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Former NBA All-Star joins Colorado men’s basketball’s coaching staff

A former NBA All-Star is joining Tad Boyle’s staff

Colorado men’s basketball head coach Tad Boyle announced Tuesday that two-time NBA All-Star Danny Manning has joined the Buffs’ staff as an assistant coach.

Manning, who played alongside Boyle with the Kansas Jayhawks in 1984-85, was selected by the Los Angeles Clippers as the No. 1 overall pick in the 1988 NBA draft. During his 15-year NBA career, he played for seven teams and was the Sixth Man of the Year in 1998.

Manning comes to Boulder with eight-plus years of Division I head coaching experience. He led Tulsa for two seasons (2012-14), Wake Forest for six (2014-20) and was briefly an interim head coach at Maryland during the 2021-22 season. From 2022-24, Manning was an associate head coach at Louisville.

“I’m very excited to join coach Boyle’s staff,” Manning said in a press release. “This staff has been together for quite some time and has had quite a bit of success, so I want to come in and be a sponge; learn from them, the things they’ve been doing to be successful and just try and add little nuggets that I can along the way in terms of my experience as a player and a coach.”

Boyle believes Manning will provide valuable mentorship for CU players looking to reach the NBA.

“He’s going to help us on a lot of different levels,” Boyle said. “Danny brings the ability to connect with young people, being able to mentor them and let them know what they need to do to get better but also what they need to do to achieve their ultimate goal, which is to be a professional basketball player, which a lot of our players aspire to be. His ability to recruit and connect with families is there as well.”

Manning fills the void on Colorado’s staff left by the departure of Rick Ray, who recently joined Vanderbilt as an assistant coach.

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College basketball Twitter was shocked to see the timing of Mark Turgeon and Maryland parting ways

Some reaction to the move.

After 10-plus seasons coaching Maryland and compiling a 226-116 record that’s included a Big Ten regular-season championship and five NCAA tournament appearances, Mark Turgeon is no long at the helm of the Terps’ program.

Taking over the interim role is Danny Manning, who has been an assistant with the team.

The timing is kind of strange — Maryland’s season has already begun, and the Terps were 5-3 with losses to George Mason, Louisville and Virginia Tech.

But as Stadium’s Jeff Goodman reported, “Administration wanted to go in a different direction and Mark Turgeon worn down by the job and fan base.”

Here’s a roundup of the reaction from college hoops Twitter:

Thunder are reportedly one of three NBA teams recruiting Danny Manning

Could the former Wake Forest coach and NBA veteran be headed back to the Association?

The Oklahoma City Thunder are the last NBA team to have a vacancy at head coach, but that doesn’t mean that the team isn’t thinking about what its staff will look like once it does find a successor for Billy Donovan.

According to well-respected college basketball journalist Andrew Slater, former Wake Forest head men’s basketball coach and NBA veteran Danny Manning is being pursued by three NBA teams for a spot on their benches — the Pacers, Pelicans and, yes, the Thunder.

The news come as a bit of a surprise considering the fact that the Thunder still don’t have a head coach and that head coaches normally pick their own staffs, however, it has become commonplace in the NBA for front offices to make “recommendations” to their head coaches on assistants.

At this point, it seems fair to assume that either San Antonio’s Will Hardy or longtime Thunder assistant Brian Keefe will end up with the head coaching job, and in either case, Manning’s experience both as a pro player and collegiate head coach could come in handy.

With the 2020 NBA Draft right around the corner, there’s no indication that Sam Presti is in any sort of rush to hire a head coach, but if the NBA season is to begin in the near future — it seems that mid-January is the latest that will happen — the team will have to fill the position sooner rather than later.

9 of the best NCAA Tournament performances ever

March Madness makes memories. Shining team moments, sure, but also incredible individual performances. Here are nine of the finest.

March Madness makes memories. Shining team moments, sure, but also incredible individual performances. Here are nine of the finest.

9. Bo Kimble, Loyola Marymount, 1990

Hank Gathers. Bo Kimble. Who can forget that Lions team that overcame Gathers’s shocking, tragic death on the court in a WCC tournament game?
Kimble led No. 11 seeded LMU to the Elite Eight after beating New Mexico State, Michigan and Alabama, before being bounced by UNLV.
Kimble’s first left-handed free throw to honor Gathers remains an iconic moment in NCAA basketball history.

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