Tag: NBA
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Orange Roots, Green-Teamed Stardom: Syracuse Alum Drew Carter Hit It Big as a Celtics Broadcaster
Syracuse basketball has undoubtedly been through a rough patch recently: Missing March Madness since 2021, the retirement of legendary coach Jim Boeheim, missing an NBA draft pick since the 2020 draft, and an overall drop in competitive play against the other ACC power programs. Despite strong summer league performances, there are currently only two former…
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Celtics’ Oshae Brissett Is An NBA Champion
Former Syracuse forward Oshae Brissett has become the fourth Orange player ever to be a part of an NBA championship team. Brissett and the Boston Celtics defeated the Dallas Mavericks 106-88 in the NBA Finals last night, securing a 4-1 series win at TD Garden in Boston. Brissett joins Billy Gabor, Marty Byrnes, and Dion…
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What Does Jesse Edwards’ Future Entail?
Syracuse basketball made its first monumental decision shortly after the end of the 2023 season, moving on from Jim Boeheim and progressing into the Red Autry tenure. There are still a couple of key turning points this offseason, and SU fans will have their ears to the ground awaiting these choices. It all comes down…
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NBA Legacies: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The life and career of the NBA superstar Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a best-selling author, martial arts expert, and the second most decorated basketball player of all time. The 74 year old ex-NBA player still holds multiple records in the NBA and is one of the greatest ever to grace the court. Kareem is…
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Could LA Provide A Fairytale Ending for Carmelo Anthony?
Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball didn‚Äôt win a national championship last night, but it might have felt that way if you squinted. Boeheim‚Äôs Army, a perennial entrant of The Basketball Tournament since 2015, finally reached the championship game and delivered a win, thanks mostly in part to Keifer Sykes‚Äô last-second buzzer-beating three. To the victors go the…
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The Story of Jerami Grant’s Breakout NBA Season
Syracuse hasn’t produced boatloads of NBA talent over the past ten seasons, but the Orange that have gone to the Association have made their names known. One SU alum turned himself into a star this past NBA season. Jerami Grant began his NBA career as a role player. The two year SU man was drafted…
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What is Carmelo Anthony’s NBA Future?
Carmelo Anthony and the Portland Trail Blazers bowed out of the NBA playoffs last night with a 126-115 loss to the Denver Nuggets, dropping the first round series four games to two. If you’re a Blazers fan, there are more important storylines to follow. But as Syracuse fans, the future of the most transcendent player…
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Former Syracuse Standout Oshae Brissett Leads Charge in NBA Playoff Win
Oshae Brissett has been magical since signing with the Indiana Pacers earlier this season. In 21 regular season games this year (16 starts), Brissett‚Äôs stats were as follows: 10.9 PPG 5.5 RPG 1.0 BPG 48.3 FG% 42.3 3P% The kid from Mississauga has been proving haters wrong left and right, as well as making his…
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Top Three Former SU Hoopers Primed for an NBA Return
The ball doesn’t stop bouncing after college for a lot of Syracuse basketball players, even the ones who don’t quite make the league out of college. While Alan Griffin and Quincy Guerrier are probing the NBA draft waters with a lot of skepticism, it’s time to check up on the guys still trying to make…
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What Does Oshae Brissett’s Success Mean for SU?
After bouncing around the G-League for two years, Oshae Brissett finally has an NBA home. The Indiana Pacers signed him to a three-year deal after two straight 10-day contracts. Four straight starts later, it seems clear that this is no fluke. With centers Myles Turner (toe) and Goga Bitadze (ankle), Brissett was given an opportunity…
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Former SU Forward Oshae Brissett Signs Contract Extension with Pacers
Former Syracuse forward Oshae Brissett signed a three-year contract extension with the Indiana Pacers yesterday. Brissett went undrafted in 2019 and was signed by the Toronto Raptors. He appeared in 19 games before he was waived in December of that year. Before signing with the Pacers, Brissett carved it up with the G-League‚Äôs Fort Wayne…
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Dinner is on him: Jerami Grant Cashes in with the Pistons
Outside of Carmelo Anthony, Syracuse basketball is notorious for producing pro‚Äôs that do not live up to their expectations. The highlight of Dion Waiters‚Äô career after being selected fourth overall in 2012 is riding the bench on a championship-winning Laker team last year. Even after winning Rookie of the Year in 2014, Michael Carter-Williams never…
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The Top 5 Syracuse Players to Go Pro Under Boeheim
Jim Boeheim has dedicated his life to the university. Boeheim began his career at Syracuse in 1963 as a guard for the basketball team and went into coaching just six years later. Not the coach, nor anyone else, would have realized at the time that Boeheim would spend a half century as part of Syracuse…
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Top 5 Syracuse Players in NBA History
With Elijah Hughes climbing up the mock draft boards, he is set to become the 54th player to come through Syracuse before playing in the NBA. In this piece, we rank the top five former Syracuse players in NBA history. 5. Sherman Douglas Douglas is indisputably the best point guard SU has ever had. He…
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Orange in the NBA: Month 1 Roundup
As of Friday, we‚Äôre officially one month through the NBA season. We‚Äôve already seen a lot go down, from the Warriors shocking fall from grace, to LeBron putting up MVP numbers in year 17 to Luka Doncic asserting himself as one of the league‚Äôs elite players. It‚Äôs been a fun ride so far, but what…
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Carmelo Anthony Breaks Silence on NBA Career
Last season, Syracuse’s 2003 national champion Carmelo Anthony was cut from the Houston Rockets. He was not picked up by any of the other 29 NBA teams for the remainder of the season, and as free agency reaches its latter stages in 2019 Anthony remains unsigned. Throughout this period of a Carmelo-less NBA, the ten-time…
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Is Carmelo Anthony Destined for One Last Shot in the NBA?
Carmelo Anthony is the perhaps the¬†most talented player Syracuse has ever had. He put together a season to remember in leading the Orangemen to the national title in 2003, then turned pro that spring. He was among the NBA’s elite for many years, but that is no longer the case. Melo is currently a legend…
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Tyus Battle Spurned by NBA Draft Combine
Exactly one year and two days ago, we were talking about what Tyus Battle had to prove at the NBA Draft combine, who he had to outperform and how his prospects looked after the combine was over. We won‚Äôt be talking about any of that this year. Battle and the rest of the college basketball/NBA…
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Battle vs. Bazley: Who Has More NBA Potential?
Feelings aside, this is definitely a conversation worth having. Obviously, one player bailed on Syracuse before even stepping foot on the court while the other played in 103 games over three years, and led SU in scoring twice. Syracuse fans will have drastically different memories of Tyus Battle and Darius Bazley ‚Äì perhaps even opposing…
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Orange Legacy After Melo: How Does The Orange in the NBA Perform?
Syracuse has been a proud and prestigious program, and the legacy lives on in Orange who made it to the NBA. Since Carmelo Anthony seems to have practically ended his NBA career this year, could some of those players who are currently active make history? Granted, while Anthony’s career may ultimately be disappointing,¬†he’s almost a…
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Chances Tyus Battle Returns to Syracuse Next Season
On May 30, 2018, Tyus Battle announced he was coming back to Syracuse for his junior season, for another year playing with what promised (or not) to be a stacked team (with Darius Bazley). Given Syracuse fan’s experiences with Tyler Lydon and Malachi Richardson in the two years prior, Battle coming back felt like a…
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SU in the NBA: 2018-19 Season Preview
Happy NBA opening day! It‚Äôs time to check in on those representing SU in the Association. Seven former Syracuse players are on professional rosters for the start of this season. Carmelo Anthony- Houston Rockets Melo is on the move again. The ten-time all-star was dumped by the Thunder after Anthony posted career-lows in points and…
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7/14 Fizz Radio: ACC Media Kickoff Preview and an NBA Summer League Check-In
The Fizz’s Tyler Aki and Jonathon Hoppe go through their biggest storylines heading into this week’s ACC Media Kickoff (0:00-13:22), when the Orange will start to be a force in the conference (13:22-30:59), a look at former SU players in the NBA Summer League (30:59-36:22) and wrap it up with Fizz Feedback.
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Syracuse in the Summer League Update
The 2018-19 NBA season has been soiled by a much improved super team. But the Las Vegas Summer League‚Äôs exponentially growing popularity, which now houses all 30 teams, serves as a week-plus buffer from basketball‚Äôs dead period. This summer, Vegas is the brief home for a number of former Syracuse players trying to make their…
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Another Quiet Playoffs for Melo and Syracuse’s Former Stars
If Carmelo Anthony is not the greatest Syracuse basketball player ever, he’s certainly the most visible. Dave Bing is in the Hall of Fame. Derrick Coleman was drafted higher. Lawrence Moten scored more points. But Carmelo will live forever in school lore for delivering its only national championship, and thus all eyes are on him…
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Syracuse in the NBA: 2018 Season Recap
Tyler Ennis In his third full season in the NBA, Ennis has had perhaps the most productive season of his career. The former SU point-guard is playing roughly 12 minutes a game for the Lakers and averaging exactly four points a contest. Lately, though, with the Lakers out of contention and dealing with some injuries…
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EMERGENCY FIZZCAST: Bazley Bolts For The G-League and the NCAA Should Be Terrified
The Fizz’s Tyler Aki and Tim Leonard discuss Darius Bazley’s decision to decommit from Syracuse and go to the G-League, what this means for the Orange in 2018-19 and why the NCAA should be terrified for its future.
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TOSS UP: Why it’s better to lose Tyus Battle to the NBA than Oshae Brissett
Now that SU‚Äôs magical postseason run has to come to an end, it‚Äôs just about that time where we take a look forward at the next year‚Äôs basketball season even though it‚Äôs still about eight months away. While we can look at next year‚Äôs recruiting class and drool over guys like Darius Bazley, Jalen Carey…
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Four former Syracuse basketball products sign professional contracts
Let‚Äôs be honest. It‚Äôs not easy to become a professional basketball player. Then, once you‚Äôve reached the proverbial mountaintop, it‚Äôs even harder to stay there. Syracuse has had its fair share of successful alum head to the professional ranks, and while guys like Carmelo Anthony and Dion Waiters are sustaining successful careers in the NBA,…
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Syracuse in the Summer League update
The NBA Summer League is usually for one of two things: players on their way into the league and players on their last hope. Former Syracuse players in both categories are playing in the NBA’s Summer League this year, and Saturday started what they hope will be the first step on their path to the…
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John Gillon Talks Syracuse, the NBA and More With The Fizz
John Gillon is a busy man these days. He’s chasing an NBA dream despite not being highly regarded on draft boards. The point guard who dug the Orange out of many holes this season had some time to talk about his time at SU and his NBA potential. Orange Fizz: Coach Boeheim said that he…
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Tyus Battle is Learning From Former SU Prospect’s Mistakes
It‚Äôs no secret that Syracuse basketball has seen a number of losses in the last week, namely Mike Hopkins and Tyler Lydon. However, the Orange received some good news today from a member of their freshman class. Tyus Battle announced that he will be returning to school for his sophomore season, according to Mike Waters…
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Christmas Posts Strong Performance In First Game Since Ban
Nobody should be more concerned about the Orange‚Äôs post-season ban than Rakeem Christmas.¬† Christmas, as the only scholarship senior currently in the rotation, now has to use the team‚Äôs eight remaining games to prove that he is NBA-worthy. Currently, Christmas is expected to be drafted sometime in the first round.¬† As one of the most…
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