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Old 09-21-2004, 11:17 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Results of the games played in the NBA's summer leagues are seemingly insignificant, but the performances are taken seriously.

A prime example is power forward Josh Davis, last season's MVP of the Continental Basketball Association, who signed as a free agent yesterday with the 76ers.

At 6-foot-8 and 240 pounds, the 24-year-old Davis doesn't fit the mold of the prototypical power forward, but he is a great leaper and has excellent shooting range.

Davis played for the Minnesota Timberwolves in a six-team summer league that included the Sixers. In a 79-67 loss to the Sixers, Davis scored 18 points, hitting 8 of 12 shots from the field, including 2 of 4 from beyond the arc. He also pulled down eight rebounds and made an impression on the Sixers' brain trust.

Jim O'Brien, the Sixers' new coach, places a high priority on having players - regardless of their size - who can shoot from long distance. Among the Sixers back from last season, it is possible that only Kyle Korver has better range than Davis, which is why Davis could be more than just another body for training camp.

"We wouldn't have brought him in if we didn't think he had a chance to make the team," said Tony DiLeo, the Sixers' assistant general manager. "Jim studied him and read the reports and liked him."

Davis averaged 18.7 points and 9.6 rebounds while shooting 59 percent from the field overall and 41.1 percent from three-point range for the CBA's Idaho Stampede last season.

At the University of Wyoming, he became the school's all-time leader in games played with 112. He scored 1,439 points and grabbed 956 rebounds. His 173 blocked shots were second in school history to former Sixer Theo Ratliff.
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