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The Straights Times Thursday December 29, 2005
Basketball news
Clash of the Jordan wannabes, with Carter’s Nets triumphant
It has been tempting lately to call Vince Carter Half Man, Half Amazing, but that would be too passe.
Carter was half-dozen years ago, the ascendant monarch of Nike Nation, and more.
He is the prodigy who makes the pass, and everyone better, while averaging a shade over 30 points a game. However, back to the spring 2001, he had a last shot in a one-point game at Philadelphia that could have sent his team to the Eastern Conference Finals and he missed, was summarily dismissed as a faux Next Michael Jordan. Injuries and innuendo that he was soft and selfish turned him surly and sullen. However much of the blame Carter deserves for his own mis-steps and eventual misery, there is a lesson to be learnt: As much as a skill set, situation makes the superstar.
Weeks from his 29th birthday, Carter knows he is not winning six titles, as Jordan did, not in this life. He may never win one. But the Nets are a fun, aesthetically pleasing team and Carter may be the happiest player to be traded to the Nets in the history of the franchise.
Soccer news
Vietnamese player charged in scandal
Vietnamese police have arrested six members in Vietnam national soccer team with fixing a match against Myanmar during the South-east Asia Games. State media said they had confessed to agreeing ensure that Vietnam beat Myanmar by no more than one goal in the group stage match and more than S$2,000 were given to these members to do that worst thing. The six footballers have been charged with “Glambling and organizing gambling” and face up to seven years in jail.
Clash of the Jordan wannabes, with Carter’s Nets triumphant
It has been tempting lately to call Vince Carter Half Man, Half Amazing, but that would be too passe.
Carter was half-dozen years ago, the ascendant monarch of Nike Nation, and more.
He is the prodigy who makes the pass, and everyone better, while averaging a shade over 30 points a game. However, back to the spring 2001, he had a last shot in a one-point game at Philadelphia that could have sent his team to the Eastern Conference Finals and he missed, was summarily dismissed as a faux Next Michael Jordan. Injuries and innuendo that he was soft and selfish turned him surly and sullen. However much of the blame Carter deserves for his own mis-steps and eventual misery, there is a lesson to be learnt: As much as a skill set, situation makes the superstar.
Weeks from his 29th birthday, Carter knows he is not winning six titles, as Jordan did, not in this life. He may never win one. But the Nets are a fun, aesthetically pleasing team and Carter may be the happiest player to be traded to the Nets in the history of the franchise.
Soccer news
Vietnamese player charged in scandal
Vietnamese police have arrested six members in Vietnam national soccer team with fixing a match against Myanmar during the South-east Asia Games. State media said they had confessed to agreeing ensure that Vietnam beat Myanmar by no more than one goal in the group stage match and more than S$2,000 were given to these members to do that worst thing. The six footballers have been charged with “Glambling and organizing gambling” and face up to seven years in jail.
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