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After getting fired by the Detroit Pistons following the 2023-24 season, Monty Williams decided to take the head coach position for TMI Episcopal High School, a small school in San Antonio, Texas., with a total enrollment hovering around 640 students. There, he gets to coach his two sons, Micah and Elijah Williams, with Elijah currently ranked as the No. 27 ranked prospect in ESPN’s top 100 recruits for the class of 2026. The team competed in the second game on day three of the Panini Hoophall Classic, falling to Blair Academy by a score of 78-52.
NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal is helping a young man chase his dream of becoming the tallest cop in Texas. Jordan Wilmore, 24, is an aspiring Kemah police officer. We first shared his story in September, before he entered the police academy. After completing the academy, Wilmore, who is 7 feet 3 inches tall, recently took his state peace officer exam and scored 69, just one point shy of the passing score of 70.
Josh Lewenberg: Mo Bamba said he and the Raptors have been in talks since the G League showcase but things materialized over the last 48 hours. Flew to Toronto from Austin, Texas yesterday and didn't land until ~7pm. The airline lost his bag. "Something told me to take sneakers out. Got lucky."
In May I married the love of my life, Brunson Green, at a ceremony in Austin, Texas, that couldn't have been more perfect. In August, we were supposed to go to the US Open, just as every year, but when the car came to take us to the airport, I was nowhere near ready. And for the first time in decades, we missed the flight because I couldn't stay focused to pack. I had been having weird symptoms like this for a week or two, but unless something is really wrong, I'm going to push through. I'm an athlete. Something was really wrong, though. I was in the CT machine at UCLA for all of five minutes before the tech pulled me out and said they were going to have me see a specialist. I've had enough CTs in my life to know they last longer than five minutes and whatever the tech had seen on the first images had to be bad. According to my family, in hours, my mental clarity, short-term memory and comprehension disappeared -- turning into an NBA player's version of "Dory" from "Finding Nemo." Over the next few weeks we would find out just how bad it was.
You're from Dallas. What made you embrace this place [Detroit] immediately? Cade Cunningham: There were a lot of factors that went into it. I think the culture is number one. The city of Detroit just seemed like a place with a lot of cool people — you know what I'm saying? Like, they love the sports teams, they love the music, they love being from Detroit. And that's something I always found cool. Texas is a place where we’re super proud to be Texans, you know? And I think Detroit is the same way — people are just so proud to be from Detroit. That was something I wanted to be a part of. And the history of the Pistons is unmatched. I mean, Isaiah Thomas, Chauncey — there are so many guys who are just huge. They're legends in the NBA, you know what I mean? And this franchise itself is a legend of the NBA.
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Jason Kidd confirmed that the Dallas Mavericks denied the New York Knicks’ request last summer to interview him for their head coaching vacancy, but the 52-year-old Hall of Famer said he never seriously considered leaving Texas for the East Coast. “I was never thinking about leaving Dallas,” Kidd said before Wednesday’s game between the Mavericks and Knicks. “I love working for (Mavericks governor) Patrick (Dumont). Understanding that we have a lot of work here to be done. I’m all in to be able to do that. I was drafted here. I have won here. I love the city. I love the fans. It never crossed my mind to leave Dallas.”
Golden State Warriors star Jimmy Butler had a free night in the Lone Star State on Thursday between Wednesday and Friday contests at the San Antonio Spurs. Where did the six-time All-Star and multi-hundred-million dollar man spend his time off? With a dose of Big 12 volleyball, of course. Butler was photographed by CoogTV's Daniel Rodriguez attending Thursday's match between the Houston Cougars and Iowa State volleyball squads, a four-set Cyclones win in front of a sparse crowd. Why, exactly, was Butler on hand for the relatively niche sporting event? A trip back to Butler's college years answers the quandary.
Ex-NBA player Patrick Beverley has been arrested in Texas for felony assault, TMZ Sports has learned. The 6'2" point guard was taken into custody on Friday at the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office in Richmond, Texas.
But the Spurs offer, when it came, was too good to refuse: $7 an hour, minimum wage in Texas. “Dude, it was tough,” he says. But Saleh jumped at it and, over four years in San Antonio, was exposed to nearly every aspect of the organization. Most importantly, he had the chance to work alongside the likes of RC Buford and Gregg Popovich, the legendary management and coaching tandem that had led the Spurs to four of their five NBA titles. “RC Buford and Pop were amazing mentors of mine,” Saleh says. “They were phenomenal in my growth and development and then, after (four) years there, the Warriors ended up hitting me up. I didn’t think I was going to leave San Antonio, but 15 minutes in a room with (then Warriors president) Bob Myers sold me.”
The San Antonio Spurs are a major step closer to getting a new downtown home, after voters in Bexar County, Texas approved a plan Tuesday to allow officials to commit up to $311 million in venue taxes to help build a multipurpose arena. County officials said just over 52% of voters supported the measure, which had considerable opposition from some lawmakers and other groups. The Spurs have said they will commit at least $500 million toward construction of an arena, plus cover all overruns - which could be significant. They would also be paying rent at the new arena, and that money will help offset what is a proposed $489 million contribution from the city.
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Durant described the move to Texas as "organic." "We know who he is and we're also not asking him to be something he's not," Udoka said. "We understand the way that he leads is not how everybody may prefer him to. But we understand the importance of his everyday approach, his professionalism, work ethic, and all those things rub off on a young group of guys. They want you to be a certain way, vocal or whatever. He talks more than people think. He's not a rah-rah guy out in front of everything. But some of the people that have the most profound words are the ones who say less and say things at the right time."
The most important result for the San Antonio Spurs over the early weeks of this NBA season will probably come on Nov. 4. And the team doesn't even have a game that day. Voters in Bexar County, Texas, are headed to the polls soon to decide if county officials will be permitted to commit no more than $311 million in what are called venue taxes to help build a new multipurpose arena that the Spurs will call home.
Her arrival at the game caught the eyes of many, including former NBA star Kendrick Perkins, who quipped about the rapper's appearance at the game during ESPN's broadcast. It's unclear exactly what he said, but Perkins joked about “those Texas women” like Megan Thee Stallion, who's from San Antonio, Texas, advising him to “watch their spaghetti and their catfish.”
WWE star and social media influencer Logan Paul filed an injunction against Heritage Auctions in Texas district court Thursday, alleging authenticity concerns over a Michael Jordan-signed piece of United Center floor that Paul won at auction. Paul says he was not allowed to investigate the floor's authenticity before Heritage solicited payment, which was originally due Sept. 25, according to court records. Per court records, Paul was told by Heritage that he would lose his rights to the floor if he did not meet the deadline. Paul's winning bid was for $562,555.42 including buyer's premium. Josh Bernstein of Akerman LLP, Paul's counsel, has asked for a temporary restraining order and temporary injunction against Heritage Auctions; the TRO was granted on Thursday morning. A court date regarding the temporary injunction has been set for Oct. 9. "It goes without saying that authenticity is everything in the collectibles community," Bernstein said in a statement to ESPN. "Collectors like Logan deserve, and are entitled to, proof of authenticity that holds up under scrutiny and addresses glaring holes and inconsistencies."