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Michael Scotto: JUST IN: Former 12-year NBA player, champion, and two-time head coach Jacque Vaughn will forgo current NBA opportunities to return to his alma mater, the University of Kansas, as an assistant coach, he tells @hoopshype.

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Terrence Shannon Jr., the University of Illinois men’s basketball star and potential first-round pick in this month’s NBA draft, has been found not guilty of grabbing an 18-year-old woman’s buttocks under her skirt and penetrating her vagina with his finger in September at a bar near the University of Kansas campus.

Chicago Tribune

Kansas head coach Bill Self revealed plenty during an extended sit-down with NCAA reporter Andy Katz on Monday, including what he expects Kansas freshman guard Johnny Furphy to decide after entering the 2024 NBA Draft. Self said Furphy, who arrived late last summer from Australia to enroll as a freshman at KU, outperformed any reasonable expectation, thus playing himself into an invite to the NBA Draft Combine.

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Kansas forward Jalen Wilson has declared for the 2023 NBA Draft, the junior announced on his Twitter page. “Dear Jayhawk Nation: It’s a marathon, not a sprint,” he said. “This magical place has changed my life forever, and I will always be appreciative of my time playing with Kansas across my chest. Through the tough times, and the brightest days, I can always count on God, my family and my forever love for KU. “No matter where life takes me next, I will always have a home in Lawrence.”

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University of Kansas guard Christian Braun officially announced on social media that he will chose the NBA over returning for one more season as a Jayhawk. Braun, amongst other KU players participated in the NBA combine and evaluation process, felt that the time is now to take his talents to the next level.

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New York Knicks announced today that the team has acquired the draft rights to guard Quentin Grimes and a future second round pick from the Los Angeles Clippers in exchange for the draft rights to forward Keon Johnson. Grimes, 6-5, 205-pounds, earned All-America third team honors at the University of Houston last season, after averaging 17.8 points on 40.3-percent shooting from downtown, with 5.7 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.4 steals over 32.7 minutes in 30 games. The Houston, TX-native played two seasons (2019-21) for the Cougars after beginning his collegiate career at Kansas University (2018-19). He was named MVP of the 2018 FIBA Americas Under-18 Championship after helping lead Team USA to a gold medal.

NBA.com

Memphis Tigers head coach Penny Hardaway has announced the addition of Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer Larry Brown to his staff as an assistant coach. Brown, who is the eighth-winningest coach in NBA history, is the only head coach to win both an NCAA national championship (University of Kansas, 1988) and an NBA championship (Detroit Pistons, 2004) in his career.

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Kansas guard Ochai Agbaji has decided to return to KU for his senior season after spending the last several weeks testing his NBA draft status.

Lawrence Journal-World

Adam Zagoria: Jalen Wilson announced he will return to @KUHoops for his redshirt-sophomore season in 2021-22. Wilson declared for the NBA Draft in April and announced his return to KU Friday.

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Dan Gelston: Former KU great Frank Mason III has been named the 2019-20 NBA G League Most Valuable Player.

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The happy-go-lucky forward from Richmond, Calif. is headed to the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame. Former KU forward Drew Gooden, who helped lead the Jayhawks to the 2002 Final Four while earning Consensus first team All-American honors that same season, is one of 10 members of the 2020 class who will be inducted in October, the KSHOF announced Wednesday.

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In the months leading up to the 2014 draft, no NBA franchise scouted the basketball team at the University of Kansas more vigorously than the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Cavs were coming off a tumultuous season, their fourth straight missing the playoffs, and still reeling from LeBron James' decision four years earlier to bolt for Miami. Cavs owner Dan Gilbert responded by firing his general manager (Chris Grant) and his head coach (Mike Brown). He then handed the keys to an NBA lifer named David Griffin. Griffin had broken into the NBA 21 years earlier as an intern with the Phoenix Suns. By 2007 he was senior vice president of basketball operations in Phoenix. In 2010 he left for a similar job with the Cavaliers, and now he was running the show. With the Cavaliers miraculously winning the draft lottery, despite entering the evening with just a 1.7 percent chance of landing the No. 1 pick, he'd have his choice among three players grouped together at the top of most draft boards: Duke forward Jabari Parker and Kansas teammates Andrew Wiggins and Joel Embiid.

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The Memphis Grizzlies announced today that the team has acquired forward Josh Jackson, guard De’Anthony Melton and two future second round draft picks from the Phoenix Suns for forward Kyle Korver and guard Jevon Carter. Jackson (6-8, 207) has appeared in 156 games (64 starts) in two NBA seasons and has averaged 12.3 points, 4.5 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 0.99 steals in 25.3 minutes since he was selected by the Suns with the fourth overall pick in the first round of the 2017 NBA Draft. The 22-year-old San Diego, California native has been named to the 2017-18 NBA All-Rookie Second Team and was the Big 12 Freshman of the Year during his lone season at the University of Kansas.

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Kansas freshman Quentin Grimes is not staying in the NBA draft, but he is not returning to KU either. Through a release from the Kansas basketball offices, Grimes on Wednesday evening announced his intention to transfer to another university for the 2019-20 season.

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