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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Celtics' surprise Summer League addition impresses in debut
Celtics' surprise Summer League addition impresses in debut originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston Former San Antonio Spurs big man Charles Bassey gave the Boston Celtics' Summer League squad an unexpected boost in Friday's opener. Advertisement Bassey joined the Celtics' Summer League roster just before Friday's game against the Memphis Grizzlies. The 6-foot-10 center immediately made his presence felt, notching two blocks within his first four minutes of action. He finished with 14 points (7-9 FG), 11 rebounds, and two blocks in 18 minutes. 'It was just clear that guy can make an impact in the game, and you saw that throughout the course of the game today. I think he was huge for us,' Celtics Summer League coach Matt Reynolds said of Bassey after Boston's 92-78 win, per CLNS Media. That's the kind of production the Celtics' thin frontcourt needs after parting ways with Kristaps Porzingis, Luke Kornet, and likely Al Horford. However, Bassey remains an unrestricted free agent and can sign with any team. Bassey's performance in Friday's game undoubtedly gave C's president of basketball operations Brad Stevens something to think about. As of Friday, Neemias Queta, Luka Garza, and rookie second-rounder Amari Williams are the only centers on the NBA roster. Advertisement Last season with the Spurs, Bassey averaged 4.4 points, 4.2 rebounds, and 0.8 blocks in 10.4 minutes over 36 games. The Western Kentucky product would be a solid reserve big man, and with the roster as currently constructed, he could compete for the starting center role. Bassey co-starred in Friday's Summer League opener alongside rookie first-rounder Hugo Gonzalez. The 19-year-old tallied 12 points, five assists, four rebounds, and two blocks in his first taste of NBA action. The Celtics' Summer League slate continues Sunday against the New York Knicks with tip-off set for 5:30 p.m. ET in Las Vegas.
USA Today
3 days ago
- Sport
- USA Today
Matt Reynolds: Hugo Gonzalez set tone for Boston Celtics in Las Vegas Summer League
Matt Reynolds, Boston Celtics assistant coach and head coach of the Sin City Celtics at the NBA's 2025 Las Vegas Summer League, had high praise for Boston's No. 28 overall pick of the 2025 draft, Hugo Gonzalez, in his first-ever outing as a Celtic. "Hugo and the whole team were just pressuring relentlessly the whole game," said the Summer Celtics coach after Boston's 92-78 win over a stacked Sin City Memphis Grizzlies roster on Friday (July 11) afternoon. "That was an excellent tone that he and our backcourt set,"added Reynolds. The Spanish forward put up 12 points, 4 rebounds, 5 assists, a steal and 2 blocks in his 28 minutes of floor time in the Thomas and Mack Arena, exciting nervous Celtics fans worried about whether the Madrid native's game would translate to the NBA. The folks behind the "CLNS Media Boston Sports Network" YouTube channel put together a clip CLNS Media Boston Sports Network of Reynolds' postgame comments about Gonzalez and the rest of the Summer Celtics. Check it out below! If you enjoy this pod, check out the "How Bout Them Celtics," "First to the Floor," and the many other New England sports podcasts available on the CLNS Media network:
WIRED
10-02-2025
- Politics
- WIRED
NIH Funding Cuts Appear to Draw on Heritage Foundation Report That Blasts ‘DEI Staff'
Matt Reynolds Emily Mullin Feb 10, 2025 6:29 PM In its notice outlining the large cut in university funding, the US National Institutes of Health seems to draw on a report from a conservative think tank that denounces the 'political left.' Photograph:A US National Institutes of Health notice announcing a drastic cut in federal science funding appears to draw heavily on a 2022 report by the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank behind Project 2025. The report argues that the so-called indirect research costs targeted by the cuts contribute to the 'massive growth in DEI staff at US universities.' The NIH policy change, announced on February 7, dramatically reduces the amount of funding that accompanies NIH grants to cover indirect costs—money that universities put toward building maintenance, administration, support staff wages, regulatory compliance, and safety requirements associated with funded research. The cuts, which standardize indirect costs at 15 percent of the grant size, will be potentially devastating for research universities that are heavily dependent on federal grants. Many universities directly negotiate these rates, which historically average between 27 to 28 percent, with some universities receiving over 60 percent. Stanford University alone is facing a reduction of $160 million, with many other research universities facing reductions in the tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. The wider economies of university cities will also be hit, as indirect research costs are used to pay laborers, administrators, janitors, technicians, and other support staff. All of this comes on top of the deep cuts Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency have inflicted across government departments. In the notice announcing the change, the NIH argued that private foundations provide much lower rates of indirect costs than the federal government. To make that argument, the NIH notice draws heavily on what appears to be an analysis from a 2022 report from the Heritage Foundation called 'Indirect Costs: How Taxpayers Subsidize University Nonsense." The authors of that report, Jay Greene and John Schoof, claim that indirect costs have been used to 'subsidize the agenda of the political left' and fund DEI staff on university campuses. Reducing indirect costs, the authors allege, would 'dramatically reduce the amount of money available to spend on political activism' as well as 'universities' ability to install more DEI staff.' The report claims that a 1 percentage point increase in the federal indirect cost rate is associated with 2.1 additional DEI employees, while a $100 million increase in the total amount of indirect costs received by a university is associated with 15.5 additional DEI employees. 'Currently, taxpayers are forced to subsidize the agenda of the political left through funding its research agendas and DEI staff on university campuses,' the authors of the 2022 report wrote. 'The Left has used the indirect cost reimbursement system to capture an important professional institution." The NIH notice does not mention DEI, and the Heritage Foundation report does not recommend a 15 percent cap specifically. But the federal agency justifies its slashed rate in part by citing a 'recent analysis' that found that 67 out of 72 universities were willing to accept research grants with no indirect cost coverage. While the notice does not provide a source for that analysis, it appears to have originated in the Heritage Foundation report. The 2022 report includes an analysis of 82 universities, the indirect cost rate they receive from federal grants, and the indirect cost rate they receive from private funders such as the Sloan Foundation, Gates Foundation, and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Ten of the schools in the Heritage Foundation analysis did not confirm their indirect cost rates for private funders, leaving 72 full entries in the report's analysis. Of those 72 universities, the report claimed that 67 accepted private research grants with zero percent indirect research cost coverage—exactly the same analysis and finding as in the NIH notice. Got a Tip? Are you a current or former NIH employee, or a scientist who has been impacted by this administration? We'd like to hear from you. Using a nonwork phone or computer, contact our reporters securely on Signal at mattreynolds.45 and emullin.06. The Heritage Foundation report concluded that just three schools in the sample refuse to accept indirect cost rates from private foundations at lower rates than those they negotiated with the federal government. Those schools are the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Massachusetts Institute for Technology, and the University of Michigan. The NIH notice refers to the same three schools without identifying the Heritage Foundation as the source of the analysis. It mentions that Harvard required a minimum 15 percent indirect cost coverage from private funders and that California Institute of Technology required a 20 percent indirect cost coverage. These examples also appear in the Heritage Foundation report. One of the report's authors, Heritage Foundation senior research fellow Jay Greene, says he was not involved in drafting the NIH notice, but did acknowledge that one paragraph of the NIH notice 'does appear to be a reference to our 2022 report.' The NIH did not respond to WIRED's request for comments. A plan to cut indirect cost rates in federal grants also appears in Project 2025, the nearly thousand-page Heritage Foundation policy blueprint for a second Trump presidency. 'This market-based reform would help reduce federal taxpayer subsidization of leftist agendas,' the report reads. During his presidential campaign Trump consistently disavowed any links to The Heritage Foundation and Project 2025. On Monday, a coalition of 22 states filed a lawsuit challenging the legality of the NIH's attempt to cut indirect costs. Universities say the cap will hamper their ability to do vital research. 'The discovery of new treatments would slow, opportunities to train the next generation of scientific leaders would shrink, and our nation's science and engineering prowess would be severely compromised,' wrote Harvard president Alan Garber in a post on the university's website. Some universities stand to lose more than $100 million in federal funding if the new grant cap is maintained. According to STAT, Weill Cornell Medicine brought in $107 million in indirect costs during 2022—a figure that would drop to $23 million if the rate had been 15 percent.
