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Ray Allen: "I was always an inquisitive mind. I moved, when I moved to South Carolina, I was 13. I walked into history class, and you know, I lived in England, I lived in California, I lived in Germany, and so I was about the world. What you learn is the American way is not the it's not the best way, it's just a way. And I remember in the eighth grade, I walk into the class, and first time I get the textbook, and you know, you got natural history, you got US history, you got world history. The book was, said South Carolina. And so I was like, so we're the history in the eighth grade was just nothing but South Carolina. How short-sighted or small-minded could you be? So we're going to do history all year on one state."
Barry Jackson: Heat is adding South Carolina PG Meechie Johnson Jr. to its summer league team, per source. Averaged 17.2 points, 4.3 assists last season. Previously played at Ohio State.
Jon Rothstein: South Carolina's Shane Blakeney has officially withdrawn from the 2026 NBA Draft and will return to school next season, per his agents Kevin Martin and Oshwand Scott. Transfer from Drexel who averaged 14.2 PPG last season.
South Carolina Men’s Basketball Coach Lamont Paris announced on Friday the hiring of former NBA player Sam Dekker as an assistant coach. Dekker completed an 11-year professional basketball career that included the NBA and overseas.
South Carolina has hired David Duquette from the Charlotte Hornets in an executive capacity to advise on a variety of men’s basketball topics, GamecockCentral.com has learned. For the past 14 years, Duquette has worked in various roles for the NBA franchise, most recently serving as the team’s Senior Director of Salary Cap Strategy.
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Dave McMenamin: The UCLA Women’s Basketball 2026 NCAA National Championship team will be in attendance for tonight’s Lakers-Thunder game and be honored on the court for their title win over South Carolina.
The Raptors ultimately used the pick, drafting forward Collin Murray-Boyles from South Carolina with Khaman Maluach, Cedric Coward and various center prospects available. New Orleans traded up to No. 13 overall to select Derik Queen, sending its unprotected 2026 Bucks pick to the Hawks for the selection. The Celtics stayed at No. 28 and took Hugo González before trading back from No. 32 in the second round. “I don’t think Boston ever really was so interested in that selection for one of those types of guys,” Fischer said. “Golden State definitely called for Derrick White too, but there’s just nothing that I know for Jaylen that got really close or for Derrick too.”
Talia Goodman: NEWS: South Carolina athletic director Jeremiah Donati confirmed to @On3sports that the New York Knicks did reach out to Dawn Staley about the opening. “If I were them, I would have called her, too,” Donati told @On3sports.
According to Zach Lowe of The Ringer, the Toronto Raptors sniffed around White and offered the No. 9 pick (which they used to select South Carolina forward Colin Murray-Boyles). “There were reports that the Raptors offered the No. 9 pick for Derrick White,” Lowe said on his podcast “The Zach Lowe Show” on June 26. “I’m told that’s true, but that it happened a month and a half ago after Jayson Tatum got hurt, and Boston laughed at that offer and said, ‘We need way more than No. 9 for Derrick White.’”
Wasserman and CAA tied for the most first-round picks of the 2025 NBA Draft with six selections from each agency. Though Wasserman pulled ahead in the early hours at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, CAA mounted a late comeback with more than half of the overall selections through the 22nd and 30th picks. Wasserman was a consistent agency throughout the early two thirds of the draft, seeing clients like Baylor G VJ Edgecombe (3rd pick), South Carolina F Collin Murray-Boyles (9th pick), Arizona F Carter Bryant (14th pick), Cedevita Olimpija C Joan Beringer (17th pick), Saint-Quentin G Nolan Traore (19th pick) and Illinois G Kasparas Jakucionis (20th pick) get selected.
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Jon Rothstein: South Carolina's Kobe Knox tells me that he's withdrawing from the 2025 NBA Draft and will return to school next season. Transfer from South Florida who averaged 10.8 PPG last year.
UConn's 82-59 win over South Carolina on Sunday averaged 8.5 million viewers across ESPN and ABC. The number represents a 55% decrease from last year's Iowa-South Carolina matchup and a 14% decrease from the LSU-Iowa game from two years ago. It did represent a 75% increase in viewership from 2022, the last time Caitlin Clark didn't appear in the final.
Joe Tipton: NEWS: South Carolina big man Nick Pringle is entering the transfer portal, he told @On3sports. Will also test the NBA Draft waters. The 6-10 senior averaged 9.5 points and 6.3 rebounds per game this season. Played two years at Alabama.