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Suns face Bucks in Chris Paul’s first NBA Finals
Tears welled in Chris Paul’s eyes. A message in black ink on his shoes said it all: Can’t give up now. Not when, after 16 years, he will finally play for an NBA title. Paul […]
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Wake Forest hires former ETSU coach, longtime Forbes assistant to basketball staff
WINSTON-SALEM — Wake Forest has hired former East Tennessee State head coach Jason Shay as an assistant. The school announced Shay’s hiring Tuesday. Shay led ETSU for one season after Steve Forbes left the Buccaneers […]
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Muggsy Bogues on reaching the heights of his sport
Muggsy Bogues believes he beat the odds, and it had nothing to do with being a 5-foot-3 basketball player. “I was one of the lucky ones,” he said. “I mean, I got shot at the […]
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Former Wake Forest coach Dino Gaudio charged by feds with extortion
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Federal authorities have charged former Wake Forest basketball coach Dino Gaudio with attempting to extort the University of Louisville, where he was most recently an assistant, after his dismissal from the team. […]
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Maryland hires ex-Wake coach Danny Manning as assistant
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Maryland hired former Wake Forest coach Danny Manning as an assistant on Mark Turgeon’s staff on Monday, reuniting a couple of old college teammates. Manning, who played with Turgeon at Kansas […]
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Touch of Gray: WCU names former Wake guard new coach
There was a synergy to Western Carolina’s hiring of Justin Gray as its new basketball coach last week. It’s a circle that began on March 26 when Pat Kelsey left Winthrop to take the job […]
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Transfer portal scrambles basketball rosters across state
Spring: That time of year in North Carolina where, if you don’t like the way your favorite team’s roster looks, just wait a minute, and it’ll change. No team has embodied that idea more than […]
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March Sadness leads to uncertainty for NC teams
The phrase “one-and-done” usually refers to the NBA Draft in the state of North Carolina, not NCAA Tournament runs. This year, however, the state’s representatives didn’t make it past their first 40 minutes in Indiana […]
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Chris Paul joins exclusive 10K assist club
PHOENIX — Chris Paul says he knows the secret for why he’s still a dominant NBA point guard at an age when most of his peers are getting into coaching or figuring out their next […]
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Late collapse ends Deacons’ season in familiar fashion
GREENSBORO — As any college basketball coach will tell you, tournament time marks the start of a new season — that point in the year in which everyone’s slate is wiped clean and records revert […]