With professional leagues beginning again in the wake of COVID-19 postponements, the Daily Bruin Sports editors decided to take a look at current Bruins who resemble some of the top pros in their respective sports. Read more...
Photo: (Axel Lopez/Daily Bruin staff)
For the first time since 2016, the No. 1 player in California is headed to Westwood. Class of 2021 five-star small forward Peyton Watson has committed to UCLA men’s basketball, the rising high school senior announced on the Titus & Tate podcast Monday night. Read more...
Photo: Class of 2021 small forward Peyton Watson committed to UCLA men’s basketball Monday night. Watson averaged 23.2 points per game in his junior year at Long Beach Poly. (Courtesy of Bleacher Report Hoops)
From competing in the Olympics and the highest levels of professional leagues, the 2020 UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame class has collected a lot of hardware. Read more...
Photo: Former UCLA men’s basketball guard Russell Westbrook headlines the UCLA Hall of Fame class of 2020. (Daily Bruin file photo)
People have gone to great lengths to replicate sports during COVID-19. Marble races have taken the world by storm, re-airings of classic games have populated sports networks and several documentary films and series have attempted to reel in desperate audiences. Read more...
Photo: (Emily Dembinski/Illustrations Director)
The Daily Bruin Sports editors celebrated the possibility of a college basketball video game in the near future by customizing their own UCLA men’s basketball team on NBA 2K20. Read more...
Makur Maker will not be joining the Bruins next season. The five-star center committed to Howard early Friday morning on Twitter, claiming he wanted to start a movement of top-tier recruits going to historically black colleges and universities. Read more...
Photo: Five-star center Makur Maker was UCLA men’s basketball’s final five-star target for its 2020 recruiting class. Maker declared for the NBA Draft in April but is planning to withdraw after committing to Howard on Friday. (Courtesy of Nick Lucero/Rivals.com)
Five-star point guard Daishen Nix spurned UCLA men’s basketball for the NBA G League in April, leaving four-star forward Jaylen Clark as the Bruins’ lone incoming high school recruit for the 2020-2021 season. Read more...
Photo: Jaylen Clark is the lone incoming freshman for UCLA men’s basketball next season. Clark was a four-star prospect and averaged 18.5 points per game as a senior at Etiwanda High School last season. (Courtesy of Nick Lucero/Rivals.com)
