News and Notes: Tuesday Edition

Below, some news and notes for Tuesday...

• The New York Post writes, "from July 9-13, the [Brooklyn] Nets will be participating in the Orlando Summer League, where they’ll get their first chance to look at whatever players they scoop up in this year’s draft, along with last year’s rookies, MarShon Brooks and Jordan Williams, and Jeff Foote, a promising center prospect who played for the Springfield Armor last season and got a brief call-up by the Hornets.

• Cornell incoming freshman, Braxston Bunce (Kelowna Secondary School) Kelowna, BC, Canada, 6-11, C is playing with the Canadian Junior Men's National Team in the FIBA Americas U18 Championships in Brazil. On Monday, Canada improved to 3-0 in the tournament with a win over Argentina. Bunce did not appear in his team's third game after starting the first two games, reportedly due to an undisclosed injury. Canada faces Brazil on Tuesday in the tournament's seminfinals. USA faces Argentina in the other semifinal.

• In the FIBA Centrobasket Championship for Senior Men in Puerto Rico, Cornell's Jonathan Gray and the U.S. Virigin Islands opened the tournament with a 75-67 defeat to Mexico on Monday (click here for video highlights).  Mexico was led by 22 points and 15  rebounds from Gustavo Ayon of the New Orleans Hornets.  Cornell's Gray scored 7 points (2/3 FGs, 1/4 3 PTs) and collected 2 rebounds and 2 assists (against 3 turnovers) in 18 minutes of action.  He also had 5 fouls.  On Tuesday, Gray and his USVI team get to match up with Jamaica which features three NBA players: Samardo Samuels, Jerome Jordan and Patrick Ewing Jr. 

• The Pittsburgh Post Tribune writes, "The list of Western Pennsylvania standouts joining Division I programs this fall features Beaver Falls’ Sheldon Jeter (Vanderbilt), Lincoln Park’s Devontae Watson (Temple), Highlands’ Micah Mason (Drake), Central Catholic’s Lincoln Davis (Fairfield), Plum’s Nolan Cressler (Cornell) and Butler’s Nate Snodgrass (Navy). Shaler’s Geno Thorpe, a member of the Class of 2013, has committed to Penn State."