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After five seasons with the Phoenix Suns, who made him the No. 5 pick in the 2013 NBA draft, former Maryland center Alex Len is trying to restart his career in Atlanta.

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.

On Saturday night against the Phoenix Suns, Thomas Bryant scored a career-best 31 points on 14-for-14 shooting for the Washington Wizards. The breakout game was years in the making.

Former Maryland basketball star Damonte Dodd has been indicted on rape and assault charges for allegedly having sex with an intoxicated woman in a Nov. 2017 incident, the Prince George’s County State’s Attorney’s office announced Friday. 

Maryland guard Kevin Huerter went from being a fringe NBA prospect after his sophomore year to a first-round pick at No. 19 overall by the Atlanta Hawks in Thursday night's NBA draft.

Luka Doncic is about to become an NBA player, though he's unlike the other top prospects who will be drafted. He's already a pro.

One day out, it seems like Maryland guard Kevin Huerter will end up as a mid-to-late first-round pick in the 2018 NBA Draft. Forward Justin Jackson, who struggled last season due to injury, is likely to be a second round pick.

Maryland guard Kevin Huerter became a hot item during workouts this spring — will he become a Laker, Timberwolf or fall to someone else?

Kevin Huerter’s decision to leave the Terps ends an anxious and bittersweet few days of waiting for Terps fans.

Justin Jackson, Kevin Huerter and Bruno Fernando have all been mentioned as possible NBA draft picks in 2019.

South Carroll senior guard Cody Parks is the Carroll Varsity Q&A athlete for Jan. 26, 2018.

The Centreville native now plays for the Northern Arizona Suns.

“I knew I never could be Gary Williams or Mark Amatucci," the former Maryland star said.

Former Orioles draft pick Pat Connaughton scored a career-high 24 points in Portland's season opener on Wednesday

Under Armour adds to roster of young NBA talent with signing of Dennis Smith Jr.

"Just recognizing greatness, that's all that's about," James said of his gesture.

Michal Cekovsky came to Maryland without a net, and lacking support as he made the transition to Division I basketball. Now, he is providing support and aid to fellow European players Ivan Bender and Joshua Tomaic as they try to find their way with the Terps.

Maryland could have three players chosen in Thursday's NBA draft, which would mark the first time that has happened for the Terps since 2002.

As a child, Alex Len was a gymnast. Then he grew a lot and moved on to basketball, first at Maryland and now with the NBA's Phoenix Suns. Maybe for his third

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.

As the Washington Wizards opened training camp Tuesday at the university's two-year-old basketball home in Baltimore County, players and even coach Randy Wittman reminisced about those halcyon days when they only had to worry about classes and basketball.

Richard Santulli's Force the Pass is on quest to reestablish himself as the premier 3-year-old turf horse in North America Saturday in the $400,000 Commonwealth Derby (G2) at Laurel Park.

Former Maryland star Dez Wells, who hoped to use the NBA Summer League with the Washington Wizards as a showcase to earning an invitation to training camp this fall, will not play with the team in Las Vegas because of a badly sprained thumb suffered last week during team workouts.

Baltimore¿s Donnell Whittenburg finished in fourth place in the preliminary all-around rankings Saturday to qualify for the finals at the Pan American Games in Toronto.

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.

Wells still is unlikely to be picked in the two-round draft June 25 but it seems his chances improve each time he steps on a practice court for an NBA team.

Diamond Stone, the No. 2 high school center in the country, has officially signed with Maryland, Terps coach Mark Turgeon announced Wednesday.

On Wednesday night at Chicago's United Center, Stone will join Melo Trimble as the second Terps commit to play in the McDonald's All-American Game in as many years.

Lindisfarne won the $100,000 Marshua Stakes for 3-year-old fillies, the first of two stakes Thursday at Laurel Park.

The education of Maryland freshman Michal Cekovsky is a daily grind that includes five hours of learning English in the classroom and two more hours with a tutor in study hall at night.

As he prepares for his second season playing in the Japan National Basketball League with Link Tochigi Brex, Tommy Brenton sits down to talk about the thrills and challenges of playing professionally overseas.

$85 million facility to open in 2017-2018 school year

Since coming over to the United States almost a year ago from his native Greece, Georgios Papagiannis has been, for the most part, a 7-foot-1 international man of mystery.

After watching Alex Len on the court Wednesday against the Washington Wizards, Don Markus started thinking about which Terp will next join the 7-1 center from Ukraine in the NBA.

After playing in only four of the team's first 32 games, Alex Len has slowly made his way into first-year coach Jeff Hornacek's rotation, playing behind former Duke star Miles Plumlee and, if the Suns go to a smaller lineup, Channing Frye.

Trayvon Reed, a 7-foot-1 Maryland signee, left a tough neighborhood in Mobile, Ala., and has blossomed into a basketball star.

Terry Reardon, Kevin Loughery and Terry Dischinger are part of The Sun Remembers This Week in Sports for Dec. 15-21

Marcin Gortat knew he wasn't going to be in Phoenix long the moment the rebuilding Suns drafted former Maryland center Alex Len fifth overall in June, but that didn't make any less startling the news he had been traded to the Washington Wizards.

As a high school player in Ohio, Logan Aronhalt twice went with teams to Italy to play basketball. Aronhalt, who played as a graduate student last season at Maryland after playing three years at Albany, will now be going to Italy to start what he hopes to be a long professional career.

Baltimore Sun reporters Jeff Barker and Don Markus and editor Matt Bracken weigh in on the three biggest topics of the past week in Maryland sports.

If the top of the NBA draft Thursday was a surprise, the fifth pick was a bit of a relief for former Maryland center Alex Len.

Maryland center Alex Len could go to the Cleveland Cavaliers with the No. 1 pick in the 2013 NBA draft.

Brothers Tim Connelly (Denver Nuggets), Pat Connelly (Phoenix Suns), Joe Connelly (Washington Wizards) and Dan Connelly (Utah Jazz) grew up in Baltimore's Roland Park neighborhood and now work for NBA franchises.

It now appears that Alex Len could become the No. 1 pick by the Cleveland Cavaliers despite being sidelined since early April after undergoing surgery to repair a partial stress fracture in his left ankle.

Tim Connelly said recently that he had already exceeded his dreams by becoming the assistant general manager of an NBA team three years ago. The 36-year-old Baltimore native might be raising his career bar again.

Except for the fact that his left foot is encased in a protective boot, and that most of his training is done sitting down, little has changed for former Maryland center Alex Len as he gets ready for next week's NBA draft.

Baltimore Sun reporters Jeff Barker and Don Markus and editor Matt Bracken weigh in on the three biggest topics of the past week in Maryland sports.

Marissa Coleman, B.J. Surhoff and Bruno Sammartino are part of The Sun Remembers This Week in Sports for December 16 to December 22

Former NBA player Oliver J. Miller was sentenced Friday to one year in jail after he admitted last year that he pistol-whipped his girlfriend's brother after an argument at a cookout in Arnold.