Atlantic Coast Conference WiretapMay 2013 Atlantic Coast Conference Wiretap

Shane Larkin To Enter NBA Draft

Apr 26, 2013 3:40 PM

Shane Larkin plans to enter the NBA draft and skip his final two seasons at Miami.

Larkin is considered the third-best point guard in the draft class behind Michigan's Trey Burke and Syracuse's Michael Carter-Williams.

Larkin led the Hurricanes to the ACC regular season title and the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament.

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Shane Larkin Will Wait Until Draft Deadline To Decide Future

Apr 20, 2013 9:52 PM

Shane Larkin will wait until the April 28 deadline before announcing whether he will declare for the NBA draft.

"I'm just going to class right now,” Larkin said. “I have finals coming up, so that's what I'm really focused on."

A 5-foot-11 point guard, Larkin is being projected as a late-first to late-second round draft pick.

Larkin averaged 14.6 points on 47.9 percent shooting last season and was voted the ACC player of the year by the league’s coaches.

Michael Casagrande/South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Tags: Shane Larkin, Miami (FL) Hurricanes, Atlantic Coast Conference, NCAA, NBA, NBA NBA Draft, NBA Draft General, NCAA Misc Rumor

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Jabari Parker Not Set On Entering Draft After Single Season At Duke

Apr 12, 2013 10:37 PM

Jabari Parker said early entry to the NBA is not a certainty.

“I’m going to look into that,” Parker said of staying at Duke beyond the 2013-14 season. “I love the whole attitude of ‘staying in college,’ because I want to take advantage of it. Getting a free education is big time in my family.”

Parker wants to be viewed as a role model in his hometown of Chicago.

“Everything in my city is negative,” Parker said of how he feels his hometown is portrayed in national media. “[The media] try to bring it down so much with the violence and I’m an African-American male in my community…going to college and that’s big time.

“I want to represent them in the best form, the best manner just to keep them close to my heart so they can see that there’s a young [guy] out on the South Side doing big things.”

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Tags: Jabari Parker, Duke Blue Devils, Atlantic Coast Conference, NCAA, NBA, NBA NBA Draft, NBA Draft General, NCAA Misc Rumor

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P.J. Hairston Returning To North Carolina

Apr 12, 2013 8:31 PM

P.J. Hairston will return to North Carolina for his junior season.

Hairston averaged 18.2 points over the Tar Heels’ final 13 games and made 89 three-point field goals overall, the second-highest single-season total in school history.

Andrew Carter/Raleigh News & Observer

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Roy Williams Expects McAdoo, Bullock, Hairston To Make Group Announcement Regarding NBA Draft Plans

Apr 6, 2013 3:50 PM

Roy Williams provided some optimism that James Michael McAdoo, Reggie Bullock and P.J. Hairston might return to North Carolina.

“We're much much closer to having all of them back than we were last year,” Williams said.

Williams was referring to the departures of underclassmen Harrison Barnes, John Henson and Kendall Marshall -- all three of whom declared for the NBA draft at the end of the 2011-12 season.

Only McAdoo has been projected as a first-round pick in the forthcoming draft.

“They are all enjoying school, they are all still hungry to do more and there is nobody that is a guaranteed top-10 pick,” Williams said. “We still have to continue going through the process, allowing those guys to make decisions, and in my mind some of them have already been made just about, but we're going to wait until all three are done so we can just have one announcement.”

Andrew Carter/Raleigh News & Observer

Tags: James McAdoo, Reggie Bullock, P.J. Hairston, North Carolina Tar Heels, Atlantic Coast Conference, NCAA, NBA, NBA NBA Draft, NBA Draft General

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Andrew Wiggins' Brother Believes Kentucky May Not Be Best Fit

Apr 5, 2013 9:19 PM

Andrew Wiggins’ older brother, Nick, thinks Kentucky may not be the best fit for him.

“It’s all about combinations of players you put on the floor and how players feel about playing with each other, playing a team game," Nick Wiggins said.  “And I feel like they got a couple kids coming (back), they got seven or eight dudes that are already signed to come in off the (McDonald’s) All-America team, and I don’t feel like it would be the best fit for him to make his own legacy. But in the end, he’s going to make the best decision for him.”

Nick believes his parents want Andrew to pick Florida State.  

“I think both my parents would like him to go to Florida State University because that’s where my mom and my dad attended school so it would be pretty amazing to see him do that and I believe they would be happy with that decision,” Nick, a junior guard at Wichita State, told SNY.tv.

Kyle Tucker/Louisville Courier-Journal

Tags: Andrew Wiggins, Florida State Seminoles, Kentucky Wildcats, Atlantic Coast Conference, Southeastern Conference, High School, NCAA, NBA

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NBA Scouts Worried Alex Len Will Follow Similar Trajectory As Nikoloz Tskitishvili

Apr 5, 2013 2:56 PM

Several NBA scouts expressed concern that Alen Len may follow a similar trajectory as Nikoloz Tskitishvili, a 7-footer who was the fifth overall pick of the 2002 draft and averaged less than 3 points and 2 rebounds in a 172-game career.

Len has elite-level athleticism, but played erratically during his sophomore season at Maryland.

Len is projected to be taken among the top eleven picks in the June draft.

Don Markus/Baltimore Sun

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Andrew Wiggins Gets Better Of Matchup With Jabari Parker

Apr 4, 2013 1:40 PM

Jabari Parker got a chance to size up Andrew Wiggins during the McDonald's All American game on Wednesday.

Parker blocked Wiggins’ first attempt from the perimeter, and managed to stay in front of Wiggins more often than not, but did commit five fouls in the process.

"It went pretty good," Parker said. "He is super athletic so I had to over-commit on the drive, but he can shoot so it was kind of difficult. He is a great player."

Wiggins finished with 19 points on 6-of-10 shooting and helped hold Parker to 10 points on 4-of-13 shooting.

"Going against Jabari is the best going against the best," Wiggins said. "I look forward to doing it in the future."

Mike Helfgot/Chicago Tribune

Tags: Andrew Wiggins, Jabari Parker, Duke Blue Devils, Atlantic Coast Conference, High School, NCAA, NBA, NBA NBA Draft, NBA Draft General

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