Jeremy Lin in the D-League in 2011. Just for kicks, can we have one of the D-League teams schedule an exhibition against Jack Taylor and Grinnell College? I nominate the Iowa Energy. Justin Hurtt could take it as a personal challenge. I’d bet he’d put a little Hurtt on Mr. Taylor. [Read more…]
LOS ANGELES – D-League MVP Justin Dentmon scored a team-high 30 points to lead the Austin Toros to their first-ever NBA Development League Championship with a 122-110 victory over the Los Angeles D-Fenders on Saturday night at the Toyota Sports Center in L.A. The Toros led wire-to-wire for the second straight game in L.A., and overcame a Game One loss to beat the D-Fenders in three games. The team finished the 2012 postseason a perfect 6-0 in elimination games. Eric Dawson, the 2012
The Los Angeles D-Fenders and the Austin Toros will meet in the 2012 NBA Development League Finals, with each game of the best-of-three series televised nationally on NBA TV. The 2012 Finals tip off on Tuesday, April 24 at 8:30 p.m. ET, when Austin, the No. 3 seed in this year’s NBA D-League playoffs, hosts Los Angeles, the top seed, at Cedar Park Center in Cedar Park, Texas. The D-Fenders will then host the Toros for Game 2 on Thurs., April
Meet D.J. Kennedy, NBA player. The Cleveland Cavaliers today signed the former St. John’s guard from the Erie Bayhawks, making him the 58th player called up from the D-League this season. Kennedy will be in uniform Sunday when the Cavaliers play the San Antonio Spurs. He started all 44 games for the BayHawks, averaging 15.7 points, 7.3 rebounds, 4.4 assists and 1.6 steals in 37.4 minutes, with eight double-doubles. He was a four-year player at St. John’s and went undrafted last June. When (if)
CHARLOTTE — If the Charlotte Bobcats lose the rest of their games, they will go down in the record boks as having the worst winning percentage of any team in NBA history. In an effort to avoid that distinction, they have brought in a new player — NBA veteran Jamario Moon. He is expected to be in uniform tonight when the Bobcats, losers of 15 consecutive games, play host to the Boston Celtics. A four-year NBA veteran, the 6-foot-8 Moon has played in
The D-League had a record 50 players called up to the NBA this season, the league announced Tuesday. The D-League also set a record with 64 NBA player assignments. The records are pleasant news for the D-League but not surprising given the abbreviated NBA training camps and the proliferation of injuries in this truncated 66-game season. The previous records were 40 call-ups in the 2009-10 season and 56 assignments in the 2010-11 campaign. All 30 NBA teams currently have at least one player
The Western Conference champion Los Angeles D-Fenders, the No. 1 seed in the upcoming NBA Development League playoffs, selected the eighth-seeded Iowa Energy as their opponent in the first round of the 2012 NBA D-League playoffs. Los Angeles (38-12) and Iowa (25-25) will tip off the 2012 NBA D-League Playoffs in Iowa on Wednesday, April 11, at 8:00 p.m. EDT. For the fourth consecutive year, the top three seeds — the two conference champions and the wild card team with the best
Remember when we suggested that the Los Angeles Lakers re-sign Gerald Green? Well, the New Jersey Nets beat them to it. Green, a former Slam Dunk Contest winner who was named MVP of the D-League All-Star Game over the weekend, signed with the Nets on Monday, the minor league announced. Green was averaging 19.1 points and 4.6 rebounds with the Los Angeles D-Fenders. He scored 28 points in 24 minutes in the D-League All-Star Game in Orlando, Fla. on Saturday. The Nets have lost