December 04, 2024

In this video, Dr. Riley Williams III, Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery, and Brooklyn Nets Medical Director and Team Doctor believes that now that the Brooklyn Nets are immersed into Brooklyn good things are coming. He is also happy to see clarity surrounding the team’s leadership. Dr. Williams roots for the Brooklyn Nets, follows Nets Daily, and can see there is a transition of fans of other teams coming to Nets games because the tickets were cheaper to those who are Nets fans.

In this video Dr. Riley Williams III, Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery, and Brooklyn Nets Medical Director and Team Doctor said that although basketball and sports were not a priority while he was a student a Yale, but he is excited that his alma mater made it into the NCAA tournament. He also reminded us that Jeremy Lin went to Harvard and he is still playing in the NBA, so although Harvard and Yale are Ivy League schools, there is still good basketball played at those institutions.

In this video, Dr. Riley Williams III, Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery, and Brooklyn Nets Medical Director and Team Doctor explains how he juggles his responsibilities during the day.

 

Dr. Riley Williams III, Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery, and Brooklyn Nets Medical Director and Team Doctor explains that the NBA has a very clear and explicit policy on banned substances. If an athlete takes a banned substance, there is no response, the athlete is banned. Dr. Williams reviews the NBA's banned substance list annually and he and his colleagues do their very best to keep Brooklyn Nets players out of harm's way.

Dr. Riley Williams III, Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery, and Brooklyn Nets Medical Director and Team Doctor, explains that he grew up in Los Angeles south of Compton and was looking for a way out of the neighborhood. He had an affinity for the sciences and medicine made sense because he could see a clear path for a career. You do well in college, you go on to medical school. You do well in medical school; you get to do an internship and residency, and ultimately a job.

Dr. Riley Williams III, Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery, gives us some insight into his role as the Brooklyn Nets Medical Director and Team Doctor. His primary goal is the health and well-being of the Brooklyn Nets players, which involves managing injuries and getting the athletes back into action. Dr. Williams also focuses on preventative strategies such as nutrition, mental health around the stress of being a professional basketball player; and beyond the athletes, management and executives.

VIDEO: Nets game ticket price reduction will depend on seat section

Bloomberg News is reporting that the Brooklyn Nets plan to lower ticket prices for basketball games at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn starting with the 2016-17 season.

 

VIDEO: Billie Jean King thinks Pat Summitt would have made a great tennis player

Billie Jean King, an icon on the world tennis stage, spoke glowingly about Pat Summitt, the former University of Tennessee Women's Basketball Head Coach.

In her conversation with What's The 411 TV's Andrew Rosario, Ms. King, will at least, make you chuckle, with her humorous comments about Coach Summitt.

"She was so much fun to watch coach, not only watch the team play, but to see her look at them, and motivate them, and stare at them, and yell at them. She said she mellowed over the years. The winningest coach, 1098 games, eight national championships, but the most important thing, which you're going to hear when I speak, is that every single player, every single player that she ever coached graduated. That's the big deal I think." (Editor's note: me too!)

Ms. King also states that Ms. Summitt would have been a great tennis player.

A little-known fact is that Ms. King played basketball before she played tennis.

The 2012 USTA ICON Awards in its fourth year and held at the US Tennis Center during the US Open, honored Pat Summitt, the former University of Tennessee Women's Basketball Head Coach and now Head Coach Emeritus, with the Billie Jean King Legacy Award.

The association also honored posthumously 2012 International Tennis Hall of Fame inductee and wheelchair tennis pioneer Randy S

NBA All-Star 2016 Snubs

February 02, 2016

VIDEO DISCUSSION: NBA All-Star 2016 Snubs: Kemba Walker, Dirk Nowitzki, Pau Gasol, DeAndre Jordan, JJ Redick

Former Los Angeles Laker and Clipper, Lamar Odom, was released from Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles to a private rehab facility. Odom’s transfer comes three months after being hospitalized in critical condition after being found unconscious in a Las Vegas brothel. He continues to improve but still faces a long road to recovery. We wish him continued improvement and healthy recovery.

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