In 2010, John Wall of Kentucky was the top pick overall, with his teammate DeMarcus Cousins picked fifth.
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Wizards guard John Wall, last year's top pick, averages a block per game this season and 0.7 for his career.
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The 2010 Kentucky team revolved around John Wall driving to the basket.
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Only Yao Ming (2002, Reebok), Dwight Howard (2004, Adidas), Derrick Rose (2008, Adidas) and John Wall (2010, Reebok) have signed with other brands.
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John Wall led Washington with 18 points and 12 assists, while Trevor Booker added 16 points and 13 rebounds for the Wizards, who lost for the fifth straight time.
The Wizards, bolstered by point guard John Wall's penetration into the lane, hit 11 of their first 14 triples to start the game and finished 55% (11-for-20) from distance.
Lin went on to be a surprise breakout in the Summer League, playing well against competition like No. 1 pick John Wall, and eventually landing a contract with Golden State.
An Olympic roster that includes Irving, John Wall, and DeMarcus Cousins, along with other prime young talent like Blake Griffin and Anthony Davis, would certainly compete strongly for a Gold Medal.
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John Wall scored 33 points for the Wizards, who gave the Knicks way too much shooting space on the perimeter and lost their 10th in a row at Madison Square Garden.
Once again, the Knicks struggled to contain Wizards point guard John Wall, who finished with 33 points, and they allowed 38 points in the paint, which is a sign of Chandler's absence.
After playing much of the season without John Wall, Nene and assorted other injured players, Washington's roster is finally close to full health and is starting to excel at the hardest part of the game: defense.
Trevor Ariza hit a career-high seven 3-pointers on his way to 25 points, and John Wall added 24 points and 16 assists in helping the Wizards rally from an 18-point second-half deficit to win 103-100 on Friday night.
Excellent writers like John Jannarone in the Wall Street Journal are therefore forced to make inferences.
Analysts, notably John Tamny in the Wall Street Journal, see the fall in gold prices as bullish for economic growth.
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Pequot is an influential hedge fund founded by Arthur Samberg, a close friend of Morgan Stanley (nyse: MS - news - people ) Chief Executive John Mack, the Wall Street executive for whom the SEC allegedly played favorites.
Laurence Tisch, and Wall Street great John Whitehead, who begged him to turn off the spigot of easy money and rock-bottom interest rates.
John Thain will meet with Wall Street firms that have questioned his plans to merge the New York Stock Exchange with Archipelago Holdings .
Or will he do it more disingenuously, as former UN Ambassador John Bolton speculated in the Wall Street Journal last week, by having the United States abstain from an approving vote by the United Nations Security Council.
On Monday new reports hit Wall Street that John Thain , Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people )'s chief executive, is in talks with Chinese and Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds, with the possibility of selling a large stake of the company in order to raise capital.
Figure John Paulson was a joke on Wall Street for shorting mortgage securities until he was no longer a joke, so to presume that ratings agencies could have moved against a powerful market tide seems a reach.
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The second reason why Paul has become the party's most effective messenger is that everyone across the entire ideological spectrum -- from John McCain, Rubio and The Wall Street Journal to Majority Leader Harry Reid and Attorney General Eric Holder -- is responding to him.
And you can get through that wall like Ebay has under John Donahoe.
"He gave it a ride and Gardner makes a heck of a catch against the wall, " Boston manager John Farrell said.
Just last month, John Bussey wrote a piece in the Wall Street Journal covering advice from 11 women who are CEOs of Fortune 500 companies on how women can get ahead.
Beyond that, as former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton noted this week in The Wall Street Journal, even if the West were to impose such sanctions on Iran today, they would not impact the Iranian military's ability to operate.
John Fund, a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, argues that the law will also encourage the small fraction of Indianans without government-issued photo identification which is used to fly, cash cheques and enter federal buildings to get around to getting it at last.
On Wall Street, Stifel Nicolaus analyst John A. Baugh was upbeat on the results.
"It would increase exponentially the challenge that GM management faces in executing its turnaround, " says John Casesa, an industry consultant and former Wall Street analyst.
John Paul Newport writes about golf for The Wall Street Journal.
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