A day after guard Lamont Butler withdraws from the NBA Draft, the 6-9, 240-pound LeDee does the same to give the Aztecs a veteran inside presence next season
Jaedon LeDee, all 6-foot-9, 240 pounds of him, announced Tuesday afternoon that he is withdrawing from the NBA Draft and returning to San Diego State for his final college season.The Aztecs used a three-out, two-in offensive scheme last season that relied on a four-man rotation of bruising low posts who, CBS analyst Charles Barkley said during the NCAA Tournament, represented grown men playing against college kids.
The only other true bigs among the 11 scholarship players are a pair of little-used sophomores: 6-8, 240-pound Elijah Saunders and 6-10, 235-pound Demarshay Johnson Jr. As a true freshman, Saunders was the 10man in what typically was a nine-man rotation – appearing in 16 games with averages of .9 points and 5.8 minutes. Johnson, who redshirted his first year at SDSU, played in only nine games for a total of 32 minutes.
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