HUGE AND COMP DISCUSS EMONI BATES’S HOOPS FUTURE AT MSU
News broke today that this year’s Gatorade National Boys Basketball Player of the Year Emoni Bates has committed to playing...
News broke today that this year’s Gatorade National Boys Basketball Player of the Year Emoni Bates has committed to playing...
Ypsilanti Lincoln prep basketball star made the Spartan nation happy with this statement: "I'm not sure what the future may...
News broke today that this year's Gatorade National Boys Basketball Player of the Year Emoni Bates has committed to playing...
\"I'm not sure what the future may hold, but as I do know right now, I will be committing to Michigan State University.\"<\/blockquote>\r\nEmoni Bates became the first sophomore ever to be named the Gatorade National Boys Basketball Player of the Year. As a freshman, Bates led Ypsilanti Lincoln to its first state championship. In his sophomore season Bates averaged 33.1 points per game, 9.1 rebounds per game, 2.9 assists per game and 2.3 steals per game while leading his team to a 19-3 record and a spot in the District state tournament final against Ann Arbor Huron. That game canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\r\nNINTH FIVE-STAR FOR IZZO<\/h3>\r\nIf Bates does play for Michigan State, he will be the ninth five-star recruit to play for Tom Izzo at MSU, and the first since Jaren Jackson Jr. in 2017.\r\n\r\nA lot could change between now and the start of the 2022 college basketball season, including the NBA collective bargaining agreement. It is believed that Adam Silver the commissioner of the NBA would like to remove the \"1 and Done\"<\/a> rule which means Bates would not have to play a year of college basketball or overseas to be eligible for the NBA.\r\n\r\nIt is also possible that Bates could graduate high school early and reclassify for the 2021 class as Bates and his father eluded to during an interview with ESPN College Basketball writer Jeff Borzello:\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/jeffborzello\/status\/1277663166172930050\r\n\r\nBates may never suit up for Tom Izzo and Michigan State but, as of right now he intends to be Spartan.\r\n\r\nPhoto credit from Yahoo!sports<\/em>","post_title":"TOP HOOPS RECRUIT EMONI BATES COMMITS TO MSU","post_excerpt":"Ypsilanti Lincoln prep basketball star made the Spartan nation happy with this statement: \"I'm not sure what the future may hold, but as I do know right now, I will be committing to Michigan State University.\"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"top-hoops-recruit-emoni-bates-commits-to-msu","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-06-29 15:50:00","post_modified_gmt":"2020-06-29 19:50:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.michigansportsnetwork.com\/?p=3950","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3956,"post_author":"9","post_date":"2020-06-29 15:49:18","post_date_gmt":"2020-06-29 19:49:18","post_content":"News broke today that this year's Gatorade National Boys Basketball Player of the Year Emoni Bates has committed to playing for Tom Izzo and MSU Basketball. The only thing \u2013 he technically still has 2 years left in high school. We were joined by Kyle Austin from MLive to hear about Emoni\u2019s reasoning for choosing MSU, how Tom Izzo has had this in the works for a while now, and what the next couple years might look like for Emoni. Check out Huge\u2019s interview with Kyle Austin here:\r\n\r\n[\/audio]\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe Huge Show is heard Statewide in Michigan Weekday afternoons 3-6pm. To get the podcast and to listen live:\u00a0thehugeshow.net<\/a><\/em>\r\n\r\nPhoto Courtesy of: JUNFU HAN, DETROIT FREE PRESS","post_title":"HUGE AND KYLE AUSTIN ON EMONI BATES NOW A SPARTAN","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"huge-and-kyle-austin-on-emoni-bates-now-a-spartan","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-06-29 15:58:18","post_modified_gmt":"2020-06-29 19:58:18","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.michigansportsnetwork.com\/?p=3956","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};