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"I really have a lot more interest in winning a national championship than anything else," Izzo said. "That pushes me, totally. I never give enough time to really think about (the NBA) because I still haven't accomplished what I want to accomplish here."
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On Tuesday afternoon, the NBA officially announced the names of the players invited to the Draft Combine being held in Chicago on June 7-8. The Michigan State Spartans will be represented by senior forward Draymond Green. Green averaged 16.1 points, 10.4 rebounds and 3.6 assists per game last season while leading the Spartans to Big Ten championships in the regular season and conference tournament, in addition to a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament.
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Michigan State standout Draymond Green's journey to show how ready he is for the NBA makes a stop in Boston today. Green, along with Andrew Nicholson (St. Bonaventure), Mike Scott (Virginia), Kevin Jones (West Virginia), Scott Machado (Iona) and Charlie Westbrook (South Dakota) will work out for Celtics executives today, according to Jeff Goodman of CBS Sportsline.com.
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Before Draymond Green gets a chance to strut his stuff in the NBA, he played the role of a fashion model on the Michigan State campus at the Hidden Key Fashion Show. With football coach Mark Dantonio and Lupe Izzo, the wife of men's basketball coach Tom Izzo, watching from the front row, a colorfully-dressed Green walked the runway and drew cheers.
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Instead of preparing for a possible breakout sophomore season, Michigan State's Branden Dawson is spending his summer recovering from the torn ACL he suffered in March. Spartans coach Tom Izzo said Dawson's recovery is coming along well.
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Michigan State assistant coach Dwayne Stephens might be in the market for an agent after attending a multiday consortium last weekend that brought elite assistants together with university athletic directors in an effort to prepare college basketball's next generation of leaders.
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Michigan State coach Tom Izzo might have benefited from the graduate transfer rule that enabled guard Brandon Wood to play his senior season without sitting out a year and help the Spartans win a Big Ten championship. But Izzo has also come out against the rule that enables players who graduate with eligibility remaining to seek waivers to transfer to another school and be able to play by enrolling in a graduate program not offered at the former school.
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Former Michigan State standout Daymond Green is a month away from the biggest day of his life, but he spent a small part of Thursday at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital helping encourage kids whose lives are threatened.
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Next year’s Michigan State squad could top last season’s team. The bulk of Tom Izzo’s game plan went through Draymond Green. That scheme carried the Spartans to a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament but proved detrimental in the NCAA tournament. Next year’s Spartans will be a more versatile crew with Harris’ arrival. The five-star wing is a premier athlete and he’s gold on the break. Harris, the No. 11 prospect in the 2012 class, gives MSU a potent athlete on the perimeter.
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"We've made some headway with Greece, with the venue, but we're kind of in a holding pattern right now," he said this week in Chicago. "I do believe that there is opportunities in basketball to have value back from an NCAA perspective and more specifically from a Big Ten conference perspective, sending some teams over to play in various cities, and kind of bring the game of college basketball to them.
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Delvon Roe, who began a professional acting career as his Michigan State basketball career was cut short by knee injuries, is making his feature-film debut in the romantic drama "Love and Honor," which premieres today at the Cannes Film Market.
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Jabari Parker, rated as the Class of 2013's No. 1 high school basketball player and recruiting target of Michigan State coach Tom Izzo, is on the cover of Sports Illustrated this week. Sports Illustrated touts Parker as "the best high school player since LeBron James." Parker joins James and Sebastian Telfair as the only high school basketball player to be on the magazine's cover.
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