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Kris Pursiainen: Mike Brown gives himself a C-, or D+, so far this series when asked about how Knicks have attacked Wembanyama. Added he could easily be failing, but he's passing – and that it's at a great school like Harvard or MIT. Then said he has to say USC, too, or "they get mad"
Jeremy Lin: "When I graduated from college, I had so many loans I had borrowed from the bank, the house, Harvard, and everything. I wasn't eating until I was full while preparing for the NBA draft to try to save money. My mom never told me. She just called me one day and said, 'You have to eat until you're full. I found some money somewhere.' And I didn't ask where. She told me seven or eight years later that was all I had left in my 401k, her retirement."
Jaylen Brown: "Stephen A, here's my proposal. Why don't we have a live audience debate, traditional media versus us athletes? And let's do a live debate in front of a live streamed audience at a mutual location like a Harvard or MIT and let's talk about it. Let's see who come out on top. Should be easy. Should be a piece of cake. Mainstream traditional media versus the athlete. Let's set it up. Harvard, MIT, live and let's see who come out on top. You know where to find me. We know where to contact my team. Let's set up a live debate at a mutual location and let's talk about it. Traditional versus untraditional. Mainstream media versus the dumb jock. Let's see who come out on top."
You’re a great example. And you’ve given lectures, y’all, at Harvard. Isn’t that something? And at MIT. So, when you retire, do you think you’ll become a professor? Jaylen Brown: Maybe, perhaps. I don’t know. We’ll see. I feel like I love to teach. It’s kind of in my family line. My mom teaches, and my grandmother did, too.
Jaylen Brown: I was in Boston, and I’m thinking I’m talking to a normal beat writer. It happened to be this big writer for The Guardian. And this dude put me on the cover of The Guardian newspaper saying, ‘Jaylen Brown says sports is a mechanism for control.’ That’s when I was 19 years old. Then that went viral. That’s when I got invited to Harvard to go speak about it. So Harvard invited me, based on that article in The Guardian, to come speak about it. That’s why I became the youngest Harvard lecturer. I was talking about how sports is a mechanism for control, because that became controversial. Like, how could this 19-year-old player say sports is a mechanism for control when sports — the NBA — just helped him recreate generational wealth? He just changed his whole family’s life through sport. How could he criticize it, right? So I got a lot of pushback, even from my organization. Danny Ainge came and talked to me like, ‘What is this?’ Of course, you’re 19 years old. You just got drafted. Your family — how can you say that sports is a mechanism for control?”
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Hunter was removed by the NBPA for a variety of reasons, which included nepotism. And he claims that Fisher and Kobe Bryant were negotiating CBA deals with Stern personally, a claim Fisher denies. But 15 years later, the league having grown exponentially financially with many earning generational wealth, the legacy of Hunter could be viewed differently. He said he doesn’t care about legacies, but he told the Globe he negotiated arduously for his players and foresaw the league’s growth. “I hear from players from time to time,” Hunter told the Globe. “They call me. I was up at Harvard [for a basketball event] and a guy came over with me and said, ‘You’re the Black man that created more Black millionaires than anybody else in the history of the country.’ And I just kind of chuckled. I said, ‘Yeah, I guess,’ you know. “And so I’ve gotten that from time to time from people — people who kind of understand the game, understand the economics of the game, and said that, you know, I should be credited for all the millionaires, black millionaires, I created.”
Fullcourtpass: "Thibs you may have went to Harvard, you may have did physics, but I showed you physics!" - Derrick Rose (h/t @ohnohedidnt24)
What still eludes his grasp is how Brown could suddenly shoot the lights out when those lights were brightest. How his efficiency skyrocketed against Vermont’s toughest opponents. How, in practice, “the second we would do shooting drills, he would find a way to beat the guys who were going to college as 3-point specialists.” Guys like Corey Johnson, who went on to be a high-volume marksman at Harvard. In an empty gym, with bragging rights on the line, Teenage Bruce could refine his form and match Johnson’s precision. “It’s why analytics can only get you so far, right?” Popp said. “We’re still humans.”
A former hooper at Harvard, Governor Maura Healey, remains a vocal proponent of a WNBA franchise in Boston, ASAP. The Globe learned she is brokering a potential partnership of Pagliuca and new Celtics owner Bill Chisholm to pave the way for the Sun to come to Boston. Perhaps, that will move the needle with the WNBA, but the league remains primed to stick to its pecking order for awarding franchises, which has Boston in the basement. It also keeps pointing out that Boston was not among the 12 cities that submitted bids for expansion franchises this last go-round when teams were awarded to Cleveland, Detroit, and Philadelphia, all of which will be owned by the NBA owners in those cities.
NBA Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar spoke to graduating students at Harvard University on May 28, telling the new graduates to "take a stand,: Abdul-Jabbar's speech came as Harvard continues to battle President Donald Trump's administration's efforts to revoke international student enrollment at the school. "During the many records I set and a whole lot of championship rings, my achievements as a basketball player were unrelated to my main goal: To be as successful as I could as a member of the Black community, as an American, and as a human being," Abdul-Jabbar said.
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"When a tyrannical administration tried to bully and threaten Harvard to give up their academic freedom and destroy free speech, Dr. Alan Garber rejected the illegal and immoral pressures the way Rosa Parks defied the entire weight of systemic racism in 1955," Abdul-Jabbar said to the applause of the Harvard crowd.
Warriors coach Steve Kerr’s choice to wear a Harvard basketball T-shirt to the postgame press conference after Golden State’s 121-116 play-in victory over Memphis was followed by a statement in support of the university currently under pressure by the Trump administration. Harvard has challenged the administration over its demand to limit activism on campus. The Associated Press reported that the government is freezing $2.2 billion in grants and an additional $60 million in contracts in response.
“Felt like a great day (to wear it). I believe in academic freedom,” Kerr said. “I think it’s crucial for all our institutions to be able to handle their own business the way they want to, and they should not be shaken down and told what to teach, what to say, by our government.” The coach continued, saying, “That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard, but it’s kind of par for the course right now. So yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go, way to stand up to the bully.”
Silver, then in his early 30s, was in Sin City at the time coaching one of the premier squads for Pump-N-Run, the elite grassroots hoops program run by the basketball influence-peddling brothers, David and Dana Pump. Freedman’s son, Spencer, was among the hundreds of young players Silver had coached, and would eventually go on to play at Harvard. Along the way, the elder Freedman struck up a friendship with the much younger coach. “There’s no one I know who’s a better connector of people,” said the litigator, who was particularly taken by Silver’s unflagging compassion for his players and their families, despite how difficult they could sometimes be. “He just goes out of his way to treat people well and to help people.”