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Report: OKC Thunder add Buddy Boeheim to Exhibit-10 deal

Report: OKC Thunder add Buddy Boeheim to Exhibit-10 deal.

The Oklahoma City Thunder have signed Buddy Boeheim to an Exhibit-10 deal, per The Athletic’s Shams Charania. He will join OKC in its summer league squad.

Boeheim went undrafted in 2022. The 24-year-old went to Syracuse for four college seasons from 2019-22. He is the son of legendary college coach Jim Boeheim, who coached the Orange from 1976-2023.

He’s spent the last two seasons with the Detroit Pistons. He was on a two-way deal and played in the G League. He’s averaged 2.5 points in 8.7 minutes throughout 20 games in his tenure.

The Thunder can get his G League rights and add him to the OKC Blue if he impresses enough during summer league. He will get a chance to get serious minutes, especially down the stretch of the multi-week event.

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Pistons decline team option on Frank Jackson, Luka Garza, Carsen Edwards

James Edwards III: Sources: The Pistons will not pick up the team options of Frank Jackson, Luka Garza and Carsen Edwards. Additionally, Detroit’s two two-way guys are Braxton Key and Buddy Boeheim, so Jamorko Pickett no longer holds one of those …

James Edwards III: Sources: The Pistons will not pick up the team options of Frank Jackson, Luka Garza and Carsen Edwards. Additionally, Detroit’s two two-way guys are Braxton Key and Buddy Boeheim, so Jamorko Pickett no longer holds one of those spots.

Source: Twitter @JLEdwardsIII

What’s the buzz on Twitter?

James Edwards III @JLEdwardsIII
Sources: The Pistons will not pick up the team options of Frank Jackson, Luka Garza and Carsen Edwards.
Additionally, Detroit’s two two-way guys are Braxton Key and Buddy Boeheim, so Jamorko Pickett no longer holds one of those spots. – 5:28 PM
Keith Smith @KeithSmithNBA
Today is the deadline for the following options for the Detroit Pistons:
Hamidou Diallo: $5.2M – Team Option (reportedly will be picked up)
Carsen Edwards: $1.8M – Team Option
Luka Garza: $1.6M – Team Option
Frank Jackson: $3.15M – Team Option (reportedly will be declined) – 7:17 AM
Bobby Marks @BobbyMarks42
Some key items for Tuesday June 28
Team Options
Hamidou Diallo (DET): $5.2M
Frank Jackson (DET): $3.2M
Cory Joseph (DET): $5.2M
Luke Garza (DET): $1.6M
Trey Lyles (SAC): $2.6M
Contract guaranteed
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (WAS): $4.9M to $14M – 7:10 AM

More on this storyline

Frank Jackson and Hamidou Diallo each have team options, both of which have to be decided on by Tuesday. Diallo has a $5.2 million team option and, per sources, the Pistons are expected to pick his up. As for Jackson, sources tell The Athletic the Pistons are not expected to pick up his $3.1 million option. If Detroit does, it could be to execute a trade. All in all, though, I don’t anticipate Jackson being on this team next season. Then there’s the decision to bring back Marvin Bagley III, who was acquired from the Kings around the trade deadline and is a restricted free agent. Every inclination that I’ve received is that the Pistons have every intention of bringing back Bagley, who has a $28 million cap hold. -via The Athletic / June 27, 2022
James Edwards III: Sources: The Pistons are likely to pick up Hamidou Diallo’s $5.2 million team option. Additionally, sources tell me and @Will Guillory that the Pistons are unlikely to pick up Frank Jackson’s $3.1 million team option. The club has until Tuesday to make official decisions. -via Twitter @JLEdwardsIII / June 26, 2022

Chris Kirschner: Hawks draft workouts …

Chris Kirschner: Hawks draft workouts tomorrow: Dominick Barlow (Overtime Elite) –Forward Jules Bernard (UCLA) – Guard Buddy Boeheim (Syracuse) – Guard Savion Flagg (Sam Houston State) – Guard/Forward Michael Foster Jr. (G League Ignite) – Forward Alondes Williams (Wake Forest) – Guard

With one Boeheim out, another went off in a game against Duke that had so many layers

“I was playing for this kid today.”

Jim Boeheim has been the coach of Syracuse since 1976. And since 1976, the Orange have never had a losing season. That’s 45 years without a losing record.

However, that streak will likely come to an end after Syracuse’s loss to Duke in the ACC Tournament quarterfinals on Thursday. The loss dropped the Orange to 16-17 overall, and they aren’t projected to make the NCAA Tournament or NIT. Their season is probably over.

That doesn’t mean Syracuse went down without a fight. Playing the tournament’s top seed, and without Jim’s son and leading scorer Buddy Boeheim, Syracuse covered a 14.5-point spread and gave Duke a serious scare. Buddy got himself suspended for the game by punching an opponent on Wednesday, but his older brother Jimmy Boeheim picked up the slack and played the game of his life. In a performance more reminiscent of Buddy, who leads the ACC in scoring, Jimmy scored a season-high 28 points while making six-of-nine three-pointers.

In the end, he wasn’t able to save his dad’s incredible streak in an 88-79 loss, but that was just one layer of a game that was much more than the sum of its parts.

Duke is a lock for the ACC semis after Syracuse’s best shot at an upset got himself suspended

Bad form, Buddy.

Syracuse was going to have its hands full as it was.

If the Orange were able to get past a higher-seeded Florida State team in the ACC tournament quarterfinals, a matchup with top-seeded Duke awaited them on the other side. The last thing they needed to do was make things harder on themselves. 

But that’s exactly what Buddy Boeheim did when he lost his cool in the heat of Wednesday’s blowout of FSU and landed a punch on an unsuspecting opponent.

The refs missed it, and no foul was called. So in the moment, and over the final 30 minutes of the game, the significance of what transpired may have been lost on all involved. But once the ACC announced a one-game suspension for Boeheim hours after the game, it was clear the senior guard made a grave mistake.

Down the ACC’s leading scorer, Syracuse is a 14.5-point underdog Thursday against Duke. It was likely to be a sizable spread even before Boeheim’s suspension. Now, Duke is as close to a lock as you can get this late in the tournament. Its -1200 moneyline odds on Tipico Sportsbook are the third shortest in college hoops Thursday. Syracuse’s season is about to come to an end.

In their previous two games against the Blue Devils, the Orange lost by a combined 45 points. The 97 points they allowed in the second matchup two weeks ago was the second-most they allowed all season in non-overtime games.

It was never going to be easy to upset a team among the favorites to win a national championship, but if they were going to do it, they were going to need Boeheim and his hot shooting.

He averaged 19.3 points per game this season and as recently as last Saturday scored 30 in a game, his second time doing so this season. He scored 23 the last time Syracuse played Duke, and that was on an off shooting night where he went just 3-of-10 from deep. For his career, he’s a 36% 3-point shooter.

He had a chance to improve on that, and perhaps give his team a little hope in a game no one outside of Syracuse faithful expect them to win – a fighter’s chance to perhaps win the whole thing and clinch an NCAA tournament bid. Instead, Syracuse’s season — and likely his career — is about to end on a more sour note than it needed to, and they have that punch to blame.

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Buddy Boeheim just got away with a cheap shot against Florida State and college basketball fans are livid

Buddy Boeheim just got away with a cheap shot against Florida State and college basketball fans are livid.

Look, no officiating crew is perfect. There are going to be some missed calls in each and every game throughout every sport. That’s really just the way it goes.

But as far as what Syracuse’s Buddy Boeheim just did goes? Nah, somebody needed to make this call.

Boeheim — who is the son of Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim — deliberately punched Florida State guard Wyatt Wilkes in the stomach as he was getting back on defense during their matchup in the ACC Tournament.

And it wasn’t just him turning quickly into Wilkes that led to the contact. In looking at the video, he seemed to go out of his way to hit Wilkes in the stomach. He swung his arm into Wilkes with a closed fist.

It was awful and appeared to be pretty malicious.

It looks much worse from this angle.

The thing is it wasn’t actually called. The officials somehow missed this and the Boeheim went on unpunished for this. It’s not a great look at all.

Fans were absolutely livid nothing was done about this.

Notre Dame beats Boeheims, Syracuse for 20th win

The Irish had to earn this one.

Don’t let that 79-69 final score fool you. Notre Dame really had to work against Syracuse to earn its 20th victory of the season. In the end, it doesn’t really matter how the Irish bested the legendary Jim Boeheim and his crew. Of course, Mike Brey probably will remind his team that a better effort will be needed every game from now until at least the end of the ACC Tournament.

The Irish (20-8, 13-4) and Orange (15-13, 9-8) had to endure 15 lead changes and 12 ties, and the game remained stressful even though the Irish never trailed again after the first few minutes of the second half. Every time the Irish went on a run, the Orange had an answer, and that was thanks in no small part to Jimmy (27 points) and Buddy Boeheim (20 points).

The Irish were held without a field goal over the final 2:57, so who knows what would have happened if Blake Wesley and Paul Atkinson Jr. hadn’t made nine of 10 free throws in that time? Their lead was only three with a minute and a half left, so they needed every one of those points to keep the pressure off.

Atkinson had a double-double before the first half was even over, and he finished the game with a stat line that was both balanced and productive:  20 points (half of which coming on free throws), 17 rebounds. Nate Laszewski was recovered enough from his stomach ailment to come off the bench and score 15 of his 17 points on five 3-pointers.

Cormac Ryan shot 6 of 9 for 16 points, and Wesley overcome 3-of-13 shooting from the field to score 13. Prentiss Hubb had a season-high 10 assists and a career-high eight rebounds.

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2022 NBA Draft Big Board 1.0: Debut rankings of the top 101 prospects

Let’s be honest. Ranking the best NBA draft prospects is a fool’s errand. But evaluating this class is an especially challenging assignment.

Let’s be honest. Ranking the best NBA draft prospects is a fool’s errand. But evaluating this class is an especially challenging assignment.

One of the top pre-season prospects (Patrick Baldwin Jr.) is playing for a mid-major program that has just two wins so far this season. Other top prospects (AJ Griffin and Peyton Watson) are not getting much playing time for their high-major programs. Meanwhile, guard Jean Montero is playing in the inaugural Overtime Elite league. How do we compare his productivity to other prospects? I’m frankly not sure.

But nevertheless, my big board exists. Rather than going small, I decided to blow it up and do the opposite. Why did I go ahead and rank 101 prospects if this class has been so challenging to evaluate? There are two distinct reasons.

One is that I’m absolutely crazy and get a very fulfilling satisfaction with the completion of a mock draft and big board because it feels complete. It looks awesome seeing as many names as I can fit on one article, even if the science behind the rankings is a bit inconclusive.

The other reason is that as I make more big boards throughout the year, it’s interesting to track the progress (and regression) of certain prospects. I am inevitably wrong about most of these placements! But this article serves as a barometer for where I feel certain players are at in their development right now.

Note that several notable prospects (e.g. freshmen Max Christie, Matthew Cleveland, Nolan Hickman, Hunter Sallis, Brandon Huntley-Hatfield, Jeremy Sochan, Kobe Bufkin) were excluded because I expect them to go back to school to improve their draft stock.

More likely than not, some of those players will declare for the 2022 NBA draft. When that happens, I obviously will not have them outside of my top 101.

Until then, as we prepare to turn the calendar into a new year, here are the debut rankings for 101 of my favorite prospects.

All stats are accurate as of Dec. 14 and are from Sports-Reference unless noted otherwise.