Philadelphia 76ers center, league scoring champion and former Jayhawk Joel Embiid earned his first NBA MVP trophy Tuesday night, edging two-time winner Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets. The 29-year-old from Yaoundé, Cameroon, averaged 33.1 points to win his second straight scoring title, ...
It could be a breakout night for the Kansas men’s basketball program — if one of its past stars ends up having one of the biggest nights of his career. If former KU big man and current Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid hears his name called when the NBA announces its Most Valuable ...
CAMDEN. N.J. (AP) — Philadelphia 76ers coach Doc Rivers says NBA MVP finalist Joel Embiid is doubtful for Game 1 of the playoff series against the Celtics with a sprained right knee. Embiid was examined by doctors this week and has yet to practice ahead of Monday's Eastern Conference ...
It took former Kansas All-American Ochai Agbaji exactly one Summer League game with his new team to draw praise from both Cleveland Cavaliers fans and those who cover the NBA. While starting and playing a team-high 33 minutes in Cleveland’s 99-90 win over San Antonio on Friday night, Agbaji ...
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self has always been big on how players fit with teams, styles, personnel and philosophies. That’s what made his review of the landing spots for first-round NBA draft picks Ochai Agbaji and Christian Braun stand out a little more than normal on Thursday night. ...
Eight years after the Cleveland Cavaliers made Kansas star Andrew Wiggins the No. 1 pick in the 2014 NBA draft, the Cavs turned to another Jayhawk in the 2022 draft, where they selected Ochai Agbaji with the No. 14 pick on Thursday night.Agbaji was the last pick of this year’s lottery and he ...
Former Kansas Jayhawk Andrew Wiggins became the 14th former KU player to win an NBA championship on Thursday night, following the Golden State Warriors 103-90 over Boston in Game 6 of the 2022 NBA Finals. Wiggins was sensational throughout the Finals — on both ends of the floor — and likely ...
If the Golden State Warriors wind up winning this year’s NBA title, former Kansas standout Andrew Wiggins will go down as one of the biggest reasons why. On Monday afternoon, KU coach Bill Self called Wiggins “Golden State’s second-best player in the playoffs.” On Monday night, Wiggins ...
