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08/25/99 (11:00 a.m.) - Center Erick Dampier re-signed a multi-year contract with the Golden State Warriors Tuesday. No other terms were disclosed. Dampier was a 1996 first-round pick and a free agent for the first time in his career. The 6-11 center has averaged 10.7 points, 8.3 rebounds and 1.49 blocks in 132 games over two seasons with the Warriors.
08/20/99 - MSU starts it's individual player workouts next week. The word is all of the players have worked very hard this summer and are ready for the season to start.
08/19/99 - According to MidSouth-Hoops, Coach Stansbury will visit Nick Smith, a 7-1 center from Bloomingdale, FL., on 9/15.
08/18/99 - There is some good news regarding former MSU basketball Bulldog Dontae Jones. At a hearing in Nashville, yesteray, the judge dismissed two of the three charges from a shooting incident outside Players Drafthouse Club in the Nashville area.
The charges dropped were:
1) Reckless Endangerment
2) Felony Vandalism
The one charge that was bound over to the grand jury is: Simple Assault with Bodily Injury.
The primary witness in the case has changed his story, originally claiming that he saw Jones fire a handgun belonging to Jones' friend (and other arrestee) Karsha Darby, to stating that he saw Darby hand the gun to Jones, but did not see the actual shoots fired, because he (the witness) turned his back to duck for cover.
The one charge that is bound over carries a maximum $2,500 fine and 11 months, 29 days in prison.
08/15/99 - Former basketball Bulldog player Tyrone Washington was cut by the Rockets due to Barkley coming back. According to my source, his immediate plans are to play in Europe.
08/06/99 (6:45 a.m.) - Former MSU basketball star and NBA player Jeff Malone was just hired as an assistant coach for the San Diego Stingrays of the IBL. Click here to go to the article.
08/06/99 (6:15 a.m.) - The Clarksdale, MS. Bulldog Club chapter will have a social and meeting at the Hopson Commissary (Hwy 49 South, Clarksdale, MS.) August 19th beginning at 6:00 p.m. MSU head basketball coach Rick Stansbury will be their special guest. The cost is $15 per person. You can contact the following MSU fans for tickets:
Charles Phillips 624-4321
Sandy Stillions 624-2585
William Abraham 627-2501
08/06/99 (5:45 a.m.) - According to the latest issue of FutureStars, MSU's final recruiting ranking was 8th in the country.
Other notes:
08/01/99 - The word is MSU Coach Rick Stansbury attended the MidSouth-Hoops Summer Shootout Wednesday night. Some of the players who were participating in the camp were Darius Rice, the outstanding small forward from Lanier HS, Rod Prather, a top player from Starkville HS, Billy Richardson and Omari Faulkner, both of Memphis Hamilton HS. Coach Stansbury wasn't the only coach in attendance. There were coaches from Memphis, Ole Miss, Miami, LSU, Arkansas, SEMO, Duke, Vandy and Texas, to name a few. If you would like to read more about the camp, check out MidSouth-Hoops outstanding website.