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Former NBA player Isaiah Rider is back in custody in Arizona ... this time for failing to comply with a court order ... TMZ Sports has learned. According to Maricopa County jail records ... Rider was taken into custody Thursday night and booked Friday morning for failing to comply with a court order.
Michael Scotto: The Toronto Raptors and Jaden Bradley have agreed to a two-way deal, league sources told @hoopshype. Bradley was the 50th pick of the 2026 NBA Draft out of Arizona, where he was the Big 12 Player of the Year.
Olgun Uluc: Anthony Dell’Orso will play for the Sacramento Kings in the 2026 NBA Summer League, sources told ESPN. The 6'6 wing out of Melbourne averaged 8.5 ppg, 2.0 rpg, and 1.8 apg as a senior at Arizona.
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Hermosillo is a bustling city in the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora, a desert metropolis 175-ish miles from the Arizona border. To locals it’s considered something of a foodie nirvana, with street vendors dishing out buttery flour tortillas and bacon-wrapped hot dogs, serving a population that hovers around one million in a region where temperatures routinely reach triple digits. “That’s part of what builds our character,” says Karim López. “You’ve got to tough it out.” As a kid, López spent countless sun-scorched afternoons in his driveway battling his uncles in games of one-on-one, playing until exhaustion. During the pandemic in 2020, López, then 13, was a fixture at a nearby public park, running sprints on the burnt, brown grass of a soccer field before spending hours in drills and pickup games on a blistering blacktop. “He knew what he wanted,” says López’s father, Hiram. “He had a dream and he was willing to work for it.”
Leandro Barbosa: "When I first came to the Phoenix Suns, I thought I was going to live the same way I live in Brazil. I used to go to practice riding my bike, doing my things, like regular, we simple. But Arizona is f*cking hot, man. It's hot than a motherf*cker. So I couldn't done that, you know? I did it a couple times, but, you know, so the transition for me to understand, you know, like the two practice a day, you know, like how many hours we will be practicing on the training camp, you know, I wasn't used to that."
Sean Elliott: "I had two people, an alumni at Arizona, who helped me with a summer job in my junior, senior year and he was a real estate developer and he said, Sean, when you make that money, he said, be careful of the sharks and the piranhas. And I said, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. And then when I got to the league, sure enough, I started to see the sharks and the piranhas."
Arizona forward Koa Peat, a projected first-round pick, is keeping his name in the NBA draft, sources told ESPN on Wednesday. Peat had left his options open for a potential return to Tucson, but his focus remained on the draft over the past two months and he officially closed the door on college Wednesday.
Joe Tipton: Arizona forward Koa Peat has declared for the NBA Draft, he announced. The 6-8 freshman averaged 14.1 points, 5.6 rebounds, and 2.6 assists per game this season.
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James didn't speak to reporters Thursday ahead of Arizona's matchup against Michigan this weekend in the national semifinals. Tucked away in the Wildcat locker room on Thursday, an Arizona staffer was shielding the media away from James. CBS Sports approached James last month after Arizona's win over Utah State in the second round, but an Arizona staffer said James would not be doing any interviews. Players who are redshirting and/or injured don't have to talk to the media, but they can if they choose to. When reporters approached him on Thursday during media day at the Final Four, they were also quickly turned down. Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd said earlier this week the program wants to "protect" James during his redshirt season.
Dan Wolken: Arizona had an enforcer in the locker room today near Bryce James to tell reporters that he wasn’t going to do interviews. Carron J. Phillips: You can get really good stuff from the guys at the end of the bench at the NCAA Tournament during locker room availability. This is dumb. Dan Wolken: To be clear, Bryce’s media availability is being dictated by LeBron/Klutch, not Arizona.
Bryce James, the younger son of LeBron James, will redshirt this season for No. 1 Arizona, head coach Tommy Lloyd announced Tuesday. “Bryce has made huge progress. The red-shirting decision is a long play, to give Bryce the most options as his career unfolds. I have a real strong believe that Bryce will be a contributor at Arizona in the near future,” Lloyd said per Chancellor Johnson.
Mat Ishbia on Devin Booker: He means so much to the Arizona community, the Phoenix community, and he knows that. But on top of that, you know, when you find out who your real friends are when everyone else turns their back on you. And so when we went through some tough times, you know, it'd be easy after we a new owner comes in, we try to spend money, we try to do things and we didn't win. It'd be easier for that franchise player to be like, "Hey man, I put my time in. I'm ready to go." Instead, he did the reverse. He said, "Listen, I'm with you, Matt. I believe in what we're doing. I'm all in with you. I'll even sign an extension. Like, I want to be here with you. Let's go do this." He's had my back. I'll always have his back. It's been special. And so very, very lucky to have him.