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JaCorey Williams PF - 6'8, 220lbs - Born 12th June 1994 Canton Charge Williams has intrigued the Cavaliers for sometime now. They have signed him for each of the last two training camps and allocated him to Canton both times; they are clearly none too subtle about wanting…
Scoochie Smith PG - 6'2, 180lbs - Born 11th November 1994 Canton Charge Smith spent his first professional season mostly in Australia with the Cairns Taipans, yet for whatever reason, the Australian season ends very early. This thus gave him time to return to America and be picked…
Levi Randolph SG - 6'6, 210lbs - Born 3rd October 1992 Canton Charge I am glad that Randolph is giving it a go in the G-League before he enters the prime of his career and before it is too late for a call-up, because I really feel he…
Phil Carr SF/PF - 6'8, 200lbs - Born 20th October 1995 Canton Charge Although his first professional season started off with a one-day contract with the New York Knicks in order to get him allocated to Westchester, Carr was waived out of the Knicks organisation altogether when Westchester…
Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman SG - 6'4, 190lbs - Born 1st September 1994 Canton Charge Bobby Longname spent his first professional season with the Charge after making the roster initially as a local tryout player. He came in with a solid role player résumé; good shooter, good defender, part-time point…
Devin Sweetney SF - 6'6, 220lbs - Born 23rd October 1987 Capital City Go-Go As a pro, Sweetney has played in 10 different countries, for 18 different teams, including a training camp stint with the Denver Nuggets in 2015. He had not however played in the G-League since…
Michael Orris PG - 6'3, 190lbs - Born 8th August 1994 Capital City Go-Go Orris spent some time with both the Fort Wayne Mad Ants (as a returning player; quickly waived when Ben Moore became available) and Capital City Go-Go (as cover for Chris Chiozza’s stint with Team…
Oleksandr Kobets SG - 6'5, 201lbs - Born 15th April 1996 Capital City Go-Go Kobets began the season with the Go-Go as an allocated player after a one-day training camp contract with the Wizards (who tried to do the same with compatriot and namesake Oleksandr Mishula, but that…
Darel Poirier C - 6'10, 230lbs - Born 27th July 1997 Capital City Go-Go Unrelated to Vincent, Darel Poirier arrived in the G-League from his native France, where he had his foundations in the Centre Fédéral de Basket-ball team, the squad made up of players from the French…
Pe'Shon Howard PG - 6'3, 185lbs - Born 10th December 1990 Capital City Go-Go Five years since the completion of a college career spent at Maryland and USC, Howard has had a strange professional career. For his first season, he signed in the German third division of all…
Kellen Dunham SG - 6'4, 205lbs - Born 18th June 1993 Capital City Go-Go Dunham is about as pure of a shooter as there can be. He is on the court to move about, use screens, spot up then get jump shots away. Anything beyond that is an…
Duje Dukan PF - 6'10, 220lbs - Born 4th December 1991 Capital City Go-Go The Dooj was one of the unlikeliest NBA players of a generation when he signed with the Sacramento Kings in the 2015-16 season, a move made even more unlikely by the fact that he…
Dikembe Dixon SF - 6'7, 201lbs - Born 6th September 1996 Capital City Go-Go Anyone can of course declare for the NBA Draft whenever they like. Particularly those playing in college who are giving away their marketable skill for free due to the stupid archaic nature of NCAA…
Mike Davis PF - 6'9, 225lbs - Born 21st October 1988 Capital City Go-Go Davis's 35.4% of possessions used on cuts this past season was by far the highest percentage anywhere in the G-League. The next highest mark was a full 10% less - Roger Moute A Bidias,…
Quinton Chievous SG/SF- 6'6, 225lbs - Born 31st December 1992 Capital City Go-Go Chievous has now spent almost his entire professional career in the G-League, leaving only for very brief stints in Finland and Mexico to top and tail last season. It is a league that suits an…
Isaiah Armwood PF - 6'9, 215lbs - Born 28th December 1994 Capital City Go-Go to this season had been a surprise. He barely played in Italy’s Serie A with Trento as a rookie, dropped down to the Italian second division in his second season, dropped further down to…
Noah Allen SF - 6'7, 215lbs - Born 1st February 1995 Capital City Go-Go Three years at UCLA saw Allen barely leave the bench. He recorded only 71 games, 604 minutes and 84 points in that time, never finding a role, never winning the coaching staff’s confidence, and…
Chinanu Onuaku C - 6'9, 250lbs - Born 1st November 1996 Greensboro Swarm Salary dumped by the Rockets onto the Mavericks at the start of this past summer, Onuaku was the first between he and Zhou Qi to lose their job as the Rockets’ prospect centre due to…
Tyler Nelson SG - 6'3, 180lbs - Born 9th August 1995 Greensboro Swarm Nelson was the third overall pick in last year's G-League draft, beginning his first season as a professional after a four-year career at Fairfield in which he averaged greater than 20 points per game across…
John Gillon PG - 6'0, 178lbs - Born 31st March 1994 Greensboro Swarm Gillon began the year with the Erie BayHawks, and was acquired by the Swarm in trade in exchange for Cat Barber. The Swarm had been using Barber as a sixth man type off the bench,…
John Dawson PG - 6'2, 205lbs - Born 12th April 1995 Greensboro Swarm Dawson made the Swarm roster as a local tryout player in 2017, and after returning for this past season has now spent two complete years with the team. He has however played only 66 regular…
Sam Thompson SF - 6'7, 200lbs - Born 11th November 1992 Greensboro Swarm The hope when Thompson joined Ohio State way back in the day was that he would develop the offensive and playmaking skills required to maximise his excellent physical profile. With good size for a wing,…
Isaiah Wilkins SF/PF - 6'8, 205lbs - Born 23rd September 1995 Greensboro Swarm In Zach Smith's profile two pages ago, I mentioned that he plays some technically precise defence. I stand by it. But no one plays as technically precise of defence on this Swarm team as Wilkins…
Roscoe Smith PF - 6'8, 215lbs - Born 1st August 1991 Greensboro Swarm Smith joined the Swarm to begin the season as a returning player, and appeared in 23 games, averaging 7.7 points and 4.6 rebounds per game, before being waived by the team in January. It is…
Zach Smith SF/PF - 6'8, 216lbs - Born 5th January 1996 Greensboro Swarm Zhaire Smith got all the plaudits and the NBA first-round draft selection last summer; he was younger, more athletic, was able to play more positions and was already better in terms of his basketball skill…