Lee, who was a member of KU’s 2008 NCAA title coaching staff as a graduate student-manager, played at Portland’s Jefferson High, along with former KU standout Aaron Miles.

Lee, a 2005 KU graduate (in sociology) who played in two Final Fours, also is male leadership coordinator at Self Enhancement, Inc., in Portland.

“I love the game, and I love kids. Quite honestly, I have a lot of experience, and I want to pass it on to these youngsters,” Lee, former assistant at University of San Francisco and Gardner-Webb, told the Oregonian newspaper. His playing career included stops in France and Canada and with the Harlem Globetrotters.

“Kids are active, and they want to move, so we’ll have a style conducive to moving,” Lee added to the Oregonian. “At Jefferson and Kansas, the Globetrotters and even Europe, we were getting up and down the floor, and that’s what I like to play.”

“I’ve had good teachers in coach (Roy) Williams and coach (Bill) Self,” Lee told the Journal-World, referring to the two men he played for at KU. “Learning the process from them at that level … how much guys get pushed and how much studying goes into the game, watching film. That’s what I try to impart to kids as much as they want to listen. We don’t force-feed them.”

In his role as male leadership coordinator at Self Enhancement, Inc., Lee helps “groups of student leaders make fundamental changes in their environment by working on issues affecting their lives (i.e., gangs, drugs and alcohol, and violence).” He is “responsible for assisting the student groups nurture and exercise their leadership skills through activities and special projects.”

Self hits Wall: Self, Wisconsin’s Bo Ryan and Fred Hoiberg of the Chicago Bulls, who were in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Wednesday for a golf tournament and speaking engagement, were captured on Twitter visiting the Sanford Pentagon.

It’s a state-of-the-art, 3,250-seat indoor arena that opened in September 2013. The three coaches had their names added to the building’s Wall of Fame.

Iowa State will play Colorado in the facility on Nov. 13, with Oklahoma State to tangle with Minnesota on Dec. 12. Wichita State met Memphis in the arena last season. In 2013-14, the building hosted Wisconsin and St. John’s.

NBA raid continues: College freshmen will continue to dominate the next two NBA Drafts, according to draftexpress.com.

Six of the first seven picks in the 2016 draft are projected to be one-and-done college players. Top four projected picks are: Skal Labissiere, Kentucky; Ben Simmons, LSU; Jaylen Brown, Cal; and Brandon Ingram, Duke. Dragan Bender of Maccabi Tel Aviv, who is currently 17, is projected to go No. 5; followed by Jamal Murray, Kentucky, and Malik Newman, Mississippi State. KU freshman Cheick Diallo is projected to be selected No. 15 and sophomore Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk 17.

Nine of the top picks in the 2017 draft are projected to be current high school seniors. They are: Harry Giles, Jayson Tatum, Dennis Smith, Josh Jackson, Markelle Fultz, De’Aaron Fox, Malik Monk, Stephen Zimmerman and Edrice Adebayo. Draftexpress.com says the 10th pick will be 17-year-old Rodions Kurics of Latvia.