2025 four-star Orchard Lake (Mich.) St. Mary’s Michigan basketball target Trey McKenney has set an official visit to Ann Arbor for Sept. 21. The Wolverine football team takes on USC that day. The top-ranked player in the state of Michigan and shooting guard is also scheduled to visit USC, Michigan State, Oregon, Notre Dame, and Creighton in the coming months.
Former Michigan basketball guard Franz Wagner has reportedly agreed to a contract extension for five years that could be worth up to nearly $270 million.
Details from CBS Sports:
The extension will pay Wagner approximately $224 million, and that number could be even higher if he takes a leap forward next season. If Wagner makes an All-NBA team in 2024-25, then the extension will start at 30% of the following season’s salary cap and pay him a projected $269 million over five years, according to ESPN.
No, Wagner hasn’t proven that he’s a traditional “max” player, but, starting next offseason, the NBA’s salary cap is expected to increase by 10% for several consecutive years as a result of the league’s new media-rights deal. Since Wagner’s year-over-year raises are limited to 8% of his salary in the first year of his extension, his contract — as with any long-term contract signed this summer — will pay him less and less as a proportion of the cap as time goes by.
Wagner turns 23 in August. This past season, he averaged 19.7 points, 5.3 rebounds and 3.7 assists in 32.5 minutes for the Magic, with a 25% usage rate and a 57.5% true shooting percentage. Along with Paolo Banchero, he is clearly one of the franchise’s cornerstones, and, as a 6-foot-10 wing who can credibly defend multiple positions, he’s precisely the type of player every team is searching for. By agreeing to this contract, Orlando is betting on Wagner’s continued improvement, but it should know better than anybody else how likely he is to reach his potential.
Former Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh, who led his team to the 2023 national championship, was repping the Maize and Blue while at the Fourth of July parade in Coronado, Calif. Harbaugh is the new head coach for the NFL’s Los Angeles Chargers and also sported a polo shirt with the logo of his current team.
Highlights of former Michigan quarterback Denard Robinson.
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“One thing, a word that all preseason, season, postseason and offseason have in common is ‘season.’ We’re going, it’s 365, it’s year round. If you ask any of the guys on the team last year to do what we did, everyone knows that it started as soon as we lost to TCU. As soon as that last season ends, the next one begins — the same way that this next season is coming, it started way before we got our rings, as soon as we earned our rings.”
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