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Orlando Summer League: Kevin Kruger is a lucky guy

By Nick Friedell

Regular BLS contributor Nick Friedell attended yesterday's Orlando Pro Summer League and is filing a few reports on what he saw.

The biggest question coming into the day was how were Derrick Rose and Michael Beasley going to perform in their first professional game.

By the end of the day though, many people at the RDV Sportsplex had another question on their minds, Who in the heck is Lon Kruger sitting next to?

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About midway through the second game, Kruger, the former Atlanta Hawks head coach, and current head coach at UNLV, walked into the gym with an extremely attractive young woman. It didn't take long for most of the heads in the gym to turn off the court, and onto Kruger's mystery date.

For the next couple of hours, most of the guys on my end of the floor had eyes in the back of their head. (For the record, the male to female ratio at summer league games is about 75-to-1)

Finally, during halftime of the final game, my curiosity got the best of me. Somebody had to take one for the team, and ask the question.

I walked up to Coach Kruger, and introduced myself as a journalist, and casually, with a smile, asked who the girl was. "Oh, Shaina," he responded. "That's Kevin's friend."

"His girlfriend?" I asked.

"Yep," he said.

It turns out that the mystery girl sitting with Coach Kruger, was actually his son's girlfriend, Shaina Lawson.

Kevin Kruger, Lon's son, is in town, playing for the Magic's summer league team. Shaina was there to cheer on her boyfriend, of two and a half years, as he scored 12 points and dished out 4 assists.

For Lawson, being in a gym, watching Kevin play is nothing new, especially considering how they met. "We actually met at Arizona State," she said. "He was a basketball player, and I was a cheerleader ... you know the typical story."

After spending some time together, the pair began dating, and continued dating even after Kevin transferred to UNLV, to play under his father.

Coincidentally, Lawson transferred to UNLV, to enroll in the school's nursing program. She will be starting her senior year this fall. When I asked her if she thought Coach Kruger might start using her as a recruiting tool, since she will be on the UNLV campus for at least another year, she started laughing. "No way," she said. I don't think Kevin would let that happen."

Smart guy ... lucky guy.

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Yeowsah! She can recruit me anytime! Hmmm...there ought to be some sort of NCAA sanctions against that!

Poor guys wouldn't stand a chance if she walked up and said: "Hi, I'm your UNLV tour guide for the day, and am here to show you around and answer any questions." Recruit: "Uh...I've seen enough, where do I sign?"

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Yeowsah! She can recruit me anytime! Hmmm...there ought to be some sort of NCAA sanctions against that!

Poor guys wouldn't stand a chance if she walked up and said: "Hi, I'm your UNLV tour guide for the day, and am here to show you around and answer any questions." Recruit: "Uh...I've seen enough, where do I sign?"

Maybe it's just me but I'm not that impressed. There are a couple of Bulldog posters with signatures with ladies that, in my view, are hotter. Looks a little heavy in the picture... I mean she's attractive but I'm thinking that if you are trolling for recruits, UNLV (and BYU, for that matter) have stronger bait. Not column material to me.

The luxury of critiquing from afar. Good thing she doesn't get a chance to review my hunky bod. I'm thinking she'd have to spend time cleaning her keyboard...

Yoda out...

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After deleting some of my posts and closing the offending SteveAztec thread, a couple of elites have been able to open it long enough to respond to me anyway.  And since I can’t respond on a closed thread, here is my response…

Other than the initial inquiry, this has never been about letting Steve post again; I doubt that he even wants to post here.  My complaint is about his treatment on this board and the failure of admins to control attacks on him – and worse, to sometimes participate in those attacks.

Steve was first banned on the SDSU board.  When he was banned, it was a sufficiently controversial that they started what became an 8 page thread on the topic to justify the decision (https://aztecmesa.proboards.com/thread/9747/steve-aztec-longer-member-board).  It is clear that Steve had support in the community and there was some criticism for the Board Administrators for having failed to “expel the dozens of people who've been taunting him.”  (And take a look at the thread that I bumped; initially it was supporters happy about Steve getting a radio show.  Then the haters arrived.)

I can’t say if Steve took it too far in response, but I will say that he denies most of various accusations and adds important missing context to others.  But I wasn’t a party to any of the events and can’t say who is in the right and who is in the wrong.  And I have to admit that if half of what has been said about him is true, depending on context, I might well have banned him too.  Or more likely I might have banned those who were taunting him.  (Steve had lost a brother-in-law to suicide and there have been a number of memes of people blowing their brains out, as well as posts blaming Steve or his sister for the suicide – and admins apparently let it go.)

I am in no position to evaluate the truth or falsity of the laundry list of claims made on this board about how Steve responded to all this.  My complaint, however, is about his treatment on this board.  I may be wrong, but his banning on this board at least appears to have been less about what he did on this board and more a carryover from the SDSU banning.  The same taunting continued – more suicide memes – apparently ignored by the admins. Utenation supposedly posted the first and it is explained away because he didn’t know about the suicide.  But was the post taken down?  Was an apology issued?   Indeed, for years, admins on this board have allowed Steve to be vilified based on little more than anecdotal hearsay.  This is a privately owned board, but it is not a private board – anyone can join.  And more than that, It’s not an anonymous board; people know who Steve.  You have a duty to protect your posters from libelous statements and unproven allegations -- especially when, having been banned themselves, they have no ability to defend themselves.

Even Retrofade (who says he’s not a mod but can post to closed threads) put up a “blowing his brains out” meme several years ago.  He knew that Steve lost his brother-in-law to suicide, and he now says that “Steve is a mentally disturbed individual”, which is libelous by the way, but excuses his meme as nothing more than being in “poor taste”.  Apparently it is okay with the board's current admins to taunt a "mentally disturbed person" because the post has never been taken down.  The poster has never been admonished.  And there has been no apology, unless you consider "he deserved it" to be an apology.

In my view, you owe Steve an apology for the treatment that you have tolerated and, in some cases, engaged in.  A former Aztec board went out of business when sued (not by Steve).  It won’t be the last one.  You need to fix this.  You need to administer your board and prevent libelous and incendiary attacks -- hearsay-- on posters. 

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Orlando Summer League: Kevin Kruger is a lucky guy

By Nick Friedell

Regular BLS contributor Nick Friedell attended yesterday's Orlando Pro Summer League and is filing a few reports on what he saw.

The biggest question coming into the day was how were Derrick Rose and Michael Beasley going to perform in their first professional game.

By the end of the day though, many people at the RDV Sportsplex had another question on their minds, Who in the heck is Lon Kruger sitting next to?

e4106045b8.jpg

About midway through the second game, Kruger, the former Atlanta Hawks head coach, and current head coach at UNLV, walked into the gym with an extremely attractive young woman. It didn't take long for most of the heads in the gym to turn off the court, and onto Kruger's mystery date.

For the next couple of hours, most of the guys on my end of the floor had eyes in the back of their head. (For the record, the male to female ratio at summer league games is about 75-to-1)

Finally, during halftime of the final game, my curiosity got the best of me. Somebody had to take one for the team, and ask the question.

I walked up to Coach Kruger, and introduced myself as a journalist, and casually, with a smile, asked who the girl was. "Oh, Shaina," he responded. "That's Kevin's friend."

"His girlfriend?" I asked.

"Yep," he said.

It turns out that the mystery girl sitting with Coach Kruger, was actually his son's girlfriend, Shaina Lawson.

Kevin Kruger, Lon's son, is in town, playing for the Magic's summer league team. Shaina was there to cheer on her boyfriend, of two and a half years, as he scored 12 points and dished out 4 assists.

For Lawson, being in a gym, watching Kevin play is nothing new, especially considering how they met. "We actually met at Arizona State," she said. "He was a basketball player, and I was a cheerleader ... you know the typical story."

After spending some time together, the pair began dating, and continued dating even after Kevin transferred to UNLV, to play under his father.

Coincidentally, Lawson transferred to UNLV, to enroll in the school's nursing program. She will be starting her senior year this fall. When I asked her if she thought Coach Kruger might start using her as a recruiting tool, since she will be on the UNLV campus for at least another year, she started laughing. "No way," she said. I don't think Kevin would let that happen."

Smart guy ... lucky guy.

What is this "MWC Tourney" you speak of? I only know of an UNLV Invitattional.

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Maybe it's just me but I'm not that impressed. There are a couple of Bulldog posters with signatures with ladies that, in my view, are hotter. Looks a little heavy in the picture... I mean she's attractive but I'm thinking that if you are trolling for recruits, UNLV (and BYU, for that matter) have stronger bait. Not column material to me.

The luxury of critiquing from afar. Good thing she doesn't get a chance to review my hunky bod. I'm thinking she'd have to spend time cleaning her keyboard...

Yoda out...

Perhaps these photos are more to your alien taste.

She finished in 6th place in Athlon's Sports 2005 "Cheerleader of the Year" contest

Is it column material now?

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Well it so happens that if there are Utah based fans of Kevin's GF they might want to note that Kruger is playing in the Rocky Mountain Review on the Jazz's summer league team. He played (quite well) for the Jazz's D-League team the Utah Flash.Link

The Utah Jazz Rocky Mountain Review Roster:

No. Player Pos Ht. Wt. Birthdate

22 Morris Almond SG 6-6 225 2/2/85

6 Tyrone Brazelton PG 6-0 180 3/30/86

23 Earl Calloway PG 6-3 175 9/30/83

43 Russell Carter SG 6-4 220 3/30/85

25 Mike Efevberha G 6-4 195 8/22/84

44 Kyrylo Fesenko C 7-1 288 12/24/86

51 Hiram Fuller PF 6-9 268 5/13/81

40 Brian Greene SF 6-9 225 8/30/81

10 Leemire Goldwire G 5-11 190 11/24/84

33 Brian Jackson PF 6-9 245 10/4/80

30 Britton Johnsen SF 6-10 245 7/8/79

16 Yaroslav Korolev SF 6-9 203 5/7/87

41 Kosta Koufos C 7-1 245 2/24/89

2 Kevin Kruger PG 6-2 185 5/1/83

42 Kevin Lyde C 6-10 260 3/12/80

21 Rickey Paulding SG 6-5 218 10/23/82

11 Haminn Quaintance SF 6-8 220 8/14/85

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