🏀 Hoos in the Pros 2023-24

Unfortunately, that’s where ALL the money appears to be.

Younger daughter is interested in sports journalism/marketing, and we’ve discussed how working for a newspaper will hopefully never happen (they’re dead) and the best case is probably working for a gambling site in some fashion.

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Yup the "journalism " that is being funded by the gambling sites is crazy.

That said Indi think there will always be a home for the deeper columns and in-depth pieces. But not sure what that will look like.

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It just amazes me: 5 of the first 6 picks can’t shoot.

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Dan Hurley chews gum like a jerk.

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Yeah, “best” certainly isn’t the right term. “Financially steadiest employer” would be a better term.

Because its really marketing. To the extent its journalism is incidental, and entirely dependent on the writer.

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So Atlanta taking Risacher means Dre is probably getting traded right, honestly wouldn’t be the worst thing for him.

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Former @Hooandtrue dream recruit Cody Williams… :sob: back when he was only in that 90-125 range

edit: to be fair it was right before his blow up. Dude ended up a 5 star the next week

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“Leon Bond (more of a Matisse Thybulle)”
Sad Tb GIF by Hide The Pain Harold

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Significantly more egregious than that is comparing Dunn to Danny Green.

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Reed Sheppard would have been the best Hoo god dammit Kentucky

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High school Dunn was a shooting guard legend has it LMAO

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Does Tad Boyle qualify for the good-recruiter, bad-coach club (aka the Romar)? Also led the most recent USA U19 World Cup team to a very underwhelming finish.

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I’ve completely tuned out the NBA for most of the past year, and watching the draft coverage on ESPN am just now learning that Brogdon is going to Washington - not sure its the best for him or not, but as a Wiz fan and given their proximity to Charlottesville, its nice to see.

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Dunn is 6’9” KD. Book it.

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Starting to feel bad for Knecht.

He was a beast during the season, but he was kinda old and hadn’t performed at that level before. He was obviously draft-worthy but I was surprised he was ranked that highly. If he’d been viewed as a late-lottery (which felt more appropriate) rather than a mid or even early lottery pick, he wouldn’t be twisting in the wind like this.

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McCain seems like an ok kid, but I appreciate the boos when his pick was announced.

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RD to PHX at 28

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In a sea of Booker jerseys, my kiddos will stand out in RD gear. I’m pumped.

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I worked in journalism for 40 years and I teach it now. My kids want to be sports journalists, too. It’s not the most lucrative field at the moment, but there’s still plenty of opportunity. Virtually every college team, every pro team, every college or pro conference, every league, every venue (and so on) are building out their content staffs. It’s not quite journalism, but it’s not traditional marketing or PR, either. It’s somewhere in between: You can’t be critical of your employer, but they don’t expect you to be all mindless rah-rah either. I would steer my kids to one of those places before I recommended they work for a gambling site.

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