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Jacksonville to host NBA preseason game, first since 2009

Jacksonville will host its first preseason NBA game since 2009 when the air max bw Orlando Magic and New Orleans Pelicans play Oct. 9 at Veterans Memorial Arena.

In making the announcement Tuesday, Mayor Alvin Brown said he’s air max tn excited to be working with the NBA again, and even added “I can see an NBA team in Jacksonville’s future.’’

The city last hosted a game an NBA preseason game four years ago between air max 90 the Miami Heat and Atlanta Hawks, which drew a crowd of 10,113. The previous year, the Heat and Magic played in a preseason game at the Arena.

The NBA Finals problem the Miami Heat can't hide from

In a lighter moment earlier in the NBA Finals, Shane Battier contemplated a cheap air max 95 question and answered the way only air max lunar he can.

Why can't the Miami Heat carry any edge, any momentum gained from a victory in one game into the following game?

"That is a question to ask Sigmund Freud," the Heat forward nike air max 2011 womens said.

NBA Finals 2013: The Kawhi Leonard lesson

In the 2010-11 season, the San Antonio Spurs won 61 games. Two months later, the Spurs went Cheap Nike Air Max LTD II and got a player who currently looks like the second-best player in the 2011 NBA Draft. This is not fair.

Kawhi Leonard entered the 2011 draft season emblematic of the class Cheap Nike Air Max LTD V writ large: he had pretty nice potential thanks to size and athleticism, but lacked enough skill to make him a definite NBA player. The Spurs saw something else: he was an impossibly hard worker eager to learn and open to coaching. So as Leonard mystifying fell down out of the lottery -- which even skeptics had to be surprised about -- the Spurs saw an opportunity to snag him. They sent George Hill to the Indiana Pacers for the No. Cheap Nike Air Max Skyline 15 pick in a deal that truly benefited both clubs.

Maine native Clifford works way into NBA’s head coaching fraternity at Charlotte

There was never much doubt about the general direction of Steve Clifford’s career path even Cheap Nike Air Max LTD III before he was old enough to truly consider his options.

“I very much grew up in a basketball family,” said Clifford, who was born in Cheap Nike Air Max Lunar Island Falls and lived in Mattawamkeag until his third-grade year when he moved with his family to Vermont. “My father was a high school coach, and my mom knows more basketball than most people will ever know.”

That path eventually led him back to Maine, first to study and play basketball at the Cheap Nike Air Max Skyline II University of Maine at Farmington and then to his first coaching job at Woodland High School.

2013 NBA Draft Breakdown and Scouting Report for Jeff Withey

Jeff Withey went from an afterthought to a legitimate first-round prospect. Withey's interior nike air max cheap presence helped make the Kansas Jayhawks the threat they were on the 2013 national landscape, and now he'll try and convince NBA teams that his strengths will translate from one level to the next.

Though Withey isn't as glamorous as some of the others in the field, he offers a cheap nike air max shoes sense of safety and reliability that might cause a team to bite.

He finished his senior year averaging 13.7 points, 8.5 rebounds and 3.9 blocks on 58 nike air max online percent shooting.