Moute watch
Now that Ben Howland has Josh Shipp back in his camp, he can focus on whether Luc Richard Mbah a Moute will turn pro.
Moute is working out with NBA teams as he weighs his options before the draft. Howland said Moute will most likely take all his time to make his decision. He has until 9 p.m. PST on Monday to stay in the draft or return to UCLA.
"Luc's in a situation where he's most likely going to be somewhere in the second round if he keeps his name in," Howland said during a teleconference Tuesday. "No one's going to guarantee him anything. People might like them and like what they see."
But Howland said he talked to a "prominent general manager" in the NBA and Moute is taking a huge gamble if he stays in the draft.
"No one's going to guarantee a thing, because they want to see who falls to them," Howland said. "It's a crapshoot when you're talking about the draft, especially as you get into the later part of it."
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This is Brian Dohn's sixth season covering UCLA after spending 4 1/2 years covering the Dodgers for the Daily News and other Los Angeles Newspaper Group papers. He graduated from Rutgers, where the first college football game was played in 1869. Sure, the Scarlet Knights suffered for a long time, but now RU is doing what Jerseyans always thought was possible. Winning at Rutgers also proves winning is possible everywhere else in the nation, so underachieving coaches better be careful. Now, if only men's hoops can turn it around.
I believe his last name is "Mbah a Moute".