{"id":266963,"date":"2025-09-04T20:11:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/266963\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T20:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:11:12","slug":"new-fsu-coach-luke-loucks-lands-guard-brandon-bass-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/266963\/","title":{"rendered":"New FSU coach Luke Loucks lands guard Brandon Bass Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windermere Prep senior Brandon Bass Jr., the high-scoring son of former Orlando Magic power forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2010\/10\/15\/brandon-bass-finally-showcases-his-talent-and-nba-trade-value-with-orlando-magic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Bass<\/a>, announced this afternoon that he will sign to play college basketball for Florida State in November.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Jr. is listed as a 6-foot-4 southpaw shooting guard by recruiting channels, but may be a touch taller than that according to his high school. He\u2019s a 4-star prospect and two-time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2025\/05\/30\/windermeres-tj-drain-is-sentinel-varsity-boys-basketball-player-of-the-year\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">All-Area player<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bass said the NBA coaching experience that <a href=\"https:\/\/seminoles.com\/staff-directory\/luke-loucks\/468\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new FSU head coach Luke Loucks<\/a> and his staff bring to Tallahassee was a key in making the Seminoles his choice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately, that\u2019s where I want to go (NBA),\u201d Bass said in a phone interview with the Sentinel. \u201cFSU will help me a lot in my development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFSU recruited me hard early. Made me a priority. It\u2019s been a cool process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Loucks, who played for four FSU NCAA Tournament teams (2008-12), was an assistant coach for the Sacramento Kings (2022-25) after being on staff with the Golden State Warriors and Phoenix Suns.<\/p>\n<p>Bass said his father, who played 12 NBA seasons with six teams, has been instrumental in his growth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy dad plays a huge role in my development as a person on and off the court. He taught me everything I know,\u201d Brandon Jr. said.<\/p>\n<p>Bass, listed as the nation\u2019s No. 19 shooting guard in the 247Sports Composite Rankings, played in 11 varsity games as a Windermere Prep eighth grader, averaging 2.5 points. He averaged 17.4 as a freshman starter and pumped the numbers up to 20.6 as a sophomore and 20.7 last year. He averaged 7.5 rebounds and 2 assists per game for a 13-14 team last season.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon has scored 1,803 career points to go with 496 rebounds, 135 assists, 119 steals and 43 blocked shots. He has made 255 three-point shots (38%) and 370 free throws (80%).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he\u2019s going to be a great fit at FSU,\u201d said Lakers coach Brian Hoff \u2013 a former FSU player. \u201cLuke\u2019s system is shooting a lot of 3s and that\u2019s one of the best things Brandon does really well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Orlando forward Brandon Bass bangs into Milwaukee forward Corey Maggette during the Magic's 78-72 victory over the Bucks in an NBA basketball game at Amway Center in Orlando, Fla. Tuesday, April 5, 2011. (Gary W. Green\/staff photographer) ORG XMIT: B581173612Z.1\" width=\"1378\" height=\"442\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Orlando-Magic-Milwaukee-Bucks-NBA-Basketball.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"14712678\" \/>Brandon Bass was a rugged forward for two seasons with the Orlando Magic and with five other NBA teams. (Gary W. Green\/Orlando Sentinel)<\/p>\n<p>Varsity content editor Buddy Collings can be contacted by email at bcollings@orlandosentinel.com.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: September 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Windermere Prep senior Brandon Bass Jr., the high-scoring son of former Orlando Magic power forward Brandon Bass, announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3779],"tags":[7,1932,3255,48,6,47,76,3883,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-266963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando-magic","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boys-high-school-basketball","10":"tag-high-school-sports","11":"tag-magic","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-orlando","14":"tag-orlando-magic","15":"tag-orlandomagic","16":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115147852149128123","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}