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After Kansas and North Carolina’s thriller it’s official: Transfers are in and one-and-dones are out

College basketball is full of rituals, and one of them is that the day after the season ends a host of publications will release their “way-too-early” preseason rankings, as more attention will be focused on mock drafts and the upcoming NBA Draft. Read more…

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Ryan Turell wants to be the first Orthodox Jew to play basketball in the NBA

It’s not just about him. Yeshiva University’s Ryan Turell clearly gets that, much in the same vein as Brian Flores with his recent lawsuit against the NFL, trying to put a greater focus on equal treatment of minorities in the league knows it’s not just about him. Central to both is the overriding principle for… […]

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Evan Mobley and Scottie Barnes: Like… whoa

Saying Evan Mobley and Scottie Barnes are outperforming Cade Cunningham and Jalen Green is accurate. That also makes it seem like Cunningham and Green were somehow mistakes. To be clear, none of the top four picks in the 2021 NBA Draft look like misses, which is awesome for the Pistons, Rockets, Cavs and Raptors. Read […]

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Lots of great players were drafted, then immediately traded — and went on to be All-Stars

The weirdest thing about the NBA draft is the longstanding practice that once draft day comes, there’s no more trading draft picks. It makes some sense within the framework of the league rules and salary cap, but every year, it results in weird situations where a player is drafted by the team that he’s never […]

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Good on you, Jalen Johnson, for sitting out the rest of this disastrous season

One thing that college is supposed to do is serve as a transition between childhood and adulthood, getting people ready for the “real world.” Jalen Johnson is now fully there, making a decision about what’s best for himself and his family, and getting ripped for it by some dope who only sees the world through […]

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ESPN Should Maintain this Team for Prospective NBA Drafts

On a night where Woj stripped off ESPN’s telecast of this 2020 NBA redesign of some movie because of tweeting the selections ancient , the global leader deserves a credit for putting together a team which, for example, understood exactly what the hell it had been speaking about. Read…