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CORVALLIS - Marcel Jones, a 6-foot-8 junior forward for the Oregon State men's basketball team, announced on Thursday that he has placed his name on the early-entry list for the NBA draft The NBA Draft is an annual North American event in which the National Basketball Association's (NBA) thirty teams (29 in the United States and one in Toronto, Canada) can select players who wish to join the league. on June 28. Jones led the Beavers in scoring and rebounding last season, averaging 15.3 points and 5.7 rebounds. He has until June 18 to withdraw from draft consideration. "I think I will learn a lot going through this process," said Jones, who said he does not intend to hire an agent and probably will return to OSU (Open Source UNIX) Refers to the Unix variants that are maintained as open source, which were primarily BSD Unix and Linux until Sun made its Solaris operating system open source in 2005. for the 2007-08 season. "It's a great opportunity to hear some constructive criticism about my game from people in the NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= ." Jones is the second OSU player to declare for the NBA draft, following Sasa Cuic, a 6-10 junior forward who said earlier this week he planned to place his name on the early-entry list. Jones plans to attend the NBA pre-draft camp May 29-June 4 in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. He is not scheduled to be enrolled spring term and will need to pass summer term classes to remain eligible for Oregon State. "My plan is to come back to Oregon State. ... I know people will have raised expectations for me," Jones said. "I'll come back a better player and ready to make us a better team." Oregon State coach Jay John, whose team finished 11-21 last season, said, "This announcement may surprise some people, but I think it will turn out be a positive for Marcel." Ex-McNary star Nelson plans to leave Huskies SEATTLE - Phil Nelson Phil Nelson is a former tight end for the Oakland Raiders. He collegiately played for Delaware Blue Hens. , a 6-foot-7 freshman swingman swing·man n. Basketball A team member who can play effectively in two different positions, especially forward and guard. from Keizer, has told coach Lorenzo Romar Lorenzo Romar (born November 13, 1958 in South Gate, California, United States) is the current head men's basketball coach at the University of Washington. Romar also played basketball for the University of Washington from 1978 to 1980. that he is transferring from the University of Washington program. ``It surprised me,'' Romar said. Nelson, one of four highly regarded freshmen for last season's Huskies, apparently was unhappy with his role at Washington, though he started nine games at midseason. He averaged 14.9 minutes, playing in 31 of the Huskies' 32 games, and averaged 4.7 points. Romar said he thinks Nelson will transfer to Portland State, a Big Sky Conference program that is coached by former Huskies assistant Ken Bone. He will sit out next season as a transfer. ``It's close to home,'' Romar said. ``He's familiar with Coach Bone. He's looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a change of scenery.'' Washington to name court after Harshman SEATTLE - Washington will honor former men's basketball coach Marv Harshman Marv K. Harshman (October 4, 1917 – ) is a former college men's basketball coach. The Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA native coached at the University of Washington from 1971 to 1985. by naming a practice court inside Hec Edmundson Pavilion for the man who won 246 games in 14 seasons leading the Huskies decades ago. ``This is a fitting tribute to Marv Harshman. ... His classroom was the basketball court,'' UW athletic director Todd Turner said. Harshman coached in 1,090 college games, the ninth-most in NCAA history. He was 246-146 with the Huskies from 1972-85, the second-most wins in school history. Wooden to spend another day in hospital LOS ANGELES - John Wooden will remain hospitalized at least one more day because of an elevated heart rate, the former UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX coach's daughter said Thursday. ``Dad is feeling much better. He's ready to go home,'' Nan Muehlhausen said in a statement. ``He had solid food last night and everything was fine. However, the doctors wanted to keep him another day while they determine why his heart rate was slightly elevated. They adjusted his medication today and he's been normal all afternoon.'' The 96-year-old Hall of Famer claims his heart rate is up because he's been in the hospital too long, his daughter said, ``but the doctors just want to be sure everything is fine before they let him go home.'' |
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