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URI guard Jalen Carey announcing on Instagram Monday he’s declaring for the 2023 NBA Draft while maintaining his college eligibility.
University of Rhode Island guard Fatts Russell will enter the 2020 NBA Draft. The junior will not hire an agent and is eligible to return for a final season in 2020-21.
Rhody MBB: University of Rhode Island guard Jared Terell has agreed to a two-way deal with the Minnesota Timberwolves @JaredTerrell32
URI redshirt junior E.C. Matthews will return next year, Dan Hurley told ESPN.
However, Odom has a grueling path to recovery ahead of him, Harrick told USA TODAY Sports in a telephone conversation on Monday morning. “Obviously there is a lot of attention about all this but the thing to remember is that there is a long road ahead to rehabilitation,” said Harrick, Odom’s coach at the University of Rhode Island for the 1998-99 season. “This is serious stuff. It could be six months or more for rehab and all that. We don’t know what state his kidneys and lungs are going to be in.”
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In a telephone conversation with USA TODAY Sports, Harrick said that Kardashian, who married the former NBA player in 2009, had texted details of a strong improvement in Odom’s condition. “She reached down and said ‘you know I love you’ and he kind of nodded,” Harrick said. “Three or four days after being scared to death and fearing the worst, that is a little hope, a little progress. She texted me that (information).” Harrick became a father figure to Odom during the 6-10 forward’s time at Rhode Island University, where he played basketball for one season before entering the NBA draft in 1999.
The NBA’s punishment came swiftly. Ujiri was fined $35,000 on Sunday, the league announced, and the Raptors were also fined another $25,000. “Typical Uri,” Pierce said, knowingly or unknowingly botching Ujiri’s name. “I heard what he said last year when I was in Brooklyn. I can really care less. I think I can play the psychological war a little bit better than him.”
Los Angeles Lakers assistant coach Eddie Jordan is engaged in serious talks with Rutgers University about becoming the embattled basketball program's next head coach, sources told Yahoo! Sports. In the aftermath of the scandal surrounding former coaches physically abusing players in practices, Rutgers offered Jordan the job after University of Rhode Island coach Danny Hurley turned down an offer from the school earlier this week, sources said. Jordan will meet with Rutgers officials face-to-face, sources said, this weekend to try to finalize an agreement.
It was about when one of his coaches chopped the head off a young goat for good luck that Jimmy Baron realized pro basketball in Turkey was unlike any hoops he'd ever played. He was playing for Mercin of the Turkish Basketball League, the same league superstar NBA guard Deron Williams has agreed to play in during the lockout. They'd lost their first four games of the season and rumor was, if things didn't get better soon, heads were going to roll. "The coach didn't speak any English," says Baron, a 3-point specialist from the University of Rhode Island. "But he motioned me to come out in front of the arena with the whole team. He put us in a circle and there's this goat standing there. All of a sudden one of the assistant coaches gets out this huge machete. And then -- whack! -- he cuts the goat's head off!"
Since Mobley retired from the NBA, he has pursued altruistic opportunities (funded an AAU team in Philadelphia; built a basketball court in Africa, established a foundation in Philadelphia that helps single mothers and homeless kids) and has also explored wellness-type business ideas, such as opening a medical marijuana dispensary in Rhode Island. Why Rhode Island? That’s where he starred for the University of Rhode Island college basketball team in the 1990s and is a state “…that helped him at a vulnerable time in his life, this state that saw him go from a young, unstructured kid to someone who grabbed the basketball dream and has made the most of it.”
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As Reynolds tells it, their sitdown had nothing to do with Mobley's on-court career — "It was about what he wants to do with the rest of his life." "I want to help people," [Mobley] said. He knows that innumerable people have helped him along the way, from Max Good at Maine Central, to Jim Harrick at URI, who gave him confidence, assistant coach Bill Coen, who made him start to believe in his talent. It’s also the way he was raised, his version of spirituality, the sense that you help others when you can. So he helps fund an AAU team in Philadelphia. He built a basketball court in Africa. He helps out his old high school. He has a foundation in Philadelphia that helps single mothers and homeless kids. "You get it after a while," Mobley said. "You know what you're supposed to do." One of the things he wants to do now is start a wellness center in Warwick, one that will be allowed to dispense medical marijuana.
He says he got interested in the field of wellness both through his own medical condition and those of other people close to him, and adds that the health field is one of the fastest growing in the country. Mobley told Reynolds that the proposed dispensary is just one element of a larger plan to "get more involved in Rhode Island," where he starred for the University of Rhode Island in the mid-1990s — "this state that helped him at a vulnerable time in his life, this state that saw him go from a young, unstructured kid to someone who grabbed the basketball dream and has made the most of it." Before he can open up shop, Mobley will first have to secure a license, which could prove tricky — Rhode Island state law allows the state Department of Health to authorize between one and three dispensaries, and 18 license applications have already been filed, according to Reynolds' Journal colleague Tracy Breton. And even if he gets the license, there's still some question as to when exactly anybody will actually be allowed to operate a dispensary.
Cuttino Mobley, a former star basketball player at the University of Rhode Island who played in the NBA for a decade, is moving into the next phase of his life: financier for a proposed medical-marijuana compassion center in Warwick. Mobley, 35, is listed in documents filed with the state Health Department as the sole financier for the Summit Medical Compassion Center. According to Summit's proposal, Mobley has made a binding commitment of $4 million toward the compassion center. The lump sum includes a $3.5-million line of credit and a $500,000 equity contribution that does not have to be repaid.
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