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This is the 5th installment of the NBA draft picks where the number 4 is made by sun_equalizer. One of my favorite picks. A lot of all stars and great players.

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The third part of our series about the NBA draft picks. And I tell you the third picks are good. Can I call the 3rd picks the Duke picks? Why not? Errr.

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Yow? Eve of Margarito-Pacquiao fight. Hmmm yummy..! Interested?

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No I’m not talking about the Heat or the Lakeshow nor the Phoenix Suns. I am just bored nowadays having the fact that the Suns will play its next game on Friday. I’m just upset of the Nash/Hill trade to Orlando or Atlanta rumors, or the Lopez back issue, or the Hedo, Hedont ek ek. I just want a new one. 

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Well, it is actually October 5 here in the Philippines and it is Grant "Gravity" Hill’s 38th birthday. He looks 28 but yes, he is 38. So guys, what adjective will describe those 38 years? Amazing? No, injuries are not amazing. Classy? Maybe. Hmmmm, how about I use the word Historic? I guess that adjective says it all. 38 years of Grant’s Historic Basketball career..! When talking about a player's Historic Basketball career, things like championships, MVP awards, All-NBA selections, Multiple All-star appearances  and such are the first things that come to mind, but those aspects are only a small part of what makes up a legacy. Some intangibles are somewhat important, being respected by the players, helping the community to get better, being a model to young players, the ability to rebound from frustrations and failures etc.

This article will feature Grant’s brilliant career from Duke University to Motor City to Disneyland and to the desert. From 1990  to 2010, two decades of unforgettable moments, two decades of highlights, two decades of roller coaster ride to greatness and two decades of searching his way home. By the way, I will try my best not to include those information that an ordinary fan already knows. But let me allow to add some for making this article longer. Haha, Just kidding, I will add some so that newbies will get an idea how great he really is. Hopefully I get it right. I will include some stats, quotations, numbers and analyzed them to make this post a little juicy. I may not be a genius like Alex in analyzing and interpreting numbers or computing advanced Basketball ratios but I will be Christian_33, a dedicated fan who will try his best in interpreting some numbers. I am warning you, if you are a math geek, don’t expect too much in this article. Hehe. So let’s start?

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EA has released the rosters for Western Conference teams in the new version of the NBA Jam video game. The game features Suns current Players: Steve Nash, Grant Hill and Jason Richardson and Suns Legends: Dan Majerle and Kevin Johnson.

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(plural fans)

noun

[Late 19th century. Shortening of fanatic]

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It’s funny how twitter become one of the sources of fresh news, controversies, and sometimes broken ties. Imagine, how many tweets you are missing if you don’t open it for a day? Hundred? Thousand? Maybe millions if you are following those crazy guys who are retweeting everything..! But let’s admit it, twitter is just so helpful for a fan to be updated by the person he follow.

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First I would like to extend my sympathy to the victims of the sorrowful hostage drama here in Manila that killed 5 Hongkong Nationals and 3 Canadians last Monday. Our morals just hit the rock-bottom that night. Even the success of Venus Raj in the Miss Universe Beauty Pageant just can’t compensate how we feel .

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A decade ago, Orlando magic makes one of the boldest move of the decade. Acquiring two of the most prized free-agents in  the league. Grant Hill and Tracy McGrady. Hill, a perennial All Star/Superstar of Detroit Pistons and predicted to be the next Jordan of his time. T-mac a superstar in the making. They are predicted to dominate the Eastern Conference, but injuries limit Ghill and the Magic.While hill is facing one of the darkest part of his life, Mcgrady transforms into an all star, a legitimate scoring machine, and carry the Magic to the playoffs. Mcgrady was traded to Houston Rockets on 2004. and 2010 to New York Knicks. Hill spent 7 years in Orlando and signed as a Sun on 2007, that I will consider as one of the greatest come back of the decade.

10 years after, a lot of things changes. Hill and McGrady are no longer superstars, limited endorsements, smaller fan base, Lesser salary, etc. Last year they are Ex-superstars that never advanced to the 1st round. Hill advances and almost make it to the NBA finals but still Tmac is not there. Hill is turning 38, Tmac is 31. Tmac is struggling to find a team to play, until he was signed by Grant's former team Detroit Pistons. And he is looking to revive his career there. 

Not all stories always have a happy ending, but one thing is for sure, this is not yet over, we never know what will happen next. Maybe 10 years from now, one or both of this two superstars will make it to the HALL OF FAME,  or maybe they won't.

TMAC's Career awards and highlights:

• NBA Most Improved Player (2001)
• 7× NBA All-Star (2001–2007)
• 2× NBA Scoring Champion (2003–2004)
• 2× All-NBA First Team (2002–2003)
• 3× All-NBA Second Team (2001, 2004, 2007)
• 2× All-NBA Third Team (2005, 2008)

GHILL's Career awards and highlights:

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Manny Pacquiao, Apl de ap of Black Eyed Peas, Nicole of Pussycat Dolls, Charice, just to name a few, are names that make me proud to be a Filipino.

When Miami heat hit the rock bottom on 2007-2008 season, a new name emerged. In April 2008, Eric Spoelstra was named successor to legendary Miami Heat head coach Pat Riley. Eric is the first Filipino-American head coach in the NBA, as well as the first Filipino-American head coach of any North American professional sports team. 

Four days ago Spoelstra visited the Phillipines to promote NBA FIT program in the country. NBA FIT is the league's health and wellness platform promoting healthy, active lifestyles for children and adults. A part of his visit is to give back to abandoned kids in our country. Instead of bringing less fortunate kids to him, Spoelstra went all the way to Manila Boys Town in Marikina, a government-owned facility for abandoned children in which he taught basic drills in basketball. Yesterday, Coach Spo brings NBA-type basketball clinic to lucky cagers of one of the most prominent University in our country, FEU Tamaraws that had swept all seven games in the first round of the 73rd UAAP men’s basketball. Coach Spo emphasized that hard work, discipline, sacrifice, and team work as lessons that basketball teaches. His visit gives inspiration and hope to Filipino basketball player to get better, because we are still waiting for the first Filipino NBA player.

Other NBA News. 

NBA Asia Challenge, an exhibition game featuring NBA Legends, NBA Development League (NBA D-League) players, and current All-Stars and legends from the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) will return to the Philippines for the second consecutive year, and it will be staged at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City, on Friday, Aug. 27 2010 at 7:30 p.m. 

Last year’s NBA Asia Challenge featured six-time NBA champion Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as a celebrity coach and an impressive roster of NBA Legends including Dominique Wilkins, "suns fave" Robert Horry, "crossover guru" Tim Hardaway, and Vlade Divac. The exhibition game gives a different kind of excitement to Filipino basketball afficionado. 

Each team will be comprised of a mix of NBA Legends, NBA D-League players, and PBA All-Stars and Legends. NBA Legends headlining this year’s event include 2006 NBA champion and nine-time NBA All-Star Gary Payton; six-time NBA All-Star Chris Webber; 2002 NBA champion and six-time NBA All-Star Mitch Richmond; and 2000 NBA champion and 1997 NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Glen Rice.

PBA is the first and the oldest professional basketball league in Asia and second world's oldest next to NBA. Last year I failed to watch the exhibition game because I'm attending a review class, but this year I will probably watch the game..!

Can’t wait for my uncle to give me a free ticket..!!!

Hahaha.

Too much Shaq on ESPN?

too much Heat, Lakers, Magic and Celtics?

tired of talking those big time free agents?

Lebron the queen, Mr. bosh, Dwade, huh.

so booooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnggggggggggg...!!!

Let's talk big time.

Veterans..!

Ancient..!

old or ageless wonder?

they will probably make it to the top 10..!

Top Ten Oldest Player in the NBA.

Top Ten Ageless Player in the NBA.

(2010-2011)

Just s simple question for you guys.

Let's make a poll.

This will be the first installment in evaluating 7 to 8 current suns player. It will be entitled "name under attack". The player’s stat might give an overview of what kind of player is he, but fans may look to it differently.  I will start on the Suns captain Stephen John Nash.

Nash is most noted for his playmaking, ball-handling skills and shooting. He led the league in assists for four years, averaging 11.5 assists per game in 2004–05, 10.5 in 2005–06, 11.6 in 2006–07 and 11.0 in 2009–10, and won the 2005 and 2010 NBA All-Star Skills Contests. As of the end of 2009–10 season, he has a 90.3% free-throw shooting average (second-best in NBA history), a 43.2% career three-point shooting average (fifth-best in league history), and his total assists, assists per game, and three-point field goals made rank him as one of the top 15 players in league history. In addition, he is ranked fourth (starting from 1986–87) in regular season point-assist double doubles. In the 2005–06 season, Nash became the fourth player in NBA history to shoot 50% or better from the field, 40% from three-point range (43.9), and 90% from the line, joining Larry Bird, Reggie Miller and Mark Price in the 50-40-90 Club. This was a feat he would repeat in the 2006-07, 2007–08, 2008–09 and 2009–10 campaigns. Only 11 times has a player shot 50-40-90 in an NBA season while also achieving the NBA league minimum number of makes. Nash (five times) and Larry Bird (three times) are the only players to have accomplished this feat more than once. A two-time NBA MVP, Nash is only the second point guard (along with Magic Johnson) to win the MVP award multiple times and the third guard in NBA history to earn back-to-back MVPs (joining Johnson and Michael Jordan).Only nine other NBA players have won back-to-back MVP awards: Johnson, Jordan, Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Moses Malone, Larry Bird, Tim Duncan, and LeBron James. On 11 May 2006, ESPN.com rated Nash as the 9th-best point guard of all time, and in a survey by nba.com in 2007, Nash received 85% of the votes by the league's general managers as best point guard in the league. In a similar survey in 2009, Nash was rated as the best passer of the ball and the player possessing the best basketball IQ. Commenting on Nash losing out to former teammate Dirk Nowitzki for the 2007 NBA MVP, Boston Celtics centre and Hall of Famer Russell stated: "I think, on the world stage, he's one of our great athletes in all sports... I'm a big fan. The two MVPs he got, he deserved. Part of the reason that he's so good and so effective is that the guys like playing with him. He creates an atmosphere where they win games."

In terms of specific skills, Nash is particularly effective playing the pick and roll, notably with Nowitzki when he was at Dallas and later with the Suns' Amar'e Stoudemire and Shawn Marion. When Nash returned to Phoenix in 2004, he helped the Suns improve from a 29–53 record in 2003–04 to 62–20 in 2004–05, reaching the Conference Finals for the first time in 11 years, earning him his first MVP award. The next season, he led the Suns into the Conference Finals, despite the injuries of all three big men (Stoudemire, Kurt Thomas and Brian Grant); further, Nash was responsible for seven of his teammates attaining career-highs in season scoring.& ;nbsp;With Nash operating at the point, between the 2005–06 and 2009–10 seasons, the Suns led the league in field goal percentage.

(Some infos are from Wikipedia)

Let's make a poll.

In its most generic sense, the word earthquake is used to describe any seismic event — whether a natural phenomenon or an event caused by humans — that generates seismic waves.

Suns organization encountered a lot of quakes, tsunami, landslides and floods.

But let us limit the period covered into 3 years.

Let’s make a poll.

I'm Christian, a Certified Public Accountant from Philippines and a very huge fan of Grant  "Gravity"  Hill and this is my first fan post, yeah... haha  And it makes me nervous.

I'm just worried about Grant Hill's future, the fact that he is too old (NBA standard) gives me anxiety. I still wanted to watch his sick moves, his blocks, his dunks, all. But after next season he might retire, and it will make my relatives , my friends, and my officemates sad. By the way he still has a huge followers here in our country. I want him to reach his 1000th game in the NBA, currently he played 868 games in 15 seasons, 132 games short and probably 2 seasons are needed to accomplished that. So he badly needed to continue playing for the next two season if he wanted to reach the milestone. The question next season(2011-12) is, Is there any team who will be interested on a 39 yr old vet?

this is his career stat

Regular season

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1994–95	Detroit	70	69	38.3	.477	.148	.732	6.4	5.0	1.8	.9	19.9
1995–96	Detroit	80	80	40.8	.462	.192	.751	9.8	6.9	1.2	.6	20.2
1996–97	Detroit	80	80	39.3	.496	.303	.711	9.0	7.3	1.8	.6	21.4
1997–98	Detroit	81	81	40.7	.452	.143	.740	7.7	6.8	1.8	.6	21.1
1998–99	Detroit	50	50	37.0	.479	.000	.752	7.1	6.0	1.6	.5	21.1
1999–00	Detroit	74	74	37.5	.489	.347	.795	6.6	5.2	1.4	.6	25.8
2000–01	Orlando	4	4	33.3	.442	1.000	.615	6.3	6.3	1.2	.5	13.8
2001–02	Orlando	14	14	36.6	.426	.000	.863	8.9	4.6	.6	.3	16.8
2002–03	Orlando	29	29	29.1	.492	.250	.819	7.1	4.2	1.0	.4	14.5
2004–05	Orlando	67	67	34.9	.509	.231	.821	4.7	3.3	1.5	.4	19.7
2005–06	Orlando	21	17	29.2	.490	.250	.765	3.8	2.3	1.1	.3	15.1
2006–07	Orlando	65	64	30.9	.518	.167	.765	3.6	2.1	.9	.4	14.4
2007–08	Phoenix	70	68	31.7	.503	.317	.867	5.0	2.9	.9	.8	13.1
2008–09	Phoenix	82	68	29.8	.523	.316	.808	4.9	2.3	1.1	.7	12.0
2009–10	Phoenix	81	81	30.0	.478	.438	.817	5.5	2.4	.7	.4	11.3
Career		868	846	35.2	.486	.303	.767	6.5	4.5	1.3	.6	17.8
All-Star		6	6	22.2	.571	.500	.545	2.5	3.2	1.2	.2	10.5

Last season he registered his career low in points, but some intangible can't be seen on stats, and I can say that 2009-10 is the best year of Grant Hill as a SUN. And I'm sure if he is a free agent this summer a lot of teams will be coming for him, maybe the lakers, the celtics, the heat, all contenders.

But things may change, maybe next season he won't play that great and teams might not be interested on the 39 yr old vet, and he just might  RETIRE.

But as a fan of Hill I am wishing that a team will sign him and let him play valuable minutes, and it will be sweeter if he will retire as a PISTON, and his last basket will be a dunk.

... or maybe a SUN, but please not as a MAGIC.