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Congrats to the Jayhawk baseball team for basically finishing as the National Runner Up this spring!
No, we won’t hang a banner for it but we all know it’s true.As I’m putting most of this together on Tuesday and don’t know if he’ll go #1 or not tonight (update: he did not go#1), here’s a photo journey from the Akron Beacon Journal following Darryn Peterson’s path through high school to the NBA Draft.
Darryn Peterson drew comparisons to LeBron James as he emerged as one of the nation’s top high school
basketball players.
Speaking of Peterson and the draft, Bill Simmons seems to believe that he may end up falling to #3:
However, in a recent episode of Bill Simmons’ podcast, the longtime NBA analyst proposed an entirely different scenario. Not only does he believe the former Jayhawk will not go No. 1 overall, but he also thinks the Utah Jazz could be hesitant to take him at No. 2.
“I think Danny Ainge gonna stay away from Peterson, and I could see him taking Boozer at two.” Simmons said. “That would be my bet right now. I might be wrong, but I really think they’re gonna take Boozer. I do. I can’t explain it, but I think they’re gonna take Boozer at two.”
Lets sneak in a link to ESPN’s draft grades and they love Peterson going to Utah:
Peterson was my No. 1 player in the draft, and he was available one pick later than that slot. To me, that’s simple logic. I could certainly be proved wrong by history — AJ Dybantsa is very good — but I think much of the perceived risk around Peterson simply won’t matter in the long run. The Jazz will walk away with a franchise-changing player and didn’t have to win the lottery to do it.
Here’s the last pre-draft link…although this one is about Tyran Stokes:
Peterson, Dybantsa and Boozer have all shown several moments of jaw-dropping ability that would make them guaranteed No. 1 draft picks most other years.
So what if you could combine that trio into one player?
ESPN college basketball analyst Fran Fraschilla did so when describing incoming five-star Tyran Stokes.
As Rob Ianello spoke at the Shawnee Country Club in Topeka earlier this month, he talked about how high school recruiting has changed in June in recent years.
Other Links!
Kevin Sweeney has a great piece from the end of February on Keaton Wagler and how he went from a relatively unheralded/unknown prospect at Shawnee Mission Northwest to the #5 pick in the NBA draft:
“I’m texting my staff the whole time, ‘Guys, why are we not all over this kid? He is elite, he is special,’” Prohm says. “I was like, man, he’s an NBA player. It’s not even a debate.”
Prohm is as reliable a narrator as there is for underrecruited guard talent. At Iowa State, he signed a three-star point guard named Tyrese Haliburton who quickly proved the recruiting rankings wrong. Prohm saw many of the same attributes in Wagler: A low three-point release but a shot that goes in, elite feel for the game, tons of winning traits. It was like lightning striking twice.
The Bucks have agreed to trade Giannis to the Miami Heat for a boatload of players:
The Milwaukee Bucks are trading franchise icon Giannis Antetokounmpo and Bobby Portis to the Miami Heat for Tyler Herro, Kel’el Ware, Jaime Jaquez Jr., Kasparas Jakucionis, three first-round picks (including No. 13 in Tuesday’s NBA draft), one pick swap and one second-round pick, sources told ESPN.
The restructuring also will include a new season-ending model that “includes retention and relegation for the following season, recognition for the season-long points leader and the introduction of match play into the postseason.”
While match play is fun in theory, it doesn’t make for great television and people are still basically only going to tune in for the majors.
Four years later, Ronaldo is four years older and four years slower … but Portugal seems to think their big mistake last time was taking him off the field. The 41-year-old national hero played a full 90 against the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and contributed approximately nothing in a shocking 1-1 draw. Actually, that’s being kind. “Nothing” implies he didn’t actively hurt Portugal’s chances; Thierry Henry broke down a sequence in which Ronaldo impeded a productive scoring opportunity for one of his teammates so that he could take an off-target shot.
Matt Barnum at Chalkbeat takes a look at pay data for college and non-college employees to see what it shows as we continue to hear about how great of an option the trades are for high school grads:
This data indicates that non-college occupations have relatively low pay ceilings. The slew of headlines and viral social media videos about six-figure jobs in the trades appear to be outliers. In many cases, only the top 10%, or fewer, of those workers make such salaries.
Ed note: This isn’t to disparage anyone that makes a living working a blue collar trades job. We need those workers and there are opportunities to make good money doing some of the work. However, I feel it’s important to remember that people who are pushing these types of careers almost always have at least a degree hanging on their wall and they are also pushing their kids to get a degree to hang on their wall. College is still the best and most affordable way to achieve economic mobility in the US.
It appears as though POTUS may have gotten special treatment from Eli Lilly:
But STAT has learned that Eli Lilly and the FDA have allowed one person to gain access to the drug through the FDA’s “compassionate use” program, a pathway that gives patients with serious and immediately life-threatening medical issues access to experimental treatments.
QOTD: Give me your sports hot take of the day. Will Congress save college sports? Who screwed up by drafting or not drafting Darryn Peterson? The US is winning the World Cup aren’t we? What do ya got?
