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That's why Wake Forest recently hired longtime Chicago Bulls staffer Steve Weinman to serve as the Demon Deacons' general manager, leading to a new analytics apparatus for head coach Steve Forbes. It's why Cincinnati pursued Corey Evans from the Oklahoma City Thunder's vaunted scouting department. Pat Garrity, who worked in the Pistons' front office after his retirement as an NBA player, is now the general manager back at Notre Dame. Ronald Dupree, another former NBA player, returned to LSU as the Tigers' general manager after most recently serving as the Milwaukee Bucks' director of global scouting.
Memphis coach Penny Hardaway has added longtime NBA assistant Roy Rogers as an assistant to fill out his staff for this season. Hardaway also brought in Josh Townsend as the Tigers' new director of scouting in additions announced Thursday.
Jason Munz: NEW: Former Tiger DeAndre Williams has signed an Exhibit 10 deal with the Philadelphia 76ers, and will join the Delaware Blue Coats (the Sixers’ G League affiliate), his mentor Kenneth Roy tells me. Williams will reunite with former Tigers teammate Emoni Bates in Delaware.
Pettiford's arrest comes less than two months after he announced he was withdrawing from the NBA draft and returning to Auburn for his sophomore season. The 6-foot-1 point guard averaged 11.6 points and 3.0 assists as a freshman, helping lead the Tigers to an SEC regular season title, a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament and a Final Four appearance. Had Pettiford remained in the 2025 NBA Draft, he was projected to be selected somewhere in the late first or second round.
Memphis basketball star PJ Haggerty has entered the transfer portal and plans to "test the NBA draft process," according to a statement from the Memphis athletic department provided to The Commercial Appeal. The consensus All-American − who finished third in the country in scoring (21.8 points per game) as a sophomore with the Tigers − has two seasons of eligibility left.
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Pau Gasol: Once I got to the NBA and landed in Memphis from Barcelona, it was a bit of a cultural change. The team had just moved from Vancouver, so everything was new—new team, new franchise, adjusting fans. Memphis was really a Tigers city; the Memphis Tigers had all the fandom. We had to build our own fan base. We were in full rebuild mode, playing our first couple of years in the Pyramid. I remember thinking, Okay, this is the NBA, right? It wasn’t quite how I pictured it. I even asked myself, Is this still my dream? But I reminded myself—I was playing with the best players in the world, and I wanted to succeed. A lot of people doubted whether I could come through and make it. I was determined. I’m going to do it. I’m going to do it for my family. I’m going to do it for myself. I’m going to do it for my country.
Jae’Sean Tate’s legacy within the Pickerington Central boys basketball program continues to grow more than a decade after his graduation. Tate, who went on to play at Ohio State and is now with the NBA’s Houston Rockets, was honored in a halftime ceremony Friday during the Tigers’ 77-59 win over visiting Teays Valley. After the game, he presented a check for $20,000 to the basketball program to remodel its locker room, which will be renamed the “Jae’Sean Tate Locker Room.”
NBA champion Mo Williams is locked in at his HBCU. Jackson State University announced a contract extension for head men’s basketball coach Mo Williams, cementing his role as a pivotal leader for the Tigers’ program.
It was Oct. 2, 1968. In St. Louis, Bob Gibson and the Cardinals squared off against Denny McLain and the Detroit Tigers in Game 1 of the World Series. In Denver, Broncos coach Lou Saban announced that Marlin Briscoe would start Sunday’s AFL game against the Bengals, making Briscoe the first Black quarterback to start in the Super Bowl era. A preseason basketball game in Flagstaff hardly registered, but it provided a glimpse of what the NBA, then a league of two divisions and 14 teams, was like six decades ago. The night started with the Suns and Lakers sharing a bus from the hotel to the gym. It ended with Chamberlain, riding back to Phoenix with injured Suns forward David Lattin, changing a tire off of Interstate 17, a moment hard to believe and a story seldom shared.
Clemson guard Chase Hunter says he’s entering the NBA draft, but retaining his eligibility should he want to come back to college. Hunter was the Tigers’ third leading scorer this season at 12.9 points a game.
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LSU guard Jalen Cook will enter the 2024 NBA draft, the Tigers guard confirmed on Monday.
Diamond owns the linear TV rights for 15 NBA teams, 11 NHL teams and 11 MLB teams. But it's streaming rights that matter here. Diamond has the streaming rights for all of the NBA and NHL teams under its portfolio, but for only five MLB clubs -- the Miami Marlins, Tampa Bay Rays, Detroit Tigers, Milwaukee Brewers and Kansas City Royals. These are the 15 NBA teams under Diamond: Atlanta Hawks, Charlotte Hornets, Cleveland Cavaliers, Dallas Mavericks, Detroit Pistons, Indiana Pacers, Los Angeles Clippers, Memphis Grizzlies, Miami Heat, Milwaukee Bucks, Minnesota Timberwolves, New Orleans Pelicans, Oklahoma City Thunder, Orlando Magic, San Antonio Spurs.
After two seasons at Auburn, point guard Wendell Green Jr. announced Sunday afternoon he will be leaving the Tigers and pursuing the 2023 NBA Draft.
The Los Angeles Dodgers acquired outfielder Trayce Thompson, the brother of NBA star Klay Thompson, through a trade with the Detroit Tigers, the teams announced.