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Fantasy Spin: Emeka Okafor Out 1-3 Weeks

Would you believe that heading into Monday Emeka Okafor had the fourth longest consecutive games streak in the league at 306 games? Would you even care? Well, if you're one of his many fantasy owners of course you care. You care because his streak was snapped due to a strain in his left oblique. As of Tuesday, we...

Miami Heat Cruise Past Fading Hornets, Extend Win Streak to Nine

MIAMI -- It's safe to say the "process" that Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra has repeatedly stressed throughout this season has finally matured. Fresh off a successful four-game road trip sweep to double their existing winning streak, the Heat continued their latest trend of keeping pace with an opponent in the first...

Notebook: Lakers, Heat Head in Different Directions; Tough Times for Hornets?

LOS ANGELES -- It was the loudest of weeks on the what's-wrong-with-the-Miami-Heat? beat. Jarrett Jack barely qualified as a decibel raiser, but the New Orleans guard had quietly pointed out while walking to the team bus at Staples Center on Monday night that role players have always been and will remain an integral part...

Pops Mensah-Bonsu Earns Shot With Hornets

Former NBA Development League All-Star and NBA vagabond forward Pops Mensah-Bonsu will be in New Orleans' training camp on a make-good contract, a league source has told FanHouse. Mensah-Bonsu, the 6-foot-9, 235-pound former George Washington talent who has logged a combined 54 games with four NBA teams in three seasons,...

Emeka Okafor Is and Is Not the Problem

The thrash of desperate stars begging for desperate measures has the unfortunate side effect of bringing completely innocent bystanders into the harsh glare of a spotlight predisposed for ridicule, or at least negativity. When Kobe Bryant took to the supermarket parking lot to wage jihad on Business As Usual in L.A., a...

Emeka Okafor News From the Web

05/25/12 Crisis Rocks Buhari's Party Source: AllAfrica.com Crisis erupted in the Congress for Progressive Change yesterday when factional state chairmen announced the expulsion of national chairman Prince Tony Momoh and secretary Buba Galadima over alleged inexperienced, high handedness and corruption.
05/14/12 Kyrie Irving: Rookie of the Year - Around the Web Source: Cleveland.com "Not all Rookies of the Year end up transforming their franchises. For every Rose, Durant, Paul and Griffin there's a Tyreke Evans, Emeka Okafor or Mike Miller. However, there tends to be a certain eye test for franchise players. When Evans, Okafor and Miller won their awards, nobody was proclaiming them great franchise players. They tended to be more of winners by default in weak rookie classes. Only time will tell how strong or weak this year's rookie class ends up being, but nobody will say Irving only won because there weren't any franchise rookies."
05/04/12 New Orleans Hornets plan to monitor Emeka Okafor's... Source: NOLA.com - New Orleans LA The New Orleans Hornets are going to see how much progress Emeka Okafor makes in his recovery from his knee injury this offseason before making any determination about their plans for the seven-year veteran.
04/01/12 NASCAR at Martinsville: David Reutimann Did the Wrong... Source: Bleacher Report The NCAA champion hasn't even been crowned yet, but the postseason exits of some of college basketball's most talent-rich squads have started the dominoes falling when it comes to the NBA draft.

Background on Emeka Okafor

Chukwuemeka Ndubuisi Okafor, abbreviated as Emeka Okafor (born September 28, 1982), is an American basketball power forward and center for the New Orleans Hornets of the National Basketball Association.

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