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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2015
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2 years after snub,
Curry is All-Star
man of the moment
Brothers Pau, Marc Gasol
await NBA All-Star history
NEW YORK (AP) — Marc Gasol
can hardly wait for one of the NBA All-
Star game’s most mundane moments.
“I’m just really excited for the jump
ball,” he said.
That’s because it will be against his
big brother.
Teammates with their national team,
once traded for each other and sharing
a lifetime love of basketball that devel-
oped in their grandmother’s backyard in
Spain, Marc and Pau Gasol will make
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All-Star game.
“That jump ball is going to symbolize
a lot of things, different ways to do things
with the same kind of goal and what we
stand for as players and as men, so that
jump ball is going to be unique,” Marc
said Monday. “It’s hard to put into words
what that jump ball is going to mean.”
Not for those who know the brothers
best.
“When you’re close to somebody
like I am with those two guys, you feel
really special,” said Knicks guard Jose
Calderon, a longtime teammate of the
Gasols on the Spanish national team.
“We’ve been working together and
playing together for so many years, so
it’s like a brother, like family. I think it’s
really great for Spanish basketball, for
Spain, even for the NBA. You’ve got
two brothers starting for two different
conferences. I don’t know if that is go-
ing to happen again in basketball.”
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Chicago Bulls and was elected to start
for the Eastern Conference. Marc, who
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has followed Pau as Memphis’ man in
the middle, was voted by fans to start for
the West.
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siblings to play in the same game since
Tom and Dick Van Arsdale in 1970 and
‘71.
“It’s a beautiful thing. We are a lucky
family,” Pau said during a conference
call with his brother.
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Pau, who was a star from nearly the
minute he came to the NBA. He was the
2002 Rookie of the Year and the MVP
of the 2006 world basketball champi-
onship, and he won two titles with the
Lakers after they acquired him from
Memphis during the 2007-08 season.
Success for the 30-year-old Marc,
whose draft rights were traded from the
Lakers to the Grizzlies in the deal, was
slower and a little more unexpected —
except to Pau.
“I’m just happy to see him do so well
and also with his team, with the Griz-
zlies, a franchise that has also been a
big part of my career,” Pau said. “Just
overall, a lot of pride, a lot of joy to see
your brother do so well, and I know he’s
going to continue to do well.”
‘That jump ball is
going to symbolize a
lot of things, different
ways to do things
with the same kind
of goal and what we
stand for as players
and as men, so that
jump ball is going to
be unique.’
— Marc Gasol
Memphis Grizzlies center
Time together is rare during the sea-
son — especially now that they are in
different conferences. So they will enjoy
these days in New York, along with par-
ents, wives, kids and other supporters.
And Marc should have plenty of
them inside Madison Square Garden. A
free agent this summer who could draw
interest from the Knicks, he laughed off
the idea that he might receive some of
the loudest cheers Sunday.
“I think there’s going to be many
more popular guys than me in that are-
na, but I don’t know how it’s going to
go,” he said. “It’s going to be one very
unique night and I can’t wait to enjoy
it.”
Tigers outlast the Warriors, 39-32
In Thursday’s loss, it was
Warrenton that rallied from a
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WARRENTON — The then clamped down defen-
good news for the Warrenton sively to hold the Tigers to
boys basketball team: This just eight points in the second
year’s losses may be next quarter, and zero points in the
year’s wins.
third.
But as the 2014-15 sea-
A 3-pointer by Chris Oc-
son came to a close Thursday ana, breakaway buckets by
night, the Warriors were still Christian Holt, Brock John-
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close out a game.
short jumper from Anthony
Warrenton dropped a cou- Cochran highlighted a 16-3
ple heartbreakers this season, run by the Warriors, resulting
with Thursday night’s season in a 31-28 Warrenton lead.
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But the Tigers eventually
Warrenton’s three-point woke up, as Wyatt McKay and
lead with just over three min- Andrew Norgren made 4-of-4
utes remaining did not hold free throws, and Norgren’s
up, as Clatskanie rallied for a power move to the hoop with
39-32 win over the Warriors 1:23 left gave Clatskanie at
on Senior Night at Warrenton. 34-32 lead.
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fourth-quarter lead slip away, seconds to help put the game
after Rainier rallied from an away.
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Johnson led the Warriors
a 42-39 win.
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Warrenton’s Romana King
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quarter, then made another in
the second, to go with a pair
of 3-pointers from teammate
Landree Miethe.
That helped the Warriors
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25-17 late in the second quar-
ter, following a layup from
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Tigers 55, Warriors 34
Clatskanie was 9-of-40
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day night, but the Lady Tigers two quarters and could get no
made enough to score a 55-34 closer than nine points. Mi-
win at Warrenton, in a Lewis ethe missed much of the sec-
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Warriors committed 34 turn- high 16 points in the second
overs, as both teams struggled half, with teammate Maisy
offensively.
Horness adding 15 points.
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Miethe and Blodgett each
build a 21-5 lead early in the had 10 points for the senior-
second quarter, before a few OHVV :DUULRUV ZKR ¿QLVK WKH
3-pointers helped the Warriors season 2-21 overall, 2-13 in
get back in the game.
league play.
nal game, while Norgren had
16 for the Tigers, despite not
scoring in the second and
third quarters.
After going winless last
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8-16 overall this season.
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league standings at 12-4.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SCHEDULE
TODAY
Girls Basketball — Scappoose at Astoria, 5:30
p.m.; Valley Catholic at Seaside, 5:30 p.m.; Knap-
pa at Neah-Kah-Nie, 6 p.m.; Falls City at Jewell,
5:30 p.m.
Boys Basketball — Scappoose at Astoria,
7:15 p.m.; Valley Catholic at Seaside, 7:15 p.m.;
Knappa at Neah-Kah-Nie, 7:45 p.m.; Falls City at
Jewell, 7:15 p.m.
Swimming — District 1/4A, at Astoria Aquatic
Center, 3 p.m.
Wrestling — District 1/4A Regionals, Tilla-
mook, TBA
SATURDAY
Girls Basketball — Adna vs. Ilwaco, at Roch-
ester HS, 2 p.m.
Swimming — District 1/4A, at Astoria Aquatic
Center, 10 a.m.
Wrestling — District 1/4A Regionals, Tilla-
mook, TBA; Ilwaco at Districts (Boys at Adna,
Girls at Kelso).
BASKETBALL
HIGH SCHOOLS
Boys
Clatskanie 39, Warrenton 32
CLA (39): Andrew Norgren 16, McKay 11,
Puzey 7, Blodgett 3, George 2.
WAR (32): Brock Johnson 7, Thomas 5, Ocana 5,
Whitaker 4, Holt 4, Cochran 4, Little 3, Fischer, Kyme.
Clatskanie
17 8 0 14—39
Warrenton
7 8 8 9—32
Girls
Clatskanie 55, Warrenton 34
CLA (55): Rachel Haas 16, Horness 15, Warren
11, Farbo 7, Mitchell 6.
WAR (34): Landree Miethe 10, Katelynn Blodgett
10, King 6, Little 4, Dyer 3, Morrill 1, Lyons, Holdi-
man, Schenbeck, Dyer, Magranahan, Rowles.
Clatskanie
19 9 8 19—55
Warrenton
5 12 6 11—34
One city, two arenas
The Friday and Saturday
events go to Brooklyn’s Bar-
clays Center, while the Knicks’
Madison Square Garden hosts
the All-Star game Sunday. The
AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file
Golden State Warriors Klay
Thompson, left, celebrates
with Stephen Curry after
scoring during an NBA
basketball game against
the Kings in Sacramento,
Calif., Oct. 29. The War-
riors shooting tandem will
own the All-Star spotlight
in New York this weekend,
competing in the 3-point
contest Saturday night in
Brooklyn, then playing for
the Western Conference in
the All-Star game Sunday
at Madison Square Garden.
teams may be rivals on the court,
but Commissioner Adam Silver
insists it was easy to get them to
share the festivities.
“I wish there was some smoke
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I could tell you, but in fact both
organizations were incredibly co-
operative,” Silver said.
Michele’s moment
Michele Roberts will hold her
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since being chosen last year as
the NBA Players Association’s
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an to head a North American
team sport’s union. Her weekend
won’t be all business — she’s
bringing back the popular Player
Association’s party that’s been
on hiatus for a few years.
Celebrity coaches
Knicks All-Star Carmelo An-
thony and director Spike Lee will
serve as coaches in today’s celeb-
rity game. Anthony plans to be a
laid-back one.
“All celebrities feel like they
think they know how to play bas-
ketball. Some of them are pretty
good, so just a matter of putting
them out there and throwing the
ball out there and telling them
to go,” Anthony said. “They’re
going to do their own thing any-
way.”
What about Lee, the Knicks’
most passionate celebrity fan?
“Oh, Spike is going to be into
it,” Anthony said. “Spike’ll be
loud, Spike will be really coach-
ing.”
Missing men
All the stars aren’t healthy
enough to be All-Stars. The West
roster is missing the injured Bry-
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Davis, all of whom had been vot-
ed by fans as starters.
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Chicago Bulls forward Pau Gasol, left, and his brother Memphis Grizzlies center Marc Gasol vie for a jump ball
at the start of an NBA basketball game in Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 19. The duo will make history Sunday, when the
Spanish centers become the first brothers to start against each other in the NBA All-Star game.
NEW YORK (AP) — Ste-
phen Curry will take on his team-
mate and team up with his father,
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leading vote-getter for the All-
Star game.
The Golden State Warriors’
guard might be the man of the
weekend, and even he can’t be-
lieve how quickly it’s happened
after he was an All-Star snub just
two years ago.
“I remember where I was
the night I didn’t hear my name
called and thought that was a real
possibility,” he said. “I was in
Chicago sitting in the hotel room
watching the announcements
and obviously (David) Lee was a
representative, so happy for him,
but in two short years obviously
where it is now, it’s unreal.”
Curry rebounded from not
getting chosen in 2013, when he
had the highest scoring average
among players not picked, by be-
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votes ahead of LeBron James to
be the top vote-getter this season,
and he heads to the break as a
leading candidate for the MVP
award.
The Warriors have the NBA’s
best record and will be well-rep-
resented on Sunday. Steve Kerr
will coach the Western Con-
ference, and he tabbed Curry’s
back-court mate, Klay Thomp-
son, to start in place of the injured
Kobe Bryant.
The night before, Curry and
Thompson are part of an elite
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3-point contest. Curry will also
team up with his father, Dell,
a former NBA player, and the
WNBA’s Sue Bird in the shoot-
ing stars competition.
He says there is more pres-
sure to beat his teammate than
there is to not lose with his dad.
“The Currys have never won
a 3-point contest, so I think that’s
probably the more pressure,” he
said.
Even if he loses them all, it’s
a big weekend for Curry. His
career-high performance of 54
points in February 2013 came at
Madison Square Garden, site of
Sunday’s game, not long after the
last All-Star game that went on
without him.
Hard to imagine him missing
another one any time soon.
“Just to be on a winning team,
best record in the West and have
the vision that we have for this
team this year,” Curry said, “and
then all the other stuff that comes
from that when it comes to per-
sonal accolades and acknowl-
edgments and all that stuff, kind
of try to keep it in perspective
because it is crazy.
“In two years, that’s a lot
that’s happened.”
Here are other things to watch
during All-Star weekend: