Shabazz Muhammad

Shabazz Muhammad says he will leave UCLA and enter the NBA draft

2013-04-16 21:45:00

Shabazz Muhammad, the centerpiece of UCLA's 2012 basketball recruiting class, will try his hand at the next level in 2013. Muhammad said Tuesday he would enter the NBA draft in June, a decision that came as no surprise. Muhammad, one of the top...

Which NBA player needs to step up most in the playoffs?

2013-04-16 10:55:00

Writers from around the Tribune Co. discuss which NBA player has to step up the most for his team to advance in the playoffs. Feel free to join the conversation with a comment of your own. Josh Robbins, Orlando Sentinel The playoffs have already...

UCLA's Shabazz Muhammad to enter NBA draft

2013-04-16 09:38:00

UCLA freshman Shabazz Muhammad announced Tuesday that he will enter the NBA draft. Muhammad has been expected to declare for the draft. He needed to drop his classes by April 19 or he would have been given an incomplete, which would have counted against...

Angels say they are not pursuing former closer Troy Percival as coach

2013-04-16 15:55:00

MINNEAPOLIS — The Angels moved Tuesday to defuse speculation they were pursuing former closer Troy Percival, possibly as a replacement for pitching coach Mike Butcher, and Percival said Tuesday that “no one has contacted me directly”...

NCAA sees bumps in the road, but schools pay for the damage

2013-02-26 00:00:00

Come to find out, the creators of the dreaded "lack of institutional control" have been throwing stones from inside their own glass house. The NCAA, short for the National Collegiate Athletic Assn., is now in the kind of damage-control mode that it so...

UCLA keeps cool as tempers simmer over USC

2013-02-25 09:29:00

This is always a moment lurking when UCLA and USC play. With the Bruins comfortably ahead and the Trojans uncomfortably frustrated Sunday, UCLA’s Norman Powell and USC’s Omar Oraby got tangled up, both clutching the basketball. The moment...

With Ben Howland, UCLA could have been on pedestal, ended in abyss

2013-03-27 19:39:00

The saddest part of the Ben Howland saga at UCLA is not that a decent guy and good coach got fired. He's a big boy. He'll be fine. Give it a couple of years and he'll have another team in Pauley Pavilion, rendering UCLA black-and-not-so-Bruins-blue....

UCLA hires Steve Alford as basketball coach; he has big job ahead

2013-03-30 17:05:00

Steve Alford, who spent the last six seasons at New Mexico, will take over the basketball program at UCLA less than two weeks after saying how happy he was to be signing a contract extension to remain coach of the Lobos. The hiring came at the end of a...

UCLA hires Steve Alford as basketball coach

2013-03-30 09:35:00

Steve Alford has been hired as UCLA’s basketball coach, the university announced Saturday morning. Alford, 48, spent the last six seasons at New Mexico, compiling a 155-52 record. He replaces Ben Howland, who was fired after going 25-10 and...

Letters: Raised for stardom

2013-03-27 00:00:00

Re "A father's hoops dream," Column One, March 22 What Ron Holmes has done with his son Shabazz Muhammad's athletic prowess is nothing new. Sadly, many parents have viewed their progeny as a way to enrich themselves or to live vicariously through them....

UCLA wants more than Ben Howland could deliver—and it's entitled to

2013-03-25 07:05:00

How can they fire a coach who just won a conference championship? How can they fire a leader who spent 10 years winning more than twice as many games as he lost? How can they fire a salesman who last season brought in the No. 2-ranked recruiting class...

Birth certificate shows UCLA's Shabazz Muhammad is 20, not 19

2013-03-22 17:37:00

As UCLA prepares to play its first game in the NCAA tournament later tonight, the Bruins will rely on their standout freshman Shabazz Muhammad to lead the way. Muhammad is under pressure: He must perform well on national television to raise his NBA...

Pac-12 freshman of the year Shabazz Muhammad averaged 18.3 points a game for UCLA this season.

2013-03-02 00:00:00

Shabazz Muhammad, right, puts up a shot against Washington State's Brock Motum during UCLA's 76-62 victory Saturday at Pauley Pavilion. Muhammad led the Bruins with 17 points.

2013-02-09 00:00:00

Before signing with UCLA, Shabazz Muhammad was one of the nation's top-rated players, and nearly every college basketball powerhouse in the nation wanted him. He is shown driving for a basket against Stanford on Jan. 5.

2013-01-05 00:00:00