And-Ones: McGrady, First-Rounders, Combine, Rozier

Former NBA guard Tracy McGrady, a seven-time All-Star who earned a spot in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, has accepted a role at Wagner College, the school announced in a press release. McGrady has been named the strategic advisor for the men’s basketball program.

In his new role, McGrady will assist with NIL deals, marketing, player development, and “expanding Wagner’s reach beyond its traditional areas of engagement on and off the court,” according to today’s announcement.

McGrady will forgo a salary and will serve in a volunteer capacity — his son, Laymen, will be a freshman at Wagner this season after spending a year at Oral Roberts as a redshirt in 2025/26.

Here are a few more odds and ends from around the basketball world:

• Based on his conversations with NBA executives at this week’s draft combine in Chicago, Jake Fischer of The Stein Line (Substack link) expects fewer first-round picks to change hands in trades beginning this offseason. As Fischer explains, teams are wary about how valuable a late-lottery pick could become under the NBA’s new lottery reform plan, which will likely make them more reluctant to surrender those selections.
• Also reporting from the combine, Jonathan Wasserman of Bleacher Report takes a look at the winners and losers so far among this year’s draft-eligible prospects. While some of Wasserman’s choices overlap with ESPN’s picks that we passed along on Tuesday, Bleacher Report’s draft guru also identifies Arkansas’ Darius Acuff and Houston’s Kingston Flemings as winners, noting that Acuff’s measurements compared favorably to Damian Lillard‘s, while Flemings showed off an impressive three-pointer during shooting drills. Vanderbilt’s Tyler Tanner, whose height was determined to be below 5’11”, and Alabama’s Amari Allen, who came in at just over 6’5″, are among Wasserman’s combine losers so far due to their official measurements.
• The NBA and former Heat guard Terry Rozier met with an arbitrator last month for a second time to renew their battle over whether or not Rozier is entitled to receive his full $26.6MM salary for 2025/26 as he faces federal charges following his arrest last fall. Rozier won an initial arbitration case earlier this year, but the league is still arguing that his salary should be reduced. Mike Vorkunov of The Athletic has the details on the latest arbitration session.