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UCLA basketball: Reeves Nelson suspended indefinitely over behavior

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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UCLA Coach Ben Howland announced late Monday that he has suspended junior forward Reeves Nelson indefinitely for unspecified behavior issues.

Nelson, the team’s leading returning scorer and rebounder from last season, will not be with the team Tuesday when it plays Middle Tennessee State at the Sports Arena.

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‘This is a very disappointing situation for Reeves and for our basketball program,’ Howland said in a statement. ‘We have a high standard and code of conduct that our student-athletes are expected to adhere to and Reeves has fallen short of our expectations.’

Nelson’s status will be reevaluated after he meets with Howland this week, according to the statement. Nelson had 13 points and eight rebounds in UCLA’s season-opening 69-58 loss to Loyola Marymount on Friday.

We’ll have more later at www.latimes.com/sports.

--Ben Bolch

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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