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Rookie Day'Ron Sharpe immediately makes his case for minutes with Nets

He put pressure on the glass. He put pressure on the rim. Now, just days into his NBA career, Day'Ron Sharpe has put pressure on the Nets’ vacant center position. Sharpe attacks the glass like an All-Pro defensive end attacks the quarterback: with malicious intent, a flurry of moves and a high rate of success that forces opposition to make concessions. (New York Daily News) Jermaine O’Neal on Rasheed Wallace: “He has always been a really good dude.”
Famous for uttering the phrase “Ball Don’t Lie!” when his opponents would miss free throws off of what he thought were bad calls by NBA.