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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Laurence Tisch, and Wall Street great John Whitehead, who begged him to turn off the spigot of easy money and rock-bottom interest rates.
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.
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.
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.
On Wall Street, Stifel Nicolaus analyst John A. Baugh was upbeat on the results.
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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"This was about as difficult a quarter as I've seen in my 30 years on Wall Street, " Chief Executive John Thain told analysts during a conference call.
As for the British ambassador, the soft-spoken Sir Stephen Wall, he is close to John Major--but for the past two years this has often seemed something of a disadvantage.
For now, Wall Street believes in Cisco chief John Chambers, the Billy Graham of Internet Protocol, who proselytizes that the entire telecom world will make a fast conversion to IP, abandoning the "circuit switch" networks in which Lucent reigns.
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.
John Thain will meet with Wall Street firms that have questioned his plans to merge the New York Stock Exchange with Archipelago Holdings .
As the Wall Street Journal's political analyst John Fund reported this week, out of 70 competitive Congressional districts, the Democrats will likely lose 60 and so lose control over the House.
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.
This would enable us to differentiate between the merely rapacious in business but abiding by tax law Wall Street Raider who might become Sir John, and the multi-deca billionaire software developer who becomes Duke of Redmond for example.
That was the "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" speech, and of course, John F.
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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