NCAA Hoops Today: rumors

Sunday, March 02, 2008

Seth Davis on Arizona: Lute Olson vs Kevin O'Neill, the drama!

During the half time show of the Big 10 game on CBS Sports today, Seth Davis of SI, CNN SI, CSTV, and CBS Sports gave us a recap of the drama in Tuscon! Lute Olson and Kevin "The Enforcer" O'Neill are apparently not getting along, and have very little communication. Lute wants to come back for next year, and O'Neill will probably not be there - unless they bridge the gap.

Assuming all the players stay put, Arizona could have a very interesting team next year, with Bayless, Brandon Jennings and Nic "Hoops" Wise, along with Budinger (he's really no NBA player right now), and Jordan Hill (he needs more seasoning to maximize his NBA earning potential and career). Even I could coach them to a 20-win season ;-)

So much for the softer side of Kevin O'Neil? :)

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Rumors: Kelvin Sampson may get fired by Indiana!

While surfing around at Ballhype.com, I saw this story from the Cobra Brigade discussing rumors-speculation that the "suspensions" of IU players for the Kentucky game may have been the tip of the iceberg and Kelvin has ...420 more problems to deal with ;-) All the details along with discussion at the Cobra Brigade. Again please keep in mind that this is rumors and speculation! To repeat for those who are speed reading: This is rumors/speculation!

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

NBA Draft 2007 Early Entries

Every 2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament game on DVD!

NBA Draft Calendar

Players have until April 29 to declare

Draft lottery on May 22

The NBA Draft Camp will take place May 29 thru June 4, in Orlando, Florida.

Players have until June 18 to withdraw

The draft takes place on June 28

In the NBA already!

Randolph Morris (Junior, Kentucky). He was an NBA free agent (went undrafted). He can sign with any team he wants. He did not wait for a new Kentucky coach before making a decision. He jumped to the NBA right away, and signed with the ... New York Knicks

Official announcements

Glen "Big Baby" Davis (Junior, LSU). Will sign with agent. (Another Randolph Morris undrafted big man?)

Josh Mecha-Cry-Baby McRoberts (Sophomoric, Duke), and Mom: Will sign with agent

Jason Smith (Colorado State). Will not sign with agent (4/4/07).

Marcus Williams (Sophomore, Arizona). Agent Likely

Joakim Noah (Junior, Florida). Will sign with Agent

Al Horford (Junior, Florida). Will sign with Agent

Corey Brewer (Junior, Florida). Will sign with Agent

Taurean Green (Junior, Florida). Will sign with Agent

Spencer Hawes, (Freshman, Washington). No agent (not yet anyway)

DeVon Hardin (Cal). No agent.

Kevin Durant (Fresh, Texas). Will sign with agent. Will finish classes.

Julian Wright (Soph, Kansas), Will sign with agent

Arron Afflalo (Jr, UCLA). Cannot return to college (declared last year). Withdrawing from school.

Marcel Jones (Junior, Oregon State). No agent.

Wilson Chandler (Soph, DePaul). Will sing with agent.

Roy Bright, (Jr, Delaware State). No agent.

Dominic McGuire, (Cal-transfer, Fresno State). No agent.

Chris Daniels (RS-Jr, Texas A&M CC). No agent. Hopes to have the same luck as Bradley's 7-footer did after the NCAA tourney last year.

Jeff Green (Jr, Georgetown). No agent. He said (4/18) he is 70-30 on returning to college.

Roy Hibbert (Jr, Georgetown). No agent (yet). He said (4/18) he is 50-50 on returning to college.

Nick Young (Junior, USC), Will sign with agent.

Shaun Pruitt (Jr, Illinois), No agent. Doing the "Interview/Testing the Waters" thing.

Rodney Stuckey (Soph, Eastern Washington). Will not sign with agent. And I can't blame him. He is too good to stay and play in the Big Sky. Sorry Eagles fans :)

Dwight Brewington (Jr, formerly at Providence). May sign with agent. Would be the first ever deaf player drafted.

Rice (George Washington). Will not hire agent.

Greg Oden (Fr, Ohio State). Will sign with agent (Conley's dad)

Mike Conley, Daquean Cook (Fr, Ohio State). Won't sign with agent, but Conley's dad is an agent. *cough* *cough* *cough*

Sean Singletary (Jr, Virginia). Will not hire agent.

Joseph Jones (Jr, Texas A&M). Will not hire agent.

Reggie Williams (Jr, VMI). Will not hire agent.

Brandan Wright (Fr, UNC). No agent right away, but who are we kidding? He's a top 5 pick!

Thaddeus Young (Fr, Georgia Tech). No agent (at least for now)

James Mays (Jr, Clemson). No agent.

Jaycee Carroll (Jr, Utah State). No agent. (better shooter than JJ Whiner Redick)

Marcelus Kemp and Ramon Sessions (Jrs, Nevada). No agent.

Gabe Pruitt (Junior, USC). No agent.

Brandon Rush (So, Kansas). Will not sign with agent right away

Javaris Crittenton (Fr, Georgia Tech). Will not sign with agent.

Dominic James (Jr, Marquette). Will not sign with agent.

Sean Williams (formerly of Boston College). Will sign with agent.

Bo McCaleb (Jr, New Orleans), no agent

James OFF Curry (Jr, Oklahoma State), no agent

Tommy Price (Jr, Tenn State), no agent

Charles Rhodes (Jr, Miss State), no agent

Aaron Bruce (Jr, Baylor), no agent

Jamont Gordon (So, Miss State), was in, but was going to pull out before the April 29 deadline.

You may be surprised by some of the names, some are ill-advised, but also please keep in mind that college juniors typically benefit from testing the waters without signing with an agent. Then they go back to school and work on their game, having collected feedback from a number of NBA people. Think of it as preparing for job interviews at the university's career center. Except the career center in this case is the NBA draft.

Undecided/Deciding...

Game Over! The early entry deadline has passed! (4/30/2007).

New Agents with draft impact

Mike Conley's dad. Multi-talented as he was the AAU basketball coach of Conley, Oden et al, and a star field and track athlete back in the day.

They said they are returning for 2007-2008 - but nothing is final until the NBA early-entry deadline passes (April 29).

Brook Lopez, Stanford, 3/19/2007

Derrick Caracter, Louisville, HA!

Chase Budinger, Arizona

The Carolinians (Tywon Lawson, Tyler Hansbrough, Wayne Ellington)

Malik Hairston (Oregon)

Darren Collison (UCLA) (4/18), reaffirmed (4/24).

Joey Dorsey (Jr, Memphis). Presumably he was thinking of the NBDL draft, because he's clearly not ready for the NBA (mentally and offensively).

DJ White (Indiana).

Chris Lofton (TN)

Hasheem Thabeet (Fr, UConn), according to Calhoun

Luc Richard (UCLA). As if!

Draft Resources

Official draft coverage at NBA.com