Overview: Who? Think hard. The 7-2 center averaged close to 20 minutes a game in three seasons for the Suns, with very limited success (5.8 points, 4.7 rebounds). More serviceable NBA players taken later in that year's draft included Eddie House, Eduardo Najera and Michael Redd.
Sooners: Hield passed Eduardo Najera and moved into 9th place on Oklahoma's career scoring list. ... Cousins went 0 for 6 from the field in the first half. He missed two more in the second half before finally connecting. ... Oklahoma shot 50 percent in the second half.
Quotable II: Izzo on the smacking of heads between MSU's Mateen Cleaves and Oklahoma's Eduardo Najera the last time these programs met in the Sweet 16 in 1999: "This day and age, both guys probably would have had four concussions, and they wouldn't have returned for a couple of years."
Hairston formally put his name in the D-League player pool last Friday. The Legends, owned by Dallas Mavericks president of basketball operations Donnie Nelson and coached by former NBA veteran forward Eduardo Najera, are the Mavericks' D-League affiliate.
Longtime NBA forward Eduardo Najera, in his first season as Legends coach, is the first Mexican-born coach of any team under the NBA's umbrella. Najera succeeded former NBA Coach of the Year Del Harris and Harris followed Nancy Lieberman, who became the first woman to coach an NBA-affiliated team in
Date: Jan 29, 2013
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The Legends, who brought Yi back that way last year, also became the first team under the NBA umbrella to have a female head coach, when Nancy Lieberman ran the show in 2010-11. This year, coach Eduardo Najera became the first Mexican-born coach under that same umbrella. Could Dirk open up in Frisc
Date: Dec 18, 2012
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exhibition game in Mexico City. E'Twaun Moore led the Magic with 16 points and seven assists before a crowd of 18,133 at Mexico City Arena. Mexican-born Gustavo Ayon added 12 points and six rebounds. Ayon will be the third Mexican-born player to play in the NBA following Eduardo Najera and Horacio Llamas.
Its been a stunning turnaround for Humphries, a former first-round pick who had bounced around the NBA without fulfilling his potential before being a throw-in sent to the Nets in a trade for Eduardo Najera in the second half of the 2010 season.