Wizards Links: More Javaris Crittenton Fallout And Eurobasket Previews

by Mike Prada on Aug 30, 2011 4:04 PM EDT in Links

Today's links, featuring more fallout from the sad Javaris Crittenton situation.

Crittenton's lawyer says he finds it "very odd" that the FBI arrested his client in Los Angeles rather than let his client fly back to Atlanta to turn himself in. You know what would have been odd? Letting a guy wanted by the FBI fly commercial while at-large. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]
In case you missed it earlier, here's Mike Wise's wonderful Crittenton column. [Washington Post]
Kelly Dwyer wonders if GunGate pushed Crittenton down a really bad path. The headline is more inflammatory than the piece itself. [Ball Don't Lie]
Holly MacKenzie focuses on the line in Wise's column about how Gilbert Arenas paid for Crittenton's mother's medical bills two months after the incident. [The Basketball Jones]
Brendan Haywood to Wise and Holden Kushner on 106.7 The Fan: "There are some people I've played with where I could be like, 'Yeah, I could see that happening.' But Javaris wasn't one of them." [Audio]
Previews of Eurobasket Group B, which includes Kevin Seraphin's France team. Play begins tomorrow at 10:45 a.m. on ESPN3.com. [Tom Ziller, The Painted Area]
Reminder: Trevor Booker is playing in that D.C.-Baltimore exhibition tonight, featuring LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Chris Paul and Carmelo Anthony. Full rosters here. [SB Nation D.C.]
Pretty cool interview with Bucks assistant GM Jeff Weltman about how they use analytics. The Wizards, like every other team in the league, have stepped up in this area, but still have even more room to improve. [Brew Hoop]
Dan Grunfeld, who is both a professional basketball player and the son of the Wizards' GM, is doing a weekly feature for SB Nation on European basketball and a bunch of other stuff. Here's his first feature, where he compares an NBA road trip and a European road trip. [SB Nation]
Finally, here's a report from Game 1 of the Goodman League finals, which I attended last night. Durant was pretty spectacular, leading his team to a blowout win. There are some great pictures in this piece. I have some less amazing ones I took on my phone below the jump. [Severna Park Voice]

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Don't forget #19

Emer Preldzic (Wizards own rights) is basically a younger version of Hedo—a 6-9 point-forward. Likely see Emer get some reps running the offense. Expect to see some super-sized lineup with Hedo or Preldzic at the 2 or even point guard. The Painted Area

Oh yeah!

by djnnnou on Aug 30, 2011 5:27 PM EDT reply actions

Preldzic is a much better passer than Turkoglu

He will be 26 when he can get out of his contract and play in the NBA. Someone mentioned that in one game, Preldzic went 8-12 on 3 pointers. Preldzic can play 1-4 and he is really a board crasher for rebounds. I like him. I hope the team takes a look at him someday. he has structured his contract so that he can play in the NBA. So he has an interest.
And with Grunfelds kid playing in Europe the Wiz will get some good info on players. With NBA players heading to Europe and European players heading here, I think it opens up the possibility of more exhibition games between the 2 leagues much the way MLS is doing it.

by hambonejackson on Aug 30, 2011 6:05 PM EDT up reply actions

Shit, good call

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by Mike Prada on Aug 30, 2011 6:07 PM EDT up reply actions

anyone in Baltimore to see LeBron get dunked on by Trevor?

by thewiz06 on Aug 30, 2011 8:00 PM EDT reply actions

Did it actually happen, or are you just wishing it happens?

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by DMVLeGenD on Aug 30, 2011 8:34 PM EDT up reply actions

Wishing it happens unfortunately... :(

by thewiz06 on Aug 30, 2011 8:37 PM EDT up reply actions

in the pics, i guess kd likes wearing the same shoes he wore at capital punishment

by thewiz06 on Aug 30, 2011 8:32 PM EDT reply actions

I heard ESPNEWS is having live look-ins of the game

I saw one, but it was VERY short.

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by DMVLeGenD on Aug 30, 2011 8:52 PM EDT reply actions

I was at the game

KD went off, got 57 or 59 points.

Booker didn’t do too much, only had a dunk, didn’t touch the ball much.

Josh Selby showed off his hops tonight, had an amazing alley oop from Juan Dixon! (Juan was in the house)

Lebron and KD went at each other from beginning to end, and KD came out on top. I always and still do feel that Lebron isn’t great at creating offense off the dribble, that he needs pick and rolls to be most effective. He just doesn’t have the ball handling to get by players.

CP3 was amazing, really wish we could’ve seen him against Wall.

All in all, a great game. Like I said in my other post, here are the familiar faces I saw:

Booker, NGiaye, Sam Cassell, Juan Dixon, and Roger Mason. Really cool to see Juan again, will always be one of my favorite players.

by gray16 on Aug 30, 2011 11:19 PM EDT reply actions