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Jelan Kendrick tour has a new stop...Indian Hills Community College
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Tyler Ennis commits tomorrow at 7pm.
Things not looking to bright for UCLA and Shabazz
An NCAA investigation of Shabazz Muhammad will not be completed in time for the UCLA freshman to travel with the team for a series of exhibition games in China next week.
The university confirmed Wednesday that he will remain behind.
The 6-foot-6 swingman is the jewel of UCLA's highly touted freshman class.
The NCAA is trying to determine whether Muhammad received improper benefits from the brother of an assistant coach at his high school or from a financial planner who helped fund a summer team on which he played.
Scrutiny of top-level athletes has been a hot topic in the years since the NCAA found that USC tailback Reggie Bush and his family received cash and gifts from two would-be sports marketers in San Diego.
"The real issue here is, if you have high-profile players, your enforcement staff has to monitor those students at a higher level," the late Paul Dee, former chairman of the NCAA's Committee on Infractions, said at the time. "High-profile players demand high-profile compliance."
Ironically, the NCAA would later launch an investigation of football players at Miami, where Dee had been athletic director.
UCLA officials declined to comment further on Muhammad's case. The player has said that he expects to be cleared.
The Bruins will leave for China on Aug. 22. Over the ensuing week, they will play against two university teams and one professional team, the Shanghai Sharks, as part of a weeklong sports festival in Beijing and Shanghai.
The team's other top freshmen — Jordan Adams, Kyle Anderson and Tony Parker — are expected to make their debuts in those games.
There will be more than one basketball team in Los Angeles this year with a Gasol brother on its roster.
Adria Gasol, the 18-year-old brother of NBA big men Pau and Marc Gasol, has enrolled as a student at UCLA and intends to walk-on to the team next season. A UCLA spokesman said the youngest Gasol brother will not join the Bruins on their exhibition tour of China next week, but he will begin practicing with the team this fall.
Although the youngest Gasol is 6-foot-10 and has impressive bloodlines, expectations for him at UCLA should be realistic.
He wasn't interested in following in his brothers' footsteps in basketball growing up and played sparingly as a freshman and sophomore at Lausanne High School in Memphis before returning to Spain the past two years. He is far enough behind his brothers at the same stage that it would be a surprise if he is able to make much impact at UCLA in the near future.
Nonetheless, Adria's famous last name alone should make him a favorite among UCLA fans and a source of intrigue in the final minutes of blowouts.
If he focuses on basketball and develops into a surprise contributor at some point in the next few years, then that's a coup for UCLA. And if he does nothing more than persuade Pau or Marc to occasionally work out against the UCLA frontcourt during the offseason, then that's still a greater contribution than the average walk-on makes.
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Was with Tyler Ennis today, he seems relieved to get that part of the recruiting process over with but he's trying to make sure Syracuse lands some other notable guys...
The Harrison twins set to announce on October 29th....
The Harrison twins set to announce on October 29th....
Ex-Arizona guard Josiah Turner has signed with a pro team in Hungary and will play there next season