From: michael seium (michael.seium@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Oct 08 2009 - 13:47:27 EDT
The Los Angeles Lakers the defending world Champions started their 2009-2010
season by defeating the Golden State Warriors 118-101. The game played in
Anaheim California was the first ever for Thomas Kelati. The Eritrean
American in his 8 minutes of action scored 2 points, grabbed one defensive
rebound as he debut in his first NBA game ever. The Lakers will take on the
Warriors again at the LA Forum in Inglewood tomorrow starting at 7:00.
During an after practice interview this past Tuesday coach Phil Jackson had
indicated that Kelati would be on rotation to play on the Lakers second unit
practice squad. There are currently 18 players on the Lakers of which 15
will be retained at the end of the pre-season. Thomas certainly has a great
chance to make the squad. He is a great outside shooter, and the Lakers
could certainly use a great shooter. If there are Eritreans in the Los
Angeles area try to go support while also enjoying a great evening with the
family at an NBA game.
Thomas' stats are listed here below.
FIELD GOALSREBOUNDSPOSMINFGM-A3PM-AFTM-A+/-OFFDEFTOTASTPFSTTOBSBAPTST.
Kelati <http://www.nba.com/playerfile/thomas_kelati/index.html>08:071-20-0
0-0-110110101002
Congratulations to Thomas on his first NBA game, hope there is a lot more to
come.
Mike Seium
http://eri-internationalsports.blogspot.com/
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