“When I went to look at the box score I was like, ‘Well, maybe I had a good game,'” Donyell Marshall, now an assistant with the G League’s Greensboro Swarm and a forward on that 2006-07 Cavaliers team, told ESPN. “Then I looked at the box score and I was like, ‘Well, I didn’t do anything either.'” “If you’d asked me, ‘Do you remember having 30-plus and LeBron being in single digits?’ I would have expected to have some kind of memory of it,” Drew Gooden, a former Cavaliers forward and now working as an analyst for Washington Wizards broadcasts, told ESPN with a laugh.
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Donyell Marshall
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Born: 05/18/73
Height: 6-9 / 2.06
Weight:229 lbs. / 104.3 kg.
Earnings: $72,417,867 ($118,736,088*)
Born: 05/18/73
Height: 6-9 / 2.06
Weight:229 lbs. / 104.3 kg.
Earnings: $72,417,867 ($118,736,088*)
FOR MARSHALL, WHO spent parts of three seasons playing alongside James as part of a career that saw him play for eight different teams, his enduring memory of James was of someone who was dedicated to both improving and knowing the history of the game from a very young age. “I played with a lot of superstars, but never one who studied the game from the age he was at the time,” Marshall said. “As soon as the game was over, he wanted [to watch] film. “To me, a lot of guys today aren’t necessarily students of the game. A lot of guys didn’t know the players that played before him, that paved the way for him. He’s a guy, though, that knows Oscar Robertson’s stats. He knows Kareem [Abdul-Jabbar’s] stats. He knows Wilt Chamberlain’s stats.”
When touching on how older players helped in their player development as young athletes in the league, Barkley praised Karl Malone and Julius Erving for setting him on the right path both on and off the court. For the Nets star, not only did he praise many of his former Sonics teammates, but he also credited them for being responsible for his work ethic. “Kurt Thomas, Donyell Marshall, Andra Griffin … my rookie year. Francisco Elson … Got Wally Szczerbiak. They kind of introduced me to what it means to work as an NBA player. You have an idea in college and high school what it means to work after practice and how to practice hard, but once you get into the league and you got six months of this everyday (for) 82 games, you got to condition your mind and your body and have older dudes that have been through the grind. That definitely helps.”
Tabbed for this role by Kiki VanDeWeghe, the NBA’s executive vice president of basketball operations, Boylen began preparation several weeks ago. He’s a veteran of running clinics, having done so in the past for the league in various Basketball Without Borders trips and the like. Boylen’s preparation culminated with training camp-like meetings on Sunday and Monday with the coaching staff, which includes former NBA and WNBA players in the league’s coaches development program plus current G League coaches. Former Bulls Donyell Marshall and Chris Duhon are among that group, as is former Bulls assistant coach Karen Stack Umlauf.
Donyell Marshall, the former UConn and NBA star, is stepping down after five seasons as Central Connecticut State men’s basketball coach. The decision, announced by the school Friday, came at the conclusion of the Blue Devils’ season, which ended with a 5-16 record. Marshall was 40-140 after taking over for retired Howie Dickenman.
11 Jun 17
Until Tuesday afternoon, Donyell Marshall hadn’t watched Stephen Curry’s Monday night tornado of 3-pointers that broke his shared record for the most 3-pointers made in a single NBA game. But he definitely heard about it. “My son texted me when he saw Steph had 10 [3s] at the end of the third,” Marshall said from the gym at Central Connecticut State, where he coaches the men’s basketball team. “And I thought, OK, yeah, he’s gonna get it. I got up to go to the bathroom at about 2 a.m. and looked at my phone and saw he had it.”
