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NBA Summer League Coverage
Jerami Grant Has Good Game, Scores 11 Points with Dad Watching (PS; Ditota)
Maybe all Jerami Grant needed was the presence of his dad in the Orlando gym.
The former Syracuse forward scored seven first-half points to help Philadelphia to a 46-40 halftime lead over the Houston Rockets in Tuesday's NBA Summer League nightcap. He finished a Sixers' miss with a familiar put-back slam. He slid off a screen, caught a pass off an inbounds play and scored inside. He sank a 3-point shot from the wing.
"Jerami Grant has really struggled here in Orlando," said NBA TV play-by-play man Rick Kamla after Grant converted the rebound slam. Kamla theorized that the easy bucket might get Grant going.
And it did.
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SU News
Joe Giansante Says the Fan Experience for SU Fans Will Remain Unchanged After Likely Split from IMG (PS; Carlson)
Joe Giansante, the chief of communications for the Syracuse athletic department, said he expects the fan experience for Orange fans to remain unchanged as the school explores options on how it will handle its future marketing.
The school terminated its contract with marketing giant IMG on Monday in search of a better deal, ending a relationship with a company that was embedded in Syracuse athletics in multiple ways.
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Matt Park, the voice of Syracuse football and basketball, is technically an employee of IMG and not the university.
Giansante declined to comment on Park but, when asked specifically about Park's future, he repeated that the fan experience would not change.
Park declined an interview request but passed along a statement via text message.
"It's been a privilege to serve Syracuse University athletics and IMG for more than a decade," Park said. "I certainly hope that will continue. I'm preparing for the football season as if it will."
IMG Paid Salaries of SU Coaches, Including JB. Now How Do They Get Their Paychecks? (PS; Carlson)
Sports marketing firm IMG paid Jim Boeheim $1.2 million in 2013. It paid former football coach Doug Marrone $1.3 million, a number that likely isn't vastly different from what the firm was scheduled to pay Scott Shafer.
According to Syracuse's most recent 990 form filed with the IRS at least four members of the athletic department received portions of their salaries from IMG in 2013, including athletic director Daryl Gross and women's lacrosse coach Gary Gait.
So what happens to those payments now that Syracuse has, at least temporarily, split from IMG and terminated a contract that was set to run through 2020-21?
Very little.
"Those payments will be handled appropriately by the university however we decide to run it," said Joe Giansate, the chief of communications for the Syracuse athletic department. "Those commitments will be honored."
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LeBron and Melo
JB Says Bulls Best Fit for Melo and the World Cup is Great (PS; Carlson)
The NBA offseason is running its usual free agent cycle. So is Jim Boeheim's offseason.
The Syracuse head coach, so often a talk show darling due to his honest opinions and reluctance to censor them, appeared on "The Herd" with Colin Cowherd on ESPN Radio on Tuesday.
Naturally, he was asked about Carmelo Anthony and free agency. Naturally, Boeheim provided his advice to Anthony.
While Boeheim said he hasn't spoken to Anthony about his choice, he clearly thinks the former Syracuse star should value an NBA title more than money.
"On paper, if you knew Derrick Rose was going to be good and healthy, it'd be hard to find a better fit than Chicago looks like. I love the coach (Tom Thibodeau) there, I love the way (Joakim) Noah plays, and (Taj) Gibson ... That looks like a great situation."
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ACC News
Pitt Non-Conference Schedule Again Weak (cbsports.com; Norlander)
Few teams have been lampooned over the past half-decade about strength of schedule like Pitt.
Jamie Dixon's unquestionably a rock-solid coach. His Panthers teams have made the NCAA Tournament in 10 of his 11 seasons at the school. He's achieved a .750 win percentage and will break 300 career victories this upcoming season. But here are the numbers that have plagued him:
278.
340.
255.
269.
229.
Those are Pitt's non-conference strength-of-schedule rankings, per KenPom.com, over the past five seasons. Dixon managed to schedule into the 100s a couple of times and has never offered up a slate that was in the top 30 percentile of toughest schedules in college hoops. He's not the only major-conference coach that's failed to truly test his team over the years, but few have tossed so many weaker teams onto the schedule like Dixon.
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Other
State of Emergency in East Syracuse
Deadly Storm Hits Near Syracuse (Wedding Presents Almost Blown to Kansas; torontosun.com; Reuters)
Three people were confirmed killed near Syracuse, New York, from the collapse of three homes attributed to a possible tornado during a severe thunderstorm on Tuesday, the National Weather Service said.
The storm with damaging high winds struck a short distance from the hamlet of Peterboro in Madison County, New York, roughly 25 miles southeast of Syracuse, at about 7 p.m. local time, the Weather Service office in Binghamton said in a bulletin.
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NBA Summer League Coverage
Jerami Grant Has Good Game, Scores 11 Points with Dad Watching (PS; Ditota)
Maybe all Jerami Grant needed was the presence of his dad in the Orlando gym.
The former Syracuse forward scored seven first-half points to help Philadelphia to a 46-40 halftime lead over the Houston Rockets in Tuesday's NBA Summer League nightcap. He finished a Sixers' miss with a familiar put-back slam. He slid off a screen, caught a pass off an inbounds play and scored inside. He sank a 3-point shot from the wing.
"Jerami Grant has really struggled here in Orlando," said NBA TV play-by-play man Rick Kamla after Grant converted the rebound slam. Kamla theorized that the easy bucket might get Grant going.
And it did.
...
SU News
Joe Giansante Says the Fan Experience for SU Fans Will Remain Unchanged After Likely Split from IMG (PS; Carlson)
Joe Giansante, the chief of communications for the Syracuse athletic department, said he expects the fan experience for Orange fans to remain unchanged as the school explores options on how it will handle its future marketing.
The school terminated its contract with marketing giant IMG on Monday in search of a better deal, ending a relationship with a company that was embedded in Syracuse athletics in multiple ways.
...
...
Matt Park, the voice of Syracuse football and basketball, is technically an employee of IMG and not the university.
Giansante declined to comment on Park but, when asked specifically about Park's future, he repeated that the fan experience would not change.
Park declined an interview request but passed along a statement via text message.
"It's been a privilege to serve Syracuse University athletics and IMG for more than a decade," Park said. "I certainly hope that will continue. I'm preparing for the football season as if it will."
IMG Paid Salaries of SU Coaches, Including JB. Now How Do They Get Their Paychecks? (PS; Carlson)
Sports marketing firm IMG paid Jim Boeheim $1.2 million in 2013. It paid former football coach Doug Marrone $1.3 million, a number that likely isn't vastly different from what the firm was scheduled to pay Scott Shafer.
According to Syracuse's most recent 990 form filed with the IRS at least four members of the athletic department received portions of their salaries from IMG in 2013, including athletic director Daryl Gross and women's lacrosse coach Gary Gait.
So what happens to those payments now that Syracuse has, at least temporarily, split from IMG and terminated a contract that was set to run through 2020-21?
Very little.
"Those payments will be handled appropriately by the university however we decide to run it," said Joe Giansate, the chief of communications for the Syracuse athletic department. "Those commitments will be honored."
...
LeBron and Melo
JB Says Bulls Best Fit for Melo and the World Cup is Great (PS; Carlson)
The NBA offseason is running its usual free agent cycle. So is Jim Boeheim's offseason.
The Syracuse head coach, so often a talk show darling due to his honest opinions and reluctance to censor them, appeared on "The Herd" with Colin Cowherd on ESPN Radio on Tuesday.
Naturally, he was asked about Carmelo Anthony and free agency. Naturally, Boeheim provided his advice to Anthony.
While Boeheim said he hasn't spoken to Anthony about his choice, he clearly thinks the former Syracuse star should value an NBA title more than money.
"On paper, if you knew Derrick Rose was going to be good and healthy, it'd be hard to find a better fit than Chicago looks like. I love the coach (Tom Thibodeau) there, I love the way (Joakim) Noah plays, and (Taj) Gibson ... That looks like a great situation."
...
ACC News
Pitt Non-Conference Schedule Again Weak (cbsports.com; Norlander)
Few teams have been lampooned over the past half-decade about strength of schedule like Pitt.
Jamie Dixon's unquestionably a rock-solid coach. His Panthers teams have made the NCAA Tournament in 10 of his 11 seasons at the school. He's achieved a .750 win percentage and will break 300 career victories this upcoming season. But here are the numbers that have plagued him:
278.
340.
255.
269.
229.
Those are Pitt's non-conference strength-of-schedule rankings, per KenPom.com, over the past five seasons. Dixon managed to schedule into the 100s a couple of times and has never offered up a slate that was in the top 30 percentile of toughest schedules in college hoops. He's not the only major-conference coach that's failed to truly test his team over the years, but few have tossed so many weaker teams onto the schedule like Dixon.
...
Other
State of Emergency in East Syracuse
Deadly Storm Hits Near Syracuse (Wedding Presents Almost Blown to Kansas; torontosun.com; Reuters)
Three people were confirmed killed near Syracuse, New York, from the collapse of three homes attributed to a possible tornado during a severe thunderstorm on Tuesday, the National Weather Service said.
The storm with damaging high winds struck a short distance from the hamlet of Peterboro in Madison County, New York, roughly 25 miles southeast of Syracuse, at about 7 p.m. local time, the Weather Service office in Binghamton said in a bulletin.
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