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Fast forward to late last month, when Dawkins says he accompanied Louisville’s prized recruiting target, Mikel Brown Jr., considered one of the top-10 high school basketball prospects in the class of 2025, on a campus visit. What to make of this? “It shows what happened in 2017 was all a crock of s—t, basically,” said Dawkins.
Louisville point guard El Ellis will enter the 2023 NBA Draft but will maintain his college eligibility, he tells 247Sports.
Jeff Goodman: Louisville coach Kenny Payne will hire Danny Manning as an assistant coach, source told @Stadium. Manning joins Nolan Smith. Payne has one more assistant spot to fill.
A federal judge has dismissed a racketeering lawsuit filed by former Louisville basketball player Brian Bowen against Adidas, among others, ruling Bowen could not prove he had been directly harmed by the shoe company’s actions and his suit lacks proper standing.
Louisville basketball's leading scorer is testing the NBA Draft waters. Carlik Jones, a graduate transfer who received all-conference honors in his first season with U of L, declared for the 2021 NBA Draft on Saturday "while still maintaining my eligibility as a Cardinal," he said in a post to his Instagram account.
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Phil Rollins, a starting guard on Louisville’s 1956 NIT championship squad who went on to play in the NBA, has died. He was 87. The school announced that Rollins died Monday morning but did not specify a cause.
In a letter emailed to University of Louisville president Dr. Neeli Bendapudi, former Louisville men's basketball All-American & Hall of Famer Alfred "Butch" Beard requested that the school "remove my name and accomplishments from any existing or future mention.” Beard cited that “the university’s commitment to young black men" being "far from what it should look like in 2021" as his reasoning for wanting disassociation from his alma mater, and gave a couple examples as to why.
Eric Woodyard: Kentucky’s Tyler Herro and Louisville’s Jordan Nwora both confirmed that they interviewed with Utah Jazz brass during the combine. Brewster Academy’s Jalen Lecque didn’t compete today, but did speak to the Jazz earlier.
Forward V.J. King will not return to Louisville basketball next season, coach Chris Mack told the Courier Journal on Thursday.
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The Louisville Cardinals have made the NCAA Tournament just once in the past three seasons—a second-round exit in 2017—and have been mired in the fallout from a prostitution scandal and FBI investigation. But they rank No. 1 on our list, and no college basketball team makes more money. Louisville turned $23 million in profit last year, making it more profitable than the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers, Oklahoma City Thunder and Charlotte Hornets.
If former Louisville coach Rick Pitino does indeed pursue a return to the NBA, Thunder coach Billy Donovan said he thinks he would be "great." “He’s a great people person,” said Donovan, who both played for and coached under Pitino. “Obviously he has a wealth of experience in the NBA.”
After his firing following an FBI probe at Louisville, Rick Pitino is planning to use the season to immerse himself in the NBA game and hopes to become a candidate for head-coaching openings in the spring. "I just want to be a part of an organization," Pitino told ESPN. "I want to develop young players. I want to be part of a team. I miss it terribly. I'm using this time to really study the NBA. If something opens up with a young basketball team, I'd have deep interest in it. "I think the league is going to get younger and player development will become even more important to every organization. That's my forte. I believe I can help an organization find a pathway to success."
Shams Charania: Sources: Another late addition to NBA Draft Combine this week: Louisville's Ray Spalding.
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