St. John’s Mustapha Heron likely done for season with ankle injury, will see another doctor Thursday
By JACOB POLACHECK and ADAM ZAGORIA St. John's
By JACOB POLACHECK and ADAM ZAGORIA St. John's
By ADAM ZAGORIA
Mustapha Heron is taking a stand on gun violence awareness.
Having been granted a legislative relief waiver to play this season at St. John’s, the 6-foot-5 Auburn transfer will now spend Saturday in his native Waterbury, Conn., promoting his “Shoot Hoops Not Guns Tournament” that is promoted by his Mustapha Heron Skills Academy.
The event involves about a dozen high school teams from New York and Connecticut playing at three recreation centers in Waterbury. It is the second event Heron has promoted to raise awareness of gun violence.
“I’m having a high school tournament in Waterbury right now,” Heron said Saturday morning by phone following the news first reported by ZAGSBLOG that he had been granted a waiver. “We have teams from Syracuse coming down and all the best teams in Connecticut, just a little preseason tournament that we hold to bring awareness to the gun violence around the state, around the city.
By ADAM ZAGORIA
St. John’s is close to adding Auburn transfer Mustapha Heron on a hardship waiver for the 2018-19 season, which would provide a massive boost to Chris Mullin’s club entering the coach’s fourth season at the helm of his alma mater.
The 6-foot-5 Connecticut native transferred to St. John’s in May — as first reported by ZAGSBLOG — and then applied for a hardship waiver because his mother, Thalia Heron, suffered a massive concussion. She lives in West Haven, Conn.
“He should have a decision this week,” one source close to Heron said Saturday. “It’s the NCAA so you just don’t know.”
A second source close to the situation added, “The NCAA has been very helpful. The T’s are being crossed and the I’s are being dotted.”
By JACOB POLACHECK & ADAM ZAGORIA
Sophomore guard Mustapha Heron has obtained his release from Auburn and will take an official visit to St. John’s beginning Thursday morning, he told ZAGSBLOG.
Heron is also tentatively slated to visit Boston College and Fairfield over the weekend.
Heron withdrew his name from the NBA Draft on Tuesday with the intentions of transferring closer to home.
The 6-foot-5 Waterbury, Conn., native is looking to transfer to a school closer to his ailing mother who suffered a massive concussion, his father told ZAGSBLOG on Tuesday. He will apply for a hardship waiver to be immediately eligible for the 2018-19 season at his new school.
By ADAM ZAGORIA Auburn's Mustapha Heron will withdraw
By ADAM ZAGORIA
Auburn’s Mustapha Heron was not invited to next week’s NBA Draft Combine, but he’s making the most of the NBA workouts he does have.
The 6-foot-5 Waterbury, Conn., native worked out this weekend for the Brooklyn Nets and Cleveland Cavaliers.
“I just came back from the Cavs today,” Heron said Saturday by phone. “I feel it went pretty well.”
The 6-foot-5, 217-pound Heron was joined at the Cavs workout by St. John’s Shamorie Ponds, Villanova’s Omari Spellman and USC’s De’Anthony Melton.
