Jamal Crawford Wins NBA's Sixth Man Award
The former Wolverine, and one of many to be screwed by NCAA, picked up a nice award today. He's the fourth player ever to win the Sixth Man award twice, doing it after averaging 18.6 points per game for the Clippers this season.
If you're interested in a really nice profile on Crawford, the Seattle Times published this in November. He seems like a great, likeable guy.
Congrats, Jamal. Go Blue.
He must have dodged the meteorite ...
And I'm not MGoGrendel retarded!
Jobu, why did you get the banhammer?
One of my favorites eventhough he played just a handful of games for UM. Good character guy and excellent contributor in his community.
Congrats. Remember him from my time in school. Never would have expected him to be doing this well for so many years.
He would have been a total stud for Michigan if the NCAA hadn't forced him to go to the NBA.
It's great that the NCAA doesn't play those kinds of games with people's lives/careers any more.
In his sadly brief time in Ann Arbor, he was averaging about 17 points, 3 rebounds and 5 assists per game, I believe, and had it not been for the NCAA, that would have been awesome to see for a couple years. Like LSA Aught One said, hard to believe he's been in the league going on 15 seasons now, but it is awesome to see him contributing like that. A list of candidates with Taj Gibson and Vince Carter on it is not a bad list either.
As a fun fact regarding the list of other two-time winners, Detlef Schrempf has been in a few episodes of "Parks And Recreation".
I don't know if I was too young, or just out of touch w the Bball team at the time, but I don't remember what happened regarding Crawford. Timeframe-wise I know her was there for what was the eventual trainwreck that was the Ellerbe era. But what happened?
I don't remember all the details, but my memory is that growing up, a rich guy in his hometown (Seattle IIRC) effectively adopted Crawford to help keep him in the classroom and off the streets. The rich guy had no or an extremely tenuous connection to Michigan. When Crawford graduated high school, he got him a car of some nature as a graduation present. Crawford goes to Michigan, plays like 8 or 10 games, and the NCAA decides that kindly rich old guy was actually a secret Michigan booster, and they suspended Crawford, and required that he pay back kindly rich old guy for the "inappropriate gifts" if he wanted to be reinstated in future seasons. Which, obviously, is basically impossible, so they effectively forced him to be one and done. One of the true injustices that the NCAA's stupid rules have created.
BTW, anyone who remembers the salient details better than I, please feel free to correct me.
The 1st suspension was not as clean as you're remembering. Barry Henthorn has loaning money to Crawford through his charity group, allegedly up to 25 thousand dollars. There were also multiple cars, clothes, and jewlery.
He came back from that. Then there was a second suspension.
When he was in high school he filed paperwork with the NBA to declare for the draft, but withdrew his name. The problem was he had already signed a LOI to Michigan, so he got a second suspension for 8 games to end the season.
He could have came back but decided not to.
can light it up!
I was watching the Clipper game last night, saw Crawford, and thought, Ink Master is on.
i completely misread this and thought it was going to be a satire post/article about Joey Crawford's excessive impact on NBA games
The last sentence is the majority of all plays/players in the NBA.
man, if you would have only went a few more sentences, you would have cured cancer too! j/k. Was a pretty cool story :)