CHATTER: ARENAS PASSING TESTS WITH GOLDEN STATE.Byline: Vincent Bonsignore Staff Writer Former Grant High of Van Nuys basketball standout Gilbert Arenas Gilbert Jay Arenas Jr. (born January 6, 1982 in Florida[0]) is an American professional basketball player currently with the NBA's Washington Wizards. Arenas overcame his modest NBA debut, including being a second-round draft pick, to establish himself as one of the most is making an impact with the Golden State Warriors The Golden State Warriors are a professional basketball team based in Oakland, California. The team plays in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Franchise history Philadelphia Warriors after getting a chance to play in his rookie season. Arenas was taken in the second round of 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. after leaving Arizona following his sophomore year. He spent most of his first pro season on the injured-reserve list and the Warriors played fellow rookies Jason Richardson
Jason Anthoney "J-Rich" Richardson (born January 20 1981, in Saginaw, Michigan) is an American professional basketball player, currently playing shooting guard for the and Troy Murphy Troy Brandon Murphy (born May 2 1980, in Morristown, New Jersey) is an American professional basketball player, currently playing power forward for the NBA's Indiana Pacers. Murphy grew up in Sparta which is located in north west New Jersey. . But when Golden State fired Dave Cowensand replaced him with Brian Winters, the new boss put Arenas on the active roster and slowly began using him in the rotation. Arenas has responded, playing both off guard and point guard. He had 15 points and five assists off the bench in a rout of Denver this weekend. Winters, unlike Cowens, is not reluctant to play his young players. ``I can't worry about risk, our record puts us in risk,'' Winters said. ``Changes are in order.'' Such as playing Arenas, who was drafted as a shooting guard, at the point. Anyone who saw Arenas play at Grant knows he can handle the ball and pass - it just took the Warriors a little longer to realize it. In the Denver game, Arenas fired a no-look pass to Antawn Jamison for a dunk to finish off a fast break, then threw a halfcourt pass to Jamison for an easy layup. Arenas, who was miffed miff n. 1. A petulant, bad-tempered mood; a huff. 2. A petty quarrel or argument; a tiff. tr.v. miffed, miff·ing, miffs To cause to become offended or annoyed. at his status early in the year, is averaging 13.8 points, 3.4 rebounds and 4.4 assists in his past nine games. ``You've got to see what he can do over time,'' Winters said. ``I want to see him play on the ball a little bit and even off the ball sometimes, and get him more valuable time.'' ... Former Chaminade of West Hills basketball standout Scott Borchart!off took a redshirt year as a freshman at Santa Clara. He had surgery on both feet. ``I'm looking forward to next year,'' said Borchart, who was with the Broncos in San Diego this weekend at the West Coast Conference basketball tournament. ... Grace Brethren of Simi Valley, which reached the eight-man Southern Section football championship game last year and has won two eight-man titles, is switching to 11-man football in the fall. ... Cal State Northridge junior Adam Nikolic was named the Big West Conference baseball player of the week after going 9 for 20 with nine runs scored and four RBI RBI abbr. Baseball runs batted in Noun 1. rbi - a run that is the result of the batter's performance; "he had more than 100 rbi last season" run batted in at the Clash of the Conferences last week. Nikolic was 3 for 4 in the tournament-title game against UNLV UNLV University of Nevada, Las Vegas and is batting .325 with 14 RBI this season. ... Moorpark College will play host to 60 of the top senior basketball players at the Slam-Jam Spring Classic on April 13. A week later, it will welcome the top Jewish players in Southern California in the first Jewish All-Star game. Staff writer Gerry Gittelson contributed to this report. |
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