Rapaport: “Was he around?” Billups: “All the time. So him and Jordan Dumars — who was Joe’s son — best friends. They were around the team every day, all day. We raised Draymond. That’s my son. We raised him. We’re on a group chat all the time — Draymond, myself, Ben (Wallace), Rip (Richard Hamilton), Sheed — we on a group chat arguing whose teams are better … that’s our son!”
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Richard Hamilton
Position: None
Born: 02/14/78
Height: 6-7 / 2.01
Weight:192 lbs. / 87.5 kg.
Born: 02/14/78
Height: 6-7 / 2.01
Weight:192 lbs. / 87.5 kg.
However, according to CBS Sports NBA analyst Richard Hamilton, none of that really matters, because the Cavaliers were always better than the Celtics this season. Here’s what he had to say on CBS Sports HQ: “When they made the trade for Kyrie Irving, they said to themselves ‘alright, you know what, this is going to be a four- or five-year process. We’ve got a lot of young guys on this team — Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown.’ They didn’t look at it as trying to win now. They felt their best time win a championship was probably going to be three or four years down the road.
“Even if Kyrie was on [the Celtics] I still think the Cleveland Cavaliers [were] the better team, especially when you look at how depleted [the Celtics] are … Marcus Smart, they don’t know if he’s gonna be back for the second round of the playoffs then you’ve got Gordon Hayward who’s been out all season long. So when you look at this roster I think in order for them to great and in order to beat a Cleveland or the Toronto Raptors, they need to be healthy.”
Jon Hamm: Blake Griffin is switching back to #23 – the number he wore in college – since #32 is retired in Detroit in honor of Rip Hamilton. He couldn’t get #23 when he entered the NBA because Marcus Camby wore it.
According to an arrest warrant filed Tuesday, Jackson used email to pose as Adele’s manager when he: Offered Adele concert tickets in exchange for sneakers from basketball players Carmelo Anthony, Russell Westbrook and Bismack Biyombo, among others, purportedly for an auction to benefit charities. He succeeded in getting sneakers shipped to him from NBA stars Paul George, Victor Oladipo and Richard Hamilton. Created a fake email for the manager of soccer superstar Lionel Messi, in an effort to “add a layer of verisimilitude” to his request to get sneakers from NBA stars.
Keith Britton: Rip Hamilton on Chauncey Billups #Cavs: “I spoke to him this morning. He’s very excited. I know he has a couple more meetings w/ Dan”
