9/05/2008

Gossip NBA

Mario Chalmers and Darrell Arthur, heroes of the University of Kansas' run to a US college crown, were dismissed from the National Basketball Association rookie transition program, ESPN reported.

The sports television network's website, citing unnamed sources, said the pair were banished Wednesday morning after being discovered in their hotel rooms with marijuana and women, a violation of the program's visitors ban.

Arthur and Chalmers, among 69 rookies who arrived Tuesday for a four-day seminar on adapting to the NBA, were fined 20,000 dollars each and will begin their first NBA season on the suspended list, according to the report.

Chalmers sank a game-tying 3-pointer in the dying seconds to force overtime in the US college final, where Kansas beat Memphis 75-68.

Chalmers was selected 34th by Minnesota in June's NBA Draft then traded to Miami while Arthur went 27th to New Orleans, was traded to Portland, which sent him to Houston and finally dealt to Memphis.

The new National Basketball Association club in Oklahoma City will be called the Thunder, team officials announced here Wednesday night.

The former Seattle Supersonics moved to the Central US plains when new ownership based in Oklahoma decided to move the club when moves to have a new arena constructed in Seattle were turned down.

But a deal with the NBA and Seattle officials had the Sonics leave behind their nickname and colors with the hope that one day an expansion team or another relocated NBA franchise might pick up the Supersonics name and history.

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