Had the chance to sit down for a brief 1-on-1 interview with new Huskies men’s basketball coach Mike Hopkins today. I asked him a few questions about his recruiting philosophy, and then I asked him a bunch of questions that have little to do with basketball. Enjoy.
(What was it like recruiting Carmelo Anthony?) “I wasn’t the point person with Carmelo Anthony. It was Troy Weaver. Troy Weaver is (now) the assistant GM with Oklahoma City. But we had one of our ex-players, Michael Lloyd – it reminds me of Seattle in the sense that Baltimore is very … the people that are in the Baltimore basketball community are very close.