The Sacramento Kings have traded disgruntled forward Andres Nocioni and third-year center Spencer Hawes to the Philadelphia 76ers for center Samuel Dalembert.
Dalembert, an athletic center known for his rebounding and shot blocking, made NBA headlines this season after his native country of Haiti was struck by a catastrophic 7.0 magnitude earthquake in January.
He briefly left the Sixers to visit the country and donated $100,000 to UNICEF to aid relief efforts but he played all 82 games of the season as well as the previous three seasons.
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Last season, freshman Cody Allen was the starting quarterback for the City College football team.
In a game at American River College, he helped lead the Panthers to a comeback win over the Beavers by throwing the game-winning touchdown with 16 seconds left in the game.
This semester, Allen is still throwing, but instead of a football he’s throwing a javelin for the men’s track and field team. Before this semester, Allen had never competed in javelin throwing.
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At the end of every season, the NBA Rookie of the Year (ROY) Award is awarded to the best rookie of the season.
Don Meineke was the first to win the Eddie Gottlieb Trophy in the 1952-53 season. Of the 56 ROYs, 21 basketball hall-of-famers, from Oscar Robertson to Michael Jordan, have emerged.
More than 53 percent of retired ROYs were voted into the hall of fame.
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He’s one of the quietest players on the team, yet he’s a vocal leader on the basketball court. He’s only played 21 games in the NBA, yet he’s being treated like a star around the league. He’s only played point guard for less than a year, yet he’s performed well against the elite of that position. That player is Sacramento Kings guard Tyreke Evans.
Evans has become one of the best players in the NBA in a short amount of time and even the league’s superstars are taking notice of the rookie from the University of Memphis.
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It was an unlikely comeback with a fantastic finish.
City College overcame a 19-point deficit in the third quarter Saturday at American River College to beat the Beavers, 54-51.
The Panthers got off to a hot start in the first quarter but were held scoreless in the second quarter, blowing an 18-0 lead.
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