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Myron Medcalf, ESPN Staff WriterJun 13, 2024, 12:18 PM ET Close Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato Open Extended Reactions Dan Hurley said Thursday his decision to reject a six-year, $70 million offer to coach the Los Angeles Lakers was not a “leverage play” because he’d already agreed

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterJun 13, 2024, 09:08 AM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions With roster movement for the 2024-25 college basketball season finally settling down, coaches around the country are looking at the 2025, 2026 and 2027 classes. But before we fully

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterJun 12, 2024, 05:36 PM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions The matchups for the second annual ACC/SEC Challenge were announced Wednesday, highlighted by Auburn‘s trip to Duke and North Carolina hosting Alabama. The first edition of the series between

ESPN News Services Jun 12, 2024, 09:56 AM ET Jerry West, who was selected to the Basketball Hall of Fame three times in a storied career as a player and executive and whose silhouette is considered to be the basis of the NBA logo, died Wednesday morning at the age of 86, the LA Clippers

Jay Bilas, College Basketball AnalystJun 12, 2024, 06:23 AM ET Close College basketball analyst for ESPN and ESPN Insider Played and coached at Duke Practicing attorney Open Extended Reactions The field for the first Players Era Festival, a new in-season men’s college basketball tournament that promises to provide each team at least $1 million in

Scott Van Pelt, Host, SportsCenter with SVPJun 11, 2024, 05:06 PM ET Close Scott Van Pelt joined ESPN in Spring 2001 as the network’s lead professional golf reporter. He has since become a SportsCenter anchor, primarily hosting the 11 p.m. ET edition while remaining the lead reporter and host of the network’s coverage of golf’s

Open Extended Reactions Meleek Thomas, the No. 7 basketball prospect in ESPN’s Class of 2025, is leaving Lincoln Park Performing Arts High School in Pittsburgh to sign with Overtime Elite, he told ESPN on Tuesday. “I did everything I needed to do where I’m from,” Thomas told ESPN. “We won back-to-back state championships. Now it’s

Jun 11, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Our usual NBA mock drafts lean heavily on intel to make projections for the players and the 30 teams. This isn’t that. Instead, ESPN draft analysts Jonathan Givony and Jeremy Woo explored the first round from two differing perspectives: selecting for team need versus drafting for

Jun 10, 2024, 06:40 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Thirty teams have spent the past year canvassing the globe to make sense of the 2024 NBA draft class, identifying the top prospects and what makes them intriguing. Scouting reports are filled with details and descriptors to better distinguish one player from another. Evaluation encompasses myriad

Adrian Wojnarowski Pete Thamel Jun 11, 2024, 08:03 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Former University of Washington coach Mike Hopkins — a two-time Pac-12 coach of the year — has agreed on a deal to become an assistant for the Phoenix Suns, sources told ESPN. After seven seasons with Huskies and 30-plus overall in college

Dan Murphy, ESPN Staff WriterJun 10, 2024, 06:57 PM ET Close Covers the Big Ten Joined ESPN.com in 2014 Graduate of the University of Notre Dame Open Extended Reactions LAS VEGAS — NCAA president Charlie Baker said the association’s pending antitrust case settlement will put financial pressure on everyone in the college sports industry, but

Associated Press Jun 10, 2024, 04:28 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Ten players from NC State’s 1983 national champion basketball team have sued the NCAA and the Collegiate Licensing Company seeking compensation for unauthorized use of their name, image and likeness. The players filed suit in Wake County Superior Court on Monday, requesting a jury

Jeff Borzello Close Jeff Borzello ESPN Staff Writer Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Myron Medcalf Close Myron Medcalf ESPN Staff Writer Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato Jun 10, 2024, 05:05 PM ET Open Extended Reactions ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported last

Jun 10, 2024, 01:42 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Dan Hurley has turned down the Los Angeles Lakers‘ six-year, $70 million offer and will return to chase a third straight national title at UConn, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The Lakers would have made Hurley one of the NBA’s six highest-paid coaches. But before opening

Adrian Wojnarowski, ESPNJun 9, 2024, 07:10 PM ET Open Extended Reactions UConn coach Dan Hurley told ESPN that the Los Angeles Lakers made a “compelling case” and presented a “compelling vision” for him to become the franchise’s next coach but that he loves what he has built at two-time defending national champion UConn — and

Associated Press Jun 8, 2024, 09:22 PM ET COVINGTON, La. — Former LSU basketball player Josh Maravich, son of late Hall of Fame basketball player Pete Maravich, has died at age 42, the university announced Saturday night. He died at home on Friday, the LSU statement said. No cause of death has been released. Josh

Myron Medcalf, ESPN Staff WriterJun 7, 2024, 12:45 PM ET Close Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato Former Illinois star Terrence Shannon Jr.’s legal team may now show video evidence at his felony rape trial next week to support its claim that mistaken identity might have prompted police

Jun 7, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions With less than three weeks until the start of the 2024 NBA draft, players are going through private and group workouts while teams are doing their due diligence to narrow down their draft boards. Throughout the pre-draft process leading up to the two-day draft (June 26-27)