Saturday Quickies: Let’s Ball (In Egypt) Edition

Good Saturday morning, BBN. Today, John Calipari coaches his first real game as the Team USA U19 head basketball coach today. He’s got P.J. Washington and Hamidou Diallo on the team; they’ll take on Iran in preliminary play this morning at 11:15 ET. Tai Wynyard and New Zealand started their matchup with Korea at 7 this morning.

Best of luck to the Cats in international play over in Egypt.

Tweet of the day

It looks hot over there.

Your quickies

Jarren Williams named top performer on Day 1 of The Opening - KSR
Williams keeps racking up these accomplishments as his hype builds before he gets to Kentucky. He seems to keep getting better.

Cal and his Cats enjoying Egypt - SEC Country
After dealing with rumors of Calipari going to the Knicks, Calipari got up and enjoyed the sights in Egypt with his USA/UK players.

Calipari has to shut up the rumors again - Cats Pause
Cal told Mike & Mike that he has the best job in the country, which he has to tell everyone every single year.

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Bowden has a lot of pressure on him to excel right away, but that’s not exactly realistic. He’ll probably start out with a rather insignificant role, and it’d take a Benny Snell-like contribution to see a major increase in that role.

Vince Marrow teases a commitment this weekend - KSR
Kentucky’s recruiting mastermind/ tight end coach hints that we could get a commitment this weekend.

Rajon Rondo waived by Chicago Bulls - Bleacher Report
The Bulls also waived Isaiah Canaan. Both will enter free agency today. With Rondo’s postseason performances, he’ll likely find a home quickly.

Fans love potential recruits, but hate them once they commit - Herald-Leader
Kevin Knox saw this first-hand. When you go somewhere that people didn’t expect you to, the fan bases left without a commitment can get very ugly.

Ricky Rubio traded to Jazz - SB Nation
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Top NBA free agents, news and analysis - Washington Post
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Former NFL tight end dies of Leukemia - ESPN
Mitchell Henry, a former Green Bay Packers and Denver Broncos tight end who graduated from Western Kentucky University. He was 24.

NBA free agents 2017: Ranking the top 50 - SBNation.com
This free agent class is top-heavy, but falls off thereafter. Here are our rankings by position.

Veterans on the roster bubble for all 32 NFL teams - ESPN
Could Adam Jones be on his way out in Cincinnati? Could Philadelphia's 2014 first-round pick Marcus Smith be on the outside looking in? NFL Nation reporters pick 32 veterans who might not make 2017 rosters.

Paterno family drops lawsuit vs. NCAA - Yahoo
The Joe Paterno family filed a lawsuit against the NCAA back in 2013 following the Penn State scandal.

Paul George reportedly telling friends he plans to play for Lakers - CBS
Who knows where George ends up this year, but it seems clear that once he hits free agency next offseason, he’ll be headed to the west coast.

9 of June’s best new music releases, from Fleet Foxes to Lorde - Vox
Plus folk rock from Big Thief and Millie Bobby Brown.

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