NBA D-League daily developments
March 15, 2006 - NBA G League (G League) News Release
TODAY'S GAMES
Fayetteville at Roanoke, 7 p.m. ET
TODAY'S SERIES INFO
Fayetteville at Roanoke: 11th meeting this year. Dazzle leads 7-3 this year
and 27-22 all time.
TUESDAY'S RESULTS
Fayetteville 99, Austin 94
CHECK THE BOX: Click on the link below to check out the box score from last
night's game.
http://www.nba.com/dleague/games/20060314/AUSFAY/boxscore.html
THEY SAID IT: "I'm lucky to be able to play a game I love for a living. I look at the game as being fun and its something I want to keep doing. It's not something I want to let go." Roanoke guard Anthony Grundy told the Roanoke Times.
SPEAKING OF GRUNDY: Versatility and durability have made Roanoke guard Anthony Grundy one of the leading candidates for D-League individual post season awards. In addition to being second in the league in points per game (23.4), the North Carolina State product leads the league in total points (911), minutes played per game (39.6), total minutes (1,544), steals per game (2.5) and total steals (99).
OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS: Fayetteville's win over Austin on Tuesday was the Patriots sixth in the last seven games and the fourth in a row. The loss was Austin's sixth consecutive coming on the heels of a seven-game winning streak.
ALUMNI CHECK...a glance at how D-League connections fared in NBA games on
Tuesday
- 20 players and 5 referees with D-League ties suited up for work in 9
NBA games on Tuesday.
- Smush Parker (Florida) scored 15, had 5 rebounds and 3 assists in 38
minutes for the Lakers.
- Luke Schenscher (Fort Worth) scored 10 points and had 4 rebounds in
17 minutes for the Bulls.
- Rawle Marshall (Fort Worth) earned his first start as a Dallas
Maverick, scoring 4 points.
- 2005 D-League MVP Matt Carroll (Roanoke) scored 11 and had a pair of
boards in 24 minutes for the Bobcats.
- Matt Barnes (Fayetteville) had 14 points and 4 rebounds in 28 minutes
for the 76ers.
D-LEAGUE CARES: Thursday (3/16) will be a busy day for the Roanoke Dazzle. Members of the front office staff will visit and read to kids at the Total Action Against Poverty Center in Roanoke, while Coach Kent Davison and players Bryant Matthews, Anthony Grundy and Peter John Ramos pay a visit to the after school program at the West End Center.
TODAY ON NBA TV...all times eastern
Time Show / Guest
1 p.m. D-League Game of the Week / Fort Worth at Florida (tape
from 2/26/06)
7:10 p.m. NBA TV Insiders / Fort Worth F Ndudi Ebi (11 G, 22.3 mpg, 11.5
ppg, 6.8 rpg), live
TODAY IN D-LEAGUE HISTORY
2002: Columbus F Tremaine Fowlkes signed with the LA Clippers for the
remainder of the 01-02 season.
2004: Asheville C Mamadou Ndiaye signed with the Atlanta Hawks for the
remainder of the 03-04 season.
NBA G League Stories from March 15, 2006
- Dazzle nip Patriots 115-114 - G League
- Flame to Host "Lay-Ups For Learning" Event March 25 at Germain Arena - Florida Flame
- Flame Read To Achieve Event at Royal Palm Exceptional School March 21 - Florida Flame
- Schenscher signs second 10-day contract with Bulls - Fort Worth Flyers
- NBA D-League daily developments - G League
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