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Former NBA standout Monta Ellis, who played in the league for more than a decade without playing college basketball, will serve as general manager at Alcorn State this season, the school announced Friday.

Alcorn State, an HBCU that finished 9-23 last year, is near the home of the Mississippi native who starred at Lanier High School in Jackson, Mississippi, before the Golden State Warriors selected him with the 40th pick in the 2005 NBA draft.

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/49554748/ex-nba-star-monta-ellis-named-alcorn-state-basketball-gm

Source: https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/charlotte-hornets-named-top-landing-191249554.html

Charlotte Hornets Named Top Landing Spot for Former NBA MVP Russell Westbrook in Free Agency

They just lost Lamelo and could use a new ball handler. Very interesting speculation. Thoughts?

Stay safe Chicago.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_NBA_head_coaches

The next highest tenured coach is 12 years and there's only 4 coaches who've been with their teams prior to 2021.

Source: https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/48942217/aspiration-co-founder-sanberg-sentenced-14-years-prison

LOS ANGELES -- A federal judge sentenced Aspiration co-founder Joseph Sanberg, whose now-bankrupt green banking company is at the center of an NBA investigation into the LA Clippers, to 14 years in federal prison Monday.

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Aspiration announced a 23-year, $300 million endorsement deal with the Clippers in September 2021 and a $28 million deal with star Kawhi Leonard in April 2022. Podcaster Pablo Torre, citing internal documents and an interview with an unnamed Aspiration employee, reported that Leonard's sponsorship deal with the company was to circumvent the NBA's salary cap, prompting the league to launch its investigation.

Clippers owner Steve Ballmer, who invested $60 million of his own in Aspiration, denied he had knowledge of Leonard's deal or that he directed the company to strike one.

Ballmer's attorney sent a letter to Wilson, advocating against any leniency and asking for a sentence that would deter others from committing similar fraudulent schemes. The letter stated that Ballmer was "flagrantly defrauded" by Sanberg and lost the entirety of his $60 million investment in the company, and that Sanberg targeted Ballmer for his wealth and passion for environmental sustainability while using his relationship with Ballmer to attract other investors.

Sanberg spoke to the NBA's investigators as part of its probe, according to an April 17 letter to Wilson by David Anders, the Wachtell Lipton attorney leading the league's investigation.

In the brief letter, which represented the NBA investigator's first public comments about the inquiry, Anders said Sanberg sat for two in-person interviews and provided documents and, via his lawyers, "information that was relevant to our investigation."

Anders continued, "In all our dealings with Mr. Sanberg, both directly and through his counsel, he provided information that was consistent with our review of contemporaneous documents and other evidence. Mr. Sanberg's cooperation substantially assisted our investigation, including our ability to develop a more complete understanding of key events."