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When it comes to his ongoing growth as a player, Braun insists that it’s about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. It all goes back to a saying he heard during his time in Lawrence, Kansas, from one of the greatest ever to patrol the sidelines. “Just win. Over my career — high school, college — I think I've learned,” Braun told RG. “A big thing that Coach [Bill] Self taught was when you win, the pie is big enough for everybody. I think that my individual success, I always have more individual success when our team wins and the spotlight's bigger when you're winning.”

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Jon Rothstein: AJ Storr has officially withdrawn from the 2024 NBA Draft and will play for Kansas next season, per Bill Self. Transfer from Wisconsin. Averaged 16.8 PPG last season.

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Kansas head coach Bill Self revealed plenty during an extended sit-down with NCAA reporter Andy Katz on Monday, including what he expects Kansas freshman guard Johnny Furphy to decide after entering the 2024 NBA Draft. Self said Furphy, who arrived late last summer from Australia to enroll as a freshman at KU, outperformed any reasonable expectation, thus playing himself into an invite to the NBA Draft Combine.

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Michael Singer: Christian Braun, on the comparisons between Michael Malone and Bill Self: “Those are two of the most competitive people I’ve been around since I’ve been playing basketball.” Said he appreciated their old school approach.

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“We all are looking for shooters, and he might be one of the best – if not the best – of all the shooters while playing in one of the top conferences,” an NBA executive told HoopsHype. “That’s why he’s regarded so highly in the draft. He’s got a true NBA skill, and he’s learning how to get shots off the dribble and get to the basket at times. Under Bill Self, you know he’s getting coaches and having his a** chewed out regularly. He’s playing and responding well. He’ll likely become a better defender. The other thing is he’s a big wing, around 6-foot-8. I have him around the 8-10 range right now.”

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Bill Self was long rumored as lead executive R.C. Buford's preferred Popovich successor. "The person having Kansas ties would be really important. It's kind of sacred," one executive said. "You talk about the Spurs tree—the Spurs tree goes through Kansas. You gotta keep in mind, that goes all the way back to James Naismith, who literally invented the game of basketball."

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The most common heir apparents mentioned in league and coaching circles today: Will Hardy, the longtime San Antonio assistant now working under Ime Udoka in Boston; Brett Brown; and Manu Ginobili, who rejoined San Antonio last week as an advisor. Becky Hammon will and should be in the mix along with mystery candidates and perhaps other members of the Spurs tree. Ginobili's appetite for coaching is unclear. Bill Self, head coach of Kansas, has faded out of the rumor mill.

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Shams Charania: Michael Jordan will present Kobe Bryant in the 2020 Naismith Hall of Fame @Hoophall induction ceremony on May 15. Full list of inductees and presenters: pic.twitter.com/iD5r6EIxHF

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Bill Self knows having an NBA team in Kansas City might not be the best thing for nearby college programs — at least from a ticket-sales perspective. And yet, the KU basketball coach seems fully on board with the idea of the Toronto Raptors potentially putting down temporary roots in Kansas City, if indeed they needed to relocate.

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Last week, Self, entering his 18th year as KU's coach, was asked what he thought of that initiative. "I would say this place is obviously a hotbed for basketball," Self responded. "This place obviously loves their ball. And you go back historically to all the NCAA tournaments and the NCAA being here that was held in Municipal Auditorium and those sorts of things. I think that would be a big sell because we’ve shown that we love ball historically."

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And Self also believes a successful run as a temporary home could put Kansas City on the shortlist to get an NBA team. "I saw firsthand, and we all did, what happened with the Hornets," Self said. "When Katrina hit New Orleans and they relocated to Oklahoma City, you saw how that market rallied around that team to make them basically an automatic to get a franchise if anything else was going to transpire. And then of course the Sonics moved there. I can see [KC] doing the same thing. I think people would rally around it."

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CBS Sports college basketball experts Gary Parrish, Matt Norlander, Kyle Boone and David Cobb weighed in on who could be the next college coach to move to the pros, and Parrish made the biggest splash. “The next college coach to jump to the NBA could obviously be Villanova's Jay Wright, who is reportedly a candidate right now for the 76ers job,” Parrish wrote. “Will it be offered to him? I'm not sure. And would he take it if offered? Again, I'm not sure. But, for these purposes, for one reason or another, I'm going to assume Wright stays at Villanova. So my guess for the next college coach to move to the NBA is … Kansas' Bill Self.

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Self: I loved coaching them. I didn’t like some of the stuff that we dealt with from time to time, but I loved coaching them. Marcus Morris: Coach Self, we’ve never seen eye to eye on nothing. Zero. But man, what he did for me and my brother was special. He taught us the definition of hard work. He was a father figure to us. He was on us very hard, and I really couldn’t understand why. But when I left here and I went to the real world and I got to the NBA, everything he instilled to us I use it today.

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By the end of their three-year careers (of course they left school together) they’d become a part of KU lore. Most was for good: Marcus won Big 12 player of the year, and the twins’ “Family Over Everything” mentality defined that era. Some was not: They got into two on-campus fights with members of the football team, and Markieff was arrested as a freshman for allegedly firing an airsoft gun out of his dorm window and hitting a woman in the arm. There’s a lot to unpack, so let’s start at the beginning … Bill Self, head coach: The thing about it is they were so lazy. Kurtis Townsend, assistant coach: So lazy. Tyrel Reed, guard: Very lazy. Brennan Bechard, guard: They were probably the two laziest guys I’ve been around.

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