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Branden Dawson and Brandon Wood join Team Heartfire for The Basketball Tournament

Dawson and Wood make four former Michigan State players to join the summer tournament.

The Basketball Tournament is filling up with Michigan State alums.

After Kalin Lucas and Durrell Summers joined Team Detroit last week, former Spartans Branden Dawson and Brandon Wood have signed with Team Heartfire for The Basketball Tournament.

Dawson played for Michigan State from 2011-2015, helping the Spartans advance to the 2015 Final Four. He was a second-round pick in the 2015 NBA Draft. He played for Israeli basketball club Bnei Herzliya in 2019.

Wood joined MSU as a graduate transfer for one season in 2012. He currently plays professionally for Libertadores de Querétaro in Mexico.

The Basketball Tournament is an open-application 64-team single-elimination tournament where teams compete for a $2 million winner-take-all grand prize. It is a really cool display of former collegiate stars and professional players outside of the NBA and is high level basketball. The winner of the 2019 TBT–Carmen’s Crew–was made up mostly of former Ohio State basketball players including Aaron Craft, William Buford, and player/coach Jared Sullinger.

TBT 2020 is scheduled to begin at the end of July, but that–along with most every sporting event–is certainly subject to change due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Former MSU Basketball SG Durrell Summers signs with Team Detroit for The Basketball Tournament

Former Michigan State Basketball shooting guard Durrell Summers will join Kalin Lucas on Team Detroit in The Basketball Tournament.

Earlier this week, we found out that former Michigan State point guard Kalin Lucas would be playing for Team Detroit in The Basketball Tournament. On Friday morning, we found out that his former backcourt running mate Durrell Summers will also be joining Team Detroit.

Like Lucas, Summers has spent his time since leaving MSU bouncing around between international play and the NBA’s G League, most recently playing for the Greensboro Swarm.

In his senior season for the Spartans, Summers averaged 11.6 points and 4.2 rebounds per game on 35.6% shooting from three.

Team Detroit has already become a must-watch for MSU fans with the addition of Lucas and Summers, and it will be a fun story to watch develop if any other former Spartans join the squad.

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Former Michigan State point guard Kalin Lucas to suit up for Team Detroit in The Basketball Tournament

Former MSU star to suit up for his hometown in premier summer basketball event.

Kalin Lucas will be representing his city in one of this summer’s premier hoops events.

Lucas, who starred at Michigan State from 2007-2011, will be playing on Team Detroit for The Basketball Tournament 2020.

For the uninitiated, The Basketball Tournament is an open-application 64-team single-elimination tournament where teams compete for a $2 million winner-take-all grand prize. It is a really cool display of former collegiate stars and professional players outside of the NBA and is high level basketball. The winner of the 2019 TBT–Carmen’s Crew–was made up mostly of former Ohio State basketball players including Aaron Craft, William Buford, and player/coach Jared Sullinger.

TBT 202 is scheduled to begin at the end of July, but that–along with most every sporting event–is certainly subject to change due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lucas currently plays professionally for Crvena Zvezda, the top Serbian professional team.

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