Category: College Headlines

Jabari Parker did his best to play it cool, but every once in a while he peeked over at LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and Dwyane Wade sitting courtside. Yes, three of the NBA’s biggest stars had come to the BankUnited Center on Wednesday night to watch Parker play. Miami Heat owner Micky Arison, several NBA […]

The “other” Kansas freshman suddenly has become The Freshman in the country. (Joel) Embiid has been researching big men lately. Not the way he used to, back when he was trying to learn the game and used tapes of Hakeem Olajuwon as video tutorials. No, he’s been looking at the game’s best and surveying their […]

And the growing view among NBA executives seems to be Jabari Parker will not leave Duke this year. Parker is a bright young man with a strong family and the feeling is he understands both the importance of education and feels he owes Duke and the chance to have a great Duke team, which more […]

Syracuse sophomore center Dajuan Coleman needs surgery to repair a leg injury and will miss the rest of the Orange season. Coleman has not played since the second half of the Virginia Tech game on Jan. 7. SU’s athletic staff has been treating the injury, but it has not responded. Coleman is still unable to […]

The Texas Legends, presented by Veracruz (visit Veracruz.mx), have acquired guard P.J. Hairston from the University of North Carolina. Hairston (6-6, 220) will be the first player to enter the NBA Development League mid-season after having been enrolled in college to start the 2013-14 season.  In 2011, Hairston was chosen as a McDonald’s All-American and […]

D-League’s Texas Legends, currently holding No. 1 turn in NBADL’s player pool, will use it today to select P.J. Hairston from North Carolina. Hairston put name in D-League player pool after UNC suspension. NBA teams can’t call him up this season since he’ll be in NBA draft in June. via Marc Stein of ESPN on Twitter