La Salle

La Salle’s Best Player Enters Transfer Portal

By Kevin Kinkead

Published: Mar 17th, 2026 · 10:37 AM EDT

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Big 5 news:

NEWS: La Salle guard Rob Dockery is entering the transfer portal, he told @LeagueRDY.

The 6-foot-6 guard is a former four-star recruit who spent two seasons at Texas A&M, redshirting one, before playing one at La Salle.

He averaged 12.5PPG, 6.1RPG, 2.3APG and 1.5SPG this… pic.twitter.com/H7ry2DVV02

— Sam Kayser (@KayserHoops) March 16, 2026

Dockery was La Salle’s best player, leading the Explorers in points, rebounds, and steals while playing 27.1 minutes per game. He played his best ball in the second half and was one of just two guys to play all 32 games on a new-look Darris Nichols team that went 9-23.

We’ve seen this pattern before, where a guy starts with a power 5 team, doesn’t make much of an impact, then transfers to a smaller school and seems to find his level. But he plays well and then transfers right out again, leading to this never-ending carousel of portal entry and exit.

You look at teams like La Salle and Drexel and wonder if they’ll ever be able to have any kind of consistency or stability in the NIL world, and while they can be landing spots for guys in need of a change of scenery, they’re flight risks if coaches like Nichols and Zach Spiker get them going at a smaller program.

We’ll see where Dockery ends up, but hopefully it’s outside of the Big 5. I see St. Joe’s fans already MANIFESTING a transfer in the social media comments, but there’s something about these teams cannibalizing each other that feels gross. Jhamir Brickus, Deuce Jones, Tyler Perkins, etc. I dunno. That’s how it goes these days, but college basketball was a better experience imo when guys committed to a team and built something. If you’re a student fan now, you gotta learn an entire new opposing roster to yell at from the stands. Every year. At least back in our day we got to boo 3-4 year players at Pitt and UConn and all of that. Fuck Carl Krauser! Now these teams have 10 new players every year because they’re just chasing the bag. Good for them, I guess, but it kills momentum and story building and fan attention and all of those things. Imagine if Gerry McNamara and Greg Paulus transferred three times before finding their way to Syracuse and Duke, where they only played one season. That sounds so dumb. It is so dumb.