected Roger Brown, the Early African-American Pioneers of the Game Committee selected Edwin B. Henderson, the International Committee selected Oscar Schmidt, the Veterans Committee selected Richard Guerin, and the Contributors Direct Election Committee selected Russ Granik - those people are directly inducted (no further voting need). The announcement for the new inductees will occur during the Final Four on April 8. Rookie-Sophomore Game - at Houston, Texas Team Chuck 163, Team Shaq 135 MVP: Kenneth Faried (Den) 1st 2nd - Final 2FG 3FG FG% FT% Team Chuck 90 73 - 163 .684 .531 .639 .615 Team Shaq 66 69 - 135 .785 .281 .619 .500 (20 minute halves) Refs: Josh Tiven, James Williams, Haywoode Workman Team Chuck REB Player MIN FGM-FGA 3PM-3PA FTM-FTA PTS O-T AST TO PF ST BK Kawhi Leonard (SA) 23 8-14 3-6 1-1 20 2-7 3 1 2 0 1 Kenneth Faried (Den) 22 18-22 1-1 3-3 40 7-10 2 2 0 0 0 Anthony Davis (NO) 20 5-8 1-2 0-0 11 1-9 1 1 1 1 2 Bradley Beal (Was) 22 5-10 2-4 0-0 12 1-1 4 1 0 2 0 Ricky Rubio (Min) 16 2-4 1-3 0-2 5 0-0 10 1 3 1 0 Alexey Shved (Min) 18 5-8 2-4 0-0 12 0-1 4 0 1 0 0 Tristan Thompson (Cle) 18 9-10 0-0 2-4 20 5-10 1 1 2 1 0 Isaiah Thomas (Sac) 21 7-10 4-6 0-0 18 1-5 10 1 0 2 0 Nikola Vucevic (Orl) 20 6-8 1-1 2-3 15 1-4 1 0 1 0 0 Brandon Knight (Det) 20 4-14 2-5 0-0 10 3-4 6 1 1 0 0 Totals 40 69-108 17-32 8-13 163 21-51 42 9 11 7 3 Team Shaq REB Player MIN FGM-FGA 3PM-3PA FTM-FTA PTS O-T AST TO PF ST BK Chandler Parsons (Hou) 24 6-9 1-3 0-0 13 1-1 1 1 2 0 1 Mike Kidd-Gilchrist (Cha) 23 4-8 0-0 0-1 8 1-4 3 1 1 0 0 Harrison Barnes (GS) 19 5-8 1-3 1-2 12 0-0 0 1 0 0 0 Damian Lillard (Por) 28 7-17 2-10 2-2 18 0-3 5 0 4 2 0 Kyrie Irving (Cle) 27 14-20 4-8 0-0 32 2-6 6 1 0 1 0 Kemba Walker (Cha) 20 4-6 0-2 0-0 8 0-1 8 1 0 2 1 Tyler Zeller (Cle) 16 1-2 0-0 2-4 4 0-4 1 1 1 1 0 Klay Thompson (GS) 14 5-11 1-6 0-0 11 1-2 1 1 0 0 1 Dion Waiters (Cle) 19 11-12 0-0 1-1 23 0-0 3 2 1 1 0 Andrew Nicholson (Orl) 10 3-4 0-0 0-2 6 2-3 0 0 1 0 0 Totals 40 60-97 9-32 6-12 135 7-24 28 9 10 7 3 All-Star Schedule (All times Central) Saturday, February 16 11:00 - 12:30 East-West practice NBATV 2:00 NBA D-League All-Star game NBATV 6:00 - 7:00 David Stern Press Conference NBATV 7:30 All-Star Saturday Night TNT Sunday, February 17 12:00 - 1:30 Legends Brunch NBATV 7:00 All-Star Game 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