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Former Cougar Travis Hansen has announced that he will play for European power Real Madrid this upcoming season. Read about it on KSL.com or see the video from KSL below.

Video Courtesy of KSL.com

In an effort to improve the historic information on our website, I've begun to add former player bios. I started with the All-Americans. Here are the links.

Elwood Romney, 1931 and 1932

Joe Nelson, 1948

Mel Hutchins, 1951

Roland Minson, 1951

Joe Richey, 1953

Dean Larsen, 1954

Terry Tebbs, 1956

Tom Steinke, 1957

John Fairchild, 1965

Dick Nemelka, 1966

Kresimir Cosic, 1972 and 1973

Danny Ainge, 1978, 79, 80 and 81

Devin Durrant, 1983 and 1984

Michael Smith, 1987 and 1988

Jeff Chatman, 1988

Andy Toolson, 1990

Shawn Bradley, 1991

Nate Call, 1992

Gary Trost, 1993

Randy Reid, 1994

Russell Larson, 1995

Mekeli Wesley, 2001

Rafael Araujo, 2004

Trent Plaisted, 2006

Keena Young, 2007

Lee Cummard, 2008 and 2009

Lamont Morgan, Jr., taught some basketball basics to True Blue reporter Chris Francia. Check it out.

Matt Payne of the Daily Universe wrote a recap of Travis Hansen's basketball camp that was held last week at the Flash Factory in Lehi, Utah.

Here are a few links from the local TV stations:

ABC4

KSL

Jonathan Tavernari and the Brazilian national team finished 3-0 at the International Tournament of Almada. The Brazilian squad won three close games and closed things out with a 77-73 victory over Portugal. Tavernari finished the tournament with a scoring average of 15.0 while shooting 62.5 percent from the field and from downtown.

Here is a link to view the box scores form the tournament. To view a game click on the graphic that looks like an eye on the left side of the chart.

On another note...

Here is a link listing the career scoring in New York high school basketball history. You might recognize No. 14 on the list.

The Brazilian Senior National Team picked up another win today in Portugal, defeating Finland 95-89 for its second exhibition victory in preparation for the Lusofonia Games starting July 14. Tavernari hit the game winner and had 25 points in the Angola win (89-86).

SI.com has a great feature called the Vault. It allows you to search for past articles back to the 1950s. There is a great article from 1984 about Devin Durrant, BYU's third al-time leading scorer. The article is titled "A Young Man with a Mission" and was penned by Jack McCallum.

Here is a link to Durrant's bio on his website, www.raisinganallamerican.com.

The NBA Summer League starts today and former Cougar Trent Plaisted will be in action with the Detroit Pistons against the Sacramento Kings at 4 p.m. MT.

Visit Detroit's team page for the team roster, schedule and updated stats throughout the week. To see how Plaisted performed in last season's summer league visit this story on BYUCougars.com.

Phoenix's page is also updated with the schedule and roster, which includes Lee Cummard. Stats will be updated as games are played. The Suns first game is Monday, July 13, at 4 p.m. MT against the Dallas Mavericks.

All games are available on demand at NBA.com

BYUCougars.com will keep you updated throughout the next nine days.

With senior Jonathan Tavernari (Brazil) and sophomore Charles Abouo (Cote d'Ivoire) competing with their respective national teams, I thought it would be interesting to see where those teams ranked amongst the rest of the world's national teams. All the national teams are ranked by FIBA using a point system.

Brazil is currently 16th in world and fourth out of 11 teams in FIBA Americas (the world is divided into five zones, including Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania). Cote d'Ivoire is 51st in the world and 11th out of 19 teams in FIBA Africa.

Speaking of Jonathan, check out the Q&A recently posted on BYUCougars.com.

The NBA Summer League is set to tipoff on July 10 in Las Vegas. For those not able to make the trip to see former Cougars Lee Cummard (Phoenix Suns) and Trent Plaisted (Detroit Pistons) in action, the NBA is making every game available on demand for a slight cost.

Plaisted and the Pistons will debut vs. the Sacramento Kings. on July 10 at 3 p.m. PT and Cummard and the Suns will debut on July 13 at 3 p.m. PT vs. the Dallas Mavericks. Here is the complete schedule.