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July 5, 2007

Mainly because it amuses me at this point.

The day after the introductory press conference for the new Bulls players they headed out to that other Reinsdorf property — the Chicago White Sox.

Bulls 2007 draft picks Joakim Noah, JamesOn Curry and Aaron Gray were honored before Tuesday’s game, with Gray throwing the ceremonial first pitch. Noah wore a jersey that read “Booozynski,” in reference to Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski, a rabid University of Florida supporter.

I’m guessing that Noah wasn’t able to throw out the pitch because of his rotator cuff. Since there was no mention of it and nothing I noticed on SportsCenter, I assume Gray got it over the plate.
Gray was also thrown into the local gossip/sightings page.

The Bulls’ GM John Paxon entertained new draft picks Joakim Noah, Aaron Gray and JamesOn Curry at Morton’s the Steakhouse in Northbrook.

Finally just to note that article on Aaron Gray and Darren Morningstar. The only thing that had “parallels” with them beyond being centers at Pitt was their place in the NBA draft. Hardly parallel careers to this point.





I believe it was my sophmore year that Morningstar lived in the bottom apartment of a house in which a good friend of mine lived in the upstairs apartment. As I recall, at a party in my friend’s apartment one night, we were running out of beer and managed to “borrow” a keg from Morningstar’s joint downstairs that, for one reason or another, wasn’t being put to use at that moment.

That’s the way I’ll always remember Darren M., as a true philanthropist.

Comment by Carmen 07.05.07 @ 10:21 am

Typical yinzer media stretching with a ‘story’ like this to compare Aaron Gray, not a superstar by any means but definitely an outstanding player, with a decent but journeyman center who weighed 40 pounds less. That would be like a story comparing Carl Krauser with Mike Goodson … hey, they were both black point guards for Pitt, right?

Comment by geeman2001 07.05.07 @ 6:15 pm

Mike Goodson – wow! What a blast from the past.

Comment by Kevin 07.06.07 @ 7:30 am

Morningstar played to win, some play not to lose.

Comment by steve 07.06.07 @ 4:40 pm

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