Sean Flynn

California’s Jaylen Brown, the number-one ranked high school player in the class of 2015, could be the NBA draft’s next great lottery bust.

Angel Rodriguez scored ten of his career-high 28 points in the final two minutes of Saturday’s second-round game, leading Miami over 11th seeded Wichita State 65-57. The victory marks the second Hurricanes Sweet 16 berth in four years and third trip in program history.

Wichita State’s Ron Baker went from a kid with a perm to a permanent offensive and defensive matchup nightmare. Baker and teammates aim to shock the Miami Hurricanes on Saturday.

Yale’s 79-75, upset win over 5th-seeded Baylor marks the first NCAA tournament win in Bulldog history.

“It’s hard to not have the ESPN promotion tag attached to your conference in today’s landscape of college basketball,” one former Big East coach tells Breitbart Sports. “Some people don’t know what channel the Big East games are on the cable network they have.”

Although college hoops season ends in April, by February full-time pro scouts know several of the names Adam Silver will call at June’s NBA draft. After debriefing a veteran NBA scout this month, Breitbart Sports learned that 2016 could mark the first year the commissioner calls three Massachusetts residents since adopting its current two-round format.

Paying for a draft choice while the Celtics owners weren’t paying attention at the 2006 draft, doing radio play-by-play as Rick Pitino’s assistant at Boston University, and assisting Cleveland State to a Sweet 16 run from 600 miles away suggests Leo Papile is unlike his modern coaching brethren.

“My father wanted me to go to Boston College, because his employers…were promising him a promotion if he could persuade me to go there,” writes Jack Kerouac in his fictionalized memoir Vanity of Duluoz. “They also hinted he’d be fired if I went to any other college.”

In two of the oddest articles this summer, senior CBSSports.com college basketball writers Jon Rothstein and Gary Parrish throw pity parties for a player (Brandon Austin of Providence, Oregon, and Northwest Florida State) twice accused of sexual misconduct and a fired coach (Donnie Tyndall) jobless for a mere three months.

“Danny Ainge called everyone in the league 50 times,” explains one source within the NBA, describing Boston’s persistence to shed four picks in the 2015 NBA Draft. “Then on draft night he called everyone again.”

At tonight’s NBA draft in New York, the hometown team holds the fourth pick. Phil Jackson finds himself in the same position that Red Auerbach occupied 45 years ago—and the former coach with 11 rings wears the same poker face as the former coach with nine rings did so long ago.

The Chicago Bulls courted, for the second time since 1998, a new coach from Iowa State. The Bulls reportedly inked “The Mayor,” Fred Hoiberg, to a five-year, $25 million deal.

Four-time NBA All-Star Vin Baker stands apart and above the other trainers, cut men, and assorted hangers-on that accompany fighters to the squared circle. The 6′ 11” Olympic gold medalist’s uplifting journey from the bar stool to the ring stool surely beats the story of 1993’s eighth pick in the NBA Draft burning through (and getting burned) nearly $100 million within two decades.

Catching up with Dave Cowens nearly four decades after he moonlighted as a cab driver while he played center on the defending NBA champions, the Hall of Famer delivers his taxicab confession to Breitbart Sports. He sets the record straight on cab driving, champagne swilling, park-bench bedding, renegade men’s leagues, and eating basketball camp cafeteria food.

Roxbury Community College (RCC) Head Men’s Basketball Coach Kwami Green, after losing his best friend and long-time assistant coach to a sudden death this off-season, contemplated leaving his passion for inner-city basketball behind. In January, when his point guard was killed, and a 16 man roster shrank to six, Green realizes that leading RCC is exactly where he needs to be.

“I couldn’t believe we had to go through this to play a basketball game, it was so unreal,” Dorchester, Massachusetts, native Paul Mahoney recalled of the police escort halting afternoon traffic on Morrissey Boulevard so an otherwise all-white basketball team could play with a black player in the 1974 Boston Neighborhood Basketball League (BNBL) championship.

A tumultuous February saw Louisville senior Chris Jones suspended, reinstated, and ultimately dismissed from the school’s basketball team. But on Wednesday, the guard’s college career came to a likely end with an arrest warrant charging him with raping one woman and sodomizing another, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal.

David Stern entered the Massachusetts soap opera circling legislation and proposals for the Bay State’s first legalized casinos. The peculiar pairing of the commissioner with the gamblers begs the question: Did Stern con fans while attempting to restore the league’s image following the 2007 Tim Donaghy scandal?

When Notre Dame’s Patrick Connaughton, a Baltimore Orioles pitching prospect, returns to his hometown for Saturday’s game at Boston College, his farewell as basketball’s great Irish Catholic hope will be short-lived, according to one veteran NBA Scout.

Sean Ryan’s odyssey to Burke High came after the firing of three straight bosses as he served as an assistant at the College of Charleston, BU, and Holy Cross. Consequently, his family moved seven times because of basketball and could never quite stay in the same place long enough to deem it home.

Arizona Senator John McCain says we need a debate about sports gambling.

Super Bowl 49 showcased not the stars picked first but to guys given second chances.

Mike Krzyzewski dismissed his first student-athlete in 35 years as Duke’s head coach on Thursday, when the university announced through a press release that junior Rasheed Sulaimon was no longer a member of the Blue Devils basketball program.

“The NBA owners know it’s a lot more than the TV contract that brought the values up,” an NBA team source tells Breitbart Sports, “It’s the sports betting.”

“I met with our men’s basketball players and coaches this afternoon to inform them of the university’s decision to withhold our men’s basketball team from postseason competition in 2015,” Southern Miss Athletic Director Bill McGillis declared in a written statement on Tuesday.

Following the Tim Donaghy scandal David Stern worked passionately to restore the integrity of the NBA by assuring fans that gambling by a referee on games he officiated was simply an isolated incident. But less than a decade later, Stern, his successor, and league owners look to collect.

A few years removed from allegations of a referee fixing games, the NBA has taken an if-you-can’t-beat-em-join-em approach to sports gambling. The results may ultimately prove more profitable than the league’s lucrative television contract.

“I have spoken to him since he was arrested and he just said he was happy for me that I was back on track,” Chris Nilan explained to Breitbart Sports of his jailhouse conversation with James “Whitey” Bulger, the Boston

“One of the good things that’s happening here,” HBO’s Larry Merchant quipped upon John Ruiz’s manager charging the referee after the final bell in his 2003 defeat to Roy Jones, Jr., “we’ll probably never have to see Norman Stone again.”

PHILADELPHIA–The NCAA’s live viewing period opened on July 9th to begin the first of fifteen live summer evaluation days for D1 coaches to observe the nation’s best high school players at various grassroots and corporate-sponsored tournaments, team camps, and elite