Friday Dots: Huskies dress differently, play poorly
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Happy Friday, Dawg fans.
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the official UW Dawg Pound Twitter account and although he’s no longer with the DawgPound staff Ryan Priest still has the best damn lists of
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Bucky Brooks from NFL.com ranks his top five at each position. A former Husky is the #1 defensive tackle on his board, thanks to his Mr. Myagi-like hand skills. A UW corner cracks the top five as well.
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Another former UW corner on NFL radar
He recorded zero career interceptions, and was never an All Pac-12 player. The NFL will still come for Keith Taylor on draft day.
That’s also as close as they’ll get to vacationing on this trip.
USA Basketball is in a bubble for the next few days, as it prepares for its two remaining qualifying games for the 2022 FIBA AmeriCup at San Juan. The Americans have already clinched a berth in the field, regardless of what happens against Bahamas on Friday and Mexico on Saturday.
But to the players including NBA veterans like Joe Johnson, Isaiah Thomas and Brandon Bass and coaches on this trip, these two games are far from irrelevant.
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“People will ask, ’Oh, is this a great resume builder? No. This is Team USA,” said Joe Prunty, the head coach for the Americans in these two games. “The level of respect for not only representing your country but with what’s gone on with Team USA through the history of international competition, it means a lot to be a part of that.”
There was a day last spring when Isaiah Thomas noticed he could lift his leg without any pain. That hadn’t happened in years. This weekend, he plans to show the NBA what that means for his.
Joe Johnson is Back for the Love of the Game
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Feb 17, 2021
The longtime NBA veteran is providing leadership to the USA National Team at the FIBA AmeriCup Qualifying Tournament.
On this day, he was in his San Juan, Puerto Rico, hotel room, waiting for the next day’s practice with the U.S. team preparing for the FIBA AmeriCup Qualifying Tournament. He also knew that back in his hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas, there were several inches of snow on the ground. Meanwhile, the weather in San Juan was, as he put it, “like Miami in May.”
Johnson is 39 years old and hasn’t played in the NBA since the 2017-18 season. His last attempt at extending his run in the league came in 2019, when he was in training camp with the Detroit Pistons and cut before the season began.