From Fran Blinebury/NBA.com:
As if their season-long race for the first year honors wasn’t already close enough, Tyreke Evans and Brandon Jennings brought their duel to the T-Mobile Rookie Challenge.
As if their season-long race for the first year honors wasn’t already close enough, Tyreke Evans and Brandon Jennings brought their duel to the T-Mobile Rookie Challenge.
This is, after all, Texas and it was only fitting to have a High Noon type showdown, even if it was on Friday night and even if they were on the same team.
Evans rolled up 26 points, six rebounds and five assists, Jennings scored 22 points with eight assists and six rebounds and together they led the Rookies to a 140-128 win over the Sophomores.
From Jonah Ballow’s All-Star Daily Diary:
Kevin Love
12 points 6-for-9 FG, 0-1 3PT, 6 reb 18 minutes
Kevin Love
12 points 6-for-9 FG, 0-1 3PT, 6 reb 18 minutes
Jonny Flynn
9 points 4-for-10 FG, 0-1 3PT, 1 reb, 7 assists 17:40 minutes
While he has been playing great individually, one of the hardest aspects of being a rookie is the losing. Many players at this level have dominated their entire lives and have never experienced a string of losses in their lives. Flynn, who went 49-23 during his two years at Syracuse, has shown his maturity as the losses pile up in Minnesota.
“You just have to stay positive. You have to look at the positive things that you’re doing throughout the course of games or course of practice to keep you going. We’ve started playing some good basketball as of late so I hope we can keep that up,” he said.
From Benjamin Polk/City Pages: Timberwolves at the All-Star break: Sometimes inspiring, sometimes not
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