JD Davison announces basketball camp in Alabama hometown in August

Boston Celtic and former Alabama guard JD Davison will be back in his hometown of Letohatchee, Alabama, to put on a youth basketball later this summer. The camp is currently scheduled for Aug. 3.

The camp will be held at Calhoun High School, Davison’s alma mater. The camp will run from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m.

A graphic about the camp, posted by the TIG marketing agency, advertises free food and drink along with free haircuts. General admission is $25 and VIP is $50.

Davison, a 6-foot-3 guard, played one season at Alabama. He averaged 8.5 points, 4.8 rebounds and 4.3 assists while playing in 33 games. He was a second round pick for the Celtics in the 2022 NBA Draft.

Davison’s former college coach sounded off on recent trends in the game

College athletics are what you make it now when it comes to all the changes to it over the last several years. For example, Nate Oats, who’s currently coaching at the level, has no issue with it because of his opportunity and how he has adjusted to it over his near decade, specifically the last five years.

Oats spoke about the shifts in collegiate sports and how it has impacted his job during an interview with Seth Davis. To him, he’s not unhappy at all because, to begin with, he’s a college basketball coach that is compensated well to be that. The rest that comes with it is easier to manage when that is true to begin with.

“It’s not making it miserable. I don’t buy that at all,” Oats stated.

“I get paid a lot of money to coach basketball. I was coaching basketball while having to do a full-time job teaching for over 15 years. So I don’t think you’re ever going to hear me complain about my job,” said Oats. “I get paid way more money than I ever thought I was going to get paid and I get to coach basketball. Not required to turn in lesson plans, all that stuff and grade papers. I love my job.”

Still, Oats, like essentially all coaches, think things could be better. That starts with the powers that be being clearer about the rules and evolutions that are coming. That would allow programs to adjust faster do their work more efficiently each day and for each season.

“What does it look like? What’s the revenue sharing going to look like? What’s the collectives going to look like? Where are we at NIL-wise?” Oats asked. “I think there’s a lot of changing parts, a lot of changing rules that you have to figure out on the fly.”