Which NBA Teams Are Using the D-League Best?

January 11th, 2016 by Adam Fromal Leave a reply »



The NBA Development League has often operated in the shadows of the actual NBA, failing to earn major run on television networks and rarely discussed by the mainstream media. It only finds itself in the news when a player is sent down or called up—the occasional posterizing dunk that makes SportsCenter waves notwithstanding. 

Not every franchise even has an affiliate in the D-League. When the Brooklyn Nets, Charlotte Hornets and Chicago Bulls add squads in 2016-17, the total number of organizations will grow to just 22. 

But for some teams, it's a rather important entity. Instead of being a place where the fringe players go to continue their hopes of playing professional basketball at the sport's highest level, the league is viewed in a way that justifies its name.

It's actually used for development. 

 

Searching for Patterns During the five seasons prior to 2015-16, the Association as a whole made 668 call-ups from the D-League, impacting the lives of 204 different players.

Grant Jerrett, Sergey Karasev, Jeremy Lamb, Daniel Orton, DeAndre ...

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