Here is another distraction post as we all wait 745 more hours for the game...
With NIL and the portal.... here is a refreshing statement from a Freshman Hoops player (disregard the Illinois part, it is only cuz I follow them that I saw this):
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Illinois freshman guard Dra Gibbs-Lawhorn from today's open locker room in TD Garden in Boston:
“When it comes to the portal, it’s not even about one thing or another. It’s about the whole program. No thanks, I'm good. I’ve built relationships with the coaches. I built my own ground underneath my feet here at Illinois. After I built all of that, for me to get up and leave Illinois would be not only disrespectful to the program but I’d also be disrespecting myself and the work I’ve put in here at this place. Why would I do all this work to get where I am now knowing I have so much more to go to just leave that all behind and start again from scratch? It doesn’t make sense to me. No, I’m not entering the portal.”
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PS, now watch, he transfers! JK...kind of