Dime Mag Tue, 04/13/2010 9:00 AMAround the time Tyreke Evans was closing in on the buckets that would put him in the 20-5-5 rookie pantheon with Oscar, Mike and LeBron, and the Sacramento crowd was so cowbell-era loud that I almost mistook Ime Udoka for Doug Christie, I texted some
Read more... NBA.com Sun, 04/05/2009 11:20 PMSpurs guard Ime Udoka recently took a time-outfor readingto reward Ms. Salas third grade class for winning this years High Five Readers Contest, sponsored by SACU, Magic 105.3 and Lubys.
Read more... NBA.com Sun, 03/29/2009 11:22 PMSmall forward Ime Udoka is an example of a player who had numerous opportunities to give up on his dream of playing in the NBA, but kept pushing forward and refused to quit.
Read more... Yahoo NBA Thu, 03/26/2009 1:25 AMGregg Popovich knows Don Nelson, having assisted the Warriors coach during Nelson's first stint with Golden State. So when the Warriors rebounded San Antonio's missed free throw with 5.5 seconds left down one point Tuesday, the Spurs were ready.
"We knew they weren't going to call timeout," forward Ime Udoka said. "I don't know if somebody overheard them, or what, but we knew and we had our matchups down."
Popovich and Nelson are both anti-timeout in that situation, instead preferring to catch the defense before it gets set. The problem for Golden State: the Spurs were plenty set and pressured Warriors guard Monta Ellis in the backcourt. Ellis spent most of the clock just getting out of the backcourt before heaving a 30-footer while being defending by Tony Parker and...
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