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Mark J. Spears: WME Sports basketball division, led by agent Bill Duffy, has added Ugo Udezue to oversee outreach in Africa. The former Wyoming center has been an executive with the Nigerian National team and is CEO of African brand AFA Sports. Edezue also has NBA agent experience under Duffy.
Jason Dumas: The Warriors are holding pre-draft workouts on Wednesday with the following players: Jermaine Couisnard (Oregon) Isaiah Crawford (LA Tech) Malik Dia (Belmont) Sam Griffin (Wyoming) Miles Kelly (Georgia Tech) Tre Mitchell (Kentucky)
Ryan Smith: “We just launched a media company to go wall-to-wall in the state of Utah so what, three-point-something million people have access to games. It’s the first in the NBA, the first thing like it. We’re going direct-to-consumer as well. We’re gonna sign a deal to go outside of the state because we’re, you know, 30 minutes from Wyoming and Idaho and there’s a lot of people from there that came down to see the fight.”
Jon Chepkevich: Wyoming’s Hunter Maldonado has agreed to join the Oklahoma City Thunder for NBA Summer League, I’m told. The savvy, well-rounded 6’5 ¾” playmaker is a four-time All-MWC selection. Plays an unorthodox style based upon high feel, crafty footwork, and change-of-pace.
Popovich specifically called out Cruz’s plan for safer schools in wake of the Uvalde shooting last year in Texas. The senator’s plan, which he unveiled with Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., last fall, called for more security in schools along with school-based mental health counselors. "But they’re going to cloak all this stuff [in] the myth of the Second Amendment, the freedom," he said, in part. "You know, it's just a myth. It’s a joke. It’s just a game they play. I mean, that's freedom. Is it freedom for kids to go to school and try to socialize and try to learn and be scared to death that they might die that day?"
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Jon Chepkevich: Wyoming’s Drake Jeffries will join the Denver Nuggets for NBA Summer League, sources tell @RookieScale. Jeffries is a bona fide three-point sniper w/ a 41.1 3P% on 650+ attempts from deep spanning his collective JUCO, DII, and DI career.
Jeff Goodman: Wyoming’s Hunter Maldonado has told @Stadium he will withdraw from the NBA Draft and return to the Cowboys. Huge news for Wyoming.
Jon Rothstein: Wyoming's Drake Jeffries tells me that he has declared for the 2022 NBA Draft.
As a major part of the partnership, adidas will be the presenting sponsor of Junior Jazz, which features more than 60,000 players. The youth basketball program is the largest and longest-running youth basketball league in the NBA for the past 38 years. Individual programs are managed through more than 120 recreation centers in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Arizona and Nevada.
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The Athletic recently wrote about DeRozan’s offseason trip to Wyoming, where he went to relax and spend family time before the season. “He’s in a good space,” a high-level Spurs staffer told The Athletic’s Jabari Young on the team’s media day.
Darnell Mayberry: Second group from Monday: Amir Hinton (Shaw), Dedric Lawson (Kansas), Javin DeLaurier (Duke), Justin James (Wyoming), Miye Oni (Yale) Simi Shittu (Vanderbilt)
Thanks to an uncle who owned a Wyoming bank, he invested his money wisely and now lives off of the annual interest. With no state income tax in Washington and the low cost of living in Spokane, he’ll never have to work another day in his life. “I was upset for a while about how my career turned out,” Morrison says. “At times, sure, I wish was still playing. But I’m not like, ‘Aw, dang, I screwed this up and I’m working at a Costco.’ People expect me to be destitute or something. I don’t live an extravagant lifestyle — I don’t need to go party every weekend or have a place in Miami. I’m lucky to have saved my money.”
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