Basketball writing, scouting reports and salary cap analysis from the archive.
Sanjay Lumpkin SG/SF - 6'6, 220lbs - Born 29th April 1994 Erie BayHawks Few players are quite as unique as Sanjay Lumpkin. I mean, even the name is a clue there, no one else is called this. Lumpkin barely scores the ball, and barely looks to try. His…
Jeremy Hollowell SF/PF - 6'8, 220lbs - Born 25th February 1994 Erie BayHawks In two years at Indiana, Hollowell struggled. He was inefficient from all areas, turned the ball over a lot, was not aggressive, stopped the ball, did not buy in on defence and was at one…
Kameron Chatman SF/PF - 6'9, 215lbs - Born 1st June 1996 Erie BayHawks Chatman played his first two collegiate seasons at Michigan, yet never found his footing on either end of the floor. He in fact lost minutes as a sophomore rather than stepped up to claim a…
Cat Barber PG - 6'1, 173lbs - Born 25th July 1994 Erie BayHawks With the exception of very brief stints in Italy and Israel, Cat Barber has spent his entire professional career thus far on the very fringes of the NBA. He has had a training camp contract…
Isaac Hamilton SG - 6'4, 185lbs - Born 14th May 1994 Canton Charge Hamilton could be a good role player if he fully embraced a role. Slightly undersized for a high-level two-guard yet smooth and fluid in his motion, with enough speed to be competitive, Hamilton has good…
Chance Comanche PF/C - 6'10, 210lbs - Born 14th April 1996 Canton Charge Fair play to anyone in any professional who has a marketable skill and who seeks to get paid for it. So you should (says Mark in his free Manifesto). Having not done much in his…
J.J. Avila PF - 6'8, 250lbs - Born 11th October 1991 Agua Caliente Clippers Notwithstanding the sample size, if Avila can continue to shoot the three-point shot as well as he has done this season, he adds a further dimension to his paint-based interior game, a game that…
Nigel Johnson PG - 6'1, 190lbs - Born 20th January 1995 Canton Charge In four years at three prominent schools - Rutgers counts as prominent, despite the profound struggles of, ooh, the last forty years or so - Johnson never once cracked the 40% shooting mark from the…
Malik Newman SG - 6'3, 190lbs - Born 21st February 1997 Canton Charge Newman’s first professional season was a strange one. Leaving Kansas after his sophomore season, he went undrafted, went to summer league with the L.A. Lakers, signed a two-way contract with them on the first possible…
Malachi Richardson SG - 6'4, 200lbs - Born 5th January 1996 Canton Charge Richardson was picked up by the Charge at the end of the G-League season, with not even enough time to appear in a single game. He had spent the majority of the year in the…
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…