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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…
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,…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…