Joshua Robbins reports that Vince Carter is ready for the season to begin.
“We’re trying to accomplish a lot more than just making the playoffs,” Carter said. “So, I think it’s important — and even imperative for us — because we set the goal that we set. … We have to fine-tune ourselves now. We don’t want to struggle in the beginning. We want to hit the ground running.”
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According to Brian Schmitz, training camp invitee Linton Johnson III has made the roster.
Tim Povtak discusses how happy Vince Carter is to be playing with an All-Pro Center.
“This is going to be great situation for me. It’s one I’ve never been in before,” he said before Friday night’s lopsided 123-86 exhibition victory over the Atlanta Hawks. “It’s a luxury that will be pretty easy to get used to.”
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Ben Q. Rock of The Third Quarter Collapse previews the Magic here.
Mark Ginocchio of Nets Are Scorching has a very interesting article about former Magic Shooting Guard Courtney Lee.
Devin Harris, by all accounts the team’s number one option on offense this season, sees a little of himself in Lee.
“Courtney is going through the same situation I went through coming from Dallas,” Harris told the media scrum at the PNY Center yesterday. “He’s proving he’s better than he was in Orlando and he can do more on the floor.”
But no offense to offense, Lee still sees himself as a defender first – even after falling just short of scoring 5 points in 6 seconds at the end of Wednesday’s preseason game against the Knicks – instant offense to the truest form.
It’s a good read so check out the full story here.
Stan Van Gundy has a passion for baseball.
That’s because baseball has linked four generations of Van Gundys — from Stan’s paternal grandfather, Johnie, to Stan’s teenage son, Michael.
“I loved it,” Stan says. “My dad was a basketball coach, and so I went to his games. But baseball was the sport I could enjoy with him, whereas with basketball, I wasn’t with him. It’s the same way with my son and me.”
Stan loves to talk about the sport. This past summer, when point guard Jameer Nelson took batting practice as a guest at Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Park and hit a home run over the left-field fence, Van Gundy heard about it. Nelson recalled that Van Gundy contacted him to see it had really happened.
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Matt Humphrey shows us that Dwight Howard isn’t the only big man to struggle at the free throw line.
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