Jon Rothstein
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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Yeah, I have an update for you. I had a bunch of injury updates earlier, so I'm going to just read you exactly what I tweeted. Nate Oates texted me this in the early afternoon, but I want to give you guys the full reports. I have a couple of injury updates of substance for the NCAA tournament, so you guys just let me know what you want.
So Grant Nelson's going to see a knee specialist on Monday to determine his status moving forward. He obviously suffered the injury, so that evaluation's going to happen on Monday. And then, as I told you, Alabama plays Robert Morris in Cleveland. That's one to monitor. Some other stuff from Sunday, and this is big for the first four.
Brian Dutcher told me that Magoon Guaf, the Mountain West freshman and defensive player of the year, is going to be available for the NCAA tournament this So in the first four, Tuesday night, Magoon Guath will be available to play against North Carolina. He hasn't played since February 22nd. That's a big boost for San Diego State.
Mark Pope also told me earlier on Sunday morning that Lamont Butler will be available for Kentucky's first NCAA tournament game. He's been dealing with a shoulder. And John Calipari has told me that Adu Thiro is doubtful for the Kansas game due to the knee injury he has been dealing with.
He hasn't played since February 22nd, but Boogie Fland, who we thought was out for the season, came back on Sunday to practice, went through practice, had no missteps. He should be fine. I was referencing the Missouri Drake game. According to a school spokesman, Mark Mitchell from Missouri is expected to be fully available for that basketball game against Drake in the round of 64.
A note from Scott Drew, Langston Love is expected to be available against Mississippi State in the East region. He averages just over eight points per game. Another nugget for a number one seed. Kelvin Sampson told me that Jawan Roberts, who did not play at the end of the Big 12 tournament due to an ankle injury, they're obviously veteran leader, is receiving treatment.
He'll be reevaluated on Monday in terms of his status for the Cougars' first game. I just want to make sure I don't leave anything out there. But those are the bullet points as of now, fellas.
Every single one, I believe. What I do is, when I get back from the Final Four, you use April to detox a little bit, and then you spend some time over the summer just making sure your Rolodex is on point and everything is on point, and then you just go. You make sure you're locked in.
I would say probably... What do you think?
when you're trying to cover everything you want to I always try to as somebody who's a non-player coach get the insight of the player of you know the teams that I'm covering from their perspective so it's constant communication and in the offseason it's constant communication as well because there's things to cover during the offseason yeah I like that yeah because I mean I read the article uh in the New York Times it was great uh that said that the Rothstein text is an inside joke in the industry now I feel like they're being disrespectful to you with that
No, I mean, look, I mean, you guys know me now for a number of years. I mean, I don't make any bones about this. You know, I did not have any connections in this industry. You know, I have no inheritance, so I don't have any other choice but to work as hard as I can each and every single day to be as thorough as I can to do the best job I can. And I'm never going to relent on that.
It's never going to happen. I'm never going to stop. The world meets nobody halfway. And you know that because you told me that you thought Over the Top was an underrated movie by Stallone.
Every Sunday, yeah, 10 a.m.
Yes, as long as I'm home. As long as I'm home, 10 a.m. every Sunday. Creature or habit.
On the road this week because I'm leaving Monday, and obviously I couldn't do it Selection Sunday. I got it Thursday, and I said just go a little shorter on the sides because I'm not going to be back in New York for a week from now because I'm going to Dayton, and then we're going up to Cleveland. And those first and second round games are Friday, Sunday.
But I want to tell you guys something if I can backtrack a little bit because I know you guys obviously started out with Humble Beginnings too. That experience – of selling airtime was the most humbling experience that I ever had in my life, because at that time I was making like $13 an hour screening calls and doing reporting at ESPN Radio New York.
I was cold calling for my friend's brother's mortgage company like Glen Gary Glen Ross. That was like what I was living in, just cold calling people out of the Yellow Pages. And I was like making $50 an article writing college basketball for different publications. So I knew, though, I needed like a demo to try and have an opportunity.
So I would like walk up and down New Rochelle going into businesses trying to buy airtime and nobody would buy anything. And I remember talking to a guy in a car dealership and this is like probably 20 years ago. And I said, well, if I do a weekly show, you know, will you buy some airtime? And he goes, well, is Joe Torre a weekly guest? And I didn't know who that was at the time.
And then he was like, he's like, well, Joe Torre is not a weekly guest and I'm not doing it. And it was that moment where I was just like, look, I'm not going to become anything in this business unless I have calluses and I'm getting calluses right now. But that also brought me back to the over the top thing. You know, the world meets nobody halfway.
And to get into it is awesome. Well, another thing too, and you guys know I have a passion for this, but in my 20s, when people that I was close with in New York and friends like that were taking vacations and traveling, I went to AAU tournaments and networked. That's what I would do. I would sit with Dan Hurley when he was at Wagner and build a relationship. I would sit with Bill Self.
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