Leland Wong: Our Men’s Basketball hometown hero—Ivan Rabb—is leaving the California Golden Bears to enter the NBA Draft.
The fanfare when Ivan Rabb committed to his local Bears was immense. We scored a 5-star talent. We got a Bay Area superstar to stay home. And we did it in Year One of the Cuonzo Martin era.
I think Rabb did a great job of living up to all that hype. Rabb commanded double teams, which opened up good looks for his teammates when he wasn’t too busy punishing opponents regardless. Rabb created opportunities with his rebounding abilities, which earned him the sixth spot in school history for rebounds in a game and top-ten rankings for career rebounding average, field-goal percentage, and blocks.