Royal Ivey reacts during South Sudan’s win over Puerto Rico on July 28, 2024. REUTERS “Being in the Olympics, and getting our first win. … My life is like a movie.

Royal Ivey — born in Harlem and raised in Queens — has already exceeded expectations by first coaching upstart South Sudan onto the world stage in their first Olympics, and then making a ...

Royal Ivey's "life is like a movie" as he achieves sporting greatness with South Sudan Basketball While moving up the ranks as a coach in the league, Ivey also took over the head coach vacancy for ...

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Ivey also became head coach of South Sudan's national team in 2021 and led the team to their first World Cup appearance in 2023, which culminated in a 2024 Olympic berth.

Royal Ivey is right: This is a movie — the type of story Disney will quickly purchase and cast Michael B. Jordan as the part of Ivey, the former NBA player turned coach of the South Sudan men ...

Ivey, a hard-nosed guard on Rick Barnes’ Longhorn teams of the early 2000s, including the 2003 Final Four squad that lost in the semifinals to eventual champion Syracuse and star freshman ...

South Sudan coach Royal Ivey was highly critical of the officiating as his side's Olympic basketball dreams came to an end as they failed to qualify for the men's quarter-finals in a heartbreaking ...

Houston Rockets assistant coach Royal Ivey is entering his second season on Ime Udoka's bench in Clutch City. But before he returns to Houston, he has some business to attend to in Paris at the ...

Houston Rockets assistant coach Royal Ivey has amassed quite the basketball resume. He was a top prospect in high school, landing a scholarship at the University of Texas, and leading his prep ...