Spotted: Amar'e Stoudemire and Ciara in Miami

Amar'e Stoudemire is enjoying off-season. Now that he and singer Ciara have come public with their relationship they are living it up. The couple was spotted recently on Miami Beach cruising around on their his and hers mopeds.



Walking the beach in Miami is always relaxing. We think we like this couple.

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Spotted: Derrick Rose and Grant Hill

Yea Derrick Rose should be the MVP this season, hands down no disscussion. We before he shows off his MVP trophy in pursuit of the Larry O'Brien trophy he took a moment to show his chest tattoo in this photo.



The season is over for Grnat Hill and his Phoenix Suns but the schedule doesn't get any lighter for Hill and his wife, singer Tamia.



The couple were at the Tribeca Film Festival last week. Grant was there promoting his upcoming documentary "Starting at the Finish Line: The Coach Buehler Story".



Add the duty of being on the Board of Governors for the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame (a 3 year position) and Hill will stay busy. Hill became the first ever active player to be on the Board of Governors. Safe to safe he's HOF bound.

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Grant Hill Elected to HOF Board

Being one of the oldest players in the game isn't always a bad thing, especially when your making up for lost time. True Grant Hill and his sidekick Steve Nash are watching the playoffs this season but in the long run they may need the extra rest going into next season, Neither is showing signs of retirement and both are pretty busy any way. Well maybe not Nash who is shooting hoops at the local park, let him tell it because he has nothing else to do but as for Grant Hill, well he has plenty to do.

Hill was elected to a three year term on the Naismith Basketball Hall Of Fame board of governors. Hill is the first active player to every do so but when your as old as he is it almost seems fitting. Hill has always keep a high standard and been a pros pro during his life and basketball career. Heck even Shaunie O'Neal says he doesn't go out side of his marriage, but anyway.



Congrats to Grant on this accomplishment. He's the first active player to ever be elected to the Hall's board of directors and that speaks volumes, especially when you hear the cries of how the NBA should have it's own Hall of Fame, nah don't think so, the NBA is not bigger than the game of basketball although it is the cream of the crop, the ultimate measuring stick, the league many aspire and dream to play in. Yet how may players would seek this role.

The longer Grant Hill and Jason Kidd play the more you just feel like they are trying to settle that co-rookie of the year award from 1995. Pretty good vote that year huh? Either way Grant Hill is going to be a Hall of Famer, one way or another.

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UPDATE: Grant Hill's Response to the "Fab Five" documentary

With the hype and success of ESPN's 30-for-30 documentary on the "Fab Five", it brought up some long suppressed bad blood...especially on how the preppy schools, like Duke, recruited a 'certain type of player."
And as you know the story follows, the players that ended up choosing Michagan did so in protest and to prove a point.

Grant Hill and his father Calvin Hill pose on Duke's campus.

Duting all of that, mean things were said of certain players who did select the clean-cut schools...like Duke...and like Grant Hill.

Well, Grant Hill is speaking out. According to Sports By Brooks :

A source at the NEW YORK TIMES told me late Tuesday that Hill has submitted an editorial to the newspaper to be published this week that will detail his feelings about the aforementioned Michigan team. Included in Hill’s piece is an anecdote about King attending Pistons training camp in 1999.

I’ve been told that Hill notes in the N.Y. Times article that King’s unflattering remark about him was particularly disappointing because he considered King a friend. In fact, Hill reveals in his editorial that he thought so much of King that he repeatedly lobbied then-Pistons GM Rick Sund not to cut the former Wolverine at the end of training camp in ‘99. (Hill’s efforts turned out to be futile, as King was released before the season.)

*Should be good. Well link the story when it posts!
Here's the link to the NY Times story: http://thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/grant-hills-response-to-jalen-rose/

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