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This won’t be O’Neal’s first time DJing in the D-FW area. Last year in Fort Worth, he launched Shaq’s Bass All-Stars Festival, which drew some 15,000 attendees, according to festival organizers. The festival recently announced it is returning to Cowtown this November.
Because of the pandemic, the Capitanes, for now, are based out of an apartment complex in Fort Worth, Texas, instead of Mexico City, and don’t have a home arena. They are already eyeing a future free from a chronic slate of bus rides. Next season, barring another global catastrophe, they will play a full G League schedule with home games in Mexico City in a novel experiment for the N.B.A., which continues to seek ways to expand its international footprint.
Jared Weiss: Celtics are finalizing hiring Warriors coach Aaron Miles to Ime Udoka’s staff, per sources. Miles played with Udoka for Fort Worth in the D-League & after two years coaching the Warriors’ G League team, he was promoted to Steve Kerr’s bench in ‘19. @Jake Fischer first to report.
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A Fort Worth man was in custody Thursday in connection with the shooting death last month of the brother of Orlando Magic star and former University of Texas basketball player Mo Bamba. Stanley Laroy Ford Jr., 30, was arrested Tuesday in the Oct. 18 fatal shooting of 26-year-old Ibrahim Johnson, the half-brother of Mo Bamba.
Johnson died from shotgun wounds to his chest on the morning of Oct. 18 in an apartment complex in the 1000 block of Sycamore Drive, according to Fort Worth police and officials with the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office. His death was ruled a homicide.
Jim Cash has witnessed the fight for social justice from the front lines. For decades. When the Celtics limited partner speaks of the Civil Rights Movement, it is with a depth of knowledge and experience dating back to growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, and to his role as a trailblazer. In May 1965, James I. Cash Jr., became the first African-American to accept a basketball scholarship in what was then the Southwest Conference, signing on at TCU.
PARKS AND BASKETBALL courts are being closed in major cities across the country. Rims are being disabled -- chained shut, boarded up or removed altogether. It's happening at city parks in Fort Worth, San Diego, Memphis, New Orleans and Louisville. "I hate to say it. I'm sorry about it," Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said at a press briefing on March 26. "But your life's more important than the next pickup game." It's happening in basketball-crazed Indiana. "The patterns of use we are seeing in our parks concerns me greatly," said Linda Broadfoot, the director of Indy Parks and Recreation, in a news release announcing the closures.
Mark Cuban’s $10 million pledge to boost female leadership programs — a commitment made after a sexual harassment investigation — will include $100,000 for Fort Worth’s Young Women’s Leadership Academy. YWLA is the Fort Worth district’s first and only single-gender school for young women. The funds will support efforts to prepare young women for college, STEM and visual arts education, leadership service and health/wellness programs funded by the Foundation for the Young Women’s Leadership Academy of Fort Worth.
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Scott Agness: With the Mad Ants playing their next three games at home, including tonight, rookies T.J. Leaf and Ike Anigbogu have been assigned to them. First time for Leaf. Also, Alex Poythress is back from Fort Worth and with the Pacers.
Other inductees will be: Kansas coach Bill Self, UConn's Rebecca Lobo, Notre Dame women's coach Muffet McGraw, Fort Worth Dunbar coach Robert Hughes, Harlem Globetrotters owner Mannie Jackson, former NCAA executive Tom Jernstedt, Zack Clayton.
Johnson, who spoke Tuesday at the Fort Worth Dunbar High School assembly, said he and Nets general manager Billy King were never overconfident about Williams' desire to remain a part of the Nets. "We felt we were going to be able to re-sign Deron," Johnson said. "We felt it was like 80-90 percent, but it was the 10 percent that you were worried about. "That was the whole key. But I'm glad that's all behind us now and we can move forward and we can have a team that we're hoping is going to be pretty competitive when we get it on the floor."
Former Kansas men’s basketball assistant coach Ed Manning, father of current assistant coach Danny Manning, died Friday morning in at Harris Methodist Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas. Ed Manning, who battled a long-standing heart condition, was 68. “This is a huge loss for our family and the Jayhawk family,” Danny Manning said. “Many people have already reached out to us in such a short period and we are very grateful for all the thoughts, well wishes and prayers for my father and for us.” Manning played basketball collegiately at Jackson State in Jackson, Miss. He then played professionally in the NBA, ABA and overseas.
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