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College Basketball News / Pittsburgh Panthers on SI / June 28

What the Lakers Get in Blake Hinson

PITTSBURGH -- Pitt Panthers star forward Blake Hinson signed a Two-way Contract with the Los Angeles Lakers after no team selected him in the 2024 NBA Draft.

Former Pitt Star Blake Hinson Signs Two-Way Deal with LA Lakers

The Los Angeles Lakers may have turned heads by drafting Bronny James in the second round of the 2024 NBA Draft, but if you ask Pitt fans, Blake Hinson easily could’ve heard his name called in that slot.

College Basketball News / Pittsburgh Panthers on SI / June 27

Lakers Sign Pitt F Blake Hinson

PITTSBURGH -- Pitt Panthers forward Blake Hinson realized his dreams at the next level as he signed a deal with the Los Angeles Lakers Hinson hails from Deltona, Fla.

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The 'Naismith Men's Player of the Year Award winner' quiz

The Naismith College Player of the Year is an annual basketball award given by the Atlanta Tipoff Club to the top men's and women's collegiate basketball players. It is named in honor of the inventor of basketball (in 1891), Dr. James Naismith.Can you name every men's college basketball player who has won the Naismith Award?

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College Basketball News / DK Pittsburgh Sports / February 18, 2024
Hinson's brilliance gives Panthers key ingredient for run into March

Hinson's brilliance gives Panthers key ingredient for run into March

For however long Pitt might last in the ACC Tournament and, provisionally, the NCAA Tournament or NIT, it will go as far as Blake Hinson can take it. This run for Pitt basketball, once unprecedented and unimaginable within a once-fading Jeff Capel era, will be watermarked by someone who will be looked back upon as an all-time program great.

Blake Hinson: Miss. flag played role in transfer from Ole Miss

Blake Hinson says Mississippi flag played role in transfer from Ole Miss

Former Ole Miss guard Blake Hinson transferred to Iowa State, and he says it's due to not wanting to represent a state that uses Confederate symbols in its own flag.

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