John Ryan Murphy leaped onto the scouting scene after the 2008 summer when he set nearly every offensvie record for the highly regarded Florida Bombers summer team; a team that has had the likes of Eric Hosmer, JP Arencibia, and Jamile Weeks (All First Round Picks).
Murphy continued to impress scouts throughout his senior season at [...]
Reprising their roles from just a year ago, coaches Mike Moreau and David Thorpe of the IMG Basketball Academy and Pro Training Center are doing NBA Playoff analysis for Scouts, Inc. as part of the ESPN.com network. Moreau, who directs all basketball programs at IMGA, and Thorpe, who directs pro, college and adult basketball at [...]
Coach David Thorpe, executive director of the Pro Training Center at the IMG Basketball Academy, recently published his list of the league’s top rookies, separated into first, second, and third team status, and added some of his awards. Check it out by clicking here.
Thorpe also completed his weekly ESPN.com chat, which you can read by [...]
Coach David Thorpe, executive director of the Pro Training Center at the IMG Basketball Academy, published his weekly chat and Rookie Report earlier today on ESPN.com. In his weekly chat, Thorpe discussed potential draft picks, the playoff race, and the current rookie class. In his weekly Rookie Report, Thorpe focuses on the centers in this [...]
Can you guess the two things the following players have in common?
Kobe Bryant, Dirk Nowitzki, Danny Granger, Kevin Martin, Al Jefferson, Devin Harris, Antawn Jamison, Zach Randolph, Joe Johnson, Tony Parker, Stephen Jackson, Michael Redd, Al Harrington and David West.
The first should be pretty easy to figure out: All of these guys are big-time scorers [...]
Well, one day in the books. Each of our teams (we have four teams in this event) were competitive in yesterday’s action, with a number of our seniors and post-graduates getting great looks from the over two dozen college basketball coaches in attendance. Our spotlight game-of-the-day was the afternoon post-graduate game, where our boys battled [...]
Coach David Thorpe, the Executive Director of the Pro Training Center at the IMG Basketball Academy, has updated his weekly NBA Rookie Rankings for ESPN.com. Coming down into the stretch of the season, Thorpe comments that the final stretch of the season is really a mental game as much if not more than a physical one. [...]
A scouting breakdown of Oklahoma City Thunder rookie Russell Westbrook by Coach Thorpe for ESPN.com…