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Welcome to the Summer Solstice!
Happy first day of summer! Also known as the summer solstice, today is the longest day of the year and the official start of summer for those in the Northern Hemisphere. Today, the sun will shine directly over the Tropic of Cancer while the North Pole reaches its maximum tilt towards the sun, making it the longest day of the year. The farther north a person goes, the more daylight they can expect to have. The North Pole will have 24-hours of daylight, known as “the midnight sun.”
In the United States, the solstice will begin today at 12:24 a.m. EDT. According to Time and Date, “In terms of daylight, this day is 5 hours, 50 minutes longer than on the December Solstice.” The Washington Post writes that American cities can expect anywhere between 22 to 13 hours of daylight, depending on their latitude. The average duration of daylight is 12 hours/day, but this highly variable depending on geographic location.
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NBA Draft: For Tyler Lydon, home is where the hardwood is (DO; Bloss)
Tyler Lydon comes from Elizaville, New York, a town 50 miles south of Albany of about 2,000 people. There are no streetlights on his family’s street. They do not have next-door neighbors. For the 21-year-old to leave Syracuse after two years and move to the nation’s third-largest city was “a complete culture shock.”
Chicago has been Lydon’s home for more than two months now as he’s worked out with fellow NBA hopefuls. He passed up two more years of wearing Orange to sign with an agent and enter the NBA Draft, which is Thursday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Most mock drafts indicate he will be the eighth first-round pick from Syracuse this decade, with DraftExpress.com predicting him at No. 24 to the Utah Jazz. Then, he’ll move again to a new metropolis, unless he’s picked by the hometown Bulls.
But this was the dream. Lydon had decided to make this leap to give the NBA his best shot. After he signed with Andy Shiffman of the Windy City-based player agency Priority Sports, there was no turning back. To brace himself for the midwest move, Lydon went back to what he knew best: home.
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Tyler Lydon projected as late 1st-rounder along with 20 others (NBA mock draft analysis) (PS; Waters)
Syracuse's Tyler Lydon is projected as a late first-round pick in the 2017 NBA draft.
But so are about 20 other draft hopefuls.
An analysis of seven different NBA mock drafts put Lydon in a crowded group of 20 players whose average draft position fell between No. 22 and No. 28 in the NBA draft.
(Troy Machir of CSN Mid-Atlantic put together a composite of six sites. We added the seventh for more data. The mock draft sites included were: NBC Sports, CBSsports, Bleacher Report, Sporting News, DraftExpress, SB Nation and Sports Illustrated.)
In that respect, there aren't enough chairs in the NBA's vaunted Green Room for all the players whose names appear in various mock drafts as late first-round picks. And this is one critically important game of musical chairs.
As a first-round pick, a player can expect an NBA contract guaranteed for three years. Fall out of the first round, however, and nothing's guaranteed. Some second-round picks manage to wrangle a guarantee out of the team that drafts them, but as the commercial's disclaimer reads, results may vary.
The NBA draft will be held this Thursday at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Tyler Lydon’s draft stock fits perfectly with sophomore season at Syracuse - The Juice Online (the juice; Goodman)
It’s been a down year for Syracuse Orange basketball, and it’s about to get even more depressing. Tyler Lydon, a potential late first round pick after his freshman year, saw his stock drop this year, and is now in danger of dropping into the mid-second round.
Lydon, who was often maligned and criticized for failing to take the reigns of the underachieving, NIT bound Orange last season, is one of the harder prospects to get a grasp on. Some scouts love him and see him as a late first rounder. Others see him dropping into the 40s.
And it’s not hard to see why. His numbers from his first to second seasons were mostly the same. His scoring and rebounding saw small upticks, while his shooting percentages, blocks, steals and turnovers were all slightly worse.
He will hear his name on draft night, nobody knows when though, just as no one really knew what they’d get on nightly basis from him last year.
» Related: Syracuse basketball has rich history of first round NBA Draft selections
Assuming he drops, it will cap what was a forgettable year for the Orange. It would make sense for the Orange to fail to produce a first round pick for the first time since 2011, following a season in which they lost 15 games (the most in 49 years) failed to make the NCAA tournament, got upset in the NIT, and lost future head coach, Mike Hopkins, to Washington.
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NBA Draft: The case against picking Andrew White (DO; Fortier)
The case against drafting Andrew White starts with his age, 24, and ends with question marks on scouting reports surrounding his defense and ability to score after defenders run him off the 3-point line.
But the sweet-shooting swingman out of Syracuse hopes his marksmanship from the arc sways a team to pick him in the NBA Draft at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on Thursday at 7 p.m.
Most projections have White, who this year set the single-season record for 3-pointers at Syracuse (112), going in the late-second round. This spring, White trained with Tyler Relph of Dr1ven Training every day he was in Dallas for an hour to an hour-and-a-half.
The Daily Orange builds a case here against NBA teams drafting White:
Age
White transferred twice, sat out a year and is now one of the oldest prospects available in the NBA Draft. Fair or not, the fact that he’s 24 years old hurts his draft stock because teams see a shorter timeframe to develop a player like White.
“He’s still underdeveloped at age 24,” Kevin O’Connor wrote on The Ringer. “So teams better be certain he’s willing to stick around in the G-League.”
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Elite 2018 point guard Jalen Carey takes unofficial visit to Syracuse (PS; Waters)
Jalen Carey, a highly-regarded guard out of Montclair, N.J., took an unofficial visit to Syracuse on Tuesday, according to his high school coach.
Jimmy Salmons, the coach at Immaculate Conception High School, confirmed that Carey was in Syracuse on Tuesday for an unofficial visit.
Carey, a 6-foot-2 guard, is ranked No. 55 in ESPN.com's Top 100 for the 2018 class. Carey has the ball-handling ability to handle the point guard position, but he's also an exceptional scorer. His offensive game resembles that of former SU guard Dion Waiters, who is now with the NBA's Miami Heat.
Salmons said that Carey had already made unofficial visits to Rutgers and Seton Hall.
Carey has scholarship offers from several schools including Connecticut, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, DePaul, Rutgers and Seton Hall.
K.J. Smith, son of Kenny Smith, joining UNC basketball program (greensboro.com; Wilkerson)
A member of the North Carolina basketball family is coming home.
K.J. Smith, a son of former Carolina point guard Kenny Smith, announced via his Twitter account on Monday night that he plans to transfer from Pacific and join the Tar Heels' program as a walk-on.
Sherrell McMillan of Inside Carolina first reported the news, and Smith later posted a photo of himself in his father's Carolina jersey.
Men’s Basketball To Face Syracuse For First Time Since 2001 (ubbulls.com)
The University at Buffalo men's basketball team will rekindle one of their oldest rivalries this season as the Bulls will make the two hour trip to Syracuse University on Dec. 19 for a non-conference game at the Carrier Dome. This will be the first meeting between these two schools since Dec. 30, 2001.
"This is an outstanding opportunity for our team to go down the road and play a program with the pedigree of Syracuse. We hope that some of our fans will make the trip and watch a high-level basketball game inside the Carrier Dome."
Syracuse leads 27-5 all-time in a series that goes all the way back to the 1917-18 season. Buffalo scored its first win over Syracuse in the final game of the 1918-19 season, 25-21. Buffalo's last win over Syracuse came in overtime during the 1962-63 season. Syracuse and Buffalo played every year from 1965-66 until 1977-78. The two teams have played twice since then, on Dec. 18, 1997 and again on Dec. 30, 2001.
This year's meeting with Syracuse will mark the third straight year that the Bulls travel to an ACC school as last season Buffalo faced Pittsburgh and two years ago the Bulls played Duke at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Syracuse went 19-15 last season. Including 17-4 in home games. They advanced to the second round of the National Invitation Tournament (NIT).
This adds to a challenging non-conference schedule as last week it was announced that the Bulls would be facing Cincinnati in the first round of the Cayman Islands Classic.
Boeheim's Army learns its opponent in TBT; full bracket is released (PS; Ditota)
A team of former Syracuse basketball players will meet a collection of players from Pennsylvania on July 8 in its first game of The Basketball Tournament.
TBT released its bracket today for the $2 million winner-take-all summer basketball sweepstakes. Boeheim's Army will play Dubois Dream in Northeast games scheduled for Philadelphia University. Game time is 6 p.m.
The Syracuse-based team has generated the most online fan votes in the Northeast (1,827). Team members Eric Devendorf, Brandon Triche, Scoop Jardine, C.J. Fair, Donte Greene, Rick Jackson, James Southerland and DaShonte Riley are expected to gather in Syracuse on July 1 for training camp in preparation for the tournament. Ryan Blackwell will coach the team for the second consecutive year.
The full bracket was revealed today. Boeheim's Army, which is the third seed in the Northeast, could possibly play City of Gods and Etan Thomas in its second game. If Boeheim's Army advances, its second game would be played on Sunday, July 9, also at Philadelphia University.
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Marriott Syracuse Downtown to add more rooms and a restaurant (PS; Moriarty)
The Marriott Syracuse Downtown, the former Hotel Syracuse that reopened last year after an $82 million renovation, is getting more rooms and another restaurant.
Owner Ed Riley said he plans to add 54 guest rooms on the second, third and 11th floors, and open a steakhouse on the first floor. The new rooms will give the hotel a total of 315.
Riley said the work will be done during the first quarter of 2018 so that the additional rooms and the restaurant will be ready in time for the U.S. Bowling Congress' Open Championships.
The bowling championships are scheduled to run from March to July next year at the nearby Oncenter. It is expected to draw 80,000 visitors to the city.
Riley acquired the historic hotel in 2014 after it had sat empty for 10 years. After a major renovation, he reopened is as a full-service Marriott with 261 rooms in August 2016.
The renovations were left unfinished on the second floor and parts of the third and 11th floors. Riley said he originally planned to complete the rooms on those floors in two or three years. However, he said he decided to speed up their construction because business has been strong since the hotel reopened and more rooms will be needed to meet demand during the bowling tournament.
