At the beginning of last week, I mentioned that at least one Hoya would win a championship by the end of the month. And sure enough, Jonathan Wallace and Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje won the Basketball Bundesliga championship, edging out Brandon Bowman’s Telekom Baskets Bonn in the decisive Game 5.
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The 2009 NBA Draft took place last night, and junior DaJuan Summers was picked in the 2nd round by the Detroit Pistons. He was the 35th overall pick after Oklahoma’s Blake Griffin was picked 1st by the L.A. Clippers - as we predicted once they got the top pick - and Big East co-Player of the Year Hasheem Thabeet was picked 2nd by the Memphis Grizzlies.

According to The Baltimore Sun, DaJuan was excited to be picked by Detroit and said, That’s where I wanted to go… I told Joe Dumars I wanted to be a Piston.” The Pistons considered taking DaJuan with their 1st round pick, but opted instead for Gonzaga’s Austin Daye.

After a season with the Pistons, Allen Iverson is now an unrestricted free agent, so it doesn’t look like DaJuan will team up with another Hoya this season.

Georgetown’s official press release on Summers in the draft can be found here: [GUHoyas.com]

Georgetown has just announced that Michael Brennan is joining the Men’s Basketball Staff as an Assistant Coach, replacing Robert Burke. Brennan worked with Coach Thompson at Princeton, and was most recently assisting at American University.

[Press Release: GUHoyas.com]

I woke up this morning thinking to myself, “Now that the Lakers have won the NBA Championship - and Patrick Ewing and the Magic have not - it looks like no Hoya will end up a league champion this year.”

Then I thought, “Wait a second, that’s not true. There’s still the European leagues.” And sure enough, GUHoyas posted yesterday that no less than three Georgetown players would be competing in the German Basketball Bundesliga’s championship game last night.
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• NBA star and possible Team USA member Jeff Green will be in town this weekend at the Bethesda Big Train’s baseball game. The Big Train will be facing the College Park Bombers on Saturday in the Cal Ripken, Sr. Collegiate Baseball League at Shirley Povich field in Bethesda. First pitch is set for 7:30pm, but Jeff will be present to sign autographs beginning at 6:15. [GUHoyas.com]
• Another former Hoya making headlines this weekend is Perry McDonald. The 1988 graduate is being honored by the Greater New Orleans Sports Hall of Fame on Saturday. [GUHoyas.com]
• Georgetown has announced an Interim A.D. after the departure of Bernard Muir last month. Season ticket holder and Georgetown’s Senior Vice President Dan Porterfield will be taking the role of Athletic Director temporarily while the search for a full-time replacement takes place. [Vox Populi]

• The Orlando Magic defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Chamionship on Saturday, earning them a place in the NBA Finals against the LA Lakers. Patrick Ewing will be on the bench coaching the Magic on Thursday when the series begins.
• Reggie Williams was recently hired to be the Boys’ Varsity Head Coach at Towson Catholic High School in Baltimore, MD.
• Jeff Green will be one of 20-24 players participating in the Team USA training camp in Las Vegas this summer. If he does well, he may be participating in the World Championships in 2010 representing the United States.

High school recruit Latavious Williams has chosen to attend the University of Memphis instead of Georgetown and a few other options, according to Barker Davis of the Washington Times. After the departures of Jessie Sapp, DaJuan Summers, and Omar Wattad, Georgetown fans were desperate for Williams’ signing, but after many delays, he has opted for the Tigers. The Hoyas will have two new recruits along with red-shirted Hollis Thompson next season.

[Via Washington Times]

• Duke forward Gerald Henderson signed with an agent, making him ineligible to return to Duke for his senior season. Henderson led the Blue Devils in scoring last year.
• The Los Angeles Clippers jumped up two spots to claim the number one pick in the NBA Draft. Sacramento and Washington, who were the two most likely teams to win the lottery, dropped to fourth and fifth respectively, as the Memphis Grizzlies and Oklahoma City Thunder improved their status as well, getting the second and third picks. This is fifth consecutive year that the worst team in basketball does not get the top pick in the draft.
• With the first pick, speculation is for the Clippers to take National Player of the Year Blake Griffin from the Oklahoma Sooners.

• This past week was Senior Week at Georgetown, and on Saturday was Georgetown’s Commencement. With seniors Jessie Sapp, Bryon Jansen, and manager Chris Golski all graduating from the College, there were plenty of Hoyas in attendance. Coach Thompson was watching along with Jason Clark, Julian Vaughn, Nikita Mescheriakov, and recent graduate Tyler Crawford.
• While no HoyaHoops team members were present at Senior Ball on Friday, Roy Hibbert was in attendance and kinda hard to miss.
• In the NBA Playoffs, there were two Game 7s yesterday and both had Hoya implications. In the first game, the Houston Rockets lost to the L.A. Lakers 89-70. With Dikembe announcing his retirement last month, he has lost his final chance at an NBA ring.
• In the second Game 7, the Orlando Magic defeated the reigning Boston Celtics 101-82 to advance to the Eastern Conference finals. Before the game, Magic Assistant Patrick Ewing had guaranteed victory for Orlando.
• Early last week, Georgetown’s Athletic Director Bernard Muir accepted the position of Director of Athletics and Recreation Services at the University of Delaware. There’s been no word on Muir’s replacement at Georgetown.