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Former Maryland forward Jake Layman will sign a three-year, $11.5 million deal with the Minnesota Timberwolves, ESPN reported Wednesday night.

After spending most of his first two NBA seasons buried on the bench with the Portland Trail Blazers, former Maryland standout Jake Layman has found his role as a key reserve and sometimes starter for one of the Western Conference's top teams.

After having shoulder surgery to repair a torn labrum in January, Maryland forward Justin Jackson was selected No. 43 overall by the Denver Nuggets before being traded to the Orlando Magic.

Despite cold shooting spells, former Terp Jake Layman has a solid summer league performance for Trail Blazers.

Ryan Lumpkin looks back on the night of last year’s NBA draft and laughs.

For the first three games of his rookie season, and the first 40 minutes of the fourth, Jake Layman was no more than a paid spectator. That changed Tuesday.

Former Maryland forward Jake Layman has signed a three-year contract with the Portland Trail Blazers.

Diamond Stone did not have a going-away party at Maryland after his freshman year, as Jake Layman and three others did in March on Senior Night.

Even before classes ended at Maryland, Jake Layman began the transition from college student to professional basketball player.

Robert Carter Jr. seemed to be off the radar of most NBA scouts when he regained his eligibility last season at Maryland. He had sat out a season because of

Last week's addition of small forward Justin Jackson to Maryland's 2016 recruiting class helped the Terps jump dramatically in rankings. A composite of several

The four Maryland players who attended the 2016 NBA Combine in Chicago - along with senior guard Rasheed Sulaimon, who was not invited - will now begin the most

Of the four Maryland players at this week¿s NBA combine in Chicago, forward Robert Carter Jr. might have had the most to prove.

Melo Trimble, Diamond Stone, Robert Carter Jr. and Jake Layman have been invited to the NBA draft combine this month in Chicago.

Maryland sophomore point guard Melo Trimble will declare for the NBA draft but not hire an agent, while freshman center Diamond Stone plans to hire an agent.

Maryland senior forward Jake Layman has signed with Chicago-based agent Mark Bartelstein, the player¿s father said Friday.

That doesn't mean Trimble, Stone and Carter won't join seniors Jake Layman and Rasheed Sulaimon at the NBA's open combines and closed-door workouts that take place before the NBA draft in late June.

While Melo Trimble, Jake Layman and Diamond Stone get most of the attention, the Terps' reserves have also had their highs and lows.

A matchup Thursday with Kansas in the South region semifinals in Louisville, Ky., lies ahead for Maryland (27-8). The challenge leaves little time for appreciation of how the Terps won a second-round game for the first time since 2003.

Led by senior forward Jake Layman¿s incredibly hot start, the Terps seemed to be headed to an easy victory before the Cornhuskers, playing their third game in as many days, cut a 25-point deficit to six before Maryland held on for a 97-86 victory.

After falling out of the Top 10 for the first time all season, the Maryland men¿s basketball team looked more like a Top 10 team than it had in more than a month, separating itself from Illinois early in the second half and celebrating Senior Night with a much-needed and easy 81-55 victory.

As much as it bothers his critics, who question whether Layman is thoroughly engaged at all times, that same resiliency has carried the 6-foot-9 forward through a senior year that some might view as a statistical disappointment, yet Maryland coach Mark Turgeon sees as a transformative success.

The eight days of darkness ended for the No. 6 Maryland men's basketball team Sunday at Xfinity Center.

Jon Givoney, the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based college and professional basketball connoisseur whose DraftExpress.com mock draft board is well-respected by NBA scouts and general managers, explained his reasons for putting Maryland's Diamond Stone, Melo Trimble and Jake Layman where he did Thursday, and why Terps Rasheed Sulaimon and Robert Carter Jr. have not yet been mentioned.

One day after arguably his worst performance of the season, Maryland sophomore point guard Melo Trimble made the midseason cut for the John R. Wooden National Player of the Year Award.

Sophomore point guard Jaylen Brantley will try to replicate his season-best performance from last Saturday when now-No. 4 Maryland (10-1) plays Marshall (4-8) on Sunday afternoon at Xfinity Center. Marshall is one of three stops the now-22-year-old Brantley made between high school in and near Springfield, Mass. and his eventual arrival at Maryland.

When Maryland freshman Diamond Stone scored 16 points off the bench in his team¿s recent win over Connecticut in the Jimmy V Classic, it pushed the 6-11 center into double figures for his season average.

Maryland basketball forward Jake Layman has already suffered through a five-game slump. He knows he has to keep shooting through his occasional struggles.

The Maryland basketball team is a work in progress, coach Mark Turgeon says, and Tuesday night's 75-71 win over Georgetown proved it.

Trailing for much of the second half, No. 3 Maryland came from seven points down in the last six minutes to win, 75-71, before a sellout crowd of 17,950 at Xfinity Center.

Fans got a 80-56 victory that was a tune-up for Tuesday's much-anticipated home matchup against Georgetown

Maryland forward Jake Layman is the only member of this year's team to have spent his first three seasons with the Terps. He's bigger, more confident and being counted on to be a leader.

One of the common threads that ties together the 17 seasons Mark Turgeon has been a Division I college basketball coach are the transfers who have helped transform his respective teams, particularly those at Wichita State and Maryland.

The time to obsess over NBA draft prospects' strengths and weaknesses is also upon us.

On Wednesday, Melo Trimble was named the Big Ten Preseason Player of the Year. On Thursday, the Terps were voted the nation's No. 3 team the USA Today Coaches Poll.

Five-star forward Wenyen Gabriel, a longtime top Maryland target, committed to Kentucky over the Terps on Thursday.

Point guard Melo Trimble, incoming center recruit Diamond Stone and forward Jake Layman all have received attention as possible first-round picks in next year's draft.

The Maryland men's basketball team is ranked in the Top 5 on on a number of "way-too-early" and "ridiculously early" Top 25 projections for the 2015-16 season.

In Maryland's 73-65 win over Rutgers on Wednesday night, freshman Melo Trimble did less than usual offensively, finishing with 11 points. Yet he did plenty of other things -- including five rebounds, four assists and three steals.

The No. 14 Terps survived, 73-65, mainly on the strength of their free throw shooting. Trailing by six with eight minutes left, Maryland (16-2, 4-1) made 12 straight at the foul line.