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BREAKING: Baylor star guard Tounde Yessoufou WILL NOT return to college and remain in the NBA draft, his agent tells @recruitsnews.
The 6’5 freshman averaged 17.8 PPG, 5.9 RPG, and 2.0 SPG this season.
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Stefan Vaaks produced as a freshman at Providence. Now at Illinois coming off a Final Four run.
If his initiation flashes scale in a bigger role & efficiency grows, this isn’t incremental. It’s national with real NBA buzz 👀
Is he a B10 breakout or same player in a better spot?
Transfer Portal@TransferPortal
BREAKING: Providence transfer guard Stefan Vaaks has committed to Illinois, @JoeTipton reports. The 6-7 freshman averaged 15.8 points per game this season. on3.com/transfer-porta…
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Go ahead and add him to your preseason POY watch list now.
Mount Krivas is back!
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Breaking: Five-star Miikka Muurinen has committed to Arkansas, he and his agent, Teddy Archer of TAA Sports, tells ESPN.
Arkansas now boasts the nation’s top recruiting class.
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Seeing San Antonio Spurs Victor Wembanyama back in the line up today brought a smile to my face and he didn’t disappoint with 27 points, 11 rebounds and 7 blocks! De’Aaron Fox had 28 points and took over the 4th quarter in the Spurs win over the Portland Trail Blazers 114-93!
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#BREAKING Arizona State transfer Massamba Diop has officially committed to St. John’s, per source.
Rick Pitino makes a SPLASH in the portal and lands the 7’ 1” center from Senegal.
I’m told Diop was between St. John’s and UConn, with coaching being the deciding factor.
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Keldon Johnson has won NBA 6th Man of the Year.
Full story on @TheAthletic, from llamas to Party in the U.S.A.:
nytimes.com/athletic/72201…
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@iwantsome_nasty 期待して失望した
ドラフトの時からずっと見てたスパーズファンだからこそ本当に感動できますよね
多分ウェンビーMVP取るよりも嬉しい
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泣ける😭
ケルドン、本当にありがとう。
The Players’ Tribune@PlayersTribune
Keldon Johnson on embracing his role as the sixth man: “I remember a couple years ago, I had a hard conversation with Pop. One morning, we were getting ready to play Dallas, and he pulled me to the side and told me that he thought it would be best for the team if I started coming off the bench. I said, ‘Yeah, of course. Whatever’s best for the team, I’ll do it.’ And I truly meant that, too. But I’m also just human, man. And I was like 24 years old. If I said that I fully bought into this role from the jump, I’d be lying. I had averaged 22 points in the NBA. I’d won a gold medal with Team USA at the Olympics. So I just didn’t understand. I couldn’t wrap my head around it. And ultimately, I didn’t take it well. I sulked. I let the outside noise affect my play. I didn’t present the best version of myself as I was coming off the bench for the rest of that season. And I knew that I was much better than that. I’ve been reflecting on that part of my journey a lot lately, with the position we’re in right now. To backtrack a little bit…. When I was drafted in 2019, that was probably one of the most stressful nights of my life. I’d had a great year at Kentucky, and I thought I was going 9 or 10. In my mind, my floor was 15 to Detroit. The crazy thing is, I didn’t even work out for San Antonio. We talked a little bit on FaceTime, but I honestly didn’t think I’d still be on the board at 19 when the Spurs picked. Definitely not at 29, where I ended up going. I don’t know why I slipped so much, but thank God I did, because I landed at a proven organization with vets who could mold me. That situation could have gone one of two ways. Thankfully, it went the good way. Dejounte was young, too, but he knew the ropes better than me, and he made sure that I did everything the right way. I can’t thank him enough to this day for how much he’s helped my career. Same thing with DeMar DeRozan. Those guys really embraced me and took me under their wing as a young guy, and showed me how it was done. I feel like I had such a great group of vets, whether it was LaMarcus Aldridge, Patty Mills, Rudy Gay — all those guys went out their way to make sure I was solid. I feel like they knew how good I could be before I even knew how good I could be. They didn’t let me skip any steps, which was huge for my career early on. And yeah, fast-forward to summer 2024, and I got to thinking back on my first couple years here in San Antonio, and how I could get that spark back, get back to being me. That’s when I started to see the bigger picture. We had picks. There were all these signs that we were building something that was gonna be special, all these bright green flags. But there was this one red flag. Me. In that moment, I had to take a hard look in the mirror. And man, I just got embarrassed. I hated that feeling — the feeling that I had let my vets down, and especially let my younger teammates down. This organization believed in me since day one, when Pop and our GM at the time R.C. Buford took a leap of faith on a player who was sliding in the draft and didn’t even have a workout at their facility. They had a plan, and I was a big piece of that plan. I just needed to get out of my own way. Period. I knew that I could either be the person who tries to fight the change, who makes it about them and their ego, and tries to do everything their way (which never really works). Or, I could trust the process. And the Spurs never gave me a reason not to trust it. So I bought into my role, and I put my best foot forward each and every night. Whatever I had to do to be the best version of myself, I did it. And I feel like this season has been a testament to that. I’m just really at home here. I think that’s probably obvious, right? The cowboy hat isn’t a gimmick. San Antonio is all me. Being a country boy, that’s just a part of who I am. From Huntington Prep to Oak Hill Academy to Kentucky, I feel like I just carried that country boy vibe with me everywhere I went.” playerstribu.ne/KJ
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Suigo is also being heavily pursued by college coaches as one of the most talented bigs still available in the 2026 recruiting class.
The deadline for international players to withdraw from the 2026 NBA Draft is June 13.
Jonathan Givony@DraftExpress
NEWS: Mega Superbet's Luigi Suigo is declaring for the 2026 NBA Draft, Sigma Sports and Excel Sports tell DraftExpress. The 7'4, 19-year-old Italian is DX's No. 30-ranked prospect in this class. Averaging 8.1 points, 5.3 rebounds, 1 block in 19 minutes in the Adriatic League.
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NEWS: Mega Superbet's Luigi Suigo is declaring for the 2026 NBA Draft, Sigma Sports and Excel Sports tell DraftExpress.
The 7'4, 19-year-old Italian is DX's No. 30-ranked prospect in this class.
Averaging 8.1 points, 5.3 rebounds, 1 block in 19 minutes in the Adriatic League.
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NEWS: Panathinaikos' Alex Samodurov is declaring for the 2026 NBA Draft, agent Alex Saratsis tells DraftExpress.
The 7-foot, 21-year old power forward is also weighing the college route, where his shot-blocking and floor-spacing would draw significant interest.
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Florida junior Thomas Haugh -- a projected potential lottery pick -- will return to the Gators next season, he tells me, @JeremyWoo and @jeffborzello. With the 2027 Player of the Year candidate back in the fold, Florida becomes the favorite to open next season at No. 1.
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NEWS: Crvena Zvezda's Lazar Stojković has committed to St. John's, per Stevan Petrović and Nikola Knežević.
The 18-year-old 7-footer leads the Serbian KLS in block percentage and ranked third at the 2025 FIBA U18 Eurobasket.
Heavy int'l flavor on next year's St. John's roster.
