Per ESPN, Hunter Dickenson to the portal (or, "For every Yin, there must be a Yang")
Sorry to share this news on Jadyn day.
Do we even play basketball?
Big payday for NIL coming and likely with a contender
Probably, but Nance to UNC last year shows you can't always assume it'll work out.
Listening to Ant Wright now who speaks with him frequently. It has nothing to do with NIL. It's purely a roster construction issue and him feeling he can't win here next year. He loves Michigan but knows he doesn't have an NBA future so he wants to try to win his last year. Can't blame him on the roster construction issue. With Tschettar, Williams and other freshmen getting significant minutes you aren't going to win anything.
A 7 footer without an NBA future. Would’ve been an unthinkable phrase to type not that many years ago. How the turn tables.
If you see a 7 footer in the U.S., there is a 10% chance they have played in the NBA (stat from Radiolab podcast)
This stat surprises me. I did my own back-of-the-envelope calcs (I haven't listened to the podcast --- I searched for it but couldn't find it). I found some of the numbers I use below via some google sleuthing.
~ 4750 men have ever played in the NBA (regular season or playoffs).
~ 25 current NBA players are 7 feet or taller.
~ 30 * 15 = 450 current NBA players all together.
~ 5.6% of current NBA players are 7 feet or taller.
Assuming the same ratio historically throughout NBA history (perhaps a dubious assumption, but I feel it's directionally close), ~ 264 all time NBA players were 7 feet or taller.
If the stat you quote is true, ~ 2500 American men are 7 feet or taller (not exactly 264 * 10, as there have been NBA players that have died, the league began in 1946).
Given 330MM Americans, 50% men --- that is 1 in about every 625,000 American men. Which makes a 7 foot+ tall man among the 99.999% percentile height-wise.
I don't know ........... maybe? I know 7 foot tall men aren't exactly common-place, but 1 in 625,000 seems a bit too rare.
March 31st, 2023 at 11:19 PM ^
Google search suggests that there are between 2000-3000 7 footers in the world, with one source getting as specific as 2800. Regardless, the known number of 7 footers is exceedingly small.
This is, depressingly, quite rational.
Exactly what I expected to happen and for the exact reason I suspected. It was clear for awhile to anyone who was being realistic that the likeliest scenario had Kobe and Jett going to the NBA, and with them gone, there is almost no reason for Hunter to stick around.
Next year is going to be really, really bad. If Juwan has any hope of surviving he will have to pull off a miracle rebuild on the fly.
Luckily in the days of Portal and NIL that is possible. Howeva I full expect our basketball program to be unlucky. We may be talking Ellerbe v Amaker bad without drastic roster improvements
This year was Amaker bad. Next year will be Ellerbe bad.
This comment is amazing. I have but one upvote to give.
So he is not self aware and doesn't see his role in why we cant the next year.
Hold up, a rational thought process from a smart individual that knows his own limitations? I thought these kids were raised to think they were the best and any negative effects were because of the coaches.
It’s the smart thing to do.
It’s time to let TWill cook!!!
Could you imagine if Hutchinson thought this after 2020. Leaders lead.
Thank God he didn’t think that. The man almost single handedly turned the fortunes of our beloved football program around. I’ll never forget it.
March 31st, 2023 at 10:17 PM ^
Please help me understand something. Why does a player like Hunter who is a starter and a star here, assuming he is getting a bunch of NIL, leave? I just don’t feel a connection with these teams any more. Besides the 1 and dones, and then the player you are attached to and is the face of the program leaves for another school it just feels like not a program (and this is true for all basketball programs, not just Michigan).
Purely from a money standpoint, I would think that a team is close to winning it all but needs a center would back up the NIL Brinks truck for a guy with his track record. He's extremely productive in points, rebounds, and passing, has worked at trying to develop his game, and has a high BB IQ. The competition for a new transfer destination should drive his NIL value above whatever he was going to get here.
And you never know; he's got 2 more years of eligibility. If he can improve on the volume of the 42% 3-point percentage, he might actually get a decent NBA sniff, even though he'd be at least 23, depending on how long he sticks around at a new school.
I wish him well, except if/when he plays us.
March 31st, 2023 at 10:54 PM ^
He loves Michigan but knows he doesn't have an NBA future so he wants to try to win his last year.
He actually has two years left, though, since his freshman year was the Covid season.
Rumor is Georgetown or Maryland.
If he goes to Maryland what a turncoat
Meh, that was more about Turge I think.
Georgetown is not "going somewhere to win" though. That place is a damn dumpster fire, and I say that confidently as a Michigan basketball fan. Our house is glass; theirs is wet kleenex.
Yeah, Georgetown even with an extremely fortunate transfer overturn ain't a winner.
I think a lot of what people are hearing is just speculation based on proximity to where he grew up. It's why you're hearing GTown, Maryland, and UVa - they're the "name" programs in the DMV.
West Virginia is calling also.
https://www.si.com/college/westvirginia/basketball/wvu-reaches-out-to-michigan-transfer-hunter-dickinson
He'll get a lot more calls.
Not going to win big at either of these spots, especially Georgetown, which is a real mess.
Surprised it's not Fairleigh Dickenson. Think of all the NIL opportunities!
Sure would be nice to win a national championship in football because basketball is gonna be a dumpster fire next year.
It also would be nice to win one in hockey in eight days.
I hear Purdue is in need of a center.
did edey declare for the nba?
Depends on who's sources you want to believe.
I'll be honest, I don't blame him. This program is going in the wrong direction and fast. Good luck to him.
Hunter was kind off a flawed player with this roster. Say Bufkin comes back. Get a couple of transfers. Dug and Tarris take steps up, GWIII can hit 3s and sprinkle a little Ewing Theory in there. Could be a top 25 team.
Bufkin aint coming back.
He might. #1 option. Still extremely young for his class. Will graduate and could play himself Into lottery.
Word I’ve heard is Kobe is still likely to come back. Also same guy who told me Dickinson was 50-50 to leave Michigan. Ant has already shared why Hunter is leaving. On Kobe, lots of thoughts that he could come back and have a really good year and help the team make a tourney run with a more athletic roster. He’d be able to potentially move into a lottery spot. Right now he’s probably looking 25-35 as far as picks go. He could go to the combine and kill it obviously and decide to go. But right now people at Michigan believe Kobe will be back.
Lol. Wow.
Didn’t we have the best recruiting class in the country and make the Elite Eight like two years ago?
Friday afternoon news dump. It's likely girlfriend related.
I'm trying to decide if this joke is a glass is half full or glass is half empty joke.
FAU confirmed ...
Early April Fools?
Yes, because Hunter DickEnson doesn't even go here!
Tarris Reed season!
Probably going to need a transfer as well. Can't go into the season with only 2 guys who can play the 5.
Well, then thank goodness that Zach Edey is in the portal?
Wait, what?