Eddie Gill Earns Gatorade Call-Up To the Seattle SuperSonics
March 25, 2008 - NBA G League (G League)
Colorado 14ers News Release
NEW YORK, March 25, 2008 - Colorado 14ers guard Eddie Gill earned a GATORADE Call-Up to the Seattle SuperSonics late yesterday. The Call-Up is the second of the season for Gill, who earned the season's first Call-Up to the New Jersey Nets in November. Gill played five minutes for the Sonics, recording one assist, in last night's 97-84 win over the Portland Trail Blazers.
Gill played in 32 games (all starts) for Colorado, where he averaged 18.8 points, 8.4 assists and 5.0 rebounds in 39.9 minutes (third best in the D-League). For his efforts, Gill earned a spot as a 2008 D-League All-Star during NBA All-Star festivities in New Orleans in February.
The 22nd GATORADE Call-Up this season, Gill spent 13 games with the Nets during his first Call-Up (Nov. 15-Dec. 12), when he averaged 2.9 points and 11.4 minutes.
An Aurora, Colorado native, Gill has appeared in 180 career NBA games during stints with the Nets, Memphis Grizzlies, Trail Blazers, and Indiana Pacers. He holds NBA career averages of 3.1 points, 1.1 assists and 1.1 rebounds in 11.1 minutes.
A graduate of Utah's Weber State, Gill played in 28 games during his final season with the Wildcats, averaging 16.2 points, 6.9 assists, 6.4 rebounds and 3.2 steals in 36.0 minutes. Fellow Weber State alum Lance Allred earned a GATORADE Call-Up to the Cleveland Cavaliers on March 13 from the D-League's Idaho Stampede.
The NBA Development League is the NBA's official minor league, and the first-ever basketball league with direct affiliations to NBA teams. Now in its seventh season the D-League's goals are to provide affordable, NBA-caliber entertainment to fans of its 16 teams, as well as continue to develop players, coaches, referees and front-office personnel for the NBA. As the single source for in-season player "call-ups" to the NBA, fans of the D-League enjoy the highest caliber of basketball played outside the NBA. In fact, former D-League players represented 10 percent of NBA players on 2007-08 opening day rosters, numbering 44 in total. In addition, the D-League has produced 25 percent of current NBA referees and 17 current NBA coaches, including head coach Sam Vincent with the Charlotte Bobcats. The D-League is an innovative and rapidly growing sports property that also serves as an experimental testing ground for new initiatives like the live web-streaming of all games available free to fans at d-league.com. The League also provides continuing education and professional development resources for its players, and is committed to serving its local communities through D-LEAGUE CARES and grassroots efforts.
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