News from February 14. The Basketball Hall of Fame announced the nominees for the class of 2014. The nominees are: Players 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 Kevin Johnson played 12 seasons in the NBA, most with Phoenix, averaged 17.9 points and 9.1 assists Alonzo Mourning played 15 seasons in NBA, 11 with Miami, won 2006 NBA Championship, 1999 and 2000 Defensive Player of the Year, won 2000 Olympic Gold Medal Mitch Richmond played 14 seasons in the NBA, 1989 Rookie of the Year, won 2002 NBA Championship, won 1996 Olympic Gold Medal Coaches Harly Redin Wayland Baptist women's coach, 431-66 record, 6 AAU National Championships, undefeated in 1956 and 1957 Nolan Richardson 509-207 college coaching record, won 1994 National Championship with Arkansas, 1994 Coach of the Year Eddie Sutton only has had 1 lossing season in 37 years of college coaching, Coach of the Year in 1977, 1978, 1986, 1995 Gary Williams 668-380 college coaching record, won National Championship 2002 with Maryland Team Immaculata University won AIAW Nation Championships 1972 and 1973 and 1974, record of 60-2 in those 3 seasons A nominee needs at least 18 of 24 votes from the Honors Committee to be inducted. In addition, the American Basketball Association Committee selected Slick Leonard, the Early African-American Pioneers of the Game Committee selected Nat Cliffton, the International Committee selected Sarunas Marciulionis, the Veterans Committee selected Guy Rodgers, and the Contributors Direct Election Committee selected David Stern - those people are directly inducted (no further voting need). The announcement for the new inductees will occur during the Final Four in April. Rookie-Sophomore Game at New Orleans Team Hill 142, Team Webber 136 1st 2nd - Final 2FG 3FG FG% FT% Team Hill 67 75 - 142 .642 .423 .581 .821 Team Webber 66 70 - 136 .754 .286 .563 .889 MVP: Andre Drummond (Team Hill, Det) Refs: Kevin Cutler, Nick Buchert, Brent Barnaky Team Hill REB Player MIN FGM-FGA 3M-3A FTM-FTA PTS O-T AST TO PF ST BK Harrison Barnes (GS-S) 24 5-12 2-5 4-4 16 0-3 3 0 0 2 0 Andre Drummond (Det-S) 28 12-21 0-0 6-8 30 14-25 1 3 2 1 1 Jonas Valanciunas (Tor-S) 19 2-4 0-1 0-0 4 0-2 2 3 1 0 0 Bradley Beal (Was-S) 28 7-13 4-8 3-4 21 2-5 4 2 0 2 0 Damian Lillard (Por-S) 30 6-14 1-5 0-0 13 2-5 5 2 1 2 0 Dion Waiters (Cle-S) 22 10-14 4-6 7-8 31 0-1 7 2 3 3 0 Terrence Jones (Hou-S) 16 7-10 0-1 0-0 14 1-6 0 1 0 0 0 Giannias Antetokounmpo (#) 17 3-3 0-0 3-4 9 1-2 2 2 1 0 1 Miles Plumlee (Pho-S) 15 2-2 0-0 0-0 4 1-3 0 3 1 0 1 Totals 40 54-93 11-26 23-28 142 21-52 24 18 9 10 3 #(Mil-R) Team Webber REB Player MIN FGM-FGA 3M-3A FTM-FTA PTS O-T AST TO PF ST BK Kelly Olynyk (Orl-R) 25 4-5 1-2 0-0 9 1-1 2 1 1 3 1 Jared Sullinger (Bos-S) 20 5-11 3-9 0-0 13 0-2 4 1 2 0 2 Anthony Davis (NO-S) 29 8-14 0-0 0-0 16 2-8 4 1 3 3 2 Victor Oladipo (Orl-R) 20 6-10 1-4 0-0 13 0-1 4 0 0 0 0 Michael Carter-Williams (#) 24 7-12 0-4 3-3 17 3-6 9 3 0 1 1 Trey Burke (Uta-R) 21 3-12 0-7 0-0 6 0-0 6 0 1 1 0 Steven Adams (OKC-R) 18 3-3 0-0 0-0 6 2-2 0 1 3 2 4 Tim Hardaway (NY-R) 24 12-23 7-16 5-6 36 0-1 2 1 3 0 0 Mason Plumlee (Orl-R) 19 10-13 0-0 0-0 20 3-7 1 2 2 4 1 Totals 40 58-103 12-42 8-9 136 11-28 32 10 15 14 11 #(Phi-R) All-Star Schedule - All times Central Saturday 11:00 am East-West practice - NBATV 2:00 pm NBADL All-Star Game - NBATV 6:00 pm Commissioner Adam Silver press conference - NBATV 7:30 pm All-Star Saturday Night - TNT Shooting Stars Skills Challenge 3-Point Contest Dunk Contest Sunday 12:00 pm Legends Brunch - NBATV 7:00 pm 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