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Tuesday, June 21, 2016
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NFL
Seahawks give rookies extensive course in NFL transition
By TIM BOOTH
AP Sports Writer
RENTON, Wash. — Pete
Carroll stood at the front of
the auditorium just like he
would for any other meeting
as the head coach of the
Seattle Seahawks.
But his words Monday
were brief, poignant and
directed just at his newest
players. And they had
nothing to do with what
these rookies end up doing
on the ield.
“It’s so important to us
to help you guys igure out
what is coming,” Carroll
said.
When the NFL did away
with its rookie symposium
in Canton, Ohio, it put the
onus back on the teams to
organize three days of rookie
transition education after the
completion of their mini-
camps and before players
head off on their summer
breaks. Seattle took it a step
further, creating an educa-
tion program that started
following the completion
of the Seahawks’ rookie
minicamp the second week
of May and will conclude
with the mandatory three
days this week.
“They’ve been with us
since May 9 so we had
nothing but time,” said Mo
Kelly, vice president of
player development. “It’s a
redundancy type deal. They
can never hear it enough.
We’ve talked to them on
inances, I don’t know how
many meetings we’ve had so
far, but guess what? They’re
still going to make mistakes.
They’re still young men.
They’re still growing up.
Imagine if you were 21 years
old with a lot of money in
your pocket. That’s the thing
I keep thinking about it is
they’re young individuals,
they’re going to make
mistakes and we have to be
here to help them when they
make mistakes.”
Seattle’s program was
opened to the media Monday
and included a history lesson
on the franchise and a panel
discussion with former
players Bryce Fisher, Jordan
Babineaux, Marcus Trufant
AP Photo/Elaine Thompson
Former Seattle Seahawks’ Walter Jones, center, ad-
dress rookies during a panel discussion with Bruce
Fisher, left, Jordan Babineaux and Marcus Trufant,
right, at the football team’s training camp Monday,
June 20, 2016, in Renton, Wash.
and Hall of Fame offensive
tackle Walter Jones on the
lessons learned and pitfalls
to avoid as a young player
entering the league.
Much of the conversation
revolved around inances
and the circle of friends and
family suddenly looking for
money.
“Nobody thinks they
have to worry about
managing that. They think
they have that under wraps.
They go from the small kid,
the young one, to now being
the person in their family
that everyone turns to and
asks questions to,” Kelly
said. “Now they have to
have a PhD in their inances.
Everybody is asking them
about spending money or
getting money from them.
Dealing with family and
friends is really, really tough
because it’s close to the vest.
We can talk about it, but
Trufant’s recommenda-
tion was to have someone
able to delect those
requests, an intermediary to
work through and keep the
pressure off the individual
player. Jones, who earned
the most of anyone on the
panel during his Hall of
Fame career, told the rookies
to start training their families
now on priorities.
“It’s going to be tough
because you’ve got people
tugging and pulling, that
want something,” Jones
said. “But you’ve just got
to make sure you’re taking
care of the people that you
feel that’s in need or you,
say this is the person I want
to take care of.”
Rookies also questioned
the vets about workout
programs over the next six
weeks and how to watch
their diets so they report to
camp in shape.
“To be able to hear from
guys that have sat in the
same seats as us and done
the same things as us is
priceless,” said irst-round
pick Germain Ifedi.
until you live it and be put in
a situation like that it’s tough
to understand.”
That’s where the expe-
riences of former players
proved
important.
All
four came from different
backgrounds and entered
the league with different
expectations, but their
stories shared a common
theme. Yes, mistakes will
be made. But the ultimate
priority for these rookies is
not endangering their future.
“You have more to
lose now. So what are you
willing to bargain? That’s
the question,” Babineaux
said. “What is this position
and this opportunity that you
guys have in front of you
worth to you? That means a
change in attitude. It requires
a change in lifestyle. And it
requires a change in really
the way you act. The choices
that you now have to make.
Because what you are doing
now is investing in your
future and every choice and
decision that you make will
be a result of where you end
up.”
NBA
Disappointed Warriors vow to get back to NBA Finals stage
By JANIE MCCAULEY
AP Sports Writer
OAKLAND, Calif. —
Draymond Green wants to
maintain the momentum
from a special season that
fell short by competing in
the Rio Olympics. Klay
Thompson plans to take
his mind off basketball and
missed chances entirely and
go watch brother Trayce
play baseball for the Los
Angeles Dodgers. Stephen
Curry’s toddler daughter,
Riley, helped the crestfallen
MVP begin to put things in
perspective by telling him
“It’s OK” to lose.
While Green is eager to
immediately move forward,
Thompson was despondent
a day later, still at a loss for
words to describe how the
Warriors became the irst
team in NBA history to
squander a 3-1 Finals lead
and miss out on a second
straight championship that
was there to be had.
“We’ll be there again.
You’ve just got to realize
how bad it hurts and why
winning is so good,”
Thompson said. “It was very
disappointing just because
we know how good we are.
We feel like we’re still the
best team in the world. We
let that slide. It hurts right
now. I can’t tell you when
the disappointment’s going
to fade, but it will.”
The best team in regu-
lar-season history with
73 wins, Golden State
succumbed to a determined
LeBron James and the
Cavaliers 93-89 on Sunday
night as Cleveland capped
a remarkable comeback for
the franchise’s irst title —
doing so with three straight
victories, two at typically
intimidating Oracle Arena —
and to end the city’s 52-year
championship drought.
“To sit and dwell on
it, that’s not going to do
anything for me,” said
Green, who sat out the Game
5 defeat while suspended for
lagrant fouls. “I’m not going
to sit and throw a pity party
for myself or my teammates
or anybody else. We were a
minute away from winning
a championship. We had
a 3-1 lead, we had all the
opportunities in the world
we needed. Got to take your
hat off to them. They fought,
they battled and they took
the series. It’s nothing to sit
around and cry about. It’s
something that you learn
from.”
A downtrodden locker
room was a strange sight for
this “Strength In Numbers”
group, which relied on its
deep bench right along
with the shooting touch of
Splash Brothers Curry and
Thompson and Green’s
emotions and physical play
on both ends of the court.
“We’ve had so many
moments of joy together,
and it was like, ‘Wow, we’re
actually having a moment of
sorrow as a team,”’ Coach of
the Year Steve Kerr said. “It’s
a great reminder that, irst
of all, it’s not easy to win a
Chicago Bulls’ record for
victories and he will appre-
ciate “a special journey, a
special ride” in spite of the
inish.
He woke up all night long
in disbelief.
“It was very surreal just
sitting in your bed, staring at
the ceiling and realizing that
the season was over,” Curry
said.
The irst unanimous
MVP, Curry knocked down
a record 402 3-pointers this
season before his up-and-
down playoffs began with
the frustration of a irst-
round ankle injury and then
a sprained knee. He was far
from his best in the Finals,
and doesn’t need to hear it
from anybody given he is his
own worst critic.
championship. But, as I said,
it’s life. Things happen. You
move on.”
Curry, for one, can’t do
that just yet. He will spend
the summer thinking about
what went wrong, what more
he could have done to change
the outcome.
“You look at the history
of the league, it would
have been really nice to
be in that group of teams
that repeated,” Curry said,
“creating that year-to-year
special accomplishment. ...
The teams that have fallen
short found a way to come
back stronger.”
Golden State lost as
many games in the post-
season — nine — as it did
in a 73-win regular season
while breaking the 1995-96
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