Basketball

Wilson completes Summer League with second-team honor, improves NBA outlook

If Jalen Wilson's draft position — second round, 51st overall — made it an uphill battle for him to carve out time on the Brooklyn Nets' roster, he's already done plenty to offset those unfavorable circumstances. The Nets fell a few points short of a trip to the NBA Summer League finals ...

PHOTOS: Former Jayhawks hold open practice for TBT

Mass Street, the KU alumni basketball team coached by former Jayhawks and NBA players Marcus and Markieff Morris for The Basketball Tournament, held its first open practice Sunday in Lawrence.

Former Jayhawks looking to stand out in this year’s NBA Summer League

The NBA Summer League is one of the most thorough preseason evaluative periods afforded by any American sport. It’s essentially like if the former Week 4 of the NFL preseason, in which teams were composed of almost exclusively rookies and last-chance veteran backups seeking the spotlight, ...

Jalen Wilson embracing pre-draft grind

Last spring, Jalen Wilson participated in several pre-draft workouts. But with the possibility of returning to Kansas still present in his mind, he didn't have "two feet in." This time around, he's fully committed, and armed with the knowledge he gained from his previous go-round about what it ...

Former Jayhawk Joel Embiid wins NBA MVP

Philadelphia 76ers center, league scoring champion and former Jayhawk Joel Embiid earned his first NBA MVP trophy Tuesday night, edging two-time winner Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets. The 29-year-old from Yaoundé, Cameroon, averaged 33.1 points to win his second straight scoring title, ...