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@KyleTuckerCBB The new Pro Day: Take your team to Vegas and have scrimmages and workouts for NBA scouts around EYBL and Summer League when everyone is already there.

Calipari’s big idea from about four years ago. Gaining steam again. Coaches loved the idea, then hated it when roster-building became a spring and summerlong nightmare. But now it’s viewed as a new revenue opportunity and everybody needs a money machine.

OFFICIAL: The Rockets today announced they have signed free agent forward/center Oscar Tshiebwe.   He spent his rookie season as a two-way player with Indiana in 2023-24 and the past two seasons on a two-way contract with Utah. In 49 career games with seven starts, Tshiebwe has averaged 7.0 points and 6.5 rebounds in 15.2 minutes per game.

Committed! Thank you God, my family, trainers & coaches without them I’m not in this position. Thank you Coach Smart, Coach Bridges, Coach Cole and the entire staff at the University of the Pacific for believing in me. Excited to help bring Championships and banners to Stockton, CA. Coach Smart knows what it takes to get players to the next level I’m excited to see what we accomplish together. #WCC

Had a great opportunity to be back with the guys in the Adidas Gold Championship! Averaged 9.2 ppg, 3.7ast, 7.7rbs, and 1.5stls. Overall we went 2-2! Looking to comeback stronger this next week in the 3ssb Championship against some really good competition! @IETradition2027

@PorterZoey6481 @JackBrowder3 @DavidWCobb @CBSSportsCBB @AdamFinkelstein @cameronsalerno1 @Isaac__Trotter @heitner @NCAA @247Sports @CBSSports @CBSSportsHQ Averaging 30ppg in Australia, so….🤷‍♂️

@JackBrowder3 @DavidWCobb @CBSSportsCBB @AdamFinkelstein @cameronsalerno1 @Isaac__Trotter @heitner @NCAA @247Sports @CBSSports @CBSSportsHQ I don’t mean to be mean but Jack go out and get a job. you’re not going anywhere not even Europe. apply for a job and remember when you don’t get promoted you can’t run to a judge. grow up

Legal challenges from 2026 seniors wanting in on the new 5-year eligibility rule continue proliferating. Here is just a sampling of the players currently known to be plaintiffs in eligibility suits against the NCAA. Some real players who could make real impacts.

“The catch is part of the shot.” International Coach Matt Jones joined us this week for a great conversation on: • Developing Shooters • Coaching as an Introvert • Teaching Players to find the next action 🎧podcasts.apple.com/podcast/slappi… @MattJonesHoops

It was another star performance for 2027 guard Michael Odinks in the Nordic Championship. 📸: @ElRealAMJ

If I could be like Mike 💭 Michael Odinks put on a scoring display vs. Finland for the Men's U18, knocking down 33 PTS on 56% from the floor (66% on 2P's), 40% from 3P and dishing out 6 AST. #SwedenBasketball | #DareToBelieve

Two of the most impressive players I have seen early at the IU Team Camp are the McKee brothers —- Reece and Ashton of @NewAlbanyHoops. Both guys have made plays in their own right on both ends of the floor. Super athletic, physical guard duo. #iubb

In 2015, when KAT declared for the draft, I asked his dad which team he hoped would draft his son. Without hesitation: “The Knicks.” “Oh, so he’ll be close to home?” “No, I just want the Knicks to be good again.” An all-time dad line. And now 3 games away from an NBA title.

Yeaaaaa Keldon!!!

Tyrese Maxey 🤝 All-NBA Third Team @Kia

Congratulations to Jonas Alger on being elevated to a full-time Assistant Coach ahead of the ‘26-27 season! #GoTigers

Keldon Johnson on his role with the @spurs: “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

Five-time NBA All-Star John Wall has become the president of basketball operations at Howard University, returning to Washington, D.C. to partner with the top-ranked HBCU in the country, school officials tell ESPN.

lebron shoves reed sheppard and then he immediately takes over the game???? i love playoff basketball lmao

We are excited to announce the addition of Lucas McKay to our staff as General Manager! 📰 » ouath.at/gm

Walking on the beach this morning, doing a little thinking when I saw footprints in the sand. Reminded me of John Calipari’s social media post in 2014 about the poem Footprints in the Sand.

I’m excited to announce my commitment to Wofford! Thank you to Coach Giltner and staff for the opportunity.

Thank you for everything Coach Davis, one of the best men and coaches in my life.