Jerome Seagears is on the move again.
Less than a month after leaving Rutgers in the wake of the Mike Rice scandal, Seagears is departing another school, too.
Auburn announced that the 6-foot-1 point guard was moving on from the SEC program in order to return closer to his home in Silver Spring, MD.
“Jerome came to me and expressed that he hadn’t truly recovered emotionally from his
Former Kansas big man Jeff Withey will work out for both New York teams this week and could be an attractive option in the first round.
The 7-foot, 235-pound center visits the Knicks Monday and the Nets Tuesday. The Nets pick No. 22 and the Knicks choose No. 24 in the June 27 NBA Draft.
As a fifth-year senior under coach Bill Self, Withey averaged 13.7 points, 8.5 rebounds and 3.9 blocks.
One advisor to Withey spoke with SNY.tv about the upcoming workouts but requested anonymity because he prefers to stay behind the scenes.
NEW YORK — Wade Baldwin missed the Rumble in the Bronx on Saturday because he was taking the ACT.
But Baldwin is hardly in any kind of academic difficulty.
The 6-foot-3, 190-pound rising senior shooting guard from St. Joe’s-Metuchen said he maintains a 3.6 GPA and lists six academic heavyweights among his leaders.
“I’m probably going to be visiting the six after me the hardest probably is Stanford, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, Penn State, Minnesota and Vanderbilt, too,” Baldwin told SNY.tv after scoring 10 points as Sports U beat the Playaz Basketball Club, 66-53, in the Rumble in the Bronx semifinals at Basketball City. Sports U ultimately lost in the championship game to Deron Williams Elite 76-63.
NEW YORK — After taking the redeye home from Las Vegas Saturday night, Jared Nickens arrived at Basketball City just in time to help Sports U advance to the finals of the Rumble in the Bronx 17U gold division.
The 6-foot-6, 180-pound Nickens scored 13 points as Sports U beat the arch-rival Playaz Basketball Club, 66-53, to advance to the championship game against Deron Williams Elite, where they lost, 76-63.
“We landed in New York at 9:30 [a.m.] and then we got a cab over here,” Nickens told SNY.tv of his busy 24 hours which began with him scoring 17 points for the East squad in a losing effort in the Under Armour All-Star Game in Vegas.
Incoming Kansas freshman Andrew Wiggins won’t play for the Canadian U19 team at the World Championships in Prague but could still opt to play for the Canadian Senior National Team this summer.
“Currently, Andrew is preparing himself for his upcoming year at KU,” Rowan Barrett, executive vice-president and assistant general manager of Canada Basketball’s Senior Men’s program, told SNY.tv.
Barrett previously told Canada Basketball that, “at 18 years old, Andrew has a long basketball career ahead of him. Andrew’s decision to prepare himself this summer for the upcoming season is a decision we acknowledge. Our team will miss Andrew this summer, but we remain focused on Andrew’s long-term development and our organizational goals for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and beyond.”
By JACK LeGWIN
Special to ZAGSBLOG
DJ Harvey is heading to DeMatha Catholic High School.
One of the top players in the class of 2017 out of Huntsville, Ala., Harvey will be transferring from Christ School (Arden, N.C.) to DeMatha next year.
Harvey said that there were two reasons for chosing DeMatha.
“Reputation and the coaching were big,” Harvey told SNY.tv. “Coach [Mike] Jones really knows what he is doing.”
Harvey, a 6-foot-6, 180-pound guard, started at the end of last year for Christ School as an eighth grader, helping them go 31-7 and get to the state semifinals. His breakout performance of the year was 13 points in the quarterfinal game against Charlotte Latin.
The NBA’s age limit rule means that high school players can no longer jump straight to the NBA.
But Ricky Ledo is basically attempting to do just that.
Ledo’s last organized game came at South Kent (Conn.) prep during the 2011-12 season, where he averaged 23.4 points and 6.2 rebounds. He never played a second of college ball at Providence after being declared academically ineligible last season. He practiced with the team but did not play games.
Had the 6-foot-6 Ledo played last season, it’s possible he would be a top-five pick right now.
Still, he has always been considered a special talent, and now he’s being projected as an early-second-round pick despite having never played in college.
