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The NBA’s associate vice president of basketball operations Shareef Abdur-Rahim has been named the next G League president. Abdur-Rahim is replacing Malcolm Turner, G-league president since 2014, who will step down on Jan. 11th to take the athletics director position at Vanderbilt. As for Abdur-Rahim, he has been the VP of basketball operations since 2016. [...]

While Lonzo Ball soldiers on with the Los Angeles Lakers, his brothers, LaMelo and LiAngelo are making moves. LaMelo, 17, announced on Tuesday he will return to high school for his senior season, this time at Spire Prep Academy in Geneva, Ohio: [tweet https://twitter.com/MELOD1P/status/1059868924613865472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1059868924613865472&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbleacherreport.com%2Farticles%2F2804757-liangelo-ball-intends-to-play-in-g-league-lamelo-to-return-to-high-school] As SLAM’s Franklyn Calle noted, LaMelo is eligible to play at [...]

There is a large discrepancy between the salaries of NBA players and their G-League counterparts. According to data pulled from Statista, the average NBA salary for the 2017-18 season is about $7 million. Contrast that with the average G-League salary being between $19,000 and $26,000 this past season. This is the major reason why the [...]

There could be a new trend starting with blue-chip recruits coming out of high school: opting to forego college in order to go straight to the G-League. Darius Bazley, the No. 9 recruit in the 2018 class, has decided to decommit from Syracuse and enter the NBA’s G-League, where he is allowed to play directly [...]

Minor league baseball teams are known for creative promotions and uniforms in order to draw attendance and attention. The G-League’s Delaware 87ers, the affiliate of the Philadelphia 76ers, has gotten into the fun this week by unveiling their SpongeBob Squarepants uniforms, based on the highly popular Nickelodeon show. [tweet https://twitter.com/nbagleague/status/948672902571970561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] This is a little harsh, [...]

Isaiah Thomas is nearing a return and his long-awaited debut with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Thomas has began practicing with the team in a limited capacity and according to reports is anticipating a return to an NBA court in January. He may be returning to the court sooner than that though, a G-League court. Here is [...]

Jabari Parker is close to a return for the Milwaukee Bucks. Parker suffered the second ACL tear of his young career this past February and was slated for a return next February, but because of his rapid recovery (he apparently has looked pretty good for months) Parker could be on the fast track for a [...]

The NBA’s push to become a more global product continues as some big news broke on the day that the 2017 Mexico games began with the match-up of the Oklahoma City Thunder and Brooklyn Nets. There will be an NBA G-League team in Mexico City. Here is a quote from Marc Stein of the New [...]

Mike James has had an interesting journey to make the NBA to say the least. From high school basketball in Portland, to junior college basketball at Eastern Arizona Junior College (I played against him in junior college by the way), to smaller Lamar University in Texas, with stops in Croatia, Italy, Spain and Greece before [...]

The NBA Developmental League has gone through a number of makeovers and iterations since its inception in the 2001-02 season. It was originally known as the NBDL and for years now has been known as and referred to as the D-League. The D-League had a nice ring to it and was an accurate descriptor, a [...]