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G League Rio Grande Valley Vipers

Rockets and Vipers to hold joint press conference

March 3, 2009 - NBA G League (G League)
Rio Grande Valley Vipers News Release


MCALLEN - The NBA Houston Rockets and their affiliate, the NBA D- League Rio Grande Valley Vipers announced today that they are holding an 11:00 a.m. press conference on Thursday at Peppers at Uptown at 4620 North Tenth Street in McAllen.

Rockets President Tad Brown, VP & Chief Strategy Officer Chris Dacey, and General Counsel Rafael Stone, as well as Vipers President & GM Brian Michael Cooper, will be on hand.

Members of the public are welcome to attend.

The Rio Grande Valley Vipers are a professional basketball team in the NBA Development League (NBA D-League). The NBA Development League, founded in 2001, is the NBA's official minor league and features 16 teams with direct affiliations to NBA teams for the 2008-09 season. An expansion team will begin play in Portland, Maine for the 2009-10 season. Sixty former NBA Development League players were on 2008-09 NBA start-of-season rosters, and the league continues to develop current NBA coaches and referees. In fostering the league's connection to the community, its teams, players and staff promote youth basketball, support local needs and interests, and assist in educational development through NBA D-League Cares programs. The NBA D-League also advances the game of basketball as the research and development arm of the NBA. Throughout this season fans can watch all NBA D-League games on NBA Futurecast, the free live Web-streaming initiative found at nba.com/futurecast.The Vipers NBA affiliates are the Houston Rockets, and the New Orleans Hornets.

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