I also heard this but on channel 10 sport. They said that mone of the options was a former NBA point guard that is 41!!! That's not too encouraging for the Sixers now is it???

Both Axel Dench and James Harvey are playing in the Treviso Summer League shortly. Kevin Freeman, ex-Bullets import, is playing in the USBL in the playoffs under coach John Starks.

I hope they don't sign the former nba point guard, he is too old and i think farley should be there number 1 choice regardless and i reckon if we get him back we may be able to keep him for a few seasons this time!

Considering D-Mac is still playing at 40, Gaze at 39, not to mention David and Leapin Leroy played into their 40's, I don't think age should be an issue.

If the guy has the fitness, the form, and the skills the team needs, great!! Especially with NBA talent. (and HOW old is Michael Jordan again????) :)

Pity that the Cats going, good luck to him in Europe.

Now, ex nba 41 year old point guards is interesting..John Stockton is 41! But, Derrick McKey would be around that age as well, perhaps more likely than John! Checked out the nba website for the 1983/83/85 drafts as a fair few of those players would be around that age... interesting looking through is and seeing if there was possibilities.

It was Sedale Threat

An ex-NBA guard would probably be some dude who played a few games as a backup in the 80s or something and made an earning playing in Europe (etc)...Darnell and KB are 'ex-NBA', and look at Brunson!

Libertine, the NBA player played in the NBA for fourteen seasons, including a stint with the LA Lakers.

Found a thread on the VBL forum about Sedale Threatt being in Australia.

"hey, yeah he trained with us last night. I tell ya what, he may be 42 but damn he can get up the floor. Just puts the jets on flys!!
Its like nothing i've seen before."

Also, career stats in the NBA. Best season was 1991-92 for the Lakers: 15 PPG, 7 APG.

Last season in the NBA was 7 years ago, 1996-97 when he played for Houston and averaged 3.3 PPG.

Sedale Threatt
Position: G
Height: 6' 2' Weight: 175
Born: 9/10/1961, in Atlanta, GA, USA
High School: Therrell, in Atlanta, GA
College: West Virginia Tech

I'd still rather farley as he is proven with the 6ers and being at around 28 yrs old he could possibly play 4 or 5 years with us, plus he is my all time favourite import!

For all those who doubted me, apologies accepted....

More facts to come soon!

Anyone who saw George Gervin and Johhny Moore play at Apollo would realise that an old NBA player can still kick the buts of young NBL players.

Johhny Moore from memory was 40+ and he killed Pearce and Mc Kay both when they were in the Boomers squad. He out played them in every facet of the game....was amazing to see.

heres the link

http://www.eurobasket.com/transactions.asp?NewsNo=14

I can distinctly remember trying to guard Johnny Moore full court, being young & full of beans, I thought I'd go the ol' run & jump only to have Johnny totally break me & anyone else who tried down soooooo easily. We were all gobsmacked at how good this guy at 40+ was. He didn't just take us back to school we ended up in the sandbox at kindergarten.

There was another guy on that tour Jarvis Basnight who threw down some big dunks. The Iceman only played a few minutes, after the game he said that the Aussie women were keeping him up all night!

I reckon that getting Threatt will be cheap allowing us to go after a quality big man ie. Paul Rogers, just a hunch.

Seb007 - I poseted that post before I saw Sedalle Threatt being mentioned - I was a Lakers fan in the dark ol' days when Cedric and Sedale had to carry the team, so I know who he is!

Still have an old school game on tape of the year the Sonics made the finals where Threatt and Vlade schooled Kemp and co!

Libertine - You wouldn't happen to have any other Lakers games from that era on tape would you?

Here is a very poor translation confiriming Cat signing with DKV Joventut.

Cheers, DJ


IT PLAYED TWO SEASONS IN THE BOX SAN FERNANDO
The DKV Joventut files to Australian eaves Martín Cattalini

The DKV Joventut de Badalona reached an agreement after the draftee of eaves Martín i'talo-Australian Peter Cattalini, of 30 years, international with Australia that arrives coming from the Australian Adelaide 36ers, with passed in Liga ACB like player of the Box San Fernando (2000-02), and who becomes the first draftee of the equipment directed by Aito Garci'a Reneses for the next season.

Cattalini, of 2 meters of height, has Italian passport, reason why it does not occupy seat of extracommunitarian, although he is international with the selection of Australia, with which it is summer will dispute the Olympic Games of Athens before initiating with the DKV the one that will be his second experience in Liga ACB, in which it was two campaigns in the rows of the Box San Fernando, the only nonAustralian equipment of their race.

In its two campaigns in the ACB like player of the Sevillian equipment, it played 59 parties, with an average of 20 minutes and 7 points. Formed in the CBC Fremantle and the Cockburn Cougars, it played in the Perth Wildcats from 1992 1995 later to file by the Adelaide 36ers (1995-2000), before giving to the jump to the Box San Fernando (2000-02).

Later, already the new player of the DKV Joventut de Badalona returned to the Adelaide 36ers, with which the last season offered an average of 22.8 points by party (with a percentage of the 83.8 percent in free shots and 43.7 in triples), and 6.4 bounces by party.

Sorry Nat - I only ever taped the games when the Lakers were playing and they showed it on NBA Action...I was only 10-11yrs old, so forgive me! In hindsight, if I knew how bad basketball would go downhill, shoulda taped it every week.

Top 10 plays of the week was always the greatest thing every Sunday.

Kg and Cornsey just interviewed Cattalini in Italy (on a bus driving to a game). His response to the question of leaving was that he had several financially attractive offers from Spain and Italy but had not yet made up his mind. He would decide within 2 weeks of arriving home from the tour and after discussions with his wife. He implied the lifestyle was a negative for the family but as mentioned the money was lucrative. very interesting!