From day one, my goal on this site has been to both promote the D-League and the players involved. The internet is filled with great writers talking about any NBA topic that your heart desires, but there seems to be a void when it comes to the D-League. While the guys at Ridiculous Upside and [...]
Categories: D-League Digest, Dakota Schmidt
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Tags: Bakersfield Jam, Jerel McNeal
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Every year in the NBA draft there are players selected that aren’t quite ready to contribute to NBA teams. The primary reason for the D-League is to turn potential into NBA playing time. Linsanity was truly remarkable and one of the best things to happen to the D-League in its brief 11 year history. It [...]
Categories: NBA
| Tags: Arnett Moultrie, Bakersfield Jam, Fab Melo, Ft. Wayne Mad Ants, Jeremy Lin, John Henson, Maine Red Claws, Miles Plumlee, Quincy Acy, Sioux Falls Skyforce
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When the D-Fenders and Jam square off Thursday, April 19 for game 1 of their semifinal match-up, it will be the ninth time the two squads have tangled in the 2011-2012 D-League season. Splitting their season series 4-4, this three game set will be the deciding factor of who deserves Southern California D-League bragging rights. [...]
Categories: D-League Digest, Gino Pilato
| Tags: Bakersfield Jam, Los Angeles D-Fenders
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With little under a month left on the D-League schedule, the time is now for team’s to begin their playoff push to grab a postseason spot and continue their season. The season finishes with 16 total games April 6-7, and teams that are currently hovering around the final playoff spots need to turn it on [...]
Categories: D-League Digest, Gino Pilato
| Tags: Austin Toros, Bakersfield Jam, Canton Charge, D-League Playoffs, Dakota Wizards, Erie Bayhawks, Idaho Stampede, Iowa Energy, Los Angeles D-Fenders, Rio Grande Valley Vipers, Springfield Armor, Texas Legends
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During the 2010-11 NBA Development League season, 20 different players earned call-ups to the NBA. In all, NBA teams made 27 call-ups last season with some players being called up more than once. Over the next few weeks, I will look back at the top 10 call-ups from last season and update their current playing [...]
Categories: D-League Alumni, D-League Transactions, Matt Hubert, NBA D-League Call-Ups
| Tags: Bakersfield Jam, Los Angeles Lakers, Toronto Raptors, Trey Johnson
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Marqus Blakely is just the right combination of raw physical ability mixed with developing skill set to star in the D-League while simultaneously keeping at least a handful of NBA teams intrigued. After all, the rookie out of Vermont showed enough potential during the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas to earn a non-guaranteed contract [...]
Categories: D-League Digest, Joey Whelan
| Tags: Bakersfield Jam, Curtis Stinson, Iowa Energy, marqus blakely
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Day 3 of the 2010-11 NBA Development League Showcase was capped off with a game televised live nationally on Versus between the defending champion Rio Grande Valley Vipers and the Erie BayHawks. Both teams won their Showcase openers. RGV defeated the Fort Wayne Mad Ants on Monday, and the BayHawks beat the Idaho Stampede on [...]
Categories: 2011 D-League Showcase, D-League Digest, Matt Hubert
| Tags: 2011 D-League Showcase, Bakersfield Jam, Dakota Wizards, Erie Bayhawks, Fort Wayne Mad Ants, Maine Red Claws, Reno Bighorns, Rio Grande Valley Vipers, Tulsa 66ers, VERSUS
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Volume shooter is a four letter word in basketball circles. It’s why some discredit Allen Iverson’s place in history. It’s one of a select few reasons we see undersized shooting guards from small schools with gaudy scoring totals annually go undrafted and unwanted by the NBA. It’s a label that has been affixed to Trey [...]
Categories: D-League Digest, Joey Whelan
| Tags: Bakersfield Jam, Trey Johnson
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The NBA Development League season opener is still more than a week away, but the rumblings have already begun about player movement from the NBA to the D-League. Multiple sources reported that Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson expects rookies Devin Ebanks and/or Derrick Caracter to spend some time in the D-League this season. “I [...]
Categories: D-League Digest, Matt Hubert, NBA
| Tags: Bakersfield Jam, Derrick Caracter, Devin Ebanks, Los Angeles D-Fenders, Los Angeles Lakers, Phil Jackson
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Somewhere between The Decision and Decision 2010, a number of smaller but still important decisions were made during the 2010 NBA Development League Draft. It’s Election Day. And regardless of whether you voted Democrat, Republican, somewhere in between or (sigh) even not at all, there’s plenty of room here for all to join in the [...]
Categories: 2010 D-League Draft, D-League Digest, Matt Hubert
| Tags: 2010 D-League Draft, Austin Toros, Bakersfield Jam, D-League, Dakota Wizards, Erie Bayhawks, Fort Wayne Mad Ants, Idaho Stampede, Iowa Energy, Maine Red Claws, New Mexico Thunderbirds, Reno Bighorns, Rio Grande Valley Vipers, Sioux Falls Skyforce, Springfield Armor, Texas Legends, Tulsa 66ers, Utah Flash
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