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Prince Williams PG/SG - 6'5, 200lbs - Born 22nd August 1992 Iowa Wolves Williams has been in and out of the G-League in his three professional seasons, grinding through a first season with the Greensboro Swarm after making the team through the local tryout route, being acquired and…
Hakim Warrick PF - 6'9, 219lbs - Born 8th July 1982 Iowa Wolves Warrick left the NBA six years ago, cut by the Magic at the 2013 trade deadline, and is now 36 years old. The G-League has in recent times served increasingly often as a place for…
Jonathan Stark PG - 6'0, 180lbs - Born 23rd May 1995 Iowa Wolves Jonathan Stark was the Ja Morant before Ja Morant. The two briefly play together at Murray State for one season, and whereas the over-exuberant, dynamic yet wild Morant (at that time) would be the spectacular…
Evan Smotrycz PF - 6'7, 230lbs - Born 2nd August 1991 Iowa Wolves Back in the day, there was a stretch in which Michigan decided to run the offence through Smotrycz. What a time that was. Things were different in the Michigan programme back then, and they were…
Xavier Silas SG - 6'5, 198lbs - Born 22nd January 1988 Iowa Wolves Silas was in the NBA last year, called up at the end of the season by a Boston Celtics team that ran out of ball handlers at one point. There was a time when that…
Jaylen Johnson PF - 6'9, 230lbs - Born 7th August 1996 Iowa Wolves Declaring for the NBA Draft after his junior season at Louisville in 2017, Johnson is still young and therefore still a project. In what would have been his senior season, he received a 10-day call-up…
Marquise Moore PG/SG - 6'2, 208lbs - Born 22nd December 1994 Iowa Wolves I love four things in this world. Sausage sandwiches, the lead singer out of The Interrupters (call me, Aimee!), 6'7 point guards who can't shoot, and extremely undersized guards who rebound like centres. Here, then,…
William Lee PF - 6'8, 210lbs - Born 10th January 1995 Iowa Wolves This was Lee's first professional season out of UAB, and it began with a summer league stint with the Memphis Grizzlies. After not getting a training camp contract from them, he initially signed in Serbia…
Darius Johnson-Odom SG - 6'1, 220lbs - Born 28th September 1989 Iowa Wolves Prior to his return this season, Johnson-Odom had been away from the G-League for four years. The vast majority of that time had been spent in Italy, where he had been amongst the country's highest…
L.G. Gill PF - 6'8, 210lbs - Born 24th December 1994 Iowa Wolves This season was Gill’s second in the G-League, one which began as a returning player with the Greensboro Swarm (whose roster he had made last season via the local tryout route) before immediately being traded…
Canyon Barry SG/SF - 6'6, 205lbs - Born 7th January 1994 Iowa Wolves The latest from the production line of Barrys is Canyon, the first in a generation to unashamedly shoot the underhand free throw. This was his first G-League season after spending his initial professional campaign split…
Jovan Mooring PG/SG - 6'2, 205lbs - Born 14th December 1994 Fort Wayne Mad Ants On a UNLV team built with finishers yet few shooters - Brandon McCoy, Tervell Beck, Will’s brother Kris Clyburn, the always-fun Shakur Juiston - Mooring was charged with the task in his two…
Ike Nwamu SG/SF - 6'5, 205lbs - Born 3rd January 1993 Fort Wayne Mad Ants Nwamu’s best skill is his dunking, and I don’t think anyone will dispute that. He is a very explosive leaper and a player who loves to finish with power at any opportunity; the…
Jared Sam PF - 6'10, 210lbs - Born 17th May 1995 Fort Wayne Mad Ants In his first three years at Southern University - and by the way, the commitment shown by the naming committee back in the formative days of that establishment is something we could all…
Travin Thibodeaux PF/C - 6'8, 242lbs - Born 19th February 1996 Fort Wayne Mad Ants In Thibodeaux's first professional season, he added size, rebounding and some interior defence to a team that otherwise lacked for them. He was not spectacular in any area, but he was solid in…
Tra-Deon Hollins PG - 6'2, 195lbs - Born 22nd August 1995 Fort Wayne Mad Ants Hollins returned to the Mad Ants to begin this season, having played 41 games with them in 2017/18 in his first professional season out of Omaha. Last year, he was a bench player…
Stephan Hicks SG - 6'6, 200lbs - Born 2nd April 1992 Fort Wayne Mad Ants If you come out of a mid-major school, the G-League is often the best way to get from there to the highest levels. As one of many examples, think on how David Nwaba…
Je'lon Hornbeak PG/SG - 6'3, 190lbs - Born 1st May 1994 Fort Wayne Mad Ants Hornbeak spent two years with Oklahoma, two years at Monmouth and now two years with the Mad Ants, which is pleasingly symmetrical. To have spent two full seasons with a G-League team, even…
Omari Johnson PF - 6'9, 220lbs - Born 26th May 1989 Fort Wayne Mad Ants Johnson finished last season in the NBA with the Memphis Grizzlies, having been called up right at season’s end from their affiliate, the Hustle. In order to obtain his G-League rights, then, the…
Rob Gray PG - 6'2, 182lbs - Born 3rd April 1994 Fort Wayne Mad Ants Having averaged 18.8 points per game over three seasons with the University of Houston, it was likely if not inevitable that Gray would receive a summer league invite and possible training camp contract…
Demetrius Denzel-Dyson SG - 6'5, 200lbs - Born 22nd February 1995 Fort Wayne Mad Ants Denzel-Dyson was very briefly signed by the Pacers in training camp, with the “official” announcements of his signing and his waiving by the team’s Twitter account coming only four hours and 28 minutes…
Jordan Barnett SF - 6'7, 215lbs - Born 31st December 1995 Fort Wayne Mad Ants Barnett was on the cusp of the NBA to begin his first professional season on account of the good job he did as a senior at Missouri of showing how he can fit…
Travis Trice PG - 6'2, 177lbs - Born 22nd January 1993 Austin Spurs The Spurs acquired Trice from the Wisconsin Herd for Nick Johnson two thirds of the way through the season, and in so doing, they got themselves a lead guard. Because of his size, Trice cannot…
Cameron Rundles PG/SG - 6'2, 180lbs - Born 27th April 1988 Austin Spurs Rundles is a somewhat unlikely candidate to have made a G-League debut at age 30. He made the team via the local tryout route back in October, and survived all the subsequent roster turnover to…
Jeff Ledbetter SG - 6'3, 195lbs - Born 15th June 1988 Austin Spurs Ledbetter started the season with the Spurs, going for his third consecutive season with the team, after also having appeared for San Antonio’s summer league team for two consecutive seasons. However, he stayed for only…