Transferology

Thanks to Hoops Boston for a link to my previous post on basketball prodigy (?) J-Mychal Reese. Hoops Boston covers all things hoops in Boston. They also have an interesting poll, asking which member of the 1986 Boston Celtics is the best NBA executive so far. Very familiar names are in the list, such as Larry Bird, Danny Ainge, Robert Parish, Dennis "microwave" Johnson, Bill Walton, Kevin McHale. But the top voter is not one of those. Read on to find out who...

The latest updates at CSTV's Hodge Report inform us that a D1 players transfers from one Texas school to another. However, more than a dozen additional D1 transfers have been announced. The most high profile is probably Jonathan "I thought I was the next Kevin Garnett" Huffman of PitinoVille... On the pledge front, Heath-less Arkansas gets a new guard, while USC added another player for next season who was in 2008 beforehand. As you may recall USC did that last year when they accelerated the graduation of Daniel Hackett who was supposed to come in in 2007-2008, but instead joined the team in 2006-2007 after it lost Ryan Francis to a tragic death and Gabe Pruitt to academic ineligibility.

Arizona scored another big man says Jeff Goodman. Big man Kirk Walters has been given a medical redshirt and will return for 2007-2008

FoxSports looks at Tim Floyd offering scholarships to eighth graders. Story by

A Sea of Blue has an update on the Supreme Court looking at recruiting middle-school football players by the Brentwood Academy.

Jeff Goodman says that summer camps are really going to stress skill development. He also posts a schedule of the key July events, including the Nike Peach Jam, RBK: U, adidas Super 64, and the Nike Main Event.

Speaking of summer camp schedules, here are select Nike summer events

Tomorrow I will be revealing my pre-embryonic Top 10 ranking of college basketball recruits. Regular readers of this blog may recall that I managed to post the first ranking of embryos, beating all the industry giants to this, well ahead of Hoop Scoop, Rivals, Scout, ESPN, CSTV, Fans Only, Hoopmasters, Tom Konchalski, etc :-)

Dick "Hoops" Weiss looks at the impact of last year's NBA draft early entry rule to college basketball.

HoopsFuture.com posted their top five players of the Nike Hoops Jamboree. Included is 7-footer (7'2") John Riek from the Sudan

More updates on the Scouts front page. Subscription is required for a number of their stories, but not all of them.

Gary Parrish reports that Memphis big man Kareem Cooper is visiting UTEP. What's the link? The UTEP head coach Tony Barbee was an assistant at Memphis the last few years. Cooper was part of the Laurenberg Institute dream team that committed together to Calipari's Experiment.

Wall to wall Big 10 recruiting coverage by Justin Young of Rivals at Yahoo Sports

2007 Nike Summer Events Schedule

Nike Skills Academies

Steve Nash Skills Academy (June 29-July 1 – Union, NJ)

Kobe Bryant Skills Academy (June 25-27 – Santa Ana, CA)

Vince Carter Skills Academy (June 25-27 – Orlando, FL)

Amare Stoudemire Skills Academy (June 29-July 1 – Mesa, AZ)

LeBron James US Skills Academy, University of Akron (Akron, OH), July 6-9, 2007 (6th is open for observation only)

Nike Global Challenge
Featuring the top 40 players from the LeBron James US Skills Academy in an eight team tournament with national teams from Canada, Puerto Rico, China and Senegal, University of Portland (Portland, OR), July 29-31, 2007

For more details, please visit HoopsFuture.com