He really shouldn’t be here anymore. A player really doesn’t stick around in the minor league system this long without getting even a glimpse of the big leagues, but he’s still here. He’s seen players come and go from the D-League to the NBA and eventually fade away, but he’s still hanging around hoping for [...]
Categories: D-League Digest
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Tags: Fort Wayne Mad Ants, Ron Howard
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With less than a week left, the D-League playoff picture is almost complete. The Iowa Energy have clinched the East Conference and the number one overall seed. The Reno Bighorns, Rio Grande Valley Vipers, and Tulsa 66ers all sit within a half game of each other atop the West Conference standings and in the race [...]
Categories: D-League Digest, D-League Randomness, Matt Hubert
| Tags: 2011 D-League Playoffs, Austin Toros, Fort Wayne Mad Ants, Idaho Stampede, Texas Legends
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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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Do fans of the NBA Development League watch The Price is Right? Are ontestants on The Price is Right hardcore D-League fans? Is this guy’s bid the equivalent to Gordon Haywood’s shot going IN against Duke in the national title game? How many questions can I write before you wonder if this post is going [...]
Categories: 2011 D-League Showcase, D-League Digest, Matt Hubert
| Tags: 2011 D-League Showcase, Fort Wayne Mad Ants, Iowa Energy, New Mexico Thunderbirds, Rio Grande Valley Vipers, Sioux Falls Skyforce, Texas Legends, Tulsa 66ers, Utah Flash
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Assignments from the NBA have been one of the biggest stories in NBA Development League this season. In a little over one month of basketball, the NBA has sent 22 players to the D-League. By comparison, 24 players were assigned all of last season and 32 was the most ever assigned in a season (2008-09). [...]
Categories: D-League Digest, D-League Randomness, Matt Hubert
| Tags: Austin Toros, Fort Wayne Mad Ants
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Winning lottery combinations, the weather, the apocalypse. They’re all difficult to predict. Sports, in general, are difficult unpredictable. It’s the old “on any given day, Team A can defeat Team B” way of thinking, and it’s one of the biggest reasons people love to watch sports and root for the underdog. But few leagues can [...]
Categories: D-League Digest, D-League Randomness, Matt Hubert
| Tags: Curtis Stinson, D-League, D-League Rules, Fort Wayne Mad Ants, FutureCast, Larry Owens, Latavious Williams, Mustafa Shakur, Nancy Lieberman, Rio Grande Valley Vipers, Tulsa 66ers
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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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Time for some list-making. And D-League blogger nerdiness. In the interest of paying homage to the D-League’s role as a preparer of talent for the NBA, three of my colleagues and I have taken to ranking our top 10 D-Leaguers most deserving and/or ready for NBA call-ups at (thus far) sporadic intervals this season. While [...]
Categories: D-League Randomness, Steve Weinman
| Tags: Albuquerque Thunderbirds, Antonio Anderson, Austin Toros, Carlos Powell, Coby Karl, Desmon Farmer, Dontell Jefferson, Dwayne Jones, Fort Wayne Mad Ants, Hardwood Paroxysm, Idaho Stampede, Iowa Energy, Jon Lewallen, Matt Moore, Mike Harris, Morris Almond, Mustafa Shakur, Othyus Jeffers, Reggie Williams, Reno Bighorns, Ridiculous Upside, Rio Grande Valley Vipers, Rob Kurz, Rod Benson, Scott Schroeder, Sioux Falls Skyforce, Springfield Armor, Tulsa 66ers, Utah Flash
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On the list of reasons I’m thrilled that the NBA D-League reached an agreement with VERSUS to have 16 games televised this season, somewhere near the top is the ability to combine minor league hoops with the wonders of digital video recording. So after the broadcast schedule tipped off Saturday night with Fort Wayne’s win [...]
Categories: D-League Game Observations, D-Leaguer of Intrigue, Steve Weinman
| Tags: D-League, Fort Wayne Mad Ants, Reggie Williams, Sioux Falls Skyforce, VERSUS
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Cliff Clinkscales continued to avoid turnovers last night, but the biggest factor in his doing so may have been his own tentativeness. After Monday morning’s love-fest for the Erie BayHawks’ point guard’s recent three-game stretch in which he totaled 35 assists and four turnovers, I tuned in to Tuesday’s Bakersfield-Erie contest to see if and [...]
Categories: D-League Game Observations, Steve Weinman
| Tags: Bakersfield Jam, Cedric Jackson, Cliff Clinkscales, Curtis Stinson, D-League, Erie Bayhawks, Fort Wayne Mad Ants, Iowa Energy, NBA TV, Oliver Lafayette
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