If Friday’s preseason finale was the last chance for Los Angeles Lakers rookie Svi Mykhailiuk to show his new team that he deserves a little PT, the former Kansas standout sure picked a heck of a way to go out. In a whopping 32 (of 48) minutes during the Lakers’ 119-105 victory over Golden State in the final tune-up for both teams, Mykhailiuk finished with a game-high 22 points on 8-of-18 shooting. What ...
The man to whom his coach compared him on Wednesday, at KU’s annual media day, became the No. 1 overall pick in the 2014 NBA Draft and, one year ago, signed a five-year contract extension worth $150 million. There certainly are worse players for Kansas freshman Quentin Grimes to be linked with than former KU one-and-done star Andrew Wiggins. But the way Self explained it, Grimes today is drawing those ...
Two minutes into the first Kansas basketball media day of his career, freshman point guard Devon Dotson already had it down. “We know that we’ve won 14 straight (Big 12 titles),” Dotson said in response to a question about the upcoming season, comfortably using the word “we” because he’s a part of the family now. “Our goal every year is to win the Big 12 and just have a successful season, so ...
The first time he saw him play, Kansas coach Bill Self saw something he liked in freshman forward David McCormack. But that was more than 60 pounds ago, when McCormack, the 6-foot-10, 265-pound forward from Oak Hill Academy, weighed well over 300 pounds and used his massive body to bully opponents near the basket. With that kind of size and strength, and an attitude that screamed competitor, Self gladly made ...
Practices began in late September. The first official game is now less than four weeks away. And Kansas basketball coach Bill Self still does not quite know how he will juggle all of that talent and depth the 2018-19 Jayhawks will bring to the floor this season. That fact was one of the big takeaways from Wednesday’s annual KU media day at Allen Fieldhouse, where the Jayhawks slapped on their suits and ...
One of the big reasons the 2017-18 Kansas basketball team ended its season at the Final Four in San Antonio in March was the chemistry and cohesion of the seven or eight core members of the team. And with half of that roster returning for the fast-approaching 2018-19 season, one of the loudest questions surrounding the new-look Jayhawks has to do with leadership. But while players, young and old, are in ...