B2 SUNDAY, JULY 15, 2012 SPORTS SUNDAY LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER | KENTUCKY.COM NBA NUMBERS GAME: 10,500 FAN FARE The number of athletes expected for the 2012 Olympic Games, which take place July 27-Aug. 12 in London. The athletes come from 205 nations and will take part in 302 medal events across 26 SUNDAY sports. The opening ceremony requires a cast of 10,000 volunteers. Celtics KENTUCKY HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME officially re-sign Garnett AINGE PLANS TO ADD TERRY SOON Wire, Special Reports WALTHAM, Mass. — The Boston Celtics made it official: Kevin Garnett is coming back as part of the team’s efforts to keep key pieces after losing Ray Allen to the Miami Heat. More than a week after Garnett reportedly agreed to a three-year contract, the team an- Honoree Richie Farmer said nounced Saturday that he, forward Brandon Honoree Darrell Griffith, right, joked with Darel Carrier, a former Wes Unseld, left, posed for a photo on the playing in five state tourna- Bass and center-forward Chris Wilcox had re- Kentucky Colonels player. Carrier said Griffith used to watch him red carpet with Grayson County High School ments and three champion- signed. practice and that Griffith patterned his jump shot after his. Athletic Director E.E. “Red” McGhee. ships “meant everything.” Backup forward Jeff Green, who missed all of last season with an aortic aneurysm that required surgery, and free-agent guard Jason Terry still haven’t signed but were at a news conference with Bass, Wilcox and Celtics president Danny Ainge. The deals for Green and Terry could be signed next week, but the delays are the result of the team’s maneuvering under the new col- lective bargaining agreement. “We hope to resolve those sometime in the near future,” Ainge said. “Things are moving forward.” Hornets match offer for Gordon NEW ORLEANS — The Hornets matched the Phoenix Suns’ four-year, $58 million of- fer to Eric Gordon, keeping the restricted free-agent guard in New Orleans. The move to retain Gordon on Saturday was expected, as Hornets General Manager Dell Demps and Coach Monty Williams had indicated they hoped the 23-year-old former Indiana stand- out could be the centerpiece of a rebuilding effort that will also include first overall draft choice Anthony Davis from Kentucky and No. 10 pick Austin Rivers. Gordon was limited to nine games last sea- son because of a bruised right knee that re- quired minor surgery. However, he averaged a team-high 20.6 points, and New Orleans was 6-3 when he played. Summer league highlights Warriors 95, Nuggets 74: Former More- head State star Kenneth Faried struggled with his shooting in Denver’s loss to Golden Buy photo reprints at Kentucky.com PHOTOS BY JONATHAN PALMER State. Faried went 4-for-15 from the floor and Rex Chapman, who starred at Owensboro Apollo in the ’80s, signed autographs Saturday at the State Theater in Elizabethtown. scored 10 points to go with eight rebounds and three blocked shots. Nuggets teammate Demonte Harper, who played with Faried at Morehead, played four minutes and did not create the new High School Bas- “To play in five state tourna- score. STORY ketball Hall of Fame as an auton- ments, to get to play in three omous organization. The Hall state championship games and Around the league From Page B1 See a photo gallery online. then went looking for a home. win one, it meant everything,” Bobcats: Charlotte was awarded center mountains; Kelly Coleman is,” “We had seven, eight com- Farmer said. Brendan Haywood off waivers from Dallas. Coleman remembered. “After munities contact us and three I couldn’t help but wonder you confidence.” Haywood, who grew up in Greensboro and that, everyone called me ‘King’ or four were serious,” Trivette why our state no longer consis- played collegiately at North Carolina — the Kelly.” Pause. says. “But E’town was the most tently produces talent like a Wes “The fact that I scored 41 same alma mater as owner Michael Jordan You probably have to have interested. It was almost like Unseld, a Darrell Griffith or a — was cut loose by the Mavericks using the grown up attending Kentucky points in the championship they were wooing us. And that’s Rex Chapman? game made it pretty good, too,” amnesty clause. An 11-year NBA veteran, the high school basketball state tour- really what we were looking for.” Bobby Keith, the iconic 7-foot Haywood helps fills a void at center. nament games to understand Hagan said, his eyes twinkling. The plan for the Kentucky ex-Clay County coach and an The Kentucky High School Haywood has played in 733 career games why you would even ask Cliff High School Basketball Hall of inductee, said “boys just don’t for the Wizards and Mavericks with 531 Hagan — a man who played on Basketball Hall of Fame came to Fame is to reach 100 inductees work as hard at basketball any- be after Ron Bevars, the veteran starts, averaging 7.2 points, 6.2 rebounds and a high school state champion at by 2018, the 100-year year an- more. They’ve got cars and com- 1.4 blocks in 23.7 minutes. His career field- North Hardin boys’ basketball niversary of the first boys’ high puters and lots of things that dis- Owensboro, an NCAA champ goal percentage of .534 ranks seventh among coach, took the idea to Ken school state tournament in the tract them. When I was young, at Kentucky, and an NBA cham- active players and 28th in NBA history. Trivette, the Executive Director commonwealth. we just played basketball.” pion with the St. Louis Hawks Pistons: Detroit signed Vyacheslav Kravts- of the Kentucky Association of To use a basketball term, the On a night when there was a — which title was the biggest ov to a multiyear contract. The 24-year-old, Basketball Coaches. first induction ceremony was a Kentucky high school basketball thrill? 6-foot-11 center averaged 10.6 points, 5.5 re- Trivette said the concept was slam dunk. legend everywhere you looked, “I’ve always said winning the bounds and 1.6 blocks in the Ukrainian Super- partially born from frustration On Saturday night, you could I couldn’t get the lyrics from an state title at Owensboro was league last season. my biggest thrill in basketball,” that so many notable hoops overhear Clem Haskins and Rex old George Jones country song Hagan said. “And I would in- figures in our state had yet to be Chapman comparing notes on out of my head. clude (going into) the Naismith honored by the KHSAA Hall of old NBA injuries. Lord, I wonder, who’s gonna Hall of Fame in that. (A high Fame. You could ask Richie Farmer fill their shoes? BOWLING school state title) is something “They are doing every sport what was more unforgettable, you do for your community, and that involves a lot of people, that gut-wrenching loss to Chris- something you do when you are so you understand,” Trivette tian Laettner and Duke in 1992 Mark Story: (859) 231-3230. young, a success that sort of said. “But we wanted something when he was at Kentucky or the Email: [email protected]. Former confirms your talents, that your to focus on basketball.” three state championship games Twitter: @markcstory. hard work pays off. That gives In 2009, the KABC helped he played in at Clay County? Blog: markstory.bloginky.com. Morehead star “King” Kelly Coleman, left, got his nick- Kulick honored name from a sportswriter Doug Bradley who observed Herald-Leader Bowling Writer that “coal Former Morehead State star Kelly Kulick of was no longer Union, N.J., was named the Bowling Writers king in the Association of America Bowler of the Month mountains, for June. Kelly Coleman Kulick won her third U.S. Top scores is,” Coleman Women’s Open title last month in Reno, Nev. MENS GAMES said. Kenny Hohensee . 290 The feat makes her the Corey Gillespie . 257 first woman in 60 years SENIOR SERIES to win the U.S. Women’s Steven Fagan ....647 Ed Donnelly of Elizabethtown, left, directed Ben Pallardy ....628 Wallace “Wah Wah” Jones, center, as he walked Open title three times since Derian Koszenski. 607 USBC Hall of Famer Marion Kyle Gillespie ....602 the red carpet. Jones was a star at Harlan in Amanda Kelly . 568 the 1940s. Ladewig won the third of her Courtney Wooldridge 558 record eight U.S. Opens in SENIOR GAMES Wes Scherr .....245 1962. Ben Pallardy ....243 Kulick was the first woman Kyle Gillespie ....244 basketball exhibition against Brazil Jennifer Smith in the Herald-Lead- to win the PBA Tournament Steven Fagan ....225 Amanda Kelly . 217 WHAT at Washington, D.C. (8 p.m., ESPN2) er, on Kentucky.com and on Twitter. of Champions in 2010 and Courtney Wooldridge 204 was the first woman to earn Nichole Preston .. 181 WE’LL SEE Tuesday-Thursday Thursday an exemption to compete on Sunday The first tip-off that college football Great Britain’s Royal Lytham & the PBA national tour. is right around the corner comes St. Annes Golf Club is the site for Kentucky’s Darius Miller gets his In 2010 she became the only bowler in his- in the form of the annual South- golf’s third major of the year, the first taste of pro ball when his tory to simultaneously hold the titles of the New Orleans Hornets take on the eastern Conference Media Days at British Open. (5 a.m., ESPN) Hoover, Ala.