Posted by Dakota Schmidt on October 17, 2012
In the fall of 2009, five-star high school recruit Latavious Williams made history by being the first player to go straight from high school into the NBA D-League. Williams originally committed to play with the Memphis Tigers and recently hired head coach Josh Pastner, but he struggled to qualify academically and decided to back out [...]
Categories: D-League Digest, Dakota Schmidt, NCAA Basketball
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Tags: Kyle Anderson, Latavious Williams, Shabazz Muhammad
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Posted by Joey Whelan on February 16, 2011
Fifteen months have passed since Latavious Williams made history by becoming the first player to make the jump from high school to the D-League. At the time, despite going largely unnoticed in most basketball circles, it appeared as though the 6-8 forward could be laying the groundwork for future players to make a similar jump, [...]
Categories: D-League Digest, Joey Whelan
| Tags: Cole Aldrich, Latavious Williams, Tulsa 66ers
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Posted by Matt Hubert on December 14, 2010
Latavious Williams is one of the most intriguing prospects in the NBA Development League. He was the first player to go straight from high school to the D-League. And in June he was the lone D-League player taken in the NBA Draft, where he was selected 48th overall by the Miami Heat and then traded [...]
Categories: D-League Digest, D-Leaguer of Intrigue, Matt Hubert
| Tags: Latavious Williams, Oklahoma City Thunder, Tulsa 66ers
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Posted by Matt Hubert on November 17, 2010
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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Posted by Matt Hubert on September 15, 2010
Projecting which first- and second-year players will get assigned to the D-League in the upcoming season is tough. There are a lot of different factors to consider on both the player and team side. If the team doesn’t see the value in utilizing the D-League as a development tool—and their are indications that several franchises [...]
Categories: D-League Digest, Matt Hubert, NBA D-League Assignees
| Tags: Avery Bradley, Byron Mullens, Christian Eyenga, D-League, Daniel Orton, Earl Clark, Eric Bledsoe, Hasheem Thabeet, Lance Stephenson, Latavious Williams, Pape Sy
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Posted by Steve Weinman on June 28, 2010
At 11:20 p.m. Thursday night, I sat alone in the middle section of the 300s level of the theater at Madison Square Garden. The sections around me were nearly vacant. Two ushers meandered in my general vicinity, but most of the crowd that remained at the evening’s featured event – the 2010 NBA Draft – [...]
Categories: 2010 NBA Draft, D-League Digest, Steve Weinman
| Tags: 2010 NBA Draft, Latavious Williams
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Posted by Matt Hubert on May 27, 2010
While most draft debates revolve around John Wall and Evan Turner or Derrick Favors and DeMarcus Cousins, those with a pulse on the D-League are most interested to see if/when Latavious Williams gets selected in the June 24 NBA Draft. When the NBA instituted the new rule that U.S. players must be at least one [...]
Categories: D-League Digest, D-Leaguer of Intrigue, Matt Hubert
| Tags: 2010 NBA Draft, Latavious Williams, NBA, Oklahoma City Thunder, Tulsa 66ers
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