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Sports >  Gonzaga basketball

Why Nico Harrison, Jay Triano and Mark Cuban thought Gonzaga’s Ryan Nembhard was a perfect match for Dallas Mavericks

LAS VEGAS – In the early 1990s, Jay Triano famously made a recruiting push to sign one of the top young point guards in Canada. The player rode three hours by ferry and car from Victoria, B.C., to Vancouver to meet Triano and see Simon Fraser University’s campus, eventually declining the offer to play college basketball in the U.S.
Sports >  NBA

Chet Holmgren, Jalen Williams are motor that keeps Thunder running in NBA Finals

INDIANAPOLIS – Chet Holmgren sat on the bench with a little more than seven minutes remaining in a tight game, checking on the state of his left ankle. He had endured a rough stretch minutes earlier. At the end of one possession, Jalen Williams landed on it, and Holmgren hobbled up the court. Then Aaron Nesmith leveled Holmgren with a shot to the right shin that sent him to the floor.