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With a nearly 40-inch vertical leap, San Antonio Spurs guard Stephon Castle says he would be a goalie if he played the game of soccer. What isn’t a game is that the 21-year-old is a part-owner of two expansion soccer franchises. The former University of Connecticut star is part of the expanded ownership in the Connecticut Sports Group (CSG), which owns two expansion pro soccer clubs in CT United FC and a future Connecticut women’s pro soccer club.
Ian Begley: NOP interim HC James Borrego was finalist for NYK job. NYK also pursued Borrego for associate HC job w/Mike Brown. As is always the case, Borrego will get consideration for full-time NOP job; ex-UConn HC Kevin Ollie will also be among those who get consideration for job, I’m told
The criminal case against Ben Gordon — a former star basketball player at the University of Connecticut and first-round NBA draft pick who was facing multiple charges stemming from an outburst at a local juice shop in the hours after the Huskies won the National Championship in 2023 — was dismissed on Monday. Gordon appeared in state Superior Court in Stamford where the case was dismissed after his successful completion of a supervised diversionary program.
“Our communities are in need of help, and life, and thriving, and just mind shifts, system shifts,” Maya Moore said Friday, at a press availability at the Mohegan Sun Casino before Saturday’s induction at Symphony Hall in Springfield, Mass., the home of the Hall, about an hour northwest. “The reason a UConn or a Lynx is the way it is is because they have systems set in place to help everyone thrive,” Moore said. “They have leaders in place who actually are competent to be leaders, who know to actually connect to people and bring out the best in people. And, just the mindset of ‘everybody eats.’ It’s not you up here, you down there; I’m going to use you to get what I want. It’s ‘we’re going to do what we do for each other, and it’s going to be great.’
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Other players who have worked out with the Jazz over the last few weeks includeb Hansen Yang (Qingdao), Yaxel Lendeborg (UAB — withdrawn from draft consideration), Milos Uzan (Houston — withdrawn from draft consideration), Tamar Bates (Missouri), Ethan Taylor (Air Force), Samson Johnson (UConn), Trey Galloway (Indiana), RJ Davis (North Carolina), Sean Pedulla (Ole Miss), RJ Felton (East Carolina), Ian Martinez (Utah St), Deivon Smith (St. John’s), Matthew Murrell (Ole Miss), and Will Richard (Florida).
The mere mention of the large, gray, trunked mammoth that wandered into the banquet room was enough for Dan Hurley to cringe. Addressed more directly, he just waved it off. “Not another summer of that,” he said, as the dais was breaking up. That should be enough to calm any fears that Hurley would entertain the possibility of leaving UConn and coaching the Knicks, who fired coach Tom Thibodeau a few hours before Hurley arrived at the Aqua Turf Club, where his wife, Andrea, received the St. Clare Award at the Franciscan Sports Banquet in recognition of her community service.
The Mavericks have yet to publicly broadcast this position with loud volume, but all the behind-the-scenes whispers continue to suggest that they will refuse to entertain the idea of fielding trade offers for the No. 1 overall pick in the June 25 draft. .... The Mavericks have yet to publicly broadcast this position with loud volume, but all the behind-the-scenes whispers continue to suggest that they will refuse to entertain the idea of fielding trade offers for the No. 1 overall pick in the June 25 draft. It's an opportunity, materialized almost exactly a month after the WNBA's Dallas Wings drafted UConn star Paige Bueckers. that can't be squandered. When I asked a source close to the process last week if the Mavericks trading away the ability to draft Duke phenom Cooper Flagg away would be considered, I was emphatically told: "No chance." "No ... not even for Giannis," said another source briefed on the team's thinking.
It appears that time has arrived, with NJ Advance Media’s Adam Zagoria reporting that Hurley is set to release a “tell-all book” this fall. Taking to X, the 52-year-old head coach made his own announcement regarding the book, which will be titled Never Stop: Life, Leadership and What it Takes to Be Great and written in the first-person alongside author Ian O’Connor. “I’ve confronted a lot of adversity on my life’s journey and I’m proud to share those stories–along with my leadership philosophies in building championship teams at UConn–in my book ‘Never Stop,'” Hurley wrote. “I’m writing this to help people overcome & succeed.”
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Shams Charania: After 17 NBA seasons, Rudy Gay is retiring. Gay, the No. 8 pick in the 2006 Draft out of UConn, averaged 15.8 points and 5.6 rebounds across 1,120 career games for the Grizzlies, Raptors, Kings, Spurs and Jazz.
Drummond and former NBA rookie-of-the-year Michael Carter-Williams are listed as "founding players" on the website. Roth told CT Insider on Thursday the group was put together through his connection to a UConn friend, who in turn knew Aiken.
Jeff McDonald: Stephon Castle said while at UConn he would occasionally daydream about what it might be like to play with Victor Wembanyama: "Of course it circulates in your mind," Castle said, "but it really doesn't feel real until it becomes reality."
Among the prospects who have either already worked out or are scheduled to work out for the Heat in Miami are Providence guard Devin Carter, Purdue center Zach Edey, G League Ignite forward Ron Holland, Indiana center Kel’el Ware, Southern Cal guard Isaiah Collier, Arizona forward Keshad Johnson and UConn guard Tristen Newton, according to league sources. Carter, Edey, Holland, Ware and Collier are among the potential first-round options for the Heat at pick No. 15, and Johnson and Newton are among the potential second-round options for the Heat at pick No. 43
