Another member of Michigan State’s most recent Final Four team is off to play professional basketball in Europe. Aaron Henry has been signed by Metropolitans 92, the French club announced in a press release. Based in Levallois-Perret, France, Metropolitans 92 competes in the country’s top league, LNB Pro A. Henry was signed after spending one year in the NBA after going undrafted in 2021.
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This is a prime opportunity for Cassius to make some noise in the Summer League and potentially feed off that connection with Henry. Henry, who went undrafted last year, averaged 13 points and 4.6 rebounds while shooting 44 percent from the floor and 36 percent from 3-point range in the G-League after signing with the 76ers. He played in just six games and averaged 2.8 minutes per game with Philadelphia as a rookie — he scored two points.
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Aaron Henry officially signed a two-way deal with the Philadelphia 76ers on Sunday following the 2021 NBA Draft, which was held on July 31. A two-way player for the 76ers will provide services to the team’s G League affiliate – the Delaware Blue Cats – but may not be active for more than 50 NBA games.
As of right now, Henry has an inside track to at least compete for minutes at the small forward position. Thybulle will likely start there, and Harris will play some minutes at the small forward in some bigger lineups, but there are minutes behind those two, and the 76ers did not draft any true wings or smaller forwards.
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For the second time in the last three years, the NBA Draft came and went without a player from Michigan State being selected, as Aaron Henry never heard his name called. However, it didn’t take long for the 6-foot-6 wing to learn he’d get his shot at the NBA after all, as ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported Henry had agreed to a two-way deal with the Philadelphia 76ers.
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It appears Aaron Henry should rest up and prepare for a long night Thursday as the NBA Draft unfolds. The junior wing from Michigan State is widely projected to be taken in the mid-to-late second round. The draft begins at 8 p.m. from Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. ESPN will televise all 60 picks
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Aaron Henry finished his junior season at Michigan State as a projected second-round NBA draft pick, with the potential to move up with a strong pre-draft process after he left school a year early.
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This year’s NBA playoffs has confirmed the value of high level shot-creators both in terms of star-players, but also from secondary players — teams that rely on a single player to create shots have struggled. Whereas teams with multiple shot-creators, and bench players who can create shots to temporarily ease the burden on star players, or to generate high quality shots in secondary actions (out of the short roll, or after a star creator gets double-teamed and the ball gets reversed), have really found success.
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Aaron Henry’s growth as a player throughout his Michigan State basketball career was rather impressive as he went from 6.1 points per game as a freshman to over 15 points per game as a junior, doing a little of everything well by the time he decided to enter the NBA draft.
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Aaron Henry’s decision to return to Michigan State for his junior year has put him in the discussion to be a first-round pick. After spending months last summer mulling over his future, and strongly considering staying in the draft pool, Henry made the call to come back to East Lansing. This year, the 6-foot-6 wing from Indianapolis is all in, and he seems to have made a smart choice, according to Bleacher Report’s latest NBA mock draft, which projects Henry to go No. 26 overall to the Brooklyn Nets.
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Henry announced his intention to declare for the draft on Monday, and said he will be retaining an agent. While that does not mean he can’t return to Michigan State for his final season, all signs have been pointing to Henry’s likely decision to become a professional.
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It seems to be a foregone conclusion that Aaron Henry will enter the NBA Draft for good this year after already testing the waters last summer. You really have to applaud the sheer will with which Henry carried this squad into the NCAA Tournament and it cemented the fact that his legacy in East Lansing is a great one.
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Tom Izzo and junior forward Aaron Henry met with the media on Tuesday afternoon to preview the First Four NCAA Tournament matchup against UCLA. The 11th-seeded Spartans (15-12) and Bruins (19-7) will meet on Thursday, March 18 at approximately 9:57 p.m. ET from Mackey Arena in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the game will be televised on TBS. The winner will face sixth-seeded BYU on Saturday, March 20.
Michigan State men’s basketball junior forward Aaron Henry (Indianapolis, Ind./Ben Davis) was selected to the All-Big Ten Conference Third Team and was selected to the Big Ten All-Defensive Team by the conference’s coaches, the league office announced on Tuesday, March 9.
Michigan State men’s basketball junior forward Aaron Henry (Indianapolis, Ind./Ben Davis) was named the Big Ten Conference Player of the Week on Monday. Henry, a co-captain, helped the Spartans to a pair of wins during the week, first a 64-58 win over Indiana on Tuesday, March 2, and then a 70-
After dropping 22 points, including a 12-point spurt on his own in the second half, Aaron Henry is willing Michigan State basketball to the NCAA tourney.
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Aaron Henry leads Michigan State to second-half comeback win at Indiana MLive.com
True to their word, Michigan State players didn’t stop fighting after they fell to a game above .500 and likely saw their NCAA Tournament hopes likely evaporate. In a game that meant little in the big picture of their season, the Spartans put together one of their best stretches of the season and earned a rare road win.
Michigan State basketball suddenly finds its groove to rally past Indiana, 78-71 Detroit Free Press
Say what you will about the NCAA tournament or where the talent level might be for this iteration of Michigan State basketball. The Spartans continue to show they are not ready to call it quits. Not even when all of the mistakes from the past two months crashed together again Saturday.
Michigan State hits reverse, shines through for 78-71 victory at Indiana Detroit News
The turnovers were coming quickly, the fouls were mounting and the Hoosiers were more than happy to take advantage. But, with the season spiraling further, Michigan State stopped giving the ball up, found some confidence offensively behind its two best players, and put together a remarkable second-half run to knock off Indiana, 78-71, at Assembly Hall.
Aaron Henry leads Michigan State over Indiana on the road Spartan Tailgate
Michigan State looked like it could flatline at any moment through the first eight minutes of Saturday’s road game against Indiana. The slumping Spartans were disheveled, disorganized, and seemingly dispirited early, ready to be left for dead and just waiting for the clock to make it official. After settling down and preventing what was shaping up as a first-round knockout, the Spartans played one of their best halves of the season at Assembly Hall.
Michigan State beats Indiana on the road behind Aaron Henry in must-win game Spartans Wire
Michigan State Basketball needed a win today on the road over Indiana if they wanted to keep hope alive of an NCAA Tournament berth, and that’s what they did. In what started off as an ugly game for the Spartans, MSU played the Hoosiers tough in the second half to win 78-71 behind an incredible performance from Aaron Henry.
Michigan State gets big win at Indiana, 78-71 The Only Colors
With the season perhaps on the line, the Michigan State Spartans got a much needed road win, 78-71 at Indiana. With the victory, the Spartans move to 11-9 overall and 5-9 in Big Ten play and picked up a valuable “quad one” win over a solid Hoosier squad.
MSU gets key road win with NCAA Tournament hopes on the line State News
Down 13 with 11:15 to play in the first half, Michigan State needed to uncover something to spark a comeback. It did – as Aaron Henry and Josh Langford played the entire second half – scoring a combined 28 points in it to key the Spartans (11-9, 5-9 Big Ten) to a 78-71 win over Indiana (12-10, 7-8 Big Ten) in Bloomington.
Rocket Watts appears to be in the clear from COVID-19. But Michigan State basketball could be facing a crunch at point guard as it prepares to travel for Tuesday’s game at Purdue. Tom Izzo said Watts has tested negative for the novel coronavirus since leaving at halftime of the Spartans’ 88-58 loss to Iowa on Saturday, but MSU’s coach added his sophomore combo guard “is sick.” “He’s got the flu, I guess,” Izzo said Monday, “so he hasn’t practiced at all.”
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