Rumors

Michael Scotto: Two-time SEC All-Defensive Team selection Cam Mathews (Mississippi State) will join the Houston Rockets and compete for a two-way spot in training camp, league sources told @hoopshype .

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Michael Grange: "He really, really impressed me, he was hard to deal with," Alijah Martin, drafted 39th by the Raptors, on playing in the SEC against #9 pick Collin Murray-Boyles.

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Karter's older brother, Kevin Knox, played for John Calipari with the Wildcats and was the 2018 SEC Freshman of the Year.

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One and done. Texas guard Tre Johnson, who took home SEC freshman of the year honors during the 2024-25 season, has declared for the 2025 NBA Draft. The unsurprising move means it’s draft prep time for Johnson, who is considered one of the top college prospects for the upcoming draft.

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Shams Charania: Oklahoma freshman Jeremiah Fears is entering the 2025 NBA draft and forgoing his remaining college eligibility, he tells ESPN. The SEC all-freshman guard is the No. 7 prospect in ESPN's NBA draft projections.

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BACK IN MARCH, Pelinka attended the SEC tournament in Nashville and linked up with an old friend, Steven Curtis Chapman, for a bourbon. It was there that the Grammy-winning recording artist offered some advice on where the GM should aim his scouting efforts. "'There's a kid that plays on Tennessee,'" Pelinka remembered Chapman saying. "And I was like, 'Yeah, Dalton. There's no way. He's a top-five pick. I am not going to spend all my time there.' He was like, 'No, my wife has a feeling. Like, he's going to be a Laker.'"

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New additions to the board are NBA executive vice president and head of basketball operations Joe Dumars, Duke athletic director Nina King, Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey, NCAA vice president of women’s basketball Lynn Holzman, NJCAA president and CEO Christopher Parker, four-time Olympic gold medalist Sylvia Fowles, two-time Olympic gold medalist Lindsay Whalen and 2000 Olympic gold medalist Shareef Abdur-Raheem.

Washington Post

Pitaro has built a sports rights moat by doling out nearly $80 billion – that’s a b for billions – in new deals with the NFL, college football playoff, MLB, SEC, NCAA, NHL, PGA, Wimbledon, La Liga and now the NBA. One rival executive called ESPN’s suite of rights, “the greatest in the history of sports television.”

New York Times

College head coach No. 1 (his team played Tennessee) on Dalton Knecht: He was the best player in the SEC this year and best player we faced. He could do everything on the offensive end. He’s a three-level scorer. Very good passer. Creates his own shot. Has good positional size. Can see over the defense. Way more athletic in person than he appears on film. Really improved as a defender as the year went on. Went from a below average to an above average defender throughout the season.

New York Times

John Calipari is finalizing a five-year deal to become the next men's basketball coach at Arkansas, sources told ESPN on Sunday night, a blockbuster move that will shake up the SEC and college basketball landscape. Calipari's contract is expected to have an overall base salary of slightly less than the $8.5 million he's making at Kentucky, sources told ESPN. However, the deal is expected to be incentive-laden with the ability to pass that number.

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The NBA is the latest property to partner with Fastbreak.ai, joining the likes of the National Hockey League (NHL), the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and Major League Pickleball in using the company’s scheduling technology. Last year, Fastbreak.ai closed a US$5.2 million seed financing round led by Greycroft. Other investors include Charlotte Hornets forward Gordon Hayward and retired National Football League (NFL) player Greg Olsen.

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He wasn’t fully healed but decided to come back for the SEC tournament. After a one-and-done performance, he then played “terribly” in an NCAA tournament loss. “I’m at 40 or 50 percent of myself,” he says. He didn’t want to let his teammates down, and he was tired of hearing critics accuse him of faking his injury, sitting out to protect his draft stock. He wanted nothing more than to play. But, in pushing himself to do so, he ended up aggravating his back further. “I came back too early,” he says. “I probably didn’t let it heal fully enough.”

The Ringer

Missouri basketball’s Kobe Brown has made a decision. The all-SEC forward announced on social media Sunday that he will be declaring for the NBA Draft, while keeping open the option of returning to college basketball next season.

The Columbia Daily Tribune

Brandon Miller just received top honors in his conference -- despite his connection to a murder case -- with the Alabama Crimson Tide star being named Player of the Year. The Southeastern Conference unveiled the winners of the men's basketball postseason awards on Monday ... which are selected by the 14 head coaches. The Tide forward -- who leads the SEC this season with 19.6 points per game -- received two of the awards: Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year ... weeks after Miller's name was mentioned in a murder case.

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