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The Indiana Pacers selected Stephenson with the 10th pick in the second round — 40th overall.
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NEW YORK — Cincinnati guard and 2010 BIG EAST Rookie of the Year Lance Stephenson (Brooklyn, N.Y./Lincoln) was taken in the second round of the 2010 National Basketball Association Draft Thursday at Madison Square Garden in New [...]
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NEW YORK (AP) — Kentucky dominated the first round of Thursday night’s NBA draft and passed some other powerful college programs with the five players selected.
John Wall, the overall No. 1 pick by the Washington Wizards, DeMarcus Cousins, the fifth pick by Sacramento, Patrick Patterson, the 14th selection by Houston, Eric Bledsoe, [...]
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John Wall is ready to go to Washington and clean up the Wizards. And he'll have more backcourt help when he gets there — whether or not Gilbert Arenas is still around.
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NEW YORK—John Wall is heading to Washington, and a record number of Kentucky teammates are following him to the NBA.
Wall [...]
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Eric Bledsoe and Daniel Orton said Saturday they’re going to remain in the NBA Draft rather than return for their sophomores seasons.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP)—Kentucky’s freshman exodus is complete.
Guard Eric Bledsoe and center Daniel Orton said Saturday they’re going to remain in the NBA Draft rather than return for their sophomores seasons.
They will [...]
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SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. (AP)—Seton Hall says three of its top basketball players will return to school instead of entering the upcoming NBA draft.
Assistant athletic director Matt Sweeney confirmed Friday that guard Jeremy Hazell and forwards Jeff Robinson and Herb Pope have filed the paperwork to withdraw their names from the draft, thereby retaining [...]
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Patrick Patterson Heading for the NBA
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LEXINGTON, Ky. — Patrick Patterson believes his three years at Kentucky have prepared him for life in the NBA.
Both on and off the floor.
Patterson evolved from a somewhat raw 6-foot-9 talent who never ventured too far from the basket into a polished forward who could knock [...]
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP)—Louisville center Samardo Samuels has declared for the NBA Draft but will not hire an agent, leaving open the possibility of returning for his junior season.
Samardo Samuels has declared for the NBA Draft but will not hire an agent.
Cardinals coach Rick Pitino said Samuels and his family approached Pitino about [...]
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Cousins says NBA stock is too high to return to UK
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LEXINGTON, Ky. —DeMarcus Cousins was simply looking for a place he could be accepted, a school that would embrace his “goofiness” as he put it.
He found all that and more at Kentucky, where the 6-foot-11 center matured into one of [...]
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Ohio St's Evan Turner wins Wooden Award
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LOS ANGELES — Evan Turner posed for endless photographs while holding the hefty John R. Wooden Award, grinning wide enough to show the braces on his lower teeth. His mother sat quietly in an evening dress on the second row of seats at the [...]
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Evan Turner Will Enter 2010 NBA Draft
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — After collecting almost every national player of the year honor, Ohio State‘s Evan Turner is skipping his senior season to test himself in the NBA.
The 6-foot-7 point guard is expected to be a top-three pick in the June 24 draft. Yet [...]
