Adam Zagoria is a Basketball Insider who covers basketball at all levels. A contributor to The New York Times and SportsNet New York (SNY), he is also the author of two books and is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker. His articles have appeared in ESPN The Magazine, SLAM, Sheridan Hoops, Basketball Times and in newspapers nationwide. He also won an Emmy award for his work on the SNY mini-documentary on Syracuse guard Tyus Battle.
A veteran Ultimate Frisbee player, he has competed in numerous National and World Championships and, perhaps more importantly, his teams won the Westchester Summer League (WSL) championships in 2011 and 2013.
He lives in Manhattan with his wife and children.
NEWARK, N.J. — Keon Lawrence remembers the games as if they were yesterday.
He was a sophomore at the University of Missouri and the Tigers played a pair of Big 12 contests against perennial national power Kansas.
In the first game in Columbia, Mo., Lawrence managed just four points in a 76-70 loss.
“I played real bad and I heard [Kansas coach] Bill Self was talking in the press,” the 6-foot-2, 177-pound Lawrence, now a senior guard at Seton Hall, recalled in a recent interview.
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