Summertime is time for baseless speculation. With Austin Nichols bailing from the sinking ship that is Josh Pastner's Memphis basketball program, should Kevin Stallings make a play for him?
Austin Nichols, Memphis' leading scorer, shot-blocker and second-leading rebounder last season, announced on Tuesday that he would seek a transfer. After some dickering about potentially not granting him a release, Memphis ultimately granted a conditional release, allowing Nichols to transfer but restricting him from transferring to another AAC school, any of Memphis's 2015-16 non-conference opponents (including South Carolina and Ole Miss, among others); Virginia, Providence, and Iowa, whom Memphis plays in a tournament in 2016-17; and, for some reason, the school to the east even though Pastner refuses to schedule them.