NEW YORK (AP)—The New York Knicks have signed free-agent guard Roger Mason(notes) Jr.
Mason is the latest addition to the Knicks, joining a list newcomers that include Amare Stoudemire, Ronny Turiaf(notes),Anthony Randolph(notes),Raymond Felton(notes) and Kelenna Azubuike(notes).
Mason has averaged 7.2 points 1.8 rebounds and 1.5 assists in 346 career games with Chicago, Toronto, Washington and San Antonio. He averaged 6.3 points and 2.1 rebounds in 19 games with the Spurs last season.
Mason was selected by Chicago in the second round of the 2002 draft, 31st overall, out of Virginia.
NEW YORK (AP)—LeBron James(notes) and his teammates boasted of bringing an “us against the world” mentality to the Olympics two years ago.
It wasn’t necessary.
Where they were going, people cheered U.S. players.
That was in China, playing before fans who adored the NBA superstars that led the Americans to the gold medal. The crowds were just as accommodating in 2006 in Japan.
“In Asia, those two summers, the world championships and the Olympics, we were greeted warmly,” U.S. coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “There wasn’t any hostility. Outside of the Chinese teams,Durant added. “, we were probably the most favored team.”
The lesser-known American players who make up the roster for this year’s world championships know things will be a lot harder. So the boos might be coming back—and maybe the losses, too.
“It’s going to be different,” guard Derrick Rose(notes) said. “They’re calling us the ‘B team,’ so we know that there’s going to be a lot of stuff going on. But we’ve got to withstand it and go out there and play anyway.”
The Americans left Monday for Madrid, a day after beating France 86-55 in their lone home exhibition game. They will play three quality opponents before they arrive in Turkey for the world championships that begin Aug. 28.
Stephen Curry(notes) played on the under-19 U.S. team that won a silver medal in Serbia in 2007, making him one of the few on this roster with experience playing in front of “hostile” European crowds.
“They were pretty much 100 percent against us every time we played,” he said. “That was a different experience going over there.”
The tour wraps up against Greece in Athens, where there was little love for the U.S. players during the 2004 Olympics. Lamar Odom(notes), who has a bronze medal from those games, argues that the venom directed toward the Americans was due to “different times” in the world. Some of the obstacles of playing in Europe remain for his much-younger teammates.
“That’s something that we have to be accustomed to. A lot of these guys that are superstars that are used to getting calls, it won’t be like that when we get over there,” Odom said. “It’ll be a good experience. They’ll have to grow up really fast.”
The Americans will face Lithuania and Spain in Madrid, the latter a rematch of the championship game in Beijing. None of the gold medalists is playing this summer, which will hurt the U.S. team as much in the stands as on the court.
Kobe Bryant(notes) is the league’s most popular player around the world, with players such as James, Dwyane Wade(notes) and Dwight Howard(notes) not far behind. Even in a road game, they would have heard some cheers.
“Remember the ’92 Dream Team, they were treated pretty well in Spain. I think Kobe and LeBron and Dwyane Wade, those guys, they get treated pretty well wherever they go,” said assistant Mike D’Antoni, who’s skipping the trip to rest an ailing back before the NBA season. “Now you send some guys without that status, although they’re very good players, might be a little bit more hostile.”
USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo agreed to the beefed-up exhibition schedule without regard to whether he’d have his superstars.
“When the possibility of games came up, in the past we might have said we’d rather not play against one team or another team until tournament time,” he said. “This time around, I said let’s play, let’s play them, because all it can do is help us get ready.”
Though Pau Gasol(notes) is resting this summer, Spain returns many other players from its 2006 world championship team. Greece, which beat the Americans in the semifinals of that tournament, also is a veteran group.
That raises the possibility the Americans could have at least one loss by the time they reach Istanbul. Along the way, they’ll be learning about more than foreign players.
“The people officiating the game can sometimes get nervous, get into what the crowd is doing because they’re human beings,” Krzyzewski said. “How do you adjust to that?”
Krzyzewski always plays a difficult nonconference schedule at Duke. He thinks the tour would have benefited the Americans no matter who was suiting up, but particularly with the roster in place.
“You need to find even more things with a younger group,” he said. “That doesn’t mean you find out negative. You could find out ‘Holy mackerel, these guys love it.’ I’m really looking for that.”
BEIJING, Aug. 13 Xinhua, according to Singapore's "Lianhe Zaobao," 13, quoted foreign reports,of the tree, the United Nations called upon the international community to contribute 400 million 60 million U.S. dollars (nearly 600 million 27 million Singapore dollars) in emergency assistance for battered by floods wreak havoc Pakistan relief.
The organization also warned that if disaster relief is not available quickly, the second wave of deaths surge in sick and hungry victims of the outbreak group. Pakistan's 80 years of this most serious floods, has been claimed over 1,600 lives.
For Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations Under-Secretary-General Holmes Wednesday in New York issued a call to the donor, said the donation for the victims of Pakistan to provide food, clean water, tents and medical supplies and other materials.
Humanitarian relief organizations complaint, since the outbreak of floods in Pakistan two weeks ago, the international community's contribution to the country, there are still less active.
United Nations Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs spokesman Zhu Li Anuo said: "If we do not respond in time to meet victims needs no helping hand Lai Jinkuai rescue may get the disease outbreaks and food shortfall in the second wave of Si Wang tide. "
Subjected to flooding of the affected areas now the biggest problem is that victims may be drinking contaminated water and suffer from infectious diseases.
Sindh Governor Arisa said: "What we need is a lot of foreign support, not to peanuts, the promised assistance has only peanuts, hardly enough to meet the great challenges before us."
The United States has promised to provide more assistance for the victims of Pakistan. Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced the dispatch of a helicopter can carry 19 aircraft carrier to participate in disaster relief coastal waters of Karachi. U.S. worried that Taliban forces would be stepped in, using the disaster to expand its influence. The United States has recently decided to flood the country to Pakistan increased 20 million U.S. dollars assistance to 55 million U.S. dollars. Washington also announced Wednesday, 16.2 million U.S. dollars donation to the UNHCR and the International Red Cross to help disaster relief. British government earlier pledged to contribute 24 million U.S. dollars to Pakistan.
However, the Taliban called for the Government of Pakistan not to accept foreign aid, it is willing to come up with 20 million U.S. dollars for relief.
Government of Pakistan estimates that as many as 1,400 people were directly or indirectly, floods affected the number of affected 8% of the total population, of which an estimated 200 people homeless.
While some disaster areas for flood water level has receded, but there is still a large number of victims in the hot weather, poor facilities in the refugee camp in tents, waiting for relief.
In addition, Zhu Li Enuo told Reuters yesterday, Pakistanis living out of agriculture, disaster is expected to take tens of billions of dollars to recover, including settled farmers and rebuilding infrastructure.
Pakistan accused of disaster weakness, opposition parties and the victims have denounced President Asif Ali Zardari during the disaster, to stay in Europe to buy regardless of the victims live or die.
Has ended his visit yesterday, Zardari returned to Sukur to disaster areas quickly inspect, and distribute relief supplies to the victims, trying to calm public anger.
This is the first person hit Zardari. According to local state-run television showed footage of Zardari, comfort a woman in the disaster area, after he went to observe the flow volume of the dam Sukkur.
A local official told AFP, Zardari went to university in a refugee camp to distribute relief supplies to victims to ensure that government has made every effort to help them.
The official quoted Zardari as saying: "Do not feel alone, we'll do our best to help you settle down as soon as possible."
Zardari, Wednesday in the "Wall Street Journal" The author in his own defense, saying his visit in London and Paris, fight for local people to provide assistance to the victims.
China news agency, New York, August 14 - From different countries, different ethnic groups more than 200 pairs of lovers,Chad Buchanan., the 14th gathered in Times Square, reproduction, "Kiss of Victory Day," a classic moment, to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II.
1945, U.S. time on August 14, Japan announced its unconditional surrender. A U.S. sailor in Times Square celebrating the victory of one side when kissing a nurse, this moment was the United States, "Life" magazine photographer snap down. This "Kiss of Victory Day," the photo has thus become the Americans celebrate the victory of World War II classic lens.
Times Square in New York this morning to participate in commemoration of the men provided by the organizers, wearing a white sailor hat, ladies are holding a rose, more than 200 pairs of couples enjoy kissing, to New York's unique way of commemorating the 65th anniversary of victory in World War II.
A 7-meter-high "Victory Day Kiss" sculpture erected in Times Square is also central. Sailor and nurse kissing in this show of sculpture, the artist spent three years before they produced this year's debut New York Times Square.
China news agency, Tokyo, July 23 (Reporter Sun Ran) - 23 former North Korean agent Kim Hyon Hui ended 3 nights 4 days in Japan embarked on a trip back to South Korea's aircraft. From the moment the Japanese set foot on like the female star as sought after by the public media, and enjoy the Ambassador-class treatment. Fanfare, the trigger considerable controversy in Japan.
48-year-old Kim Hyon Hui, Korean Air was created in 1987 plane crash, resulting in 115 people drowned in the sea plane. After being sentenced to death, but Amnesty narrowly escaped death.
Kim Hyon Hui The Japan, because she revealed information on the abductees information. It ignited hope for many years struggling relatives of abductees hope, also makes the Japanese government moved heart, "I hope that Kim Hyon Hui can advance to solve this problem." Kim Hyun Ji Japanese government to go to Japan, she paid a lot of money to the "Xie."
In Japan, Kim Hyon Hui pomp comparable to the Ambassador. Arrangements to ride the jet, move to the former Prime Minister Hatoyama Yukio villa, sitting helicopter tour over the city center in Tokyo. She spent a huge amount of this trip cost and manpower, but not on the abduction issue provide no help.
According to Japanese government-related officials said the plane spent Ji Hyun pick up 1 million yen. Hatoyama villa from the airport to take a high degree of security the way, but expend hundreds of police. Kim Hyon Hui said, "want to see Mount Fuji", the Japanese government on arrangements for helicopter tours over the city center so that in Tokyo, spent 80 million yen.
Questions from the media for the Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said that it was for safety and security needs. In the meeting with the relatives of kidnapped Japanese when Kim Hyon Hui describes some details of the abducted Japanese, but they know nothing about the status. If the largest contribution to the King's visit, the words of one family, "got the courage to live."
Families of the victims are questioned, "This is nothing but a political show, the government only. To resolve the abduction issue should not be sitting together for the past victims of tears, but should seriously consider how to resolve."
70,80 the last century,Japan-US Security Treaty, North Korea has had at least 17 Japanese abducted. The 17 Japanese Only a few lucky home, most are still trapped in North Korea missing. Kidnappings have been the pain of Japan's heart. Successive Cabinet of Prime Minister attached great importance, established in 2006 and assigned to Headquarters for a special cabinet minister responsible. While the former North Korean agent Kim Ji Yin to Japan, caused uproar in Japan, the incident still illustrates the degree of civil concern.
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\Last weekend the two clubs agreed to consider on that today, the two sides will sit down at the negotiating table again,and a larger size, Ozil joining Real Madrid is also expected to soon finalize the issue. Ozil's worth will be 10 million to 16 million euros between. Real Madrid will increase the offer without a price Lemery will not die bite and hold without Lemery general manager Allofs said: \listen to the new offer. \
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available Afghanistan, more than 50 international and Afghan security companies, at least 30,000 employees. Karzai said the security companies and security forces, the structure is similar to weaken the Afghan security forces.
NATO officials this week said that once the Afghan army and police have the ability to bear the existing services provided by private security companies,blood circulation also increased. Therefore, including the protection of officials and provide escort services to existing companies is likely to be laid off.
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