Orlando Magic assistant coach Jay Hernandez conducting pregame drills with Elfrid Payton. Photo Credit: Gemini Keez

Orlando Magic assistant coach Jay Hernandez checked in with Brandon ‘Scoop B’ Robinson. Press Play below to see him in training action.

Last month, the Orlando Magic named Jay Hernandez assistant coach of player development. It couldn’t have been more of a perfect fit.

Hernandez has years of basketball history.

Playing one season at the University of New Hampshire, he transferred to Hofstra University and played under current Villanova head coach Jay Wright. During his three seasons at Hofstra University from 1998-2001, along with Speedy Claxton, Hernandez helped guide Hofstra to back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances in 2000 and 2001.

After playing professionally in Puerto Rico for three years, Hernandez founded a local basketball training program called Pro Hoops, Inc. a basketball training program.

Orlando Magic assistant coach, Jay Hernandez and rapper, Common. Photo Credit: Orlando Magic Daily.

Pro Hoops improves basketball performance of hoopers from grade school all the way to the adult age. Hernandez left Pro Hoops to dive into his coaching role with the Orlando Magic full-time. But his impact was felt.

Hernandez also tried his hand at acting too. He was the stunt double for rapper, Common in the film “Just Wright.”

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— Orlando Magic Daily (@OMagicDaily) September 9, 2014

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Hofstra University alums: Pynk Magazine publisher/Basketball Wives star Meeka Claxton, RESPECT Magazine managing editor Brandon ‘Scoop B’ Robinson & Love & Hip Hop/former G-Unit member Olivia Longott at a gathering in Miami. Photo Credit: DJ Manny El

Meeka Claxton is the real deal. An entrepreneur, mother of two and a go-getter, she  made a name for herself as the star of VH1’s hit show “Basketball Wives.” Through that, she used her platform to create lucrative opportunities far beyond what she could have ever imagine through sports, fashion and lifestyle with the launch of her two publications, Pynk and ELITE, with her partner, Mecca Moore.

At 5’4″ the Belizean-American firecracker, Queens, NY native and Hofstra University alum has had experience in real estate, event planning and party hosting.

In today’s pop culture, many young ladies are enamored with the ability to be married to a professional athlete. Although there are perks like travel, wine, food and jewelry, it takes hard work to maintain it.

Appearing on a recent episode of Scoop B Radio, I chatted with  Meeka Claxton on what advice she’d give young women who have that idea in their head.Meeka at one time was married to former San Antonio Spurs champion Speedy Claxton. “I think that they’re just imagining the glamorous part of it,” Meeka Claxton told me on Scoop B Radio.

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“It’s the young end of it, the bags, the shoes, you just uh the furs and things like that if you’re in colder cities but at the end of the day its more than that.”

Meeka added: 

“Being a wife of an athlete you know its more than that its really a support system, you know I was very blessed not to have an athlete that was so consumed by the game, that you know, they would come home angry. There were some players that they couldn’t even; the wives couldn’t even talk to them after. They’re calling me, I’m like: ‘look I’m hanging out with my husband and my kids chill out leave me alone.’ And they’re like: ‘I can’t talk to him we just lost’ you know whatever so it’s a lot, it’s a lot of coddling it’s a lot of just like nurturing.”

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International basketball player Charles Jenkins has a story to tell.

Scoop B Radio and DJ Manny recapped Jenkins’ chat with myself in SLAM Magazine right before the 2011 NBA Draft. A Queens, NY native, he graduated from Hofstra University as the school’s all-time leading scorer.  He discussed his strengths and weaknesses, being mentioned in the ranks of Hofstra Pride Alum Speedy Claxton and much more.

Currently a star guard at Crvena zvezda of the Basketball League of Serbia,  Jenkins was the 44th pick by the  in the 2011 NBA Draft.

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