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Tyler Roberson PF - 6'9, 227lbs - Born 27th November 1994 Agua Caliente Clippers Roberson rejoined the Clippers in January after having initially moved to Greece to begin the season, catching on with defending Basketball Champions League champions AEK Athens. If you or your loved ones fancy reading…
Ray McCallum PG - 6'3, 190lbs - Born 12th June1991 Agua Caliente Clippers McCallum joined the Clippers in February after beginning the season with Turkish team Darussafaka, with whom he had averaged 9.4 points and 4.1 assists per game in EuroLeague play, his second consecutive season in the…
Marc Loving SF/PF - 6'8, 220lbs - Born 16th September 1994 Agua Caliente Clippers Loving has an enviable physical profile. Standing 6’8 with very long arms, he has a long languid stride, leaping ability and some straight-line speed, looking every inch the prototype NBA forward when measured solely…
Manu Lecomte PG - 5'11, 175lbs - Born 16th August 1995 Agua Caliente Clippers In Lecomte’s first professional season - one which subsequently saw him sign with Spanish team Murcia after the G-League season ended - Lecomte showed the same package of offensive skills he had for two…
Demarcus Holland SG - 6'4, 179lbs - Born 2nd March 1994 Agua Caliente Clippers Holland has just completed his second season of professional play, and his second in the GLeague after a full debut campaign with the South Bay Lakers that resulted in a summer league stint for…
Brandon Fields PG/SG - 6'4, 195lbs - Born 13th August 1988 Agua Caliente Clippers After three years away, Fields came back to the G-League this season, perhaps looking for some stability in a professional career that has thus far taken him to about 176 different countries (give or…
Anthony Bennett PF - 6'8, 235lbs - Born 14th March 1993 Agua Caliente Clippers This may have been the year that Anthony Bennett finally became the player he could always have been. Drafted on account of his perceived combination of size and perimeter skill, Bennett has over the…
Michael Bethea Jr SG/SF - 6'6, 185lbs - Born 22nd January 1995 Grand Rapids Drive Bethea's circuitous route to the pros included a year at Grambling State, who had gone winless over Division 1 competition in two of the three previous seasons. On a team needing any help…
Shep Garner PG/SG - 6'2, 196lbs - Born 6th December 1996 Grand Rapids Drive Garner made the Drive's roster via the local tryout route, and survived for the entire season. He joined them in his first professional campaign after a senior year in which he was almost completely…
Johnny Hamilton C - 7'0, 230lbs - Born 3rd February 1994 Grand Rapids Drive Hamilton joined the Drive after summer league and training camp stints with the parent Detroit Pistons, who recognised the potential in the late-blooming big man. With a very solid first professional season behind him,…
Jon Horford C - 6'10, 245lbs - Born 16th October 1991 Grand Rapids Drive For some reason, as soon as he turned professional, Al's brother became an exceptional rebounder. Over the 93 regular season games of G-League experience he has had over pieces of the last four seasons,…
Zach Lofton SG - 6'4, 180lbs - Born 18th November 1992 Grand Rapids Drive After enrolling at five colleges in six seasons, Lofton began his professional career this summer with a summer league contract with the Pistons, one which subsequently turned into a training camp offer and then…
Kenneth "Speedy" Smith PG - 6'3, 180lbs - Born 28th January 1993 Grand Rapids Drive With the exception of the very first few months of his professional career, in which he made an unsuccessful attempt to sign in Latvia, Smith has played the entirety of his professional career…
Marcus Thornton SG - 6'4, 205lbs - Born 5th June 1987 Grand Rapids Drive There are three Marcus Thorntons in high level professional basketball today. There is the one out of LSU who played many years in the NBA. There is the one drafted by the Celtics in…
Todd Withers PF - 6'8, 216lbs - Born 6th May 1996 Grand Rapids Drive I have no idea how Synergy Sports manage to go as deep as they do. But somehow, they were able to cover and analyse every game of Division II’s South Atlantic Conference in 2017-18.…
Adam Woodbury C - 7'1, 245lbs - Born 13th January 1994 Grand Rapids Drive Three years into his professional career out of Iowa, Woodbury has spent his entire time in the G-League, and has now been with six different franchises. Indeed, he managed four this season alone. Woodbury…
Elijah Brown SG - 6'4, 200lbs - Born 19th February 1995 Grand Rapids Drive In his first professional season out of Oregon (via Butler and New Mexico), Brown began with a summer league spot on the Golden State Warriors, followed by being drafted in the third round of…
Randy Haynes SG - 6'4, 215lbs - Born 23rd April 1995 Grand Rapids Drive Despite having the name of a truck-driving minor character in an 80’s coming-of age movie, Haynes is also in fact a 2018 Old Dominion graduate who averaged 12.4 points, 3.6 rebounds, 2.5 assists and…
Joe Kilgore SG - 6'4, 200lbs - Born 25th April 1996 Grand Rapids Drive Kilgore was the Windy City Bulls’ first-round pick in the past G-League draft, selected 12th overall in his first professional season out of Texas A&M Corpus Christi. He played in 18 games for the…
Dakarai Allen SG - 6'5, 193lbs - Born 4th February 1995 Grand Rapids Drive Grand Rapids have been Allen's third G-League team in his two G-League seasons, as they traded the returning player rights to Nnanna Egwu to Agua Caliente for him back in January. In those two…
Tommy Williams SG/SF - 6'5, 220lbs - Born 23rd February 1993 Erie BayHawks Williams was designated as a returning player to the BayHawks for his second season after spending a full campaign with the team in 2017-18, making the roster initially via the local tryout route. This season,…
Craig Sword SG - 6'3, 196lbs - Born 16th January 1994 Erie BayHawks Anytime a 6'3 guard records more than a block per game, you are going to remember it. Sword has now completed his second consecutive season with the BayHawks, starting out as a local tryout player…
Jordan Sibert SG - 6'4, 187lbs - Born 1st August 1992 Erie BayHawks After two years down on the Ohio State Buckeyes bench, making minimal contributions in very limited minutes, Sibert transferred to Dayton for his upperclassman seasons, and massively improved his output to subsequently have a four-years-and-counting…
Anthony Mosby PG - 6'3, 160lbs - Born 8th April 1996 Erie BayHawks AJ Mosby - or Anthony Mosby, depending on where you look - has just completed his first professional season out of Alcorn State. Not a powerhouse team in a powerhouse conference, exactly, and the 13-23…
Jaylen Morris SG - 6'5, 185lbs - Born 19th September 1995 Erie BayHawks Morris played his way into the NBA last season in his first professional campaign out of Division II Molloy, signing two 10-day contracts and then a minimum salary deal for the remainder of the season…