Every NBA team has a captain, but I guarantee no one takes the role more seriously than Jameer Nelson. For the third year in a row, Nelson flew practically the entire Magic roster to his hometown of Philadelphia for "Building Magic," a week-long team-building retreat he puts on with zero input from team management. In addition to planning training sessions and nights out on the town, Nelson also arranged a talk from Marc Isenberg, an author who helps athletes make smarter financial decisions.
It's obvious that Nelson leaned on his teammates to make this a priority -- everyone made the trip but Dwight Howard, who's a little preoccupied trying to win Gold in Beijing, and Hedo Turkoglu, who's still in his home country of Turkey. And not only that, Nelson foots the bill for the entire thing, including plane tickets, hotel rooms, meals and training sessions.
"That's right, right this way, please step forward. Okay, forwards, please line up behind the Olympiakos sign, guards and centers, please line up behind the Maccabi Tel Aviv sign."
The Magic improved by 12 games this year to finish with 52 wins, their most since 1996 when Shaquille O'Neal and Penny Hardaway carried the team all the way to the NBA Finals. GM
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Orlando suffered a crushing blow to their hopes of moving on in the playoffs with a tough Game 4 loss at home to the Pistons. Detroit is the only team to win a road game in this round of the playoffs, and did so by just a single point and without their starting point guard,
After two days of literally spending every waking hour with Pistons' trainer Arnie Kander,
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