![]() ![]() This year features new venues and a slight change in format, with sponsors able to “buy” a team and populate their own roster instead of the league distributing players. Games are typically Thursday evenings and Sunday afternoons, with some at the Jackie Robinson YMCA as well, and run through Aug. The Swish Pro-Am League returns to San Diego for a fifth season, starting Thursday at Lincoln High School. Both could get undrafted free agent roster spots in the NBA’s Las Vegas Summer League next month. Matt Bradley and Adam Seiko have also participated in the pre-draft process with workouts. Mensah’s defensive and shot-blocking prowess was well documented, but he showed offensive bursts at Portsmouth, averaging 13.7 points, 9.7 rebounds and 2.0 blocks while shooting 65.4 percent. The only other Mountain West players on the list are San Jose State guard Omari Moore, the conference’s player of the year, at 44 th and Utah State forward Taylor Funk at 95 th.Įven if Mensah is undrafted, he could sign a two-way NBA contract - teams now have three - that allows players to bounce between the big club and its G League affiliate. The Athletic ranks him 86 th in its top 100 prospects. ![]() The one with the best chance is 6-foot-10 Nathan Mensah, the two-time Mountain West defensive player of the year who showed well at the seniors-only Portsmouth Invitational Tournament in April and has participated in workouts for about half the NBA clubs. The NBA Draft is Thursday night, and no SDSU players are expected to hear their name called in the two-round, 58-pick event. “But I left the program in far better shape than I found it.” “Was it the right decision? No,” Brandenburg once said of leaving Wyoming. He also took the Cowboys to the final of the 1986 NIT. He was perfectly built for Wyoming and what Wyoming could attract athlete-wise, mentality-wise and toughness-wise.”īrandenburg was named WAC coach of the year three times. “They just didn’t fit his style or his way, so it didn’t work out for him. “He had to have unique guys who would play for him, and he didn’t have those guys out there,” McKinney said of Brandenburg’s time at SDSU. The leading scorers on his teams were Tony Ross (15.9 points), Mitch McMullen (14.6), Shawn Jamison (16.8), Marty Dow (17.0) and Joe McNaull (13.1). The Aztecs were members of the Western Athletic Conference back then. Wyoming still plays in the A-A, which has been since downsized to 11,612 for basketball.īrandenburg’s SDSU teams played at the Sports Arena 10 miles away or, if it was booked, on campus at antiquated 3,668-seat Peterson Gym. He goes, ‘A day later or a day before, I might not have gone to San Diego State.’”Īt Wyoming, his early success was a catalyst to raise money for the 15,000-seat Arena-Auditorium - the largest indoor seating venue in the state - that replaced 5,000-seat War Memorial Fieldhouse. ![]() “He said never make a decision when you’re mad. ![]()
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