{"id":4881,"date":"2026-04-23T21:49:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/jalen-reed-transfers-to-michigan-from-lsu\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T21:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:49:09","slug":"jalen-reed-transfers-to-michigan-from-lsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/jalen-reed-transfers-to-michigan-from-lsu\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalen Reed transfers to Michigan from LSU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-607447\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Two weeks after the Michigan men\u2019s basketball team secured its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigandaily.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/tennessee-transfer-j-p-estrella-commits-to-michigan\/\">first<\/a> transfer portal commitment of the offseason, coach Dusty May has his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigandaily.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/tennessee-transfer-j-p-estrella-commits-to-michigan\/\">second<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JoeTipton\/status\/2047377926883258500?s=20\">reported<\/a> Thursday by On3\u2019s Joe Tipton that LSU forward Jalen Reed has committed to the Wolverines. Reed has spent the last four seasons with the Tigers, but played single-digit games in the last two due to injuries.<\/p>\n<p>A strong athlete at 6-foot-9, Reed brings post scoring and rebounding ability to Michigan. Across the 14 games he\u2019s played in the last two years, he\u2019s averaged 10.4 points and 6.1 rebounds per game on efficient shooting splits. He\u2019s also made 37.9% of his career 3-point attempts, albeit on low volume.<\/p>\n<p>If able to stay healthy, Reed could provide a boost to a Wolverines frontcourt likely to lose several key pieces. Graduate forward Yaxel Lendeborg has already declared for the NBA Draft, while junior center Aday Mara and sophomore forward Morez Johnson Jr. are probable first-round selections with decisions still looming.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>If Johnson \u2014 the likeliest of the two to return to Ann Arbor \u2014 ends up going pro, Reed\u2019s athletic play style from the four sets him up nicely to fill that hole.<\/p>\n<aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related articles<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- .entry-footer --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks after the Michigan men\u2019s basketball team secured its first transfer portal commitment of the offseason, coach Dusty May has his second. It was reported Thursday by On3\u2019s Joe Tipton that LSU forward Jalen Reed has committed to the Wolverines. Reed has spent the last four seasons with the Tigers, but played single-digit games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[4515,4517,222,4516,1776],"class_list":{"0":"post-4881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-jalen","9":"tag-lsu","10":"tag-michigan","11":"tag-reed","12":"tag-transfers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4883,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881\/revisions\/4883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}