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By EDDIE SEFKO When a talented high school basketball player accepts a college scholarship, that university’s coach is usually a determining factor.In many cases, the coach leaves that school before the player does.That’s always a difficult time for the player, but for Donald Sloan and Bamba Fall, there was a silver lining to adjusting to a new coach.It was excellent training for their introduction to the NBA. Sloan, from Texas A&M, and Fall, from SMU, were among six players worked out by the Mavs on Tuesday as the team started to sift through college prospects for the June draft.'Trying to come up to this level,' said Sloan, a Seagoville High star who started at A&M under Billy Gillispie and ended with Mark Turgeon, 'you have to get used to it because you don’t know what team or coach you’re going to play for.'Fall, the 7-foot-1 center from Senegal who is a nephew of Mavs director of scouting Gallo Fall, was recruited by Jimmy Tubbs, then played his final thre

NEW YORK, May 19, 2009 - The Women\'s National Basketball Association (WNBA) and adidas announced today the launch of the adidas WNBA Rookie Report Pr... - WNBA

Australian men's basketball will rely heavily on youth in 2009 with a green looking squad named for the upcoming international season.

Will Adams, a basketball star at Imhotep Charter, is in St. Christopher's Hospital for Children battling Hodgkin's lymphoma, a form of cancer of the lymphatic system known as Hodgkin's disease.

Brett Brown6 Basketball Australia has named a youthful Boomers squad with five teenagers and an average player age of twenty-three years for its 2009 program. In a non-Olympic, non-World Championship year, Basketball Australia is utilising the opportunity to blood new recruits and to provide its athletes with invaluable international experience. 2008 Boomers squad member James Harvey is the old man of the squad at just 30 years of age, while 200

Being the child of The Denver Post's pro-basketball beat writer gave an entire family a 'knee-eye' view to every significant milestone in Denver basketball history.

Plenty of questions to be answered before Magic and Cavs tip off with LeBron James The calendar reads May 19, and the Orlando Magic are still playing basketball. Usually, they're about three or four mai tais into summer vacation by now.