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Virginia Guard Leon Bond III to Enter the Transfer Portal
It took a few weeks, but the UVA men's basketball program has its first portal entry of the offseason. Redshirt freshman guard Leon Bond III heavily implied that his time at Virginia has come to an end in an Instagram story he posted on Saturday which said "Thank you Virginia. You will have my heart forever."
Unless we're somehow reading too much into it, that would appear to indicate that Bond is planning to enter the transfer portal.
It's not a surprising development, as Bond has played just 24 games and 296 total minutes in his first two years at Virginia. A four-star recruit coming out of high school in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, Bond redshirted his first season and then played sparingly this season, averaging 12.3 minutes per contest and 4.1 points per game, but not playing much more than garbage time minutes for most of ACC play.
Somewhat stuck between being a guard and a forward, Virginia opted for other options at both the third guard spot (Andrew Rohde, Taine Murray) and the power forward position (Ryan Dunn, Jake Groves) leaving Bond as the odd man out. And although there might've been some opportunity for Bond to get increased minutes next season, there was no guarantee of that coming to fruition. So this is a reasonable move for his basketball career.
Bond enters the transfer portal with three years of eligibility remaining.
With Bond entering the transfer portal, Virginia now has two open scholarship spots for the 2024-2025 season.
MATT NEWTON
Managing Editor and Publisher, CavaliersNow Email: mattnewton@virginia.eduTwitter: @mattynewtssWebsite | LinkedIn | Instagram Matt Newton is the managing editor and publisher at CavaliersNow. He has been covering UVA athletics since 2019 and has been the managing editor at CavaliersNow since launching the site in August 2021. Matt covers all things UVA sports, including Virginia basketball and football news and recruiting, former Wahoos in the pros, and coverage of all 23 of the NCAA Division I sports teams at the University of Virginia. A native of Downingtown, Pennsylvania, Matt grew up a huge Philadelphia sports fan, but has also been a UVA sports fanatic his entire life thanks to his parents, who are alums of the University of Virginia. Matt followed in his parents' footsteps and attended UVA from 2017-2021, graduating with a degree in Media Studies and a minor in Economics in May of 2021.