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Jon Rothstein: Matthew Mayer is returning to Baylor next season, per @DraftExpress. Was an early entry candidate to the 2021 NBA Draft. Will be a massive breakout guy in 21-22.
In 1959, a West Virginia hotel and local restaurants refused to serve Baylor and his African American teammates. As a way of protest, Baylor decided to boycott the game on Jan. 16, 1959, in Charleston, West Virginia. “He was a rookie NBA player, and, in those days, the NBA only had eight teams. It was fascinating to imagine the kind of travel and lives that they had, and they didn’t have a really big fan base. But Elgin was really the star of the team [Minneapolis Lakers], but he was turned away at the hotel when they got to West Virginia. That was enough. He said, ‘They can’t just let me out of a cage like an animal to play the game and not treat me like a human being the rest of the time,'” said Bryant.
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Jared Butler entered the 2020 NBA Draft while keeping open his option to return to Baylor for his junior season. "To my teammates, this season was a special one, though it got cut short. There is no other group of men I would've taken this journey with. We are brothers for life," tweeted Butler.
Women's nominations include first-timers Swin Cash and Tamika Catchings, along with current San Antonio Spurs assistant coach Becky Hammon and Baylor coach Kim Mulkey, who is nominated both as a coach and player. Former Chicago Bulls star Toni Kukoc heads the list of international honorees.
That remains to be seen, he said while meeting with a couple of reporters in the tunnel of Hilton Coliseum before Iowa State’s Tuesday night game against Baylor. “I’m open right now,” said Hoiberg before watching a game as a fan for the first time since he was being recruited out of Ames High School. “We’ll see. I’m just looking for a great opportunity, whatever level that might be.” It sounded like Hoiberg, who was fired with a season left on his Chicago Bulls contract, preferred coaching to working in an NBA front office. “If the right front office did come around, I would potentially look at that,” Hoiberg said. “Coaching is the first thing on my mind, but if the right front office job came around, I’d look at it.”
BC Khimki added American power forward Perry James Jones III to the roster. The contract has been agreed for one season. The 25 years old player arrives from the NBA D-League, where he played for Iowa Energy and Oklahoma City Blue. Before that, he played for the Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA for 3 years, after joining from Baylor Bears of the NCAA.
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"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to be able to see what it takes," Riley said, running through his experience playing with West and Baylor and Wilt Chamberlain, coaching against Larry Bird and Kevin McHale and Robert Parish and so on. "If you can get three of those kinds of players and fill it out with some other good guys, then you might be ahead of the curve....So there are a lot of ways to skin a cat. "For me, it's not through the draft, because lottery picks are living a life of misery. That season is miserable. And if you do three or four years in a row to get lottery picks, then I'm in an insane asylum. And the fans will be, too. So who wants to do that?"
But first he will return to Baylor in August with plans of finishing his degree. "Adam Silver really wants me to be a part of the organization, and I'm thankful for the opportunity that he's giving me," Austin said. Austin called Silver a "real down-to-earth type guy." "He's easy to talk to," Austin said.
Shams Charania: Two more summer league invites: Fresno State's Tyler Johnson with Heat and Baylor's Brady Heslip with Timberwolves, sources tell RealGM.
Word of Austin's condition spread from his parents to his agent to his high school coach and the Baylor coaches. Austin was refereeing games and playing with kids in drills. He had no idea his life had changed forever. He would live like this for only 22 more hours. The decision was made by mom: let him play the game he loves just a little while longer before telling him the awful news. Austin wasn't exerting much energy at the camp as it was. Drew said he was "numb to the news" when he found out. Paul Mills, a Baylor assistant who was working the camp, found out around 8 p.m. He too was gobsmacked. "We wondered if we should pull him off the court. It's over," Mills recalled thinking. "He's never playing basketball again. I remember Isaiah as a seventh-grader, visiting campus, 6-7 tall. He's the only junior high kid I've ever gone to see. You're thinking back to all those instances over the past eight or nine years, and you're about to deliver news that will floor this kid."
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