Minneapolis South’s boys basketball team is off to an 8-1 start led by senior backcourt duo Poet Davis and Jumarion Weh, while Jalen Suggs is making his own in the NBA and Clemson’s Chase and Dilon Hunter have connections to a former girls basketball star.
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MeMe’s back in town
‘It felt amazing to come back home and just see my high school and my family showing me love.’
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When Blacks transformed the game of basketball
‘I knew that Julius Erving and Earl ‘The Pearl’ Monroe had just transformed the game in ways that White fans were not accustomed to.’
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Enjoying games the hoop snobs miss
‘There is so much great basketball in the Cities. Go see a game.’
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Christmas Day belongs to basketball
‘Playing on Christmas is a mark of significance and it carries meaning.’
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The W receives historic capital raise
The WNBA now is infused with the largest ever capital raise—$75 million—in women’s pro sports history.
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Hughes uses lessons learned from the sport he loves
This is part one in a two-part interview with Juriad Hughes, a former St. Paul Central boys’ basketball player from 1987-89.
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Plenty of connections in the game of basketball
It all came together for me when I saw former metro area boys’ basketball stars Larry Suggs, Brian Sandifer and Quincy Caldwell on the bench as coaches for the Minnesota team, Team Sizzle.
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Basketball leagues offer excuses for poor diversity numbers
‘There’re so many qualified individuals out there that deserve an opportunity and deserve a chance.’
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City Conference races almost settled
The City Conference races in boys’ and girls’ basketball—in Minneapolis and St. Paul respectively—are a couple of weeks away from being settled.