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The NBA's Three-Pointer Turns 30

By Chris TomassonOct 11th 2009 – 10:00AM

Had it happened in this era, somebody would have been watching multiple games on television monitors. The game would have been stopped and the ball shipped to the Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. But that was hardly the case on Oct. 12, 1979. Early in the first quarter of a game against Houston at the Boston Garden in...

Bouncin' Around: How Much Scouting Do You Really Need?

By Matt SteinmetzAug 19th 2009 – 10:04AM

Bouncin' Around is NBA FanHouse's weekly insider notebook.A little while back, the Memphis Grizzlies took a lot of heat when word got out that five of their scouts had either left or been let go.At the time, general manager Chris Wallace downplayed the departures, calling it nothing more than a "restructuring," and adding...

Rick Barry News From the Web

  • 05/23/12 Police sergeants sue over overtime pay Source: St Louis Post-Dispatch - St Louis MO Six St. Louis police sergeants have sued the St. Louis Police Board, saying that they have been denied overtime pay for years.
  • 05/16/12 Form an opinion Source: FOX Sports A player misses key free throws in a game and soon goes to a gym and shoots hundreds until midnight.
  • 04/27/12 Intuit buys San Francisco cloud software company... Source: SiliconValley.com Mountain View software company Intuit ( INTU ) has agreed to purchase San Francisco cloud-software company Demandforce for nearly half a billion dollars in cash, following the popular model of moving into the software-as-a-service sector through acquisition.
  • 04/24/12 Former owner Taub sorry to see Nets go Source: New York Post - New York NY Jersey Joe Taub (Walcott will have to stand down) and his brother, Henry, whose brainstorm Automatic Data Processing, at 21, rocket-boosted their family from privation to privileged, returned the Nets' franchise to the Garden State in 1978 when Roy Boe's financial discredit forced him to sell.
  • 04/12/12 Barry praises Boy Scouts, reminisces on NBA career Source: Stewart-Houston Times - Dover TN Before Rick Barry scored more than 25,700 points over the course of a 16-year ABA and NBA career, he was an Eagle Scout.

Background on Rick Barry

Richard Francis Dennis Barry III (born March 28, 1944), better known as Rick Barry, is a retired American professional basketball player.

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