Hooped Up

Kyle Korver is officially the the kickball king! As a follow up to the Kyle Korver post from last week, and his attempt to break the world record for the longest kickball game ever played.  After 24 hours and 15 minutes, 164 full innings,  213 total runs scored, and popped 5 kickballs a new record was set and $10,000 was raised for local kids.  Awesome!!!

Already, overseas kickball teams are now clamoring to sign, the Michael Jordan of kickball and a film is in the works with Ashton Kutcher in the lead role.

Via Our Sports Central

Today, the Facebook profile for Kyle Korver will read “Kyle Korver is playing kick ball”, and his Myspace mood will be kicky. That’s because Kyle Korver and his friends will be playing a whole lotta kick ball over the next 25 hours for charity, with the goal of raising $10,000 for the Helping Hand Rescue Mission in North Philadelphia.  

If you live in Philly, you can go down to show your support for this kick @ss cause.

“Jazz forward Kyle Korver will be shooting for — or, more accurately, kicking for — a Guinness World Record today. In an effort to raise money for one of his favorite charities, Korver will be part of a group hoping to play the longest kickball game in history. To kick the current record to the curb, Korver and friends will have to play longer than 24 hours.”

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Five young Indian players will take part in the ‘Basketball without Borders’ program, the first NBA-backed event in the India, to be held here from July 3 to 6.

The Indian players selected for the event are Pratham Singh, Hirendra Singh Rathore, Shadab Khan, Vishesh Bhriguvansh and Arjun Singh.

Kyle Korver (Utah Jazz), Ronny Turiaf (L.A. Lakers), Pat Garrity (Orlando Magic) and Linton Johnson (Phoenix Sons) will join the 53 under-19 players from 15 countries and territories in the four-day camp.

The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) and the Basketball Federation of India (BFI), are organising the camp at the American Embassy School.

Hooped Up

Philadelphia 76ers President and General Manager Ed Stefanski announced today that the Sixers have acquired guard Gordan Giricek and a first-round pick from the Utah Jazz in exchange for guard Kyle Korver. “We are excited about acquiring a player of Gordan’s ability, as well as an additional asset in the form of a first-round draft pick,” Stefanski said. “This move will provide us with increased salary cap flexibility this off-season and also allows us to continue our evaluation and development of the young talent we have on this team.”

An elbow thrown at the Sixers’ Kyle Korver by the Lakers’ Kobe Bryant in the final moments of the first half of Friday night’s game is “being looked at” by league officials, an NBA source indicated.

Bryant was coming off a one-game suspension for a blow to the face of Minnesota guard Marko Jaric and had served an earlier one-game suspension for a similar incident with San Antonio guard Manu Ginobli.

In an Associated Press report from Indianapolis Saturday night, Korver said, “I didn’t think it was that big a deal. I thought it was an offensive foul. After I saw it on replay, it looked a lot worse than I thought it was during the game. It all happens fast. It’s no big deal. It’s just part of the game.”

Philadelphia Daily News