Vipers GM to Throw First Pitch at WhiteWings Game Tonight
July 20, 2009 - NBA G League (G League)
Rio Grande Valley Vipers News Release
HARLINGEN, TEXAS - The NBA D-League Rio Grande Valley Vipers announced today that President/GM Brian Michael Cooper will throw out the ceremonial first pitch at tonight's 7:05 p.m. Rio Grande Valley WhiteWings United League Baseball game at Harlingen Field.
Cooper becomes the second member of the Vipers organization to throw out the first pitch at a WhiteWings game this season. Trent Strickland did so on June 26.
The WhiteWings will be playing the San Angelo Colts. Gates open at 6:05.
Tickets range from $2-to-$7.
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 featured 16 teams with direct affiliations to NBA teams during the 2008-09 season. This fall, two new NBA D-League teams will begin play in Portland, Maine and Springfield, Mass.-- the birthplace of basketball. Eighty-four former NBA Development League players were on 2008-09 NBA end-of-season rosters, amounting to almost 20 percent of NBA players, and the league continues to develop coaches, referees, and front office staff for the NBA and its teams. In fostering the league's connection to the community, its teams, players and staff promote health and wellness, 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 the 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 affiliate is the Houston Rockets.
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