NBA NOTEBOOK: LEAGUE MAY REVISE EXAMS.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services The NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= is considering a league-wide standard for physical exams following the death of Atlanta Hawks center Jason Collier Jason Jeffrey Collier (September 8 1977 – October 15 2005) was an American professional basketball player in the NBA. At death, the seven foot tall center Collier weighed 250 lb. He was the first active NBA player to die since Malik Sealy in 2000. . Individual team doctors from each of the NBA's 30 franchises currently determine the physical exams for their players. ``The medical protocols employed by our teams have traditionally been left to the best practices of team physicians,'' NBA spokesman Tim Frank said. ``However, in light of recent events that have occurred not just in the NBA but in other sports as well, we think it is prudent to follow up with our teams to find out what the norms are across the league.'' All players get physicals before training camp, and some teams use echocardiograms to detect heart problems. But not all teams use the tests and the league has no standard for physicals, the USA Today USA Today National U.S. daily general-interest newspaper, the first of its kind. Launched in 1982 by Allen Neuharth, head of the Gannett newspaper chain, it reached a circulation of one million within a year and surpassed two million in the 1990s. reported Thursday. The 28-year-old Collier died Saturday after he had difficulty breathing at home. His agent, Richard Howell, said Collier may have had an enlarged heart. A number of NBA players have had heart-related problems, including New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Knicks forward Eddy Curry. The Knicks recently acquired the 22-year-old Curry from the Chicago Bulls, more than six months after he had an irregular heartbeat that caused him to miss the final 13 games of last season and the playoffs. He was traded after refusing to take a DNA test to determine a possible genetic heart problem. --Back home, sort of: Playing their first game in Louisiana since Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans Hornets The New Orleans Hornets are a professional basketball team based in New Orleans, Louisiana. They play in the Southwest Division of the National Basketball Association (NBA). saw the defending NBA champion San Antonio Spurs The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional basketball team based in San Antonio, Texas. They play in the National Basketball Association (NBA), and are the current NBA Champions after defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2007 NBA Finals. win their first exhibition game of the season, 97-90. An announced crowd of 8,331 at the CenturyTel Center in Bossier City, La., near the northwest part of the state across the Red River from Shreveport, watched as Maciej Lampe led the Hornets (1-3) with 23 points. New Orleans, which will play just six games in Louisiana this season and most of their home games in Oklahoma City, trailed 49-38 at halftime. --James comes back strong: LeBron James had another strong game in Trenton, N.J., scoring 30 points to lead the Cleveland Cavaliers past the Philadelphia 76ers 106-102 an exhibition game. James was back at Sovereign Bank Arena The Sovereign Bank Arena (also referred to as the Mercer County Arena) is an $53 million, 8,500 seat arena in Trenton, New Jersey, that is home to the Trenton Devils of the ECHL and other special events. Naming rights to the arena were bought by Sovereign Bank. for the first time since scoring 50 points there in a high school game. --Clippers moves: Free agent tryout players Jared Reiner and Fred Vinson have been waived, leaving the Clippers roster at 16 players. The Clippers expect to keep 14, meaning the team's three remaining tryout players - Rodney White, Yuta Tabuse and Boniface Boniface (bŏn`əfās), d. 432, Roman general. He defended (413) Marseilles against the Visigoths under Ataulf. Having supported Galla Placidia in her struggle with her brother, Emperor Honorius, Boniface fled to Africa in 422. Ndong - are vying for one final spot. - Joe Stevens |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion