Overland Park — The gym at Radiant Church was filled with familiar faces on Tuesday afternoon as part of former Kansas basketball player Christian Braun’s youth camp. There was Braun, the star of the show, as well as Ed Fritz, the camp organizer and the coach who guided Braun to state ...
The fateful hour of the NBA Draft is drawing ever nearer for former Kansas men’s basketball players Johnny Furphy and Kevin McCullar Jr. Both will hope to hear their names called on Wednesday, the first day of what will be the first-ever two-day-long NBA Draft. The first round begins at 7 ...
Svi Mykhailiuk won a title as a member of the Boston Celtics on Monday night, becoming the fourth former Jayhawk to become an NBA champion as a player in the last five years. Mykhailiuk, who played one minute and recorded one rebound in the Celtics' 106-88 series-clinching victory over the ...
Two weeks have passed since the NBA Draft withdrawal deadline saw Johnny Furphy decide once and for all to forgo his remaining collegiate eligibility, and two more weeks remain until he hears his name called in the draft. He and Kevin McCullar Jr. are the two members of last year’s Kansas ...
Less than a month after she was selected by the Connecticut Sun at No. 19 overall, and less than two weeks after she began training camp with the team, former Kansas center Taiyanna Jackson has been waived. The Sun announced the news Friday morning, a day after Jackson made her first ...
Kansas basketball players Johnny Furphy and Kevin McCullar Jr. have officially been invited to participate in the NBA Draft Combine, the NBA announced Friday afternoon. The event, which provides an opportunity for NBA hopefuls to work out for and get evaluated by professional teams, will take ...
Toronto Raptors rookie wing Gradey Dick mustered his best scoring performance of the season in its final days, as he went off for 24 points — including six 3-pointers — last Wednesday. That game happened to come against the Brooklyn Nets and Dick’s former Kansas teammate Jalen Wilson, ...
BOSTON (AP) — At 6-foot-11, Scot Pollard's size helped him play more than a decade in the NBA, earning him a championship ring with the 2008 Boston Celtics. Now it may be killing him. Pollard needs a heart transplant, an already dire predicament that is made more difficult by the fact so ...
