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Notre Dame has hired alum Pat Garrity in a trailblazing new role for its men's and women's basketball teams, sources told CBS Sports. The 1998 graduate and former NBA player will be the general manager for both programs, in addition overseeing men's basketball as its primary sports administrator. Garrity, 48, is one of only two people believed to ever occupy this type of role — a dual GM, in addition to being the lead administrator for a revenue sport — in college athletics.
Notre Dame freshman guard and former Penn High School standout Markus Burton is declaring for the NBA Draft, but leaving the door open for a return to the Irish.
From Notre Dame to San Antonio, NBA star Blake Wesley returned back home to his roots in South Bend. Wesley hosted a free basketball youth clinic at his alma mater Riley High School. Yesterday, he coached over two hundred kids teaching them everything from nutrition, endurance, ballhandling, shooting and footwork skills. “I’ve been talking about hosting a camp even before I got to the NBA. I’m always going to give back to the community because I was once in their shoes. It's nice to give them knowledge,” Wesley said.
Brad Stevens’ son, Brady, announced on Instagram today that he will attend Notre Dame to play for his father’s former assistant and close friend Micah Shrewsberry. https://t.co/IPENQUL1Ep pic.twitter.com/PUM1KjsNlH
— Jay King (@ByJayKing) August 19, 2023
Adrian Wojnarowski: As @tnoieNDI reported, former Notre Dame coach Mike Brey will join Atlanta coach Quin Snyder’s staff next year. No specific role has been finalized, nor will until after this season, sources tell ESPN. Brey, who has a 30-year history with Snyder, visited with the Hawks in March.
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Jaden grew up inside the practice gym at Notre Dame, the place that became a second home as the Fighting Irish reached six NCAA championship games in a nine-year span. There, he was surrounded by basketball royalty. Skylar Diggins-Smith. Jewell Loyd. Kayla McBride. Arike Ogunbowale. Hall of Fame coach Muffet McGraw. And of course, his mom. Jaden only thought about going to women's practices with his mom to play basketball as soon as he got out of school. His desire to immerse himself in that community was his idea of the perfect after-school program. He’d watch practices and afterward have an opportunity to shoot, sometimes on the team’s actual court in Purcell Pavilion. He’d spend eight to nine hours inside that gym, sometimes until 1 a.m.
Kevin Chouinard: Hawks workout for tomorrow: Kennedy Chandler (Tennessee) Bryce Hamilton (UNLV) Trevor Keels (Duke) E.J. Liddell (Ohio State) David Roddy (Colorado State) Blake Wesley (Notre Dame)
"I wouldn't be here without John Thompson," Williams, a Notre Dame graduate, said on Monday morning. "He was a hero for us. We had our parents, and we had Len Bias, and Len died. And then we had John Thompson. "He was the first, along with Coach [John] Chaney, who stood up and said, 'That's wrong.' They were offended when people tried to put them into a different class, and it gave me confidence to not put up with stuff that I knew was wrong. He taught Black kids to believe that they were valuable, and the athletes among us then knew that he was talking about us too."
Connaughton has been constructing a second profession in actual property via his improvement firm, Seashore Home LLC, which is a household affair. His father, Len, is the vp, and Joe Stanton, a childhood good friend, is the director of undertaking administration. The corporate owns 4 properties and bought two others in Portland, Ore., the place Connaughton spent three seasons taking part in for the Path Blazers. Seashore Home additionally owns three properties and bought one other in South Bend, Ind., the place Connaughton was a two-sport star at Notre Dame. And in Milwaukee, he has two initiatives in the works, together with the house constructing close to the enviornment. Connaughton bought the property, which had been vacant for months, for $325,000, and he expects the rebuild to price a further $800,000.
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To secure his financial future, he was careful with his money, but also started investing in real estate by creating Beach House LLC with his father and childhood friend Joseph Stanton. They went to work with small projects in Portland, as well as South Bend, Ind., where Connaughton attended the University of Notre Dame. They eventually moved onto bigger projects as Connaughton tried to use the connections he has made as an NBA player to their fullest potential. “When you’re in the NBA, that’s the greatest time that people want to meet you, they want to be around you, they want to know who you are,” Connaughton said. “For me, I’ve used that to get into rooms and develop relationships with millionaires and billionaires. I’m in rooms I should have no business being in and I use those people as mentors. I told these guys, ‘Look, everybody that sits courtside at NBA games wanted to be professional athletes at one point in time.’ As pro athletes, we make a ton of money, but we are not the wealthiest people in the world.”
Despite his decision to forego the pros to pursue education, basketball and (yes) baseball at Notre Dame, Pat’s 96-mile-per-hour fastball was tantalizing enough to make him a 38th-round pick of the San Diego Padres out of St. John’s Prep (Danvers, Mass.). And though the Baltimore Orioles took him in the fourth round in 2014, after his junior year, Pat still opted to return to South Bend to get his degree from the Mendoza College of Business, before taking his talents not to the MLB, but rather to the NBA. Nowadays, Pat, who’s in his first year with the Bucks—the top team in the NBA—after three seasons with the Portland Trail Blazers, is still a two-sport star of sorts. As he continues to pursue his hoops career, he’s also building a multi-state business in the cutthroat world of real estate development.
Cleveland has reached its limit of 20 players for camp, including former Notre Dame standout Bonzi Colson. Former University of Dayton star and Canton Charge alum Scoochie Smith and Isaac Hamilton, another Charge player from last year, also signed camp deals. Smith and Hamilton each received "exhibit 10 contracts," which means they get a $50,000 bonus if they're waived by the Cavs and signed to the Charge. Real GM first reported their signings.
According to the source, the Knicks are plotting a gala press conference for Friday with Hornacek’s family — his wife, Stacy; and his three children, Notre Dame grad Ryan, and USC grads Tyler and Abby, a part-time sportscaster — in attendance. An official announcement on the hire has yet to be made, but is expected Thursday.
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