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27 days ago
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mlive.com —
Michigan State junior forward Adreian Payne will return for his senior season with the Spartans, according to a tweet from Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) of Yahoo! According to the tweet, "Michigan State's Adreian Payne will return to school for his senior year, a source told Y! Sports. Midnight deadline to enter NBA Draft."
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27 days ago
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Nix, who completed his Michigan State eligibility earlier this month, told Beyond Sports Network in Portsmouth that after his playing days are over, he would be interested in doing "some type of sports broadcasting."
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28 days ago
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Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green said Friday he's spoken to Payne 10 times about the process, offering advice and words of encouragement to his friend who has until Sunday to decide whether to enter the NBA draft or remain at Michigan State for his senior season.
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28 days ago
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Underclassmen have until Sunday to enter the draft and Payne's decision is one of two the Spartans were waiting on this offseason. Freshman Gary Harris, projected by some to be a lottery pick, announced last week he was returning for his sophomore season.
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29 days ago
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"Izzo was going to be that guy to push me to try to get to the next level," Ellis told Spartan Nation Radio. "I know Tom Izzo is going to be a Hall of Fame coach. I know they make it to the tournament every year. They play for national championships every year, and I want to be a part of that. I want to try to win one of these national championships."
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29 days ago
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freep.com —
If Alvin Ellis III has his way, Michigan State basketball may soon be known as the Chicago East Spartans. “I’m working on it,” said Ellis, a Chicago De La Salle senior shooting guard and Tom Izzo’s latest recruit, who signed Wednesday and was texting with the No. 1 player in the class of 2014 on Thursday to try to sway him in MSU’s direction.
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29 days ago
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Chicago De La Salle coach Tom White doesn't just think that Alvin Ellis III is a good fit for Michigan State and coach Tom Izzo — he knows it. "The thing about Coach (Tom) Izzo from my standpoint, and I'm really not in tune to the Spartans mentality, except they I know they are hard workers,'' said White, who just completed his 18th year as head coach at traditional powerhouse De La Salle.
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29 days ago
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Tom Izzo has discussed the pros and cons, gathered the best information available from his 20-or-so NBA management and personnel sources, and passed the ball into Adreian Payne's hands. "We've put together as much information as we can, and we've tried to help him as much as we can,'' Izzo said on Thursday afternoon. "It's a tough decision, and in the next two or three days he will need to make that decision."
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30 days ago
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After running into Adreian Payne at a Lansing restaurant Monday night, Ebling said he honestly couldn't tell if the Spartans' junior was leaning toward coming back to Michigan State for his senior season of basketball or ready to go to the NBA.
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30 days ago
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MSU announced today that Chicago guard Alvin Ellis III has signed with MSU for the class of 2013. He joins forward Gavin Schilling. Ellis and Schilling actually played together in high school for the 2011-12 season. Ellis is a former Minnesota commit who reopened things after Tubby Smith was let go. Wonder if Izzo and Smith's relationship played a factor.
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31 days ago
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If the proposal goes through, teams will essentially be allowed to practice 30 times in a 42-day period before the first game on Nov. 8. They could start those practices as early as the last week of September or first week of October.
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31 days ago
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The 2012-13 season was an interesting one for Spartan fans, as not many can be disappointed with the amount of wins, as MSU compiled 27 victories. Michigan State also seemed to beat every team that they should have, only losing one game to a team that did not make the NCAA Tournament. That loss came in the season opener against UConn, a team banned from the post-season.
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32 days ago
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mlive.com —
Another day passed, and another day Michigan State fans were left to wonder whether junior Adreian Payne will be returning for his senior season with the Spartans.
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35 days ago
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It takes an educated eye to appreciate spring football games, especially when coaches rarely trot out the new plays, and the teams are a mix of starters and backups. Continuity, there is not. For every big play, there are usually two or three plays with ugly breakdowns. The majority of the action in Michigan State's Green-White Spring Game at 2:35 this afternoon probably won't do much to excite the crowd.
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35 days ago
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Michigan State coach Tom Izzo conducted an in-home visit with top-five 2014 recruit Tyus Jones last week, the Apple Valley, Minn. native wrote in his blog entry for USA Today. The point guard wrote that the other schools making in-home visits last week were Baylor, Duke and Ohio State.
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