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2006 All-Star Rookie Challenge

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Is it just me or does Varejao belong on the 2nd year team?

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_y...LYF?slug=ap-rookiechallenge&prov=ap&type=lgns

Bogut, Howard lead Rookie Challenge
February 1, 2006

NEW YORK (AP) -- Forwards Andrew Bogut of Milwaukee and Dwight Howard of Orlando led a list of 19 players selected for the Rookie Challenge in Houston as part of the All-Star weekend.

Bogut was the No. 1 draft choice in 2005 and Howard had that honor in 2004.

Joining Bogut on the rookie team for the Feb. 17 game are Luther Head of Houston; Danny Granger and Sarunas Jasikevicius of Indiana; Chris Paul of New Orleans; Channing Frye and Nate Robinson of New York; Charlie Villanueva of Toronto; and Deron Williams of Utah.

Howard will be part of a sophomore team with Emeka Okafor of Charlotte (who is injured and will not play); Luol Deng, Ben Gordon and Andres Nocioni of Chicago; Devin Harris of Dallas; T.J. Ford of Milwaukee; Nenad Krstic of New Jersey; Jameer Nelson of Orlando; and Andre Iguodala of Philadelphia.

The players were selected by NBA assistant coaches. The head coaches for the Rookie Challenge are the lead assistants from the All-Star staffs -- Sidney Lowe of Detroit (rookies) and Del Harris of Dallas (sophomores). NBA greats Elvin Hayes (rookies) and Moses Malone (sophomores) will be assistants.

This is the seventh year of the rookie-sophomore format, with the sophomores leading 4-2. The game will be played in 20-minute halves. Last year, Denver's Carmelo Anthony led the sophomores to a 133-106 victory.

The NBA All-Star game is Feb. 19.
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crazybuckfan40 said:
Well considering Varejao has been hurt most of the year and Brown just decided to play him a week ago, I don't think that he should be.

I do think the second year players are going to dominate the game tho.
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and Emeka Okafor deserves to be? I think it should be based on the first 2 seasons to date. I'm only half serious, but if I were the coach I would take Varejao.
 
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For those in central ohio that know who 99.7 "The Blitz"s Mark "the Shark" is.

The guy is an absolute sports encyclopedia. But I think he's been dumbed down by the stupid ass GregO show. He called Bogut the tallest guy in the league this morning and said he was 7'5". Either he's losing it or he's just fucking with the morons on that morning show to entertain himself.
 
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