At the beginning of last week, I mentioned that at least one Hoya would win a championship by the end of the month. And sure enough, Jonathan Wallace and Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje won the Basketball Bundesliga championship, edging out Brandon Bowman’s Telekom Baskets Bonn in the decisive Game 5.
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The 2009 NBA Draft took place last night, and junior DaJuan Summers was picked in the 2nd round by the Detroit Pistons. He was the 35th overall pick after Oklahoma’s Blake Griffin was picked 1st by the L.A. Clippers – as we predicted once they got the top pick – and Big East co-Player of the Year Hasheem Thabeet was picked 2nd by the Memphis Grizzlies.
According to The Baltimore Sun, DaJuan was excited to be picked by Detroit and said, That’s where I wanted to go… I told Joe Dumars I wanted to be a Piston.” The Pistons considered taking DaJuan with their 1st round pick, but opted instead for Gonzaga’s Austin Daye.
After a season with the Pistons, Allen Iverson is now an unrestricted free agent, so it doesn’t look like DaJuan will team up with another Hoya this season.
Georgetown’s official press release on Summers in the draft can be found here: [GUHoyas.com]
While the Hoyas did not have a banner year this season, it’s been a completely different story for Coach Thompson’s former assistant coach Kevin Broadus.
Broadus, in his second season as the head coach of the Binghamton Bearcats. The Bearcats took home the first regular season title in school history (sharing that honor with Vermont this season) and Coach Broadus was named America East Coach of the Year. And tomorrow, Binghamton is set to play in the America East championship game.
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With the news of Allen Iverson being traded to Detroit, the Big East tandem of AI and Melo is gone. Last year, we made a list of the top Big East Duos, and Iverson and Anthony were on top based on point production.
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In the NBA season openers for three former Hoyas, the results were not very good last night. Allen Iverson, Jeff Green, and Roy Hibbert each lost their first game of the new season. Hoya Hoops gives you a quick rundown of how the former Georgetown stars fared in their opening contests.
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Here’s a little round up of what’s been said and posted about Roy around the internet the past couple days:
Hopefully Roy will be making many more headlines once the NBA season begins.
Hibbert an Impact Player? [Hoops World]
Arriving with great lineage [IndyStar]
Pacers’ Fan Jam [The Hoya Paranoia | Vox Populi]
Last year, when the Denver Nuggets came to D.C., I was at the Verizon Center to interview Allen Iverson and Carmelo Anthony about the upcoming Big East season. Allen wasn’t in the greatest mood, and being a little timid from my first time in an NBA locker room, I didn’t get a chance to talk with him. I eventually caught up with Carmelo and got a couple of quotes for Tony’s preseason article. (To tell you the truth, I was so hesitant, I actually walked out with Carmelo because I waited until I was the last guy from the media in the locker room and then I had to hurry through my questions so he could leave.)
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Yesterday was Big East Media Day, and the Preseason Coaches’ Polls are in. UCONN was predicted to finish first and the Hoyas were ranked 7th in the conference. Here’s how they placed the teams from top to bottom.
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Allen Iverson and the Denver Nuggets need to win all the games they can in order to make the NBA playoffs. They’re in a battle with the Golden State Warriors for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western conference, and time is running out. Heading into their game against the Seattle SuperSonics last night, they had beaten the Sonics in all three meetings, the last of which being the 168-116 blowout less than a month ago. This time, however, Jeff Green didn’t want to go down without a fight.
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