Leonard Miller is a skilled 6-foot-10-inch forward for the Minnesota Timberwolves who’s learning what the NBA game is all about at Summer League.
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Kevin Kruger grew tremendously as a head basketball coach off the court as his players did on it during the 2021-22 season.
St. Mary’s became a sworn enemy of all those teams on the NCAA Tournament bubble for the next several days, shocking the Zags 60-47 and everyone watching the West Coast Conference Tournament final, which included a packed 7,771 at Orleans Arena.
While it’s always a pleasing sound for basketball coaches when a fax machine signals the impending arrival of a signed letter of intent, welcoming new players to your program in 2017 now comes with a hint of apprehension.
Immediately advance your regular-season champion to the tournament final and make everyone else fight it out for the right to meet it for the automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament.
UNLV athletic director Tina Kunzer-Murphy was answering questions Sunday evening about the firing (with a capital F) of Dave Rice when the future was mentioned, specifically if the school will commence a national search to identify a new full-time basketball coach.
The strategy of fouling DeAndre Jordan, Dwight Howard or any big man who can’t shoot free throws seems to be slowly killing what is meant to be a beautiful game and the NBA may try to change its rules to prevent it. But the strategy seldom works.
David Blatt has coached basketball for teams such as Hapoel Galil Elyon, Benetton Treviso, Maccabi Tel Aviv and Dynamo Moscow, teams with more vowels than Vanna White turns on a monthly basis.
A movie once was made on the idea that a mirror has two faces, that the relationship between mind and body can take different forms, that what we see on the outside might not necessarily be a person’s true character.
The talent keeps coming for UNLV basketball, keeps believing in the vision Dave Rice has created, keeps talking about a style of play that if the Rebels ever get around to implementing, just might produce the sort of success a third-year coaching staff insists is attainable.