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High-scoring Iowa forward Payton Sandfort will decide by Wednesday if he is staying in the NBA draft or returning for a fourth season with the Hawkeyes.

Indiana Pacers star point guard Tyrese Haliburton has the game of his career to date Sunday in New York, a Game 7 against the Knicks.

Former Iowa State star Tyrese Haliburton completed a three-point play with 1.6 seconds left, capping his first postseason triple-double in his first home playoff game to give the Indiana Pacers a 121-118 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks. Indiana leads the best-of-seven series 2-1, with Game 4 on Sunday in Indianapolis.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Caitlin Clark crashed the NBA's playoff party Friday night — and drew a standing ovation from her new home fans. Twice.

Luka Garza has been persistent in his quest to get a standard NBA playing contract, and Thursday was the day. The Minnesota Timberwolves converted the former Iowa National Player of the Year’s two-way deal to a standard contract.

Iowa junior guard Payton Sandfort has declared for the 2024 NBA Draft, the school announced Tuesday. He has until May 29 to remove his name from draft consideration.

The past year-plus has been quite eventful for AJ Green. Not only has the Cedar Falls native and Northern Iowa product gone from being a two-way player with Milwaukee, he’s also now playing for his fourth different head coach since first signing with the Bucks in 2022.

While most two-way players divide their time between the NBA G-League and the NBA. Garza has played mostly with the Minnesota Timberwolves this season.

Technically, Kris Murray isn’t a two-way player with the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers. However, the 23-year-old Murray, the 23rd pick in the 2023 NBA Draft from Iowa, has logged minutes with the Blazers and their new NBA G-League affiliate, the Rip City Remix, reps which have shortened his NBA learning curve.

Keegan Murray’s debut season in the NBA was impressive. However, the young ex-Hawkeye was far from content because he knew if he was to continue progressing in the NBA, he was going to have to work even harder. And that’s exactly what this talented 23-year-old did in his first full offseason as a professional.

Former Iowa All-Americans were on opposite sides Wednesday night when Keegan Murray’s Sacramento Kings faced Kris Murray’s Portland Trail Blazers.

Late last month, Joe Wieskamp had just completed his first training camp practice with Dallas, sharing the hardwood with two of the world’s best players in Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving. The moment wasn’t lost on the former Iowa standout, who is entering his third professional season.

Former Iowa men’s basketball player Joe Wieskamp has joined his third NBA team. He signed a training camp contract with the Dallas Mavericks after getting waived by the Toronto Raptors in July.

Joe Wieskamp scored 27 points for Toronto in its NBA Summer League finale Sunday in Las Vegas, but the Raptors nonetheless declined to pick up the former Iowa Hawkeye’s 2023-24 salary of $1.93 million.

Cedar Rapids isn’t known for can’t-miss blue-chip athletes. But when its people reach national sports stardom, they do so with quite the stories.