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  • >> WE WELCOME YOU TO THE 10TH ANNUAL NBA DEVELOPMENT

  • LEAGUE ALL-STAR GAME PRESENTED BY KUMHO TIRE FEATURING THE

  • D-LEAGUE EAST AND THE D-LEAGUE WEST, FROM FRIGID TORONTO,

  • CANADA. WE'RE AT THE RICOH COLISEUM,

  • AND THIS GAME SHOWCASES THE BEST TALENT IN THE WORLD

  • OUTSIDE OF THE NBA. WE WELCOME YOU INSIDE TO OUR

  • BROADCAST POST, RICK ALONGSIDE ISIAH THOMAS AND BRENT BARRY.

  • AND BONES, WE GET TO WELCOME ISAIAH TO THE D-LEAGUE

  • ALL-STAR GAME. WHAT WOULD BE YOUR ADVICE TO

  • ZEKE? >> YOU BETTER PICK IT UP,

  • BECAUSE 3-D HAD THIS THING ON LOCK DOWN.

  • >> WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO TODAY, ISAIAH?

  • >> I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THE COMPETITION.

  • WHO COMES OUT, WHO COMPETES AND DISPLAYS THEIR GAME TO THE

  • UPPER LEVEL IN TERMS OF YOU'VE GOT NBA SCOUTS, ALL-STARS

  • HERE, EVERYONE LOOKING TO SEE WHO CAN POSSIBLY BE MOVED UP,

  • SO I'M LOOKING FOR COMPETITION TODAY.

  • >> HOW ABOUT YOU, BONES? >> SAME THING.

  • A LOT OF SCOUTS AREN'T REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE GAME

  • SOMETIMES AS THE WAY THE PLAY ERA APPROACHES WHAT'S GOING

  • ON. NOT GETTING TOO LOOSE WITH

  • THINGS. MAKING SURE THEY COMPETE WHEN

  • THE TIME IS RIGHT AS WE'VE SEEN OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS.

  • COME LATE THIRD QUARTER, GUYS GET AFTER IT A LITTLE BIT.

  • IT'S ALL ABOUT THE COMPETITION.

  • >> LOTS TO LOOK FORWARD TO. WE'VE GOT THE VERIZON SLAM

  • DUNK COMPETITION AT HALFTIME. NOW BEFORE THE GAME, IT WAS

  • THE THREE-POINT SHOOTOUT, AND JIMMER FREDETTE JUST LOST.

  • HE MADE IT TO THE FINAL ROUND. ANDRING GRAM OF THE LA

  • DEFENDERS WON THE THREE-POINT CONTEST, BUT JIMMER FARED WELL

  • AND HAVING A GREAT YEAR WITH THE WEST CHESTER KNICKS.

  • >> YES, HE IS, AND HE'S PLAYING WITH THE WEST CHESTER

  • KNICKS, HE'S FROM NEW YORK, SO IT'S A COMFORTABLE FIT FOR HIM

  • WHENEVER HE'S PLAYING HE ALWAYS HAS FAMILY AND FRIENDS

  • AT THE THE ARENA. SO HE FEELS GOOD ABOUT HIMSELF

  • AND WHERE HE'S TRYING TO MOVE TO IN TERMS OF GETTING BACK

  • INTO THE NBA. >> IT'S THE 10TH ANNUAL NBA

  • DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE ALL-STAR GAME PRESENTED BY KUMHO TIRE,

  • AND WE ARE LIVE FROM RICOH COLISEUM IN A FRIGID TORONTO

  • HERE ON ALL-STAR WEEKEND. THIS GAME A SHOWCASE OF THE

  • BEST TALENT IN THE WORLD OUTSIDE THE NBA.

  • AND WE WELCOME YOU INSIDE AS THE EAST WILL PLAY THE WEST,

  • THE BEST THE D-LEAGUE HAS TO OFFER, AND WE WELCOME YOU TO

  • OUR BROADCAST POSITION AND SAY HELLO AGAIN, BASKETBALL FANS.

  • RICK KAM L.A., ISIAH THOMAS, BRENT BARRY, WE'LL BE JOINED

  • BY GREENBERG THROUGHOUT THE BROADCAST AS WELL, AND BONES

  • WHAT WOULD BE YOUR ADVICE TO EYE AIA, HIS FIRST ALL-STAR

  • GAME? >> USUALLY, IT'S YOU, MYSELF

  • AND DENNIS SCOTT, SO YOU BETTER STEP IT UP ISIAH

  • THOMAS, BECAUSE 3-D NOT BEING HERE, WE NEED THAT ENERGY.

  • >> I ALWAYS BRING MY A-GAME TO THE COMPETITIVE SITUATION

  • LIKE THIS. >> ALL RIGHT, WE'LL SEE WHAT

  • HE'S GOT RICK KAMLA. >> WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING

  • FORWARD TO TODAY ISIAH? >> TO ME, IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT

  • COMPETITION. AND THESE GUYS ARE HERE TODAY

  • TO DISPLAY THEIR TALENT IN FRONT OF THE SCOUTS AND I WANT

  • TO SEE HOW THEY COMPETE. EVEN THOUGH IT'S AN ALL-STAR

  • GAME IN AN ALL-STAR SITUATION, WE'RE USED TO SEEING THE UPPER

  • ECHELON THEY LET THINGS GO THE FIRST AND SECOND QUARTER.

  • I WANT TO SEE GUYS COME OUT, COMPETING, CHALLENGING ON

  • DEFENSE, AND PLAYING GOOD OFFENSE.

  • >> THE SCOUTS THAT ARE HERE SOMETIMES, RICK, AREN'T

  • LOOKING NECESSARILY AT THE GAME OR IN GAME ACTION OR HOW

  • YOU'RE OPERATING OUT OF THE PICK-AND-ROLL.

  • SOMETIMES THEY'RE LOOKING AT YOUR BODY LANGUAGE, LOOK TO

  • SEE HOW YOU'RE SUPPORTING THE OTHER GUYS.

  • IF YOU'RE A GOOD TEAM GUY, ENJOYING THE ATMOSPHERE AND

  • NOT OFF ON YOUR OWN. SO THERE ARE A LOT OF OTHER

  • THINGS RATHER THAN THE GAME THEY'RE LOOKING AT, BECAUSE

  • LET'S FACE IT, THIS IS A SHOWCASE, AND USUALLY WE GET A

  • GOOD SHOW. >> LOTS TO LOOK FORWARD TO

  • AT HALFTIME. WE'VE GOT THE VERIZON SLAM

  • DUNK COMPETITION. JUST MOMENTS AGO, JIMMER

  • FREDETTE FELL JUST SHORT OF WINNING THE THREE-POINT SHOOT

  • OUT, HE OF COURSE THE WEST CHESTER KNICKS AND ON

  • D-LEAGUE.COM, THEY CALL HIM THE NUMBER ONE NBA PROSPECT

  • HERE IN THE DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE.

  • >> YEAH, AND HE'S THE NUMBER ONE PROSPECT BECAUSE HE HAS A

  • READY MADE SKILL FOR THE NBA. HE'S KNOWN AS A THREE-POINT

  • SHOOTER. HE'S HAD NBA EXPERIENCE.

  • HE WAS A HIGH DRAFT PICK, SO WHEN SCOUTS DRAFT AGUY THAT

  • HIGH, THEY NORMALLY KEEP THEIR EYE ON HIM, BECAUSE NORMALLY

  • THEY'RE NOT WRONG ABOUT PLAYERS SUCH AS HIM.

  • >> JIMMER FREDETTE, FOURTH IN THE DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE IN

  • SCORING AT 22.6 POINTS PER GAME, SO WE ARE JUST ABOUT SET

  • FOR THE OPENING TIP. THE EAST IS GOING TO RUN WITH

  • THE WEST. BEFORE YOUR EYES ON NBA TV

  • HERE ON ALL-STAR WEEKEND IN TORONTO.

  • >> CONSIDER THIS AN APPETIZER FOR ALL-STAR

  • SATURDAY NIGHT PRESENTED BY STATE FARM.

  • COMING UP TONIGHT, THE D-LEAGUE EAST AGAINST THE

  • D-LEAGUE WEST FROM RICO COLISEUM, IT'S THE DEVELOPMENT

  • ALL-STAR GAME HERE AT THE RICOH COLISEUM, AND YEAR AFTER

  • YEAR WE GET OHS AND AHHS FROM THESE TREMENDOUS YOUNG

  • PLAYERS, AND JORDAN MCCRAY CERTAINLY GAVE THE CROWD THIS

  • SEASON IN THE D-LEAGUE ALL OF THAT AND MORE WITH AN NBA

  • DEVELOPMENT RECORD 61 POINTS. HE MADE 21 OF 34 SHOTS FROM

  • THE FIELD. 16 OF 18 FROM THE FOUL LINE.

  • THAT WAS ON JANUARY 26TH. ISIAH AND BRENT, HE ALSO HAD

  • 11 REBOUNDS, 7 ASSISTS AND TWO STEALS.

  • THAT'S ONE OF THE BEST LINES IN BASKETBALL HISTORY.

  • >> ABSOLUTELY. IT WAS A GREAT NIGHT FOR HIM.

  • SHORTLY AFTER THAT, WE BROUGHT HIM ON NBA TV AND HAD A CHANCE

  • TO TALK TO HIM. HE TALKED ABOUT HIS MOM AND

  • HOW EXCITED HE WAS FOR THAT GAME.

  • THEN HE GOT CALLED UP TO PHOENIX, SO THAT WAS GOOD FOR

  • HIM. >> JORDAN AVERAGED 4.8

  • POINTS IN SIX GAMES AFTER THAT CALL-UP TO THE PHOENIX SUNS,

  • AND HERE ARE YOUR STARTING LINEUPS FOR THE EAST.

  • THEIR HEAD COACH IS DAN CRAIG OF SIOUX FALLS, TREY KELLY,

  • JORDAN MCCRAY, SHAUN KILPATRICK, THE LEADING SCORER

  • IN THE D-LEAGUE, JARNEL STOKES AND KEITH BENSON, THE WEST IS

  • COACHED BY KEN MCDONALD. WILL CUMMINGS, XAVIER MUMM

  • FORD, AND WE ARE READY FOR THE TIP HERE AT RICOH COLISEUM.

  • AND KILPATRICK, NUMBER 14 THERE WITH THE BLONDE, WHAT DO

  • YOU CALL THAT? A FAUX HAWK? >> I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU

  • CALL IT, BUT IT LOOKS GOOD ON HIM.

  • >> HE'S EASY TO RECOGNIZE, AND HE GETS BUCKETS.

  • KILPATRICK, 26.5 PPG TO LEAD THE LEAGUE AND WE ARE

  • UNDERWAY. JUSTIN HARPER TO THE WEST.

  • >> EARLY MOVE TO THE MIDDLE AND THE DROP OFF FROM

  • CUMMINGS, SO JEFF WITH THE HIGH PERCENTAGE START TO THE

  • GAME. WE MIGHT SEE, ISIAH, A COUPLE

  • MORE DUNKS BEFORE THIS GAME IS DONE.

  • >> WE MIGHT SEE IT, BUT WHAT I NOTICE RIGHT AWAY IS YOU SEE

  • EVERYONE'S DOWN IN THE DEFENSIVE STANDS.

  • THEY'RE NOT GIVING EASY SHOTS. THEY'RE NOT GIVING LAY-UPS,

  • AND WE ACTUALLY SEE SOME DEFENSE BEING PLAYED.

  • >> OH, RICKY LEDO OFF THE BACKBOARD.

  • >> YEAH, WHEN YOU'VE GOT HOPS LIKE THAT, YOU CAN DO

  • THAT AND TRUST YOUR ATHLETICISM.

  • >> THAT LOOKED A LOT BETTER THAN WHAT IT IS TRACY DID IN

  • THE CELEBRITY GAME ON FRIDAY WHERE HE THREW IT OFF THE

  • GLASS TO HIMSELF AND LAID IT IN.

  • WASN'T QUITE AS ATHLETIC. MONFORD WITH THE MISS, AND

  • BACK COMES THE EAST WITH KELLY.

  • THERE IS SOME OF THAT D YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT.

  • NICE PASS, AND IT'S MCCRAY AND A JAM THERE BY KEITH BENSON.

  • >> MCCRAY MADE A GREAT CUT TO BAIL HIM OUT AS KELLY WAS

  • ON THE DECK THERE. NICE JOB TO FINISH THAT ONE

  • OFF. I TOLD YOU THERE WOULD BE MORE

  • DUNKS, ISIAH. >> YEAH, AND HARPER IS

  • LOCKED IN FROM THE THREE-POINT LINE.

  • BUT WE'RE SEEING GOOD OFFENSE AND WE'VE SEEN GOOD, EARLY

  • BALL MOVEMENT. >> KELLY LOST IT.

  • NICE PASS TO KILPATRICK, AND HE'S OFF TO AN EARLY START.

  • >> I THINK KELLY'S THE KIND OF PLAYER IF IT'S NOT PERFECT,

  • IT'S BETTER OFF FOR HIM. ONE HE MAKES A HOCKEY ASSIST.

  • THAT TIME LOSES THE BALL AND THROWS A NIFTY LEFT-HAND PASS.

  • >> OFF HIS REAR END? >> YEAH, THE REAR END.

  • THAT IS THE SAFEST WAY I COULD SAY THAT, ISIAH.

  • ANOTHER LOOK AT LEDO. >> THAT WAS AWESOME.

  • >> THAT MIGHT BE THE PLAY OF THE GAME, AND IT HAPPENED

  • EXTREMELY EARLY. WE'RE GOING TO SEE A LOT OF

  • FANTASTIC PLAYS, BUT THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE PLAY OF

  • THE GAME. >> AGAIN, A LOT OF THESE

  • GUYS ARE HERE TRYING TO IMPRESS NBA SCOUTS.

  • THERE IS AN NBA SCOUT FROM EVERY TEAM HERE.

  • THEY'RE LOCKED IN AND PENCILLED.

  • AND LEDO IS ONE OF THE GUYS THEY'RE LOOKING AT.

  • SO THIS IS A CHANCE FOR HIM TO DISPLAY HIS ATHLETICISM, HIS

  • ENERGY AND ALSO HIS PERSONALITY.

  • CHECK THAT BOX. HE GOT IT TAKEN CARE OF ON ONE

  • PLAY. >> RICKY LEDO, TWO SEASONS

  • WITH THE MAVERICKS AND KNICKS. SECOND ROUND PICK FROM

  • MILWAUKEE IN 2013. BENSON, COUPLE OF TAPS.

  • STOKES COULD POINT GET IT, BUT HE IS FOULED.

  • HE'S A BIG GUY, HE LIKES TO THROW HIS WEIGHT AROUND

  • INSIDE. HE DOESN'T PRETEND TO BE

  • ANYTHING BUT A BIG MAN. YOU HAVE A LOT OF BIG MEN WHO

  • WANT TO GO OUT AND DRIBBLE AND SHOOT THREES AND DISPLAY ALL

  • THEIR OTHER SKILLS, BUT HE'S A GUY WHO SAYS I LIVE AND EAT IN

  • THE PAINT. >> JARNEL, IN 2014 MOVED ON

  • TO MEMPHIS, HE'SLETH IN THE LEAGUE IN SCORING AT 20.6.

  • FOURTH IN REBOUNDING AT 10.2. 20-10.

  • NOT BAD. HE'S GOT THE EAST WITHIN TWO

  • OF THE WEST. >> LEDO INTO HEIRS WHO HAS

  • AYERS WHO HAS BEEN BUSY EARLY. BUT STOKES WITH THE REBOUND.

  • MCCRAY TO STOKES. ANOTHER FOUL.

  • HE'S A MAGNET FOR FLESH, BONES.

  • >> THERE IS NO DOUBT WITH HIS SIZE AND WIDTH THAT HIS

  • ATHLETICISM I THINK SURPRISES DEFENSES, AND HE DOESN'T FEEL

  • THAT SORT OF CONTACT AND CONTINUES ON WITH HIS

  • OFFENSIVE PLAY. THAT TIME YOU SEE HIM MOVE THE

  • BALL FROM RIGHT TO LEFT AND ENDS UP GETTING TO THE

  • FREE-THROW LINE. SO A BIG BODY.

  • >> AND THAT'S WHAT MAKES HIM REALLY EFFECTIVE AROUND THE

  • BASKET IS THAT HE CAN FINISH WITH BOTH HANDS.

  • YOU KNOW, SO MANY PLAYERS, THEY'RE NOT ABLE TO FINISH

  • WITH EITHER HAND. THEY'RE STRONG HANDED OR

  • RIGHT-HANDED DOMINANT. HE'S ACTUALLILY GOOD AROUND

  • THE BASKET WITH BOTH HANDS. SNIEFRMENT STOKES, THREE FOR

  • FOUR FROM THE FREE-THROW LINE, AND LEDO MISSES EVERYTHING.

  • AFTER YOU SHOOT LIKE THAT, YOU HAVE TO WIPE YOUR HANDS.

  • SWEATY PALMS, SOMETHING'S WRONG WITH EITHER THE BALL OR

  • YOUR SWEATY PALMS. IT WASN'T THAT YOU JUST

  • MISSED. >> OR YOU GET NERVOUS.

  • I REMEMBER MY FIRST NBA ALL-STAR GAME WE PLAYED IN NEW

  • JERSEY AND I WENT TO THE FOUL LINE.

  • AS I GET TO THE FOUL LINE I LOOK UP ON THE FOUL LINE.

  • THERE IS KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR, THERE IS DR.�J, AND I GO TO

  • TAKE A FREE THROW AND IT'S A TOTAL COMPLETE AIR BALL.

  • MY FIRST FREE THROW IN THE ALL-STAR GAME WAS AN AIR BALL.

  • >> YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME? WE'VE GOT TO FIND THAT

  • VIDEO SOMEWHERE. >> I WAS SO NERVOUS BECAUSE

  • I WAS READY TO GO AND THEN I LOOKED UP AND IT WAS

  • ABDUL-JABBAR ON THE FOUL LINE. >> I REMEMBER, ISIAH, YOUR

  • FIRST ALL-STAR GAME AS WELL. WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS I NEVER

  • PLAYED IN ONE, SO I REMEMBER YOUR FIRST ONE AS WELL.

  • >> LEDO TO MUMM FORD, HANGING AND FOULED BY BENSON.

  • I WANT TO GO BACK TO THE AIR BALL.

  • BECAUSE WHEN THE PLAYERS WERE WARMING UP, THEY HAD THE LONG

  • SLEEVE WARM-UP SHIRT ON, AND IT IS COLD IN THIS ARENA RIGHT

  • NOW. NOT FRIGID, BUT IT IS COLD.

  • IT MAY TAKE A WHILE TO SETTLE INTO THE GAME.

  • IT MIGHT. BUT WHEN YOU'RE ON THIS TYPE

  • OF STAGE AND YOU HAVE EVERY NBA SCOUT IN THE ARENA

  • WATCHING YOU AND YOU'RE TRYING TO MOVE UP TO THE NEXT LEVEL,

  • I KNOW ME MYSELF, I'M COMING IN HOT, SWEATY AND READY TO

  • GO. >> IT DID NOT STOP ANDRING

  • GRAM BY INITIATING THE THREE POINT CONTEST BY PUTTING 26 ON

  • THE BOARD IN THE FIRST ROUND AND 27 IN THE SECOND ROUND AND

  • TAKING HOME THE THREE-POINT CROWN HERE FOR THE D-LEAGUE.

  • >> WHAT A PERFORMANCE BY HIM.

  • TREY KELLY ON THE SPIN. LITTLE LONG WITH THAT IS J.

  • >> NICE D BY MUMM FORD. LET'S GIVE CREDIT TO DEFENSE.

  • >> CUMMINGS TO MONFORD FROM THE CORNER.

  • >> THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.

  • FOLLOW THE D AND FOLLOW IT UP WITH THE GOOD O.

  • >> WE'VE COVERED A LOT OF THESE ALL-STAR GAMES AND WE

  • USUALLY SEE GUYS OPEN THE LANE AND GET LOOSE.

  • THAT'S NOT HAPPENED SO FAR IN THE OPENING MINUTES OF THIS

  • CONTEST. >> KEITH BENSON MISSES THE

  • J, AND BACK COMES CUMMINGS, BUT IT'S PICKED OFF BY KELLY

  • TO MCCRAY, TO KILPATRICK AND AN EASY HOOP.

  • >> REVERSE JAM MISS BY RICKY LEDO.

  • ANOTHER EASY BUCKET FOR KILPATRICK, AND AS YOU KNOW,

  • THAT'S HOW YOU GET AN ALL-STAR MVP KIND OF DAY GOING IS

  • GETTING EASY BUCKETS. >> YOU SEE KILPATRICK HAS

  • BEEN VERY CAUTIOUS AROUND THE BASKET.

  • HE'S MAKING SURE HE MAKES EVERY LAY-UP.

  • HE DIDN'T GO FOR THE DUNK OR FANCY MOVES.

  • HE'S TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT AT THE END OF THE NIGHT THE

  • STAT SHEET SAYS KILPATRICK, 10 FAITH 12 HAS A GOOD SHOOTING

  • EFFORT. >> GOOD MOVE BY AYERS THERE

  • USING THAT PIVOT FOOT AND GETTING BACK TO THE LEFT-HAND.

  • GOOD START TO THE DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE ALL-STAR GAME PRESENTED

  • BY KUMHO TIRES. THE EAST 16, WE HAVE A TIMEOUT

  • IN THE FIRST HALF. JORDAN MCCRAY IN YOUR FACE

  • WORLD.

  • >> : >> WE'RE EARLY ON IN THE

  • 2016 D-LEAGUE ALL-STAR GAME, ALL PART OF ALL-STAR WEEKEND

  • FROM TORONTO. JARED GREENBERG COURTSIDE

  • ALONG WITH THE PRESIDENT OF THE D-LEAGUE, MALCOLM TURNER

  • NOW IN HIS SECOND SEASON. APPARENTLY YOU GUYS ONLY GO TO

  • COLD WEATHER CITIES, NEW YORK NOW TORONTO.

  • HEY, CONGRATULATIONS ON WHAT'S BEEN A PHENOMENAL SECOND YEAR

  • FOR YOU, IT JUST SEEMS YOU GUYS HAVE TURNED IT UP A

  • NOTCH. >> IT'S REALLY EXCITING.

  • THERE IS A LOT OF MOMENTUM AROUND THE LEAGUE RIGHT NOW.

  • SO WE'RE SO EXCITED TO BE HERE PART OF ALL-STAR WEEK IN

  • TORONTO. AND OUR NEWEST TEAM, RAPTORS

  • 905 JUST LAUNCHED. WE'RE SO EXCITED TO BE PART OF

  • ALL-STAR WEEKEND WITH THE RAPTORS 905 LAUNCHING IN THIS

  • MARKET AS WELL. BUT WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THE

  • MOMENTUM WE'RE SEEING ACROSS THE MARKETPLACE WITHIN OUR

  • BUSINESS. >> WE'VE SEEN SO MANY

  • PLAYERS CALLED UP THIS YEAR. NOT JUST GUYS TO BE PLACED ON

  • THE BENCH OFFER HELP OUT IN PRACTICE.

  • IT SEEMS THE SCOUTS AT THE NBA LEVEL ARE TURNING TO YOUR

  • PLAYERS TO MAKE AN IMPACT. >> ABSOLUTELY.

  • WE ARE ON PACE FOR ANOTHER RECORD SETTING YEAR IN TERMS

  • OF DEVELOPING PLAYERS BOTH FOR D-LEAGUE PLAYER CALL-UPS BUT

  • FOR NBA PLAY ERA SIGNMENTS. SO OUR COACHES AND GMS

  • CONTINUE TO RECOGNIZE THIS LEAGUE AS AN EFFECTIVE,

  • EFFICIENT PLACE TO DEVELOP TALENT.

  • WE'VE BROKEN LAST YEAR'S RECORDS FOR PLAY ERA

  • SIGNMENTS. IF ANY INDICATION, AGAIN,

  • TALKING WITH OUR NBA TEAMS, WE EXPECT TO FURTHER RAISE THE

  • BAR IN TERMS OF OUR CONTRIBUTIONS AT THE NBA

  • LEVEL. >> YOU MENTIONED THE RAPTORS

  • TEAM GETTING YOU CLOSER AND CLOSER TO WHAT EVERYBODY

  • ACROSS THE BOARD WANTS AND THAT'S 30 NBA TEAMS, AND EACH

  • ONE OF THEM TO HAVE A D-LEAGUE AFFILIATE.

  • >> ABSOLUTELY. THIS YEAR WAVE A RECORD NUMBER

  • OF TEAMS AT 19. FOR THE FIRST TIME ALL

  • AFFILIATED WITH AN NBA PARENT CLUB.

  • WE HAVE THREE TEAMS COMING ON BOARD NEXT YEAR FOR THE 2016,

  • 2017 SEASON. CHICAGO, CHARLOTTE AND

  • BROOKLYN, SO THAT PUTS US WITHIN 22 TEAMS.

  • WE'RE WITHIN SHOUTING DISTANCE OF 30 FOR 30.

  • WE'RE TALKING WITH OTHER TEAMS THAT DON'T HAVE A D-LEAGUE

  • TEAM. ALL OF THOSE ARE PROGRESSING

  • AND WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THE FUTURE.

  • >> WE APPRECIATE YOU JOINING US, BEST OF LUCK IN THE SECOND

  • HALF OF THE SEASON. >> GUYS, THAT'S MALCOLM

  • TURNER, THE PRESIDENT OF THE D-LEAGUE.

  • >> JARED AND MALCOLM, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

  • SOME OF THE ACTION WHILE THEY WERE CONVERSING, A THREE AND A

  • BLOCK AND YOU HAVE A JAM BY PUT KNEE, AND THIS IS JIMMER

  • FREDETTE KNOCKING DOWN HIS FIRST SHOT OF THE GAME.

  • >> WE KNOW HE CAN SCORE, AND HE'S KNOWN FOR SHOOTING.

  • WHEN YOU WATCH HIM PLAY IN THIS ALL-STAR GAME, I'M SURE

  • HE'S GOING TO TRY TO GET BUCKETS.

  • LANE HITS ANOTHER ONE. THE BIG MAN CAN STRETCH THAT

  • FLOOR. >> THE HATIAN BIG MAN AT

  • 6'9", YOU THINK HE'D BE PLAYING ON THE BLOCK.

  • THE SPURS KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING DRAFTING HIM AT 55TH,

  • AND HIS SKILLSET AND WHAT HE CAN DO STRETCHING OUT

  • DEFENSES. DON'T BE SHOCKED HE CAN PULL

  • UP OUT THERE AND MAKE IT LOOK AS SMOOTH AS IT DOES.

  • >> AND ONE FOR JIMMER FREDETTE, AND WE'LL TAKE

  • ANOTHER LOOK. >> YEAH, YOU SEE HIM PUTTING

  • ON THE FLOOR AND BEING ABLE TO FINISH AROUND THE RIM, TAKE

  • CONTACT WITH HIS LEFT-HAND. NOW A SIMPLE PLAY LIKE THAT,

  • IF YOU'RE SCOUTING HIM TONIGHT, THE THING THAT YOU'RE

  • DOING IF YOU'RE WRITING ON YOUR NOTEPAD YOU'RE SAYING

  • HE'S DEVELOPED STRENGTH. HE'S STRONG ENOUGH.

  • HE CAN FINISH AROUND THE BASKET.

  • YOU TAKE NOTE OF THAT AND YOU SHOW THE VIDEO TO THE COACH.

  • >> GETTING BUSY, LANE MOVING TO THE HOOP, MICHAEL AYERS

  • COULDN'T COLLECT. VANDER BLUE RELOADS FOR THE

  • REST. AND IT'S PUT KNEE WITH THAT

  • THREE. RAKEEM CHRISTMAS PULLS THE

  • BOARD JIMMER UP TO SCOTT SUGGS.

  • CHRISTMAS PIVOTS AND SCORES OVER LANE.

  • >> I REMEMBER CHRISTMAS IN HIGH SCHOOL.

  • I WAS RECRUITING HIM TO COME TO FIU AND WATCHING HIM

  • DEVELOP AT SYRACUSE. HE DIDN'T HAVE AN INSIDE GAME

  • WHEN HE WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL. BUT YOU CAN SEE THE WORK ETHIC

  • THAT HE HAS AND THE ABILITY TO REBOUND THE BASKETBALL AND

  • QUICK HOPS AND PLAYING AROUND THE RIM.

  • HE'S ONE OF THESE GUYS, ONE OF THE BIG GUYS THAT WILL GET

  • BETTER AND HE WILL GET HIS CALL-UP.

  • >> HOW MUCH, ISIAH FOR BIG GUYS AND THE WAY TODAY'S GAME

  • IS PLAYED DO INSTINCTS FOR THE GAME AS A BIG MAN COME INTO

  • PLAY? >> I THINK YOU NEED HIM MORE

  • NOW THAN EVER, BECAUSE WHEN YOU SEE COOK MAKE A PASS LIKE

  • THAT, THE BIG GUYS NOW ARE BEING ASKED TO DO MORE THINGS.

  • THEY HAVE TO RUN THE FLOOR. THEY HAVE TO SHOOT THE THREE.

  • SO THE INSTINCTS AND KNOW HOW OF THE GAME, THEY HAVE TO BE

  • ABLE TO FEEL IT ON THE PERIMETER AS WELL AS ON THE

  • POST. >> JORDAN BACHYNSKI, JUST

  • JAMMED FOR THE EAST. DRAWING A TIMEOUT FROM THE

  • WEST. THIS IS NOW THE EAST BIGGEST

  • LEAD AT 4, 27-23, AND THERE IS ALL-STAR PAUL GEORGE.

  • WHAT A SUCCESS STORY HE HAS BEEN, BONES WITH THE BOUNCE

  • BACK. HE'S GOT HIS CHRISTMAS JERSEY

  • ON. >> I LOVE IT.

  • THE EARLY PART OF THE SEASON THEY GOT OFF TO A HOT START,

  • WHICH IN TURN AFFECTED THE WAY SOME OF THE PLAYERS ON THE

  • PACERS THOUGHT THAT PAUL GEORGE WAS GOING TO CONTRIBUTE

  • TO THE TEAM THE REST OF THE YEAR.

  • WE HAVE TO BE REALISTIC ABOUT IT.

  • THERE WAS NO WAY HE WAS GOING TO KEEP UP THAT PACE,

  • ESPECIALLY COMING OFF THAT INJURY.

  • HE IS, IN FACT BE THE THIRD MOST TRAVELED PLAYER IN THE

  • NBA BY TOTAL DISTANCE. JUST A WEIRD, RANDOM FACT.

  • BY CJ MCCOLLUM, NO. 1. CHRIS MIDDLETON, NO. 2, AND

  • PAUL GEORGE IS THE THIRD MOST TRAVELED PLAYER ON THE COURT

  • THIS SEASON. SO TO COME BACK FROM THAT

  • INJURY, GET THOSE MINUTES AND DO WHAT PAUL GEORGE HAS DONE

  • AND BE AN ALL-STAR, THAT'S AWESOME STUFF FOR PG.

  • >> YES, IT IS. WELL SAID.

  • >> THAT'S A GOODY, BONES. >> I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU GAVE

  • BACHYNSKI THE JAM CALL. I THINK THE TIMEOUT WAS COMED

  • CALLED SO THE COACHES COULD SAY YOU'RE A BIG GUY.

  • YOU CAN'T GET HALFWAY WHEN YOU HAVE AN OPEN COURT.

  • >> AND JORDAN BACHYNSKI IS 7'2".

  • SO YOU'RE NOT FEELING THE IT'S COLD IN RICOH COLISEUM EXCUSE,

  • ARE YOU? >> NO, IT'S TIME TO GET OFF.

  • IT'S TIME TO PLAY. I'VE GOT A GREAT STORY ABOUT

  • JORDAN. WE WERE ON A FLIGHT LAST WEEK

  • TOGETHER GOING TO CHICAGO. WE WERE FLYING TO CHICAGO.

  • I'M IN FIRST CLASS. >> OF COURSE.

  • >> HE GETS ON THE PLANE AND HE'S WALKING TO THE BACK.

  • I'M LIKE NO WAY HE CAN SIT IN COACH, RIGHT? HIS KNEES, IT

  • JUST WON'T WORK. SO I GET UP AND GIVE HIM MY

  • SEAT. HE GOES ARE YOU SURE? I'M

  • LIKE, YEAH, YOU CAN HAVE IT. HE WAS LIKE OH, NO, I CAN'T

  • TAKE THAT. I SAID, LOOK, YOU'RE NOT GOING

  • TO BE ABLE TO FIT BACK THERE. YOU'VE GOT TO TAKE THIS SEAT.

  • SO HE TAKES THE SEAT AND AT THE END OF THE FLIGHT HE

  • LITERALLY WAITS FOR ME, GRABS MY COAT, HANDS IT TO ME AND

  • SAID THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME SIT UP HERE.

  • >> WHAT A STORY. IF HE HAD SAT IN THE BACK,

  • WOULD YOU SAY HE WAS COACHABLE? GET THAT? COACH

  • SEAT? COACHABLE? >> OH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH.

  • IT WAS OVER MY HEAD, BUT I GOT IT.

  • >> LIKE TO SEE JIMMER FOR THREE.

  • I ACTUALLY ENDED UP SITTING NEXT TO THE COACH.

  • >> NO WAY. >> I REALLY DID.

  • I GOT THE INSIDE SCOOP THE WHOLE WAY.

  • >> PHENOMENAL. BACHYNSKI WITH THE ROCK.

  • THE LEFTY HOOK WON'T GO. AND BACK COMES THE WEST

  • TRAILING BY THREE. HOLAWAY SCORED A MOMENT AGO,

  • AND THE REVERSE LAY-UP IS GOOD.

  • THAT IS VINCENT HUNTER, ONE OF THE BEST BIG MEN IN THE

  • DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE WITH THE RENO BIG HORNS.

  • FIFTH IN SCORING, THIRD IN REBOUNDS.

  • CHRISTMAS JAMS. >> THAT WAS NICE THERE.

  • THE PASS CAME QUICKER ON THE SKIP, AND CHRISTMAS ABLE TO

  • CLEAN IT UP. >> CHRISTMAS IS ONE OF THOSE

  • GUYS THAT, AGAIN, WHEN I WAS RECRUITING HIM, HE DIDN'T TALK

  • ABOUT GOING TO THE NBA. HE TALKED ABOUT WANTING TO

  • FINISH COLLEGE AND GET HIS DEGREE.

  • ENDED UP GOING TO SYRACUSE, HAD EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO LEAVE

  • EARLY. STAYED ALL FOUR YEARS,

  • FINISHED, GRADUATED. GOT HIS DEGREE, AND THAT'S

  • WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT A SUCCESS STORY BECAUSE HE'S A YOUNG MAN

  • THAT AN EARLY AGE WAS PREDICTED TO GO PRO EARLY

  • COULD HAVE LEFT, BUT STAYED AND GOT HIS DEGREE.

  • HE GOT TO THE FREE-THROW LINE, GAP OPENED UP.

  • >> HE LET BLUE FLY ON BY. AND HERE'S BACHYNSKI.

  • HE'S GOT THREE FIELD GOALS AND THE EAST LEADS BY THREE.

  • TO HOLAWAY, AND THAT'S PUT KNEE ON AN ODD ALLEY-OOP.

  • >> IT WAS AN ODD ALLEY-OOP BUT EFFECTIVE.

  • >> THERE IS JIMMER, FLOATER, YEAH, SOFT TOUCH.

  • >> AGAIN, NO TEAM ABLE TO REALLY GET ANY BREATHING ROOM

  • AS WE'VE GOT A THREE-POINT GAME HERE EAST IN THE LEAGUE.

  • >> PUTNEY, THE LEFTY WOULDN'T GO, BACHYNSKI

  • STANDING THERE FOR THE REBOUND.

  • FREDETTE BY THE WAY, THE LEADING SCORER IN THIS GAME

  • WITH 10. HE'S GOT AN OPEN LOOK.

  • PUTNEY MADE HIM CHANGE THE SHOT.

  • SCOOP AND SCORE. JIMMER IS FEELING IT EARLY ON

  • IN THE D-LEAGUE ALL-STAR GAME. >> SHOT FAKE, THE MOST

  • EFFECTIVE FAKE IN BASKETBALL, AND JIMMER USES IT PERFECTLY.

  • >> WE HAVE A TIMEOUT ON THE FLOOR.

  • THE EAST WITH THEIR LARGEST LEA

  • OF THIS GAME AT 5. THEY LEAD 40-35, AND A LITTLE

  • FINGER ROLL AT RICOH COLISEUM FROM THE JIMMER.

  • >> SOME EARLY SARCASM FROM AUSTIN SPURS HEAD COACH KEN

  • MCDONALD COACHING THE WEST HERE TODAY AT THE D-LEAGUE

  • ALL-STAR GAME. AND JIMMER FREDETTE, JORDAN

  • BACHYNSKI, THE WEST CHESTER KNICKS, HE SPOKE ABOUT.

  • AND ALSO MIKE DUCK, DAN CRAIG, RONALD ROBERTS JR., VINCENT

  • HUNTER AS WELL AS RICK KAMLA, ISIAH THOMAS, BRENT BERRY AND

  • JARED GREENBERG. WELCOME EVERYBODY AROUND THE

  • WORLD HERE ON NBA TV. A LITTLE HEAT CHECK FROM

  • JIMMER AND HE HITS AGAIN. >> THAT'S WHEN YOU KNOW

  • YOU'RE FEELING IT. JIMMER CAME TO PUT ON A SHOW

  • TONIGHT. >> HE'S GOT 15.

  • >> JEFF AYERS, NICE TOUCH. >> LITTLE PUSH SHOT GOT THE

  • BALL OUT IN FRONT OF HIM. ROOM KNOCKS THAT ONE DOWN.

  • GIVES HIMSELF AN ENCOURAGING CLAP ON THIS END.

  • >> AYERS HAVING A FINE GAME. 9 POINTS ON 4 OF 5.

  • QUINN COOK, FORMER DUKY OUT OF BOUNDS.

  • IT WILL GO OVER TO THE WEST. QUINN COOK DISAGREES WITH THAT

  • CALL. >> QUINN COOK HAVING A

  • TERRIFIC YEAR WITH CANTON. 19.7 PPG, THAT'S 12TH IN THE

  • LEAGUE. SHOOTING 15% ON THREES.

  • MONFORD CHANGES HANDS. >> I LIKE THE WAY MONFORD IS

  • APPROACHING THE GAME. HE'S UNDER CONTROL, STAYING

  • WITHIN HIMSELF, AND DEFENSIVELY HE IS CHALLENGING.

  • JIMMER DRIVING ON AYERS, FINGER ROLL AGAIN.

  • COUPLE TIMES JIMMER HAS HAD ROOM TO GET THE BALL AWAY FROM

  • THE BIG GUY AND FINGER ROLL IT IN.

  • >> AYERS, NICE PASS. MONFORD LEFT IT SHORT, BACK

  • COMES COOK FOR THE EAST. HE'S GOING TO FIND JIMMER WHO

  • WILL LAUNCH AGAIN. REBOUND CLEARED BY VINCENT

  • HUNTER. NICE DRIBBLE MOVE.

  • LEFT THE PASS BEHIND HIS GUY THOUGH, AND BACK COMES THE

  • EAST. FANS YELLING FOR JIMMER TO GET

  • A TOUCH. QUINN COOK SAYS IT'S MY TURN.

  • >> THAT'S ALWAYS TOUGH TO DO WHEN YOU'RE STANDING AT THE

  • THREE-POINT LINE AND YOU GET A BAD PASS.

  • IN YOUR HEAD YOU'RE SETTLED DOWN TO USE THE PASS FOR YOUR

  • RHYTHM, BUT TOOK THE DRIBBLE AND GOT IT DONE.

  • >> MONFORD FINISHES THAT TIME BRINGING THE WEST BACK

  • WITHIN 7. COOK IN A HURRY, SPINNING,

  • TURNING, AND IT'S JIMMER LEFT ALONE.

  • HE'S MISSED TWO IN A ROW NOW. COOK PICKING IT UP.

  • >> THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.

  • LET'S SHOW A REPLAY OF THAT. LET'S SHOW A REPLAY OF DEFENSE

  • PICKING UP FULL COURT. >> ASHLEY PLAYING WITH TEXAS

  • IN THE D-LEAGUE. PRODUCT OF ARIZONA.

  • STEVESON, YIKES. LEADING REBOUNDER IN THE

  • DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE WITH AN EARLY AIR BALL.

  • MONFORD LEFT ALONE, SCOOPING, MAYBE A LITTLE TOO MUCH HOT

  • SAUCE ON THAT DELIVERY. NICE PLAY, JIMMER OUT TO COOK.

  • >> A TWO-MAN GAME BETWEEN THEM.

  • JIMMER GOT OFF THE THREE-POINT LINE.

  • KNEW COOK WAS STILL STANDING THERE.

  • >> YOU SEE THOSE TWO RIGHT NOW, THEY DEVELOP A RHYTHM IN

  • TERMS OF PLAYING TOGETHER, COOK AND FREDETTE.

  • >> THAT THREE OFF THE MARK BY WILL CUMMINGS, AND A

  • TIMEOUT IS CALLED BY DAN CRAIG.

  • HEAD COACH OF THE EASTERN CONFERENCE ALL-STARS, AND THE

  • SIOUX FALLS SKY FORCE, CURRENTLY THE BEST TEAM IN THE

  • DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE HERE AT THE ALL-STAR BREAK.

  • COOK FOR THREE, WE'RE ROLLING IN TORONTO.

  • >> WE WELCOME YOU BACK TO THE D-LEAGUE ALL-STAR GAME.

  • WE'VE GOT A RISING STAR IN THE NBA WITH US, JORDAN CLARKSON

  • OF THE LA LAKERS WHO YOU SPEND SOME TIME PLAYING IN THE

  • D-LEAGUE LAST YEAR, BUT NOW YOU'RE FULLIEN TRENCHED WITH

  • THE LAKERS AND THEIR FUTURE. WHAT'S IT LIKE FOR YOU IN YOUR

  • SECOND YEAR SEEING SOME OF THESE GUYS OUT HERE WANTING TO

  • MAKE IT TO WHERE YOU ARE? >> I THINK IT'S PRETTY COOL.

  • I PLAYED IN THE D-LEAGUE ABOUT 7, 8 GAMES.

  • FOR ME, IT WAS A PROCESS. >> IT GOT SERIOUS AROUND THE

  • 8 TO 10 MINUTE MARK. SO, YEAH, WE DEFINITELY WERE

  • COMPETING AND TRYING TO WIN THAT.

  • >> WHAT IS IT LIKE IN AN ATMOSPHERE LIKE THAT WITH GUYS

  • THAT ARE ALL AT A HIGH LEVEL? >> FOR YOU, IT'S BEEN A

  • TOUGH YEAR WITH THE LAKERS. SO TO GET TO THAT, WAS IT A

  • RELIEF TO PLAY IN A GAME LIKE THAT?

  • >> YEAH, IT'S REALLY FUN. IT'S A LOOSE GAME.

  • EVERYBODY'S JUST OUT THERE HAVING FUN.

  • LIKE WE WERE KIDS IN THE PARK, SO IT WAS A FUN EXPERIENCE.

  • >> I WOULD IMAGINE THIS WEEK WITH A LOT OF TIME OFF IS MUCH

  • NEEDED FOR YOU GUYS, JUST TO TAKE A DEEP BREATH?

  • >> YEAH, IT'S DEFINITELY MUCH NEEDED FOR US.

  • WE'VE GOT TO COME BACK IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE SEASON, AND

  • JUST REALLY WORK AS A TEAM AND CONTINUE TO PROGRESS.

  • WE'VE GOT A YOUNG GROUP, AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO

  • DO. >> YOU'VE GOT A BUSY DAY

  • STILL TO GO. LATER ON TONIGHT THE SKILLS

  • CHALLENGE. TELL US WHAT TO LOOK FORWARD

  • TO. YOU TOLD ME A COUPLE DAYS AGO

  • THAT YOU WERE GUARANTEEING A VICTORY.

  • DO YOU WANT TO SEE THAT ON TV AS WELL?

  • REPLACENAME: I DON'T KNOW. I'M GOING TO GO OUT THERE AND,

  • YOU KNOW. >> BACKING AWAY FROM THE

  • GUARANTEE YOU TOLD ME THE OTHER DAY?

  • >> I MIGHT WIN THOUGH. YOU NEVER KNOW.

  • I DON'T WANT TO PUT A CAP ON MY STUFF.

  • SO I MIGHT GO OUT THERE AND GO GET IT.

  • >> SO BEFORE THAT, YOU'VE GOT TO JUDGE THE SLAM DUNK

  • CONTEST HERE. WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?

  • >> NO, D.J. STEPHENS IS IN THE DUNK CONTEST, RIGHT? I'VE

  • SEEN HIM DO SOME CRAZY STUFF. SO I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE

  • EXCITING TO WATCH HIM DO THAT. SO I'M EXCITED FOR THAT.

  • >> OVER AT THE TABLE, WE'VE GOT BRENT BARRY AND ISIAH

  • THOMAS WHO HAVE PLENTY OF EXPERIENCE JUDGING DUNK

  • CONTESTS. SO IF YOU NEED ANY TIPS BEFORE

  • HALFTIME, MAKE SURE YOU GO SPEAK WITH THEM.

  • >> I GOT YOU. ALL RIGHT, GUYS, THAT'S JORDAN

  • CLARKSON OF THE LAKERS. >> COMING UP AT HALFTIME, IT

  • IS THE VERIZON SLAM DUNK. ON CUE WE GET ONE FROM WILL

  • CUMMINGS, AND HERE COMES�-- OWE CUMMINGS, AND THEY ARE

  • DOWN 9. BUSY WEEKEND FOR JORDAN

  • CLARKSON. WHAT AN ITINERARY?

  • >> YOU LIKE TO SEE GUYS COME TO THE ALL-STAR GAME AND

  • PARTICIPATE IN ALL THE ACTIVITIES.

  • HE'S ONE OF THE GUYS AS HE SAID, HE PLAYED IN THE

  • D-LEAGUE, MOVED UP, NOW HE'S HAVING A SUCCESSFUL RUN WITH

  • THE LOS ANGELES LAKERS, STARTING FOR THEM, PLAYING

  • WELL FOR THEM. NOW HERE AT ALL-STAR WEEKEND,

  • PARTICIPATING IN THE ALL-STAR WEEKEND.

  • SO IT'S BEEN A GREAT STORY BOOK STORY FOR HIM.

  • >> I THINK WHAT ISIAH AND I CAN CONCUR ON WITH REGARDS TO

  • JUDGING ANY KIND OF CONTEST IS WE DO ACCEPT CASH.

  • >> UNDER THE TABLE OR OVER THE TABLE?

  • >> YEAH, I MEAN WHATEVER YOU'VE GOT TO DO TO GET IT TO

  • US, THAT WILL HELP YOUR CHANCES IMMENSELY.

  • >> YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN A GREAT RECRUITER IN COLLEGE

  • (LAUGHING). >> OH, RICKY LEDO! NICE.

  • >> I'M GOING TO LEAVE THAT ONE ALONE.

  • >> THAT WAS JUST A JOKE. >> I'M GOING TO LEAVE THAT

  • ONE ALONE. >> KILPATRICK TO MCCRAY.

  • FUMBLED OUT OF BOUNDS, BUT LAST TOUCHED BY THE WEST.

  • 24.2 TO GO HERE IN THE FIRST HALF.

  • THE EAST 61, THE WEST 54. JIMMER FREDETTE, LEADING

  • SCORER WITH 17. HE'S MADE 7 OF 10 SHOTS, AND

  • FROM THE SIDE POCKET THAT BUCKET IS GOOD.

  • RONALD ROBERTS JR. HE'S KNOWN AS A BANGER,

  • REBOUNDER AND SHOT BLOCKER. HITTING THE CORNER THREE AND A

  • FOUL HERE WITH 18 TICKS LEFT. THERE IS RONALD ROBERTS JR.

  • HE'S OPENED EYES IN SOME OF THE SUMMER LEAGUES RECENTLY.

  • >> YEAH, HE'S PLAYED WELL IN THE SUMMER LEAGUE.

  • HE'S A GUY WHO IS JUST WAITING TO GET HIS CHANCE.

  • BUT THE ENERGY HE PLAYS WITH AND ENTHUSIASM MAKES HIM WORTH

  • WATCHING HE'S A GUY THAT THE SCOUTS DEFINITELY HAVE THEIR

  • EYE ON. >> THE EAST MIGHT HAVE

  • THOUGHT THE WEST WAS GOING TO RUN THE CLOCK DOWN.

  • LEDO TOOK ADVANTAGE NOW UNDER 5:00 SECONDS LEFT, AND IT'S

  • OUT OF BOUNDS AGAIN. AND IT WILL GO OVER TO THE

  • WEST. SO A CHANCE DOWN HERE BY 8 TO

  • GET CLOSER. 1.7 LEFT.

  • LEDO ALL ALONE. GOT IT OFF IN TIME, AND

  • ANOTHER AIR BALL BY RICKY LEDO.

  • SO WE ARE AT THE BREAK HERE IN THE 10TH ANNUAL DEVELOPMENT

  • LEAGUE ALL-STAR GAME, PRESENTED BY KUMHO TIRE AND

  • THE EAST LEADS BY 8. JIMMER FREDETTE, 17 POINTS.

  • HE'S ALSO GOT THREE REBOUNDS AND FOUR ASSISTS.

  • KILPATRICK ALSO IN DOUBLES WITH 11.

  • THE LEADING SCORER FOR THE WEST ALL-STARS, JEFF AYERS

  • WITH 9. HE'S MADE 4 OUT OF 5.

  • COMING UP, STAY WHERE YOU ARE, IT'S THE VERIZON SLAM DUNK

  • D-LEAGUE STYLE. >> AT THE HALF OF THE 10TH

  • ANNUAL DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE ALL-STAR GAME PRESENTED BY

  • KUMHO TIRE, AND RIGHT NOW IT'S THE D-LEAGUE SLAM DUNK BROUGHT

  • TO YOU BY VERIZON. EARLIER IN THE BROADCAST, THE

  • NAME D.J. STEPHENS WAS BROUGHT UP.

  • D.J. CURRENTLY OF THE CANTON CHARGE USED TO PLAY HIS

  • COLLEGE BALL AT MEMPHIS. HE CAN GET UP AND GO.

  • AND HE SHOULD PUT ON A SHOW AND THERE ARE FIVE OTHER

  • COMBATANTS HERE IN THE SLAM DUNK COMPETITION THAT FIGURED

  • THEY'D GIVE US QUITE A SHOW AS WELL.

  • WE WELCOME YOU COURT SIDE ONCE AGAIN, RICK KAMLA, ISIAH

  • THOMAS, AND BRENT BERRY. WE'LL HAVE THE SECOND HALF OF

  • THE GAME IN JUST A MOMENT. WHAT ARE YOU EXCITED FOR?

  • HAVE YOU SEEN A D-LEAGUE DUNK CONTEST BEFORE? LET ME START

  • THERE, ISIAH. >> YEAH, I HAVE.

  • THE THING THAT ALWAYS IMPRESSES ME ABOUT THESE

  • COMPETITIONS IS THAT A, THEY CAN JUMP, BUT THE CREATIVITY

  • THAT THEY BRING TO THE GYM IS ACTUALLY A LITTLE BIT MORE

  • CREATIVE AND ATHLETIC SOMETIMES THAN THE UPPER

  • ECHELON WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE NBA.

  • >> I THINK SOMETIMES WE'VE SEEN PLENTY OF THESE NOW THAT

  • THE GUYS HERE, THE COOLNESS FACTOR GOES OUT THE WINDOW,

  • AND THESE GUYS TAKE IT A LOT MORE SERIOUS BECAUSE OF WHAT

  • IT REPRESENTS IN TERMS OF THEM BEING MENTIONED, THEIR NAME

  • BEING OUT THERE ON NBA TV. WE COVER ALL THE HIGHLIGHTS

  • AND THINGS LIKE THAT, BUT THEY CAN MAKE A NAME FOR

  • THEMSELVES, SO WE SEE LESS THEE ATTICS THEATRICS, AND IT

  • ENDS UP BEING SOMETIMES A LITTLE BIT BETTER THAN WHAT

  • THE BIG GUYS BRING SOMETIMES. >> I THINK THE WINNER OF THE

  • D-LEAGUE COMPETITION SHOULD BE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE AGAINST

  • THE NBA GUYS ON SATURDAY NIGHT.

  • SO THE WINNER HERE SHOULD BE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE AGAINST

  • THE BIG GUYS. >> TOTALLY AGREE WITH THAT.

  • THEY SHOULD LEAVE ONE SLOT OPEN FOR WHATEVER THESE GUYS

  • DO ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON. >> THEY CAN COME BACK, GET

  • ON THE FLOOR THE BIG STAGE AND MAYBE GET THE BIG ONE.

  • >> THEY CAN GET A CALL-UP. A ONE DAY CALL-UP TO THE

  • ALL-STAR GAME. >> A SIX HOUR EVENT CALL-UP.

  • >> A ONE DAY CALL-UP TO SATURDAY.

  • >> JUST A QUICK NAP BETWEEN THE D-LEAGUE DUNK AND VERIZON

  • SLAM DUNK ON ALL-STAR SATURDAY NIGHT.

  • YOU'RE LOOKING AT WEST COACH KEN MCDONALD.

  • MOMENTS AGO, HE HAD AN INSPIRATIONAL MESSAGE FOR HIS

  • TEAM. >> THERE'S A LINE OF SCOUTS

  • AROUND HERE. PLAY D.

  • PLAY IT THE RIGHT WAY. WE COME DOWN, MOVE THE BALL A

  • LITTLE BIT. JUST A COUPLE PASSES, DRIVE

  • AND PLAY. NOT SAYING DON'T PLAY.

  • BUT JUST PLAY WITH MORE ENERGY THAN THE OTHER SIDE AND

  • ESPECIALLY ON DEFENSE. EVERY ONE OF THESE GUYS IS

  • WATCHING, CAN THESE GUYS DEFEND AT THE NEXT LEVEL? SO

  • LET'S DEFEND. THEY DON'T GET TO WATCH YOU

  • GUYS HEAD-TO-HEAD. >> SO ISIAH AND BRENT YOU'RE

  • VERY ACCOMPLISHED BASKETBALL PLAYERS WITH GREAT RESUMES.

  • YOU WERE PROS FOR A LONG TIME, AND I WANT YOU TO GO BACK TO

  • THAT POINT WHEN YOU WERE TRYING TO IMPRESS SOMEBODY,

  • WHETHER IT WAS A RECRUITER, A COACH, A SCOUT AND RELATE THAT

  • TO THE PLAYERS IN THIS D-LEAGUE ALL-STAR GAME?

  • >> THE WAY YOU FRAMED THAT QUESTION I WOULD HAVE TO

  • ANSWER IT THIS WAY I CAN'T EVER REMEMBER A TIME WHEN I

  • WASN'T TRYING TO IMPRESS SOMEBODY WHEN I WAS PLAYING

  • BASKETBALL. >> EVEN AFTER BEING A

  • CHAMPION? >> YEAH, EVERY TIME I

  • STEPPED OUT ON THE FLOOR, I WANTED TO GIVE MY BEST

  • PERFORMANCE EVERY TIME. SO I CAN'T REMEMBER A TIME

  • WHEN I WASN'T TRYING TO IMPRESS SOMEBODY OUT ON THE

  • FLOOR WHEN I PLAYED. >> THIS IS THE WAY I'VE

  • ALWAYS FELT. I DON'T USE THAT TERMINOLOGY

  • OF IMPRESSING SOMEBODY BECAUSE THAT MEANS YOU'RE STEPPING

  • OUTSIDE OF WHO YOU ARE. SO TO ME IT WASN'T ABOUT

  • IMPRESSING PEOPLE AND LEAVING SOMETHING WITH THEM THAT

  • WASN'T AN AUTHENTIC PART OF WHO I WAS.

  • IT WAS ABOUT JUST DOING WHAT I DO.

  • DOING WHAT I PRACTICED AND HAVING THE CONFIDENCE TO GO

  • OUT AND DO THAT IN FRONT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE COMING TO

  • WATCH. BUT NOT STEP OUTSIDE THOSE

  • LINES SO THAT THEY THINK I'M SOMETHING THAT I'M NOT.

  • SO GIVE THEM MY BEST AUTHENTIC SELF.

  • THAT'S, I THINK, IF YOU CAN REPRESENT YOURSELF THAT WAY,

  • THAT'S THE WAY TO DO IT. >> I HAD THE EXTRA BURDEN OF

  • HAVING TO PERFORM FROM HIGH SCHOOL TO COLLEGE.

  • SO PEOPLE WERE COMING TO WATCH YOU PLAY AND THEY WERE PAYING

  • MONEY TO WATCH YOU PLAY. NOT ONLY DID I HAVE TO PLAY

  • BUT I FELT THAT I HAD TO PERFORM.

  • SO I FELT LIKE I HAD TO MAKE THE PERSON IN THE STANDS IN

  • THE 20TH ROW FEEL THE LOVE AND ENTHUSIASM AND JOY THAT I WAS

  • FEELING. >> I THINK THERE IS A HUGE

  • CAN I HAVES BETWEEN IMPRESSING�-- DIFFERENCE

  • BETWEEN IMPRESSING SOMEBODY AND PROVING TO SOMEBODY.

  • BECAUSE FOR ME AS YOU WELL KNOW I HAD TO PROVE TO PEOPLE

  • THAT I COULD PLAY. >> YOU HAD TO PROVE TO YOUR

  • DAD FIRST. >> THAT WAS NOT AS IMPORTANT

  • AS PROVING IT TO MYSELF. >> YEAH, YEAH.

  • MORE FROM ISIAH AND BRENT IN A MOMENT.

  • WE TOSS IT TO THE PA ANNOUNCER.

  • >> LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, YOUR CONTESTANTS IN THE 2016

  • NBA D-LEAGUE SLAM DUNK PRESENTED BY VEER IZON, FIRST

  • FROM THE AUSTIN SPURS, KIEFER SIKES! FROM THE CANTON CHARGE,

  • D.J. STEPHENS! FROM THE FT. WAYNE MAD ANTS, WALT LEMON

  • JR.! FROM THE OKLAHOMA CITY BLUE, J.P. TOKOTO! FROM YOUR

  • RAPTORS 905, JOHN JORDAN! AND FROM THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY

  • VIPERS, LAST YEAR'S D-LEAGUE SLAM DUNK CHAMPION, JARVIS

  • THREAT! GIVE IT UP FOR YOUR 2016 NBA D-LEAGUE SLAM DUNK

  • CONTESTANTS. >> SO WE'VE BEEN TALKING

  • ABOUT D.J. STEPHENS. CHECK THIS OUT.

  • HE HAS THE HIGHEST NO STEP VERTICAL OF 40 INCHES, AND THE

  • HIGHEST MAX VERTICAL OF 46 INCHES IN THE HISTORY OF THE

  • NBA DRAFT COMBINE. BONES, AS HE WAS BEING

  • INTRODUCED, YOU WERE MOTIONING UP TO THE SKY.

  • >> YEAH. I WATCHED HIM IN WARM-UPS, AND

  • HE WAS PRACTICING A DUNK WHERE I SWEAR AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS

  • JUMP HE JUST HOVERED FOR A LITTLE BIT.

  • JUST FOR A LITTLE BIT. HE IS AN IMPRESSIVE,

  • IMPRESSIVE JUMPER. >> SO IS J.P. TOKOTO.

  • JARVIS THREAT LAST YEAR'S WINNER, AND ISIAH WE HAVE A

  • COUPLE OF LITTLE GUYS, JOHN JORDAN AT 5'10, KIEFER SIKES

  • AT 5'11. YOU SEE THE JUDGES.

  • JORDAN CLARKSON, SETH CURRY, AND PATRICK PATTERSON.

  • OKAY, AND THIS IS JOHN JORDAN. PARDON ME, THIS IS KIEFER

  • SIKES OF THE AUSTIN SPURS. >> THOSE BOUNCES ARE JUST A

  • LITTLE TOO FAR BACK. BUT THAT'S IMPRESSIVE FOR HIM

  • TO GLIDE THAT FAR AND DOUBLE PUMP IT.

  • LIKE TO SEE HIM GET IT DOWN. SIKES NAILED THAT ONE.

  • DID HE OVERCOMPENSATE AND GET TOO CLOSE TO THE RIM?

  • >> MAYBE SO, BUT AFTER THE FIRST TWO TOSSES COMING UP

  • SHORT, HE MADE SURE THAT ONE GOT CLOSE ENOUGH, ISIAH, TO DO

  • WHAT HE WANTED TO DO. >> AND WHEN YOU SEE ALL THIS

  • HAPPEN IN REPLAY, YOU GET A CHANCE TO REALLY SEE HOW

  • INCREDIBLE AND ATHLETIC THESE DUNKS ARE AND HOW COMPLICATED

  • THEY ARE. YOU CAN'T REALLY APPRECIATE IT

  • IN FAST MOTION UNTIL YOU GET A CHANCE TO SEE IT ON INSTANT

  • REPLAY. >> HERE'S THE FIRST DUNK

  • FROM D.J. STEPHENS. >> THROUGH THE LEGS FOR THE

  • JAM. STANDING RIGHT UNDER THE

  • BASKET. TENS ACROSS THE BOARD.

  • PATTERSON, WHAT'S IT GOING TO BE? YES, IT'S A 50.

  • BONES, BREAK THIS ONE DOWN. DO YOU LIKE THAT FROM THE

  • STAND STILL JUMP? >> TO DO THAT, ISIAH,

  • STANDING STILL, THAT'S JUST RIDICULOUS TO BE ABLE TO GO

  • THROUGH YOUR LEGS UNDERNEATH THE BASKET.

  • >> NO RUNNING START. MAN, NO MOMENTUM.

  • AND YOU CAN TELL THE GUYS WHO PLAY KNOW HOW DIFFICULT THAT

  • IS. >> HERE'S WALTER LEMON JR.

  • IS THAT A 50 OR A LITTLE BELOW?

  • >> WE'VE SEEN THESE KIND OF DUNKS BEFORE, AND

  • UNFORTUNATELY WE PENALIZE THEM BECAUSE WE'VE SEEN IT BEFORE.

  • BUT THIS IS A GREAT DUNK. BUT IS IT A 50? PROBABLY NOT

  • ONLY BECAUSE WE'VE SEEN IT BEFORE.

  • SO WE NEED A LITTLE MORE CREATIVITY; A LITTLE MORE

  • SELLING THE DUNK. IT WAS A GREAT DUNK, I DUNK

  • THAT I COULDN'T DO, BUT WE'VE SEEN THESE KIND OF DUNKS

  • BEFORE. >> THE JUDGES NOT ALL THAT

  • IMPRESSED. A 42.

  • THIS GUY CAN RISE. A ROOKIE OUT OF UNC, J.P.

  • TOKOTO. YOU GET 40 SECONDS TO GET THE

  • DUNK IN THE HOOP. TOKOTO SPINNING AND JAMMING.

  • A LITTLE LESS OF A WINDMILL THAT TIME, BONES.

  • >> YEAH, I DON'T THINK HE BROUGHT IT AS FAR DOWN AS HE

  • DID THE FIRST TIME. BUT THAT'S WORKING AGAINST

  • YOUR BODY'S MOMENTUM AS HE'S SPINNING AROUND AND COMING IT.

  • SO IMPRESSIVE AND A SOLID SCORE THERE, ISIAH.

  • >> YEAH, A VERY SOLID SCORE. HE'S WORKING OPPOSITE GOING

  • THE OPPOSITE WAY OF THE WAY HE'S SUPPOSED TO TURN, AND

  • THAT'S TOUGH. THAT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO DO IN

  • THE AIR, MAIN TINE YOUR BALANCE, CONCENTRATION, AND

  • FIND THE RIM AND THROW IT DOWN.

  • >> AM I WRONG TO SAY THAT WAS VINCE CARTERISH RIGHT

  • THERE? >> YOU CAN'T START SAYING

  • THAT NAME. >> BUT I SAID ISH..

  • JOHN JORDAN, CONGRATULATIONS.

  • THE 2016 NBA D-LEAGUE SLAM DUNK CHAMP.

  • YOU HAD SOME PRETTY SPECIAL MOVES OUT THERE.

  • >> THAT'S SOMETHING I'VE BEEN DOING.

  • I JUST WANTED TO COME OUT AND GIVE THE FANS A GOOD SHOW AND

  • BRING IT HOME TO TORONTO. >> WELL, YOU'VE ONLY BEEN

  • HERE FOR ABOUT A WEEK, SO THIS IS A GOOD WELCOME TO THE AREA.

  • >> YEAH, MOST DEFINITELY. I JUST WANTED TO BRING IT TO

  • THE HOME CROWD. WE'VE GOT GREAT SUPPORT OUT

  • HERE, SO I WANTED TO SHOW THE PEOPLE WHAT I CAN DO ON

  • ALL-STAR WEEKEND. >> I KNOW YOU WERE SENDING

  • MESSAGES ACROSS TO ISIAH THOMAS.

  • WHAT WAS IT LIKE HAVING THE HALL OF FAMER WATCHING YOU?

  • >> IT WAS GREAT. I HAD TO DO IT FOR THE LITTLE

  • FELLOWS AROUND. SO I HOPE HE APPRECIATED THAT.

  • IT'S A BLESSING TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS IN FRONT OF HIM, A

  • LIVING LEGEND. >> CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU

  • AND BEST OF LUCK IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE SEASON.

  • >> ALL RIGHT, JARED, SO ISIAH, DID YOU APPRECIATE THE

  • EFFORT FROM JOHN JORDAN? >> NOT ONLY DID I APPRECIATE

  • IT, BUT I LOVED IT. AS I SAID, I WAS BLOWN AWAY BY

  • HIS VINTAGE DUNKS. BRINGING OUT THE OLD SPUD WEB

  • DUNK, THE DOMINIQUE WILKINS WINDMILL.

  • YOU KNOW, BRINGING OUT THE AIR JORDANS THE FIRST ONES.

  • YOU KNOW, JORDAN, JORDAN, DUNK CONTEST.

  • I MEAN, IT WAS ALL GOOD. IT WAS ALL GOOD.

  • REPRESENTING THE 905. SO IT WAS A GOOD AFTERNOON FOR

  • HIM. >> SO BEFORE THE DEVELOPMENT

  • LEAGUE ALL-STAR GAME, BEFORE THE SLAM DUNK COMPETITION

  • BROUGHT TO YOU BY VERIZON, IT WAS THE THREE-POINT

  • COMPETITION, AND ANDRING GRAM OF THE LA DEFENDERS STARTED

  • OUT HOT. 26 IN THE FIRST ROUND, AND YOU

  • SEE THE GUYS AT HALF COURT BOUNCING, CHEERING HIM ON.

  • AS INGRAM, THE D-LEAGUE LEADER AT THE ALL-STAR BREAK IN

  • 3-POINT ACCURACY AT 51%. JUST DRILLED AND DRILLED, AND

  • HE TOOK OUT JIMMER FREDETTE WHO JOINED HIM IN THE

  • CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND, BUT IN THE END, IT WAS ANDRE INGRAM

  • MAKING HIS FIRST 12 SHOTS, FINISHING WITH A SCORE OF 27,

  • BUT JIMMER FREDETTE HAS TURNED THE FROWN UPSIDE DOWN WITH 17

  • FIRST HALF POINTS, LEADING THE EAST IN SCORING, LEADING

  • EVERYBODY IN SCORING, AND HERE AT THE HALF, IT IS 64-56 EAST

  • OVER WEST. BONES, WHAT KIND OF CHALLENGE

  • IS THIS FOR PLAYERS ON BOTH SIDES, LONG HALFTIME WITH THE

  • DUNK CONTEST AND IT'S A COLD ARENA, BE IT'S VERY COLD

  • OUTSIDE. WHAT KIND OF CHALLENGE WILL IT

  • BE TO GET THEIR PLAY RAMPED BACK UP?

  • >> YEAH, THERE IS NO DOUBT, WE CAN FEEL IT, ISIAH.

  • IT IS A LITTLE BIT CHILLY IN HERE FOR THOSE GUYS TO COME

  • OUT EARLY AND MAKE SURE THEY GET A SWEAT.

  • THE PROBLEM IS REALLY FOR THE COACHING STAFF.

  • WE CAN LOOK AT THESE MINUTES, AND YOU SEE THEY WANT TO MAKE

  • THESE SUBSTITUTIONS, PLATOONS OF GUYS COMING IN, SHIFT

  • CHANGES, IF YOU WILL, SINCE WE'RE IN CANADA.

  • WE CAN TALK A LITTLE HOCKEY SHIFT CHANGE.

  • >> I LIKE IT. YOU GET A HOCKEY ASSIST?

  • >> YOU WANT TO GET THESE GUYS WARMED UP, AND BECAUSE

  • THEY'VE BEEN SITTING SO LONG, YOU DON'T WANT THEM SITTING

  • AGAIN. SO WE'LL SEE IF THE COACHING

  • SUBSTITUTION PATTERNS CHANGE HERE IN THE SECOND HALF.

  • >> IF I WAS TO PUT MYSELF IN ONE OF THE PLAYERS POSITIONS,

  • I WOULD STILL BE FOCUSED, LOCKED IN, CONCENTRATING.

  • BECAUSE MY ULTIMATE GOAL IS TO GET TO THE NEXT LEVEL.

  • I KNOW THERE ARE SCOUTS IN THE BUILDING, YOU HEARD COACH

  • MCDONALD REMIND THEM THAT THERE ARE SCOUTS IN THE

  • BUILDING, PEOPLE ARE WATCHING. THIS IS THE DAY WHERE YOU COME

  • TO REALLY PERFORM IN THE SHOW AND SHOW WHAT YOU'VE GOT.

  • WHILE THAT WAS GOING ON, I PROBABLY WAVE WOULD HAVE BEEN

  • STRETCHING, TRYING TO GET SOME SPRINTS IN AND STAY LOOSE SO I

  • CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF SOME GUY WHO WASN'T PREPARED IN THE

  • THIRD QUARTER. >> WELL, AND THAT WOULD HAVE

  • BEEN MOST OF THEM, BECAUSE THEY WERE GATHERED AROUND AND

  • WATCHING THE SLAM DUNK COMPETITION.

  • BUT ISIAH, THAT'S THE COMPETITOR WITHIN YOU.

  • THAT'S THE GO-TO-WIN WITHIN YOU.

  • >> ABSOLUTELY. I WOULD HAVE BEEN RUNNING

  • STAIRS. I WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN WATCHING.

  • I WOULD HAVE BEEN RUNNING AROUND THE BUILDING STAYING

  • LOOSE. >> WE HAD TO STOP HIM FROM

  • DOING THAT DURING THE COMMERCIAL BREAK, ISIAH WANTED

  • TO STAY LOOSE. >> I LOVE IT.

  • >> JEFF AYERS WITH 9 TO LEAD THE WEST.

  • SHAUN KILPATRICK, THE ONLY OTHER PLAYER IN DOUBLE

  • FIGURES. HE HAS 11, AND GOT OFF TO AN

  • EARLY START AND THEN COOLED. THERE IS JORDAN MCCRAY, 61

  • POINTS IN THE D-LEAGUE IN A GAME EARLIER THIS SEASON.

  • JARED GREENBERG IS STANDING BY RIGHT NOW WITH DEVIN BOOKER.

  • >> THAT'S RIGHT. DEVIN BOOKER, THE PHOENIX SUNS

  • ROOKIE. WE SAW THE 3-POINT CONTEST GO

  • ON HERE AT THE D-LEAGUE LEVEL. WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DOING TODAY

  • TO GET YOURSELF READY? >> I'VE BEEN ON THE MOVE

  • TODAY. I HAVEN'T GOTTEN A CHANCE TO

  • PRACTICE YET. WE HAVE PRACTICE LATER ON

  • TODAY. BUT I'VE BEEN IN THIS

  • SITUATION, SO WHEN I GO OUT THERE, I'M GOING TO TRY MY

  • HARDEST AND HOPEFULLY I'LL COME OUT WITH A WIN.

  • >> DID YOU USE LAST NIGHT'S RISING STARS CHALLENGE AS AN

  • OPPORTUNITY TO GET COMFORTABLE WITH THE RIMS?

  • >> DEFINITELY. I THINK WHEN WE PLAYED TORONTO

  • THE FIRST TIME, I DIDN'T GET TO PLAY.

  • SO I WASN'T USED TO JIMER OR NOTHING.

  • THAT WAS A GOOD START ON THE RISING STARS GAME, SO

  • HOPEFULLY I CAN BUILD ON THAT. >> DO YOU FEEL THE 3-POINT

  • CONTEST HAS BECOME THE HEADLINER OF ALL-STAR SATURDAY

  • NIGHT? >> I THINK IT HAS.

  • ONE BECAUSE WE HAVE THE MVP IN THERE.

  • AND THAT'S HOW THE GAME IS CHANGING.

  • AS YOU CAN SEE, THERE ARE A LOT MORE THREES BEING TAKEN IN

  • THE LEAGUE NOW. THE GAME IS JUST EVOLVING, SO

  • THREE-POINT SHOT IS MORE IMPORTANT.

  • OBVIOUSLY, THE SLAM DUNK CONTEST WILL ALWAYS BE SPECIAL

  • AND PEOPLE ALWAYS WANT TO SEE THAT.

  • BUT I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO BOTH.

  • >> WE SEE THE PROGRESS YOU'VE MADE IN YOUR OWN

  • INDIVIDUAL GAME. OBVIOUSLY A LOT OF IT AS YOU

  • MENTIONED HAS JUST BEEN THE PLAYING TIME.

  • WHAT DO YOU SEE HAS HAPPENED TO YOUR GAME OVER THE LAST FEW

  • WEEKS THAT'S ALLOWED YOU TO PUT UP THESE NUMBERS ASIDE

  • FROM JUST THE MINUTES? >> JUST WORKING ON MY GAME.

  • WHEN I WAS PLAYING AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR, I WAS

  • STILL WORKING ON MY GAME. AND I KNEW HOW IT WAS GOING TO

  • BE. THAT'S HOW IT IS FOR ROOKIES.

  • IT'S UNFORTUNATE A COUPLE OF OUR PLAYERS WENT DOWN, BUT IT

  • OPENED UP AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ME, AND I TOOK THE CHANCE AND

  • RAN WITH IT. EVERY TIME I GO ON THE COURT I

  • THINK ABOUT THE TIMES I WASN'T PLAYING IN THE BEGINNING OF

  • THE YEAR, SO I USE THAT AS MOTIVATION.

  • >> SO MANY GUYS THAT ARE HOUSEHOLD NAMES, THEY ARE

  • SUPERSTARS YOU'RE GOING TO BE GOING UP AGAINST TONIGHT.

  • QUICKLY GIVE US A SALES JOB AS TO WHY YOU HAVE A SHOT TO WIN

  • THIS TONIGHT? >> I'LL NEVER GO AGAINST

  • MYSELF, SO I'M ALWAYS GOING TO SAY I'M GOING TO WIN.

  • BUT I JUST SAY JUST WAIT ON IT.

  • JUST WAIT ON IT. I CAN'T REALLY TALK BECAUSE

  • I'M A ROOKIE. THEY'RE PROVEN IN THIS LEAGUE,

  • AND HOPEFULLY I CAN BUILD MY NAME UP FOR THIS.

  • >> SAYING THE RIGHT THINGS. DEVIN BOOKER, MAYBE THE DARK

  • HORSE PICK FOR THE THREE-POINT CONTEST.

  • >> JARED AND DEVIN, THANK YOU VERY MUCH AS YOU SEE THE

  • SECOND HALF IS UNDERWAY. I THOUGHT JARED ASKED DEVIN A

  • GREAT QUESTION. DO YOU THINK THE THREE-POINT

  • CONTEST IS NOW SORT OF THE SIGNATURE MOST LOOKED FORWARD

  • TO ELEMENT OF ALL-STAR SATURDAY NIGHT? WHAT DO YOU

  • THINK? >> I THINK IT IS, AND THE

  • REASON WHY IS BECAUSE THE NBA HAS GONE MORE TO THE BELOW THE

  • RIM GAME IN EMPHASIZING THE BELOW THE RIM GAME AS OPPOSED

  • TO THE AERIAL ATTACK OF THE GAME.

  • AND IT'S ABOUT THE SKILLS BEING ON DISPLAY, NOT

  • NECESSARILY THE DUNKS BEING ON DISPLAY.

  • SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT BALL HANDLING, WHEN YOU LOOK AT

  • PASSING, WHEN YOU LOOK AT SHOOTING, THOSE ARE THE THINGS

  • THAT ARE BEING EMPHASIZED IN THE GAME TODAY.

  • >> I'D LOVE TO SEE ISIAH TAKE A LOOK AT THE WAY

  • ALL-STAR SATURDAY IS SET UP AND BRING BACK THE BRACKETS

  • AND HAVING GUYS SHOOT AGAINST ONE ANOTHER, MAYBE 16 SHOOTERS

  • WHERE YOU GO 8-8, AND HAVE GUYS SHOOT AT THE SAME TIME.

  • I REMEMBER EARLY ON THEY USED TO DO THAT WHEN THEY WERE ON

  • EITHER END OF THE COURT. AND IF ONE OF THOSE GUYS GETS

  • HOT, OBVIOUSLY PEOPLE IN THE ARENA CAN WATCH.

  • BUT WITH BEAUTIFUL HD TELEVISIONS AND LARGE SCREENS

  • EVERYWHERE, IT WOULD BE FUN TO WATCH THAT AND BRING 16 GUYS

  • IN SORT OF IN A TOURNAMENT BRACKET STYLE BUT FINISH THE

  • NIGHT OFF WITH IT. >> I ALSO THINK THAT, YOU

  • KNOW, WITH THE SLAM DUNK COMPETITION, IF I COULD MOVE

  • TO THAT, I THINK IF WHAT WE HAVE IN THE THREE-POINT

  • SHOOTOUT, YOU HAVE THE BEST PLAYERS.

  • YOU HAVE THE MVP OF THE LEAGUE COMPETING IN THE THREE-POINT

  • SHOOTOUT CONTEST, AND THE SLAM DUNK, WE'RE NOT GETTING THE

  • BEST DUNKERS IN THE NBA AND THE BEST HOUSEHOLD NAMES IN

  • THE NBA COMPETING, AND THAT'S WHAT I THINK IS KIND OF

  • MISSING FROM THE SLAM D'OUVRING CONTEST.

  • >> PUTNEY PUTS IT IN, BUT TO YOUR POINT, WE ARE GETTING THE

  • BEST OF THE THREE-POINT SHOOTERS IN THE THREE-POINT

  • CONTEST, AND THAT'S SPONSORED BY FOOTLOCKER, AND WE ARE TIED

  • AT 66. 3:00 INTO THE SECOND HALF.

  • SCOOP ASK SCORE BY TREY KELLY. >> AND TREY KELLY, AFTER

  • GOING SCORELESS IN THE FIRST HALF, HAS A COUPLE OF BUCKETS

  • HERE, AND THAT IS VANDER BLUE LIGHTING UP RICOH COLISEUM.

  • >> NICE JOB ON THE WIDE RUN OUT TO GET THAT ALLEY-OOP TO

  • GO. INTERESTING IN THE FIRST HALF,

  • BOTH TEAMS HAVING 18 ASSISTS IN THE GAME.

  • AND WE'RE NOT USED TO SEEING THAT IN THESE KIND OF GAMES.

  • WE SEE A LOT OF ISOLATION PLAY AND GUYS SHOWING THEIR

  • INDIVIDUAL ONE-ON-ONE SKILL. BUT THAT FIRST HALF WAS ABOUT

  • AS CLEAN A TEAM PLAY AS WE'VE SEEN AT THE D-LEAGUE ALL-STAR

  • GAME. >> SO AT THE HALF, WE HAD

  • THREE SCORELESS PLAYERS. I JUST MENTIONED KELLY,

  • MICHAEL ERIC WHO SCORED ONCE AGAIN.

  • THE ONLY PLAYER LEFT SCORELESS IN THIS GAME IS SCOTT SUGGS ON

  • THE EASTERN ALL-STAR SQUAD. WEST LEADS 70-68.

  • AND STOKES PUTS IT IN. 70 APIECE.

  • VANDER BLUE. >> ISIAH, COME ON.

  • >> I THINK WHAT WE'RE SEEING RIGHT NOW ARE THE EFFECTS OF

  • PEOPLE NOT BEING WARM IN THE START OF THE THIRD QUARTER.

  • YOU SEE, WE SAW A MISSED DUNK EARLIER BY BOOKER WHO WAS

  • TRYING TO DUNK IT. AND YOU LOOK AT WHAT'S

  • HAPPENING NOW, AND YOU'RE JUST SEEING A LOT OF SLOPPY PLAY, A

  • LOT OF POOR DEFENSIVE PLAY, AND I JUST THINK THAT THE SLAM

  • DUNK COMPETITION TOOK SO MUCH TIME THAT THE PLAYERS AREN'T

  • LOOSE, AND THEY'RE NOT WARM. >> JORDAN MCCRAY, TRIED TO

  • LOB IT TO HIMSELF. STOKES THERE WITH THE REBOUND,

  • HAD IT KNOCKED AWAY. LOOKS LIKE KEITH BENSON, NO

  • FOUL CALL. LOOKS LIKE HE AGREES WITH ME.

  • YOU SAW HOLAWAY WITH AN AIR BALL WITH THE MID-RANGE.

  • SIXTH IN ASSISTS PER GAME. >> BUT IF I'M PLAYING IN

  • THIS GAME RIGHT NOW AND IT'S GETTING A LITTLE SLOPPY LIKE

  • THIS, THIS IS WHAT MAGIC JOHNSON AND I USED TO DO IN

  • ALL-STAR GAMES. WE'D JUST TAKE A TIMEOUT TAKE

  • A TIMEOUT, GO BACK TO THE BENCH, AND WE'D BOTH SAY TO

  • OUR TEAMS, HEY, LET'S TIGHTEN IT UP. RIGHT NOW THE GAME'S

  • GETTING A LITTLE SLOPPY. IT'S A LITTLE OUT OF CONTROL.

  • LET'S GIVE THE FANS WHAT THEY PAID FOR.

  • SO YOU TAKE A TIMEOUT, TAKE A BREAK, AND THEN YOU START

  • PLAYING AGAIN. >> I THINK THAT'S WHAT NEEDS

  • TO HAPPEN RIGHT NOW. >> MICHAEL ERIC, THE BODY

  • AND KEITH BENSON, ERIC OFF TO A GOOD START HERE IN THE

  • SECOND HALF. MICHAEL ERIC, 6'10" CENTER OUT

  • OF TEMPLE. THE WEST LEADS 78-74.

  • YOU WANTED A TIMEOUT, YOU GOT A TIME OUT.

  • VANDER BLUE, 14 POINTS TO LEAD THE WEST ALL-STARS.

  • HE'S THE SECOND LEADING SCORER IN THE GAME, AND SCORING ON A

  • NICE ALLEY-OOP HERE AT THE DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE ALL-STAR

  • GAME. >> THE D-LEAGUE ALL-STAR

  • GAME, THE OFFICIAL TIRE PARTNER OF THE NBA, KUMHO

  • TIRE. >> WE WELCOME YOU BACK TO

  • RICOH COLISEUM. LET'S LOOK AT THE UPCOMING NBA

  • DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE NATIONAL TV SCHEDULE, ESPNU, FRIDAY,

  • FEBRUARY 26TH, IT'S RENO AT SANTA CRUZ AT 11 P.M. EASTERN.

  • FOR MORE ON THESE GAMES, PLEASE GO TO NBADLEAGUE.COM OR

  • VISIT THE NBA D-LEAGUE APP. JIMMER FREDETTE HAS 8 OF 11.

  • AND RIGHT NOW HE'S THE FAVORITE FOR ALL-STAR MVP.

  • >> NICE TO SEE HIM GET IN HERE QUICK TOO.

  • ISIAH, DUVE A NAME FOR THAT MOVE? LOT OF PLAYERS

  • INCORPORATE THAT HIGH DRIBBLE SKIP OVER.

  • HAVE YOU EVER HEARD ANYBODY PUT A TERM ON THAT MOVE?

  • >> NO, I HAVEN'T. BUT YOU COULD GIVE IT ONE

  • RIGHT NOW. >> NO, I'M THINKING WHEN

  • GUYS MAKE THAT HIGH FLIP DRIBBLE, VANDER BLUE JUST

  • NAILED A THREE, AND HE IS COMING FOR JIMMER FREDETTE'S

  • MONEY IN TERMS OF D-LEAGUE ALL-STAR MVP.

  • HAD A NICE MOMENT WITH POPS. >> SUCH A GOOD GUY.

  • TERRIFIC GUY TO TALK TO TEN YEARS LATER, JUST AS VIBRANT A

  • HUMAN BEING. REAL HAPPY FOR POPS.

  • A REAL SUCCESS STORY IN THE NBA.

  • >> TURNOVER, COOK OUT FOR THE EAST.

  • AND SCOTT SUGGS IS IN THE BOOKS.

  • EVERY PLAYER IN THE GAME HAS OFFICIALLY SCORED AT LEAST ONE

  • POINT. >> I THINK BOTH COACHES

  • TALKED TO THEIR TEAMS ABOUT BEING ORGANIZED.

  • ABOUT PLAYING THE RIGHT WAY. I THINK BOTH OF THEM CAME OUT

  • OF THE TIMEOUT WITH A LITTLE BIT MORE LEDO MAKES A NICE

  • DRIVE THERE, GETTING CONTACT. AND THEN AN OPPORTUNITY

  • GETTING THE CHRISTMAS PRESENT. >> THE CHRISTMAS PRESENT.

  • >> CHRISTMAS THAT FOULED HIM.

  • >> YOU GOOD. YOU'VE GOT IT GOING ON TODAY.

  • THE COACHABLE, THE CHRISTMAS PRESENT.

  • >> I TRIED TO SHOOT FOR THREE GOOD JOKES.

  • BUT THEY'RE NOT GOOD. >> WE'VE GOT GOOD ONES

  • COMING? >> NO, WE'RE 0 FOR 2.

  • >> BACHYNSKI WITH HIS THIRD LEFT-HANDED HOOK SHOT OF THE

  • GAME. AND THE EAST WITHIN FOUR.

  • >> LA LANE, LOOKED GOOD OFF HIS HAND.

  • AND IT'S FREDETTE UP TO CHRISTMAS.

  • OH OH. HE WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN A LAY-UP

  • AND A DUNK RIGHT THERE. WASN'T HE?

  • >> YEAH, SANTA WASN'T NICE TO HIM.

  • SEE, SEE, ISIAH NOW HAS STARTED.

  • >> HE'S BEEN AFFECTED. >> LA LANE HAS BEEN NICE.

  • NINE POINTS NOW IN 6 MINUTES. AND IF THE SPURS LIKE HIM

  • ENOUGH TO DRAFT HIM, THAT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME.

  • >> YOU KNOW THE SPURS HAVE BEEN EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL NOT

  • NOT ONLY FINDING UNDERVALUED TALENT, BUT ALSO GOING

  • OVERSEAS AND BRINGING IN SUPERSTAR TALENT ALSO.

  • >> LEDO'S GOING TO SPIN OUT OF THE POST KOBE STYLE AND

  • MISS. SUGGS IS GOING TO TRY AGAIN.

  • >> YEAH, AFTER HE GETS THE EASY TWO, YOU MENTIONED

  • GETTING ON THE BOARD. LOTS OF CONFIDENCE BEHIND THAT

  • THREE-POINT SHOT, KNOCKS IT DOWN.

  • >> HE'S GOT THE EAST WITHIN THREE.

  • GLAD TO HAVE YOU WATCHING AROUND THE WORLD ON NBA TV.

  • RICK KAMLA, ISIAH THOMAS, BRENT BERRY, JARED GREENBERG,

  • AND OUR AWESOME CREW HERE ON HAND IN TORONTO AT THE RICOH

  • COLISEUM AS JEFF AYERS HITS. AYERS NOW IN DOUBLES WITH 11.

  • RAKEEM CHRISTMAS, AND HE HAD A LITTLE MORE OHM OF AFTER A

  • COUPLE MISSES. >> YEAH, HE HAS THAT TYPE OF

  • EXPLOSIVENESS AND GET UP AND SOMETIMES YOU WANT TO SEE HIM

  • PLAY WITH THAT EVERY TIME DOWN COURT.

  • BUT HE FINDS A WAY TO FIX HIS SPOT TO USE HIS EXPLOSIVENESS

  • AROUND THE BASKET. >> SO THE BEST WAY TO FOLLOW

  • NBA PROSPECTS AND ASSIGNMENTS IS ON THE NBA D-LEAGUE APP.

  • AVAILABLE ON ALL APPLE AND AN DROID DEVICES.

  • YOU CAN WATCH LIVE GAMES AND HIGHLIGHTS.

  • GO TO THE APP STORE TO DOWNLOAD IT NOW.

  • >> SO CHRISTMAS WITH 8 POINTS AND THREE REBOUNDS IN

  • 11 MINUTES. >> AYERS ANOTHER DEEP TWO.

  • AND BONES, THAT'S WELL WITHIN HIS RANGE.

  • >> YEAH, TWO TIMES HE'S STEPPED INTO OPEN SPACE THERE

  • AND UNABLE TO KNOCK DOWN THAT JUMPSHOT.

  • >> EAST WITH THE ROCK DOWN 5.

  • MAYBE NOT THE RIGHT IDEA. BACK COMES CUMMINGS AND NICE

  • MOVE FOR THE BUCKET. >> THERE IS SOME D, ISIAH.

  • >> I LIKE THAT. AGAIN, YOU SEE HIM PICKING UP.

  • LITTLE SWIPE, LEDO FOR THE DUNK.

  • >> YOU'VE GOT TO LOVE THAT, RIGHT? CUMMINGS WITH THE D

  • AND THE UNSELFISHNESS. >> THAT'S HOW POINT GUARDS

  • AND THAT'S HOW GUARD PLAY IS SUPPOSED TO GO.

  • >> YOU PLAY GOOD D, FOLLOW IT WITH GOOD O.

  • BUT YOU DON'T LET JIMMER DRIVE DOWN THE LANE AND SHOOT A NICE

  • FLOATER. >> THAT'S WHEN JIMMER

  • ACCEPTED THE CHALLENGE. HE SAID YOU'VE GOT D? I'VE

  • GOT BETTER O. >> 21 NOW FOR JIMMER

  • FREDETTE. HE'S THE HIGH MAN IN THIS

  • GAME. VANDER BLUE RIGHT BEHIND HIM

  • WITH 17. CHRISTMAS WAS FOULED GOING FOR

  • THE LEFTY PACK. 7 POINT LEAD BY THE WEST.

  • SEE WHAT CHRISTMAS CAN DO ABOUT THAT.

  • IF YOU WANT TO STAY UP TO DATE ON EVERY BREAKOUT D-LEAGUE

  • PERFORMANCE AND GATORADE CALL-UP, YOU CAN HEAD OVER TO

  • NBADLEAGUE.COM, YOUR HOME FOR D-LEAGUE NEWS, HIGHLIGHTS AND

  • LIVE GAMES. WE HEARD DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE

  • PRESIDENT MALCOLM TURNER WITH JARED GREENBERG EARLIER.

  • I SPOKE WITH HIM BRIEFLY AT HALFTIME.

  • HE'S VERY PROUD ABOUT THE EXPANSION OF THE DEVELOPMENT

  • LEAGUE TO 22 TEAMS AS OF NEXT YEAR IT'S 19 RIGHT NOW.

  • THREE MORE NBA TEAMS HAVE PURCHASED DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE

  • AFFILIATES. THE NUMBER IS 22.

  • THEY HOPE ONE DAY TO HAVE IT BE ONE FOR ONE.

  • ALL 30 TEAMS HAVING THEIR OWN AFFILIATE.

  • BUT YOU CAN REALLY FEEL THE EXCITEMENT AND ENTHUSIASM FOR

  • MALCOLM TURNER, AND WE LOVE BEING A PART OF THE

  • DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE ALL-STAR GAME PRESENTED BY KUMHO TIRE

  • AS WILL COME CUMMINGS PUTS IT IN.

  • >> WEST LEADS BY 7. >> IT HAS BEEN ENCOURAGING,

  • THE GROWTH OF THE LEAGUE ESPECIALLY OVER THE PAST THREE

  • SEASONS. THE 30 OF HAD TEAM SINGLE

  • AFFILIATES, AS BACHYNSKI GETS THE DUNK ON THAT END.

  • I THINK ISIAH SPEAKS VOLUMES FOR TEAMS AND THIS LEAGUE

  • ABOUT ITS CONTINUITY AND ABOUT WHEN YOUNG PLAYERS AREN'T

  • QUITE READY FOR THE PRO GAME, HOW IT IS THAT YOU CAN TEACH

  • THEM HOW YOU WANT TO PLAY, MOVE THEM UP AND DOWN BETWEEN

  • THE NBA ROSTER, GET THEM MINUTES, BUT ALSO JUST HAVE

  • THE SAME VERBIAGE, THE SAME TERMINOLOGY, THE SAME SORT OF

  • PHILOSOPHIES THAT YOU CAN WATCH THESE GUYS LEARN AND

  • GROW AS PLAYERS, AS THEY SPENT TWO AND THREE YEARS THAT ARE

  • TIME WELL SPENT. INSTEAD OF TRAVELING TEAM TO

  • TEAM AND BEING OUT OF SORTS. SO THAT CONTINUITY IS GOING TO

  • BE HUGE FOR THE D-LEAGUE AND THE NBA.

  • >> OH, LOOK AT THIS. ISIAH, WAS THAT BETTER? THE

  • DUNK BY VINCENT HUNTER, THE DIME THERE BY MONFORD WAS THAT

  • BETTER THAN WHAT WE SAW AT HALFTIME.

  • >> IT WAS A LOT BETTER. AND DEFINITELY MORE THOUGHT

  • OUT AND A LITTLE BIT MORE PLANNING.

  • >> BACK COMES COOK THE EAST, DOWN 7, AND SUGGS IS NOW

  • FEELING IT IN THE SECOND HALF. AND THE EAST IS WITHIN FOUR.

  • I LIKE HOW THIS GAME HAS REMAINED RELATIVELY CLOSE.

  • I WONDER IF COACH DAN CRAIG IS GOING TO PUT OUT ALL FOUR OF

  • HIS SIOUX FALL PLAYERS TO RUN SOME OF HIS LATE GAME OFFENSE

  • IF NEED BE. >> JIMMER FREDETTE AGAIN,

  • HE'S UP TO 24 POINTS. HE'S MADE 10 OF 14 SHOTS AND

  • HE'S GOT THE EAST WITHIN ONE. >> YOU LOVE THE WAY HE

  • SHOOTS THE BASKETBALL. WHEN A GUY IS A GREAT SHOOTER

  • LIKE THAT, ALL HIS TEAMMATES LOOK FOR HIM EVEN IN HALF

  • COURT ACTIVITY. >> DAN CRAIG, HEAD COACH OF

  • THE EASTERN CONFERENCE D-LEAGUE ALL-STARS.

  • MIC'D UP AND HE AND SIOUX FALLS SET A REPORTED.

  • BEST 25-GAME START IN THE HISTORY OF THE D-LEAGUE AT

  • 21-4. THEY HAVE THE BEST RECORD AT

  • THE ALL-STAR BREAK OF 23-7. DAN CRAIG LONG TIME ASSISTANT

  • COACH WITH THE MIAMI HEAT NOW HEADING UP THE SIOUX FALLS SKY

  • FORCE, AND LOOKING FOR A D-LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP.

  • LONG WAY TO GO BEFORE THAT. AND THAT IS BRANNEN ASHLEY

  • PUTTING IT IN FOR THE WEST, AND THEY GO BACK UP BY THREE.

  • >> JORDAN BACHYNSKI CATCHING THE EYE OF COACH CRAIG.

  • AND BACHYNSKI HAVING A NICE GAME.

  • 10 POINTS IN 14 MINUTES. HE'S GOT AT LEAST ONE BLOCK.

  • HERE'S JIMMER FREDETTE. THAT IS A THREE.

  • HE'S GOT 27 POINTS! >> AND HE IS FEELING IT.

  • DON'T BACK UP ON THE JIMMER. WE'RE TIED AT 100.

  • >> GOOD STEAL THERE BY QUINN COOK.

  • HE'S ALL ALONE, AND HE'S GOT FRIENDS IN THE JAM.

  • AND THAT WAS A NICE BOUNCE PASS BY QUINN AND HE RAN

  • MONFORD, THE DEFENDER OFF. SO SUGGS CAN GET THE DUNK.

  • >> COOK ANOTHER LOOSE BALL, FEEDS JIMMER.

  • THAT'S TWO TIMES ON DEFENSE, RONALD ROBINS HAS GOTTEN DOWN

  • THERE AND DEEP. THIS TIME HE JAMMED HIS THUMB

  • AND LETS HIS LAY-UP GO BY HIM. HOLDING ON TO THAT LEFT THUMB,

  • I THINK HE MIGHT HAVE JAMMED IT TIPPING THAT PASS AWAY.

  • >> VINCENT HUNTER JUST SCORED FOR THE WEST TO TIE IT

  • AGAIN AT 102. >> YOU SEE ROBERTS CAN'T GET

  • HIS HANDS TOGETHER. SO NOT READY FOR THAT

  • ALLEY-OOP. HE'S GOING TO HAVE TO GET IT

  • LOOKED AT. >> DAN CRAIG WILL SUBOUT

  • RONALD ROBERTS JR. THAT'S UNFORTUNATE FOR HIM.

  • HE'S GRABBING THAT LEFT THUMB. >> THIS IS THE 8TH TIE OF

  • THE GAME. AND ON A COLD DAY HERE IN

  • TORONTO AND A COLD RICOH ARENA.

  • RICOH COLISEUM RATHER, YOU KNOW THAT THUMB HURTS EVEN

  • MORE. >> MONFORD FOR THREE, GIVES

  • THE WEST A THREE-POINT LEAD. >> NOT A BAD ANSWER BACK

  • THERE, ISIAH. >> NOT A BAD ANSWER AT ALL.

  • PUTS HIM UP THREE. YOU SAY TO YOURSELF, OKAY, NOW

  • WE GOT TO DO�-- >> LOOK AT STEPH STEPHENS

  • TAKING IT HIMSELF. >> AND FREDETTE COMES BACK

  • WITH THE STEAL. COOK WANTS TO GIVE IT BACK TO

  • HIM. SUGGS AFTER ZERO POINTS IN THE

  • FIRST HALF, MISSED THAT TIME. BUT HE'S GOT 10 ON 4 OF 6 AND

  • THE BACK COURT FOUL LINE. YOU'RE NOT MAD AT HIM, ARE YOU

  • ISIAH? >> NO, NOT AT ALL.

  • HE'S PLAYING GOOD DEFENSE AND PICKING UP FULL COURT.

  • BUT I THOUGHT FREDETTE AT THAT TIME SHOULD HAVE TAKEN THE

  • SHOT. IT WAS A HEAT CHECK, A

  • MOMENTUM PLAY, IT'S AN ALL-STAR MOMENT.

  • HE'S FEELING IT. HE'S TRYING TO PLAY THE RIGHT

  • WAY. BUT THIS IS WHEN YOU WANT TO

  • PERFORM AND ENTERTAIN A LITTLE BIT ALSO.

  • >> HUNTER LEFT THE FINGER ROLL SHORT.

  • COOK BACK FOR THE EAST, HE IS LOOKING FOR JIMMER.

  • STOKES AND THAT'S HIS OFFICE. IN THE PAINT.

  • BOUNDING AROUND, BODIES ARE SCORING.

  • >> NICE TEMPO THERE. GOES TO THE LEFT-HAND, AND A

  • NICE FINISH FROM STOKES. CUMMINGS HARD CHARGING.

  • I HEARD A TWEET. NO AND ONE TO GET HIM TO THE

  • LINE FOR TWO. >> I LIKE WHAT STOKES DID ON

  • THE OTHER END IN TERMS OF SLOWING HIMSELF DOWN.

  • NORMALLY WHEN A BIG GUY FINDS HIMSELF BEING GUARDED BY A

  • SMALLER PLAYER LIKE CUMMINGS WAS GUARDING HIM IN THE POST,

  • NORMALLY THAT BIG GUY JUST PUTS HIS HEAD DOWN AND RUNS

  • HIM OVER. BUT STOKES TOOK TOOK HIS TIME,

  • MOVING AROUND HIM AND MADE THE LAY-UP.

  • WANT TO TELL YOU ABOUT THE VINCE CARTER ALL-STAR

  • INTERVIEW, THE GREAT VINCE CARTER REFLECTS ON HIS CAREER

  • IN AN EXCLUSIVE CONVERSATION WITH STEVE SMITH.

  • >> MONDAY AT 9 EASTERN ON NBA TV.

  • >> GOOD GAME, KNOTTED UP. >> LOVE IT.

  • 5 AND A HALF TO GO IN REGULATION.

  • JIMMER FREDETTE, GOT A LITTLE COLD HERE IN THE LATTER STAGES

  • OF THE SECOND HALF. >> BRANNEN BOBBLED IT, GOT

  • IT BACK, SHOOTS OVER STOKES. NICE FEED INSIDE.

  • HARPER PUTS IT IN, AND THE WEST UP BY TWO, AS WE GO UNDER

  • 5 MINUTES. RUNS OVER, AND A FOUL ON HIM,

  • AND A TIMEOUT ON THE FLOOR. AS YOU MIGHT IMAGINE, THE EAST

  • 57%, THE WEST 67%. AND DOWN THE STRETCH WE COME.

  • THE NBA DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE ALL-STAR GAME PRESENTED BY

  • CUPEL HO TIRE. ROCK 'N' ROLL HERE IN RICOH

  • COLISEUM IN TORONTO. OPEN COURT RETURNS TO TNT WITH

  • A SPECIAL BASKETBALL ONE-ON-ONE EPISODE.

  • A CAST OF GREATS INCLUDING SHAQ, REGGIE MILLER, ISIAH,

  • AND GRANT HILL. BREAKING DOWN THE X'S AND O'S

  • OF THE GAME THROUGH THEIR UNIQUE PERSPECTIVES ON TNT.

  • NOW WE BRING YOU JARED GREENBERG FOR AN UPDATE ON

  • RONALD ROBERTS JR. >> HE'S BEEN CLEARED BY THE

  • MEDICAL STAFF TO RETURN. ROBERTS WITH A JAMMED LEFT

  • THUMB. >> JARED, THANK YOU VERY

  • MUCH. YOU SAW A LITTLE BIT OF A WRAP

  • ON THAT THUMB. HOPEFULLY RONALD CAN GET BACK IN THE

  • GAME. THAT IS JARNELL STOKES GETTING

  • BACK IN THE SCORING BOOK. >> AGAIN, IMPRESSIVE MOVE ON

  • HIS SIZE, AND ON THE SPIN, RELOCATING THE RIM.

  • >> 10 POINTS IN 14 MINUTES FOR JARNELL.

  • HERE'S HARPER FOR THREE. AND THE REBOUND BY PUTNEY.

  • HARPER SAYS WHY NOT? SHORT AGAIN.

  • BUT HUNTER BEAT STEPHESON TO THE REBOUND.

  • HE'S THE LEADING REBOUNDER IN THE D-LEAGUE AT ALMOST 14 PER

  • GAME AND WAS JUST STANDING THERE.

  • >> WOW. NICE RELEASE FROM SUGGS THERE.

  • MOVING THE BALL RIGHT TO LEFT, AND CIRQUES KNOCKS DOWN THE

  • DEEP ONE. POSSESSION UNDER 4 MINUTES TO

  • GO. PUTNEY ON THE MOVE.

  • FINGER ROLL, LEFT IT SHORT. THEN DRIVING IN FOR THE

  • BUCKET. IS ZAVE DANGER MONFORD, AND

  • THE WEST TAKES THE LEAD BACK WITH JUST UNDER 4 MINUTES TO

  • GO. JIMMER DRIVING OUT TO STOKES.

  • HE NAILS ANOTHER ONE. >> THIS IS THE MID-RANGE

  • GAME, 15 FEET IN THE END. THAT'S WHERE HE'S MOST

  • EFFECTIVE. BRANNEN ASHLEY COMES BACK FOR

  • THE WEST AND DRAWS A FOUL. HE'LL GO TO THE LINE AND A

  • CHANCE TO TAKE THE LEAD. THE FOUL ON SUGGS.

  • 3:33 TO GO. BONES.

  • WE'VE GOT A THRILLER HERE AT THE RICOH COLISEUM.

  • >> I'M CURIOUS, COACH CRAIG, FOUR OF HIS PLEAERS FROM SIOUX

  • FALLS. AND IF THIS GAME STAYS AS

  • CLOSE AS IT'S BEEN, AND YOU GET TO THE LAST MINUTE AND A

  • HALF HE CAN DIG INTO HIS PLAYBOOK AND SEND HIS POOR

  • GUYS OUT THERE AND SAY RUN WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING ALL YEAR

  • LONG. WE'VE BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL AT

  • IT IN THE D-LEAGUE. BEST RECORD FOR COACH CRAIG.

  • >> AND THOSE FOUR SIOUX FALLS PLAYERS.

  • TREY KELLY, JARNELL STOKES. KEITH BENSON.

  • AND YOU SEE THE EAST HAS COME BACK WITH A MUCH SMALLER

  • LINEUP. YOU'VE GOT FREDETTE, COOK,

  • KILPATRICK OUT THERE ON THE PERIMETER.

  • ALL THREE CAN PENETRATE, SHOOT THE BASKETBALL, BE INTERESTING

  • TO SEE HOW THE WEST MATCHES UP TO THAT.

  • >> FREDETTE HAS 30, AND THE EAST HAS THE LEAD.

  • 116-114, 3:20 TO GO. HE IS 3 AWAY FROM MATCHING THE

  • D-LEAGUE ALL-STAR GAME RECORD OF 33 SET BY ROBERT

  • COUGHINGTON BACK IN 2014. BRANNEN ASHLEY HITS AGAIN.

  • WE'RE TIED AT 116. FANS CHANTING FOR JIMMER.

  • HE'S GOT THE ROCK. BUT THEY TRAP HIM, AND HERE'S

  • STOKES. BUM RUSHING, SPINNING, AND

  • MISSING. HERE'S AN ALLEY-OOP FOR THE

  • LEAD. OH, WHAT A PASS RIGHT THERE.

  • THAT WAS MONFORD TO PUTNEY, WEST ON TOP BY TWO.

  • >> YEAH, YOU'VE GOT THE SMALL GUYS AGAINST THE BIG

  • GUYS, IT WILL BE THE THREE-POINT SHOTS FOR THE EAST

  • VERSUS THE TWO-POINTERS FOR THE WEST.

  • >> STOKES SET A PICK FOR JIMMER.

  • GOT IT TO KILPATRICK, LAYOFF WITH THAT J.

  • REBOUND TO AYERS. WEST UP TWO WITH THE ROCK AS

  • WE APPROACH 2:00 TO GO. >> YEAH, THE WEST SHOULD

  • HAVE THE ADVANTAGE WHEN IT COMES TO REBOUNDING AND

  • PLAYING INSIDE. BUT ANY TIME THERE IS A

  • TURNOVER, THE EAST DEFINITELY WILL BE ABLE TO FAST BREAK AND

  • KNOCK DOWN THREES. >> KILPATRICK, JIMMER TAPPED

  • IT, KEPT IT ALIVE ASK GOT THE REBOUND.

  • COOK SAW AN OPEN LANE. DIDN'T WANT THE LAY-UP.

  • JIMMER WANTS THREE. AND HE GOT IT!

  • HE HAS TIED THE D-LEAGUE ALL-STAR SCORING RECORD FOR A

  • GAME AT 33. HE'S ALSO TIED THE RECORD WITH

  • SIX THREES MADE AT AN ALL-STAR GAME.

  • >> I LOVE THE FACT THAT HE MOVED INTO THE POCKET AND

  • KNOCKS THAT ONE DOWN AS WELL. >> HE GIVES THE EAST AT

  • LEAST A ONE OF HAD POINT LEAD. REBOUND UNDERNEATH BY LA LANE,

  • AND THE WEST GOES UP BY 1. >> THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE

  • TROUBLE. THE EAST IS GOING TO HAVE

  • TROUBLE KEEPING THE WEST OFF THE BOARD.

  • SO IF THERE'S A LONG REBOUND, THEN THE EAST IS OUT IN

  • TRANSITION. >> WELL, YOU JUST SAID THAT,

  • ISIAH, ABOUT THE BIG ADVANTAGE.

  • NOW COACH IS COMING BACK. COACH MCDONALD COMING BACK

  • WITH THE LITTLE GUYS FOR THE WEST.

  • AND ON THIS POSSESSION MAYBE THEY CAN CREATE SOME OFFENSE

  • WITH THAT QUICKNESS AND MORE PLAY MAKING ABILITY.

  • >> A PAIR OF ZEROS HAVE COME INTO THE GAME.

  • VANDER BLUE, AND TO HOLAWAY. >> COOK WITH GOOD D THERE.

  • BUT STAYING AFTER IT WAS MONFORD AND THE WEST LEADS BY

  • THREE. JUST OVER A MINUTE TO GO IN

  • THE 10TH ANNUAL D-LEAGUE ALL-STAR GAME PRESENTED BY

  • CUPEL HO TIRE. AND STOKES WAS FOULED.

  • >> WE SEE THE SUBSTITUTION THAT WAS MADE, THE SMALLER

  • EAST FORCING THE WEST TO COME BACK WITH SMALL BALL.

  • HOWEVER THE WEST TOO SMALL PLAYERS COMING IN.

  • THEY'RE NOT AS LOOSE. RIGHT NOW THEY HAVE THE

  • 30-SECOND ADVANTAGE UNTIL THE WEST DEFENDERS REALLY GET INTO

  • IT. >> JIMMER SPINNING.

  • HERE'S SUGGS FOR THE TIE. AND THE REBOUND TO VANDER

  • BLUE. WE'RE UNDER A MINUTE TO GO.

  • LA LANE SPINS, REVERSES, MISSES.

  • AGAIN, THE EAST DOWN THREE. QUINN COOK, DIVING, STOKES, HE

  • GOT IT TO GO, PLUS THE FOUL. STOKES A FREE THROW HERE FOR

  • THE TIE. >> COOK TAKING A LITTLE BIT

  • OF A CHANCE THERE. I KNOW IT'S THE ALL-STAR GAME,

  • BUT YOU DO WANT TO WIN, AND YOU'RE IN TRANSITION LIKE

  • THAT, COOK NORMALLY YOU'D WANT TO PULL THAT BALL OUT.

  • BUT TRUST STOKES. TRUST THE HANDS AND A TRUSTY

  • FINISH FOR STOKES. 14 POINTS IN 18 MINUTES.

  • I'M NOT GOING TO GIVE YOU THE FREE THROW STATS BECAUSE I

  • DON'T WANT TO JINX HIM. HE'S FIVE FOR FIVE FROM THE

  • LINE. WE'RE TIED AT 1:22.

  • ISIAH THOMAS, YOU'RE A GOOD LUCK CHARM.

  • YOUR FIRST D-LEAGUE ALL-STAR GAME AS AN ANALYST, AND THIS

  • IS MAYBE ARGUABLY THE BEST D-LEAGUE ALL-STAR GAME I'VE

  • EVER SEEN. >> WELL, I LIKE IT THAT WHEN

  • WE SHOW UP, THINK COMPETE. AND THAT'S WHAT WE WANT TO

  • SEE. WE WANT TO SEE GOOD

  • COMPETITION. I THINK THE COACHES HAVE GREAT

  • STRATEGY GOING ON RIGHT NOW. WE'VE GOT A TIED ALL-STAR

  • GAME. IT'S BEEN A WELL-PLAYED GAME.

  • WE'VE GOT A HIGH-SCORING, HOT PLAYER IN TERMS OF FREDETTE.

  • AND I THINK COOK, HE AND FREDETTE HAVE BASICALLY FOUND

  • A GROOVE AND A NICHE OF PLAYING TOGETHER, AND THEY'RE

  • PUTTING ON A GOOD SHOW. >> BOPS, HOW ABOUT THIS?

  • 122-122, 42.3 TO GO. PUT THIS IN THE PERSPECTIVE

  • AMONG SOME OF THE BETTER D-LEAGUE ALL-STAR GAMES YOU'VE

  • SEEN? >> WELL, I LIKE THE

  • COMPETITIVENESS WE SAW IN THE FIRST HALF.

  • USUALLY TEAMS HAVE GOTTEN REALLY LOOSE WHEN WE'VE BEEN

  • AT THIS GAME IN THE PAST, BUT THESE GUYS HAVE KEPT IT CLOSE

  • ALL GAME LONG AGAIN, JIMMER STEPPING UP AND STEPPING OUT.

  • WE'LL SEE WHAT KIND OF EXECUTION THESE COACHES HAVE

  • AGAINST ONE ANOTHER. >> GOING WITH A LOT OF GUYS

  • WHO CAN DO A LOT OF THINGS FOR THEM.

  • >> THEY PLAY AGAINST THEM DURING THE YEAR AND DON'T HAVE

  • AT THEIR DISPOSAL SOME OF THEIR SKILL SETS.

  • I BET THEIR COACH IS LICKING THEIR CHOPS TO PUT THESE GUYS

  • IN SOME SETS TO FINISH THE GAME OFF.

  • >> WELL, THE WEST DIDN'T HAVE A TIMEOUT.

  • BUT THEY CALLED ONE. AND THAT IS A TECHNICAL FOUL.

  • SO MCDONALD, THE HEAD COACH OF THE WESTERN CONFERENCE

  • ALL-STARS WITH A GLARING MISTAKE HERE WITH 42.3 LEFT.

  • AND KILPATRICK IS AT THE LINE FOR THE TECHNICAL FREE THROW.

  • MCDONALD SHAKING HIS HEAD. AND KILPATRICK CANNOT GIVE THE

  • EAST THE LEAD. WOW.

  • >> SO A GOOD TIMEOUT. >> YEAH.

  • SO THAT TIMEOUT, THE MISTAKE WAS CONTAGIOUS AS KILPATRICK

  • MISSES. AND STOKES GOING BACK TO WORK.

  • THE LEFTY HOOK IS GOOD, AND THE EAST HAS THE LEAD BY TWO.

  • >> OH, YEAH, THEY WENT RIGHT BACK TO BIG BOY BASKETBALL.

  • GET IT INTO STOKES. LET HIM TAKE ADVANTAGE.

  • MONFORD OFF, SO THAT TIMEOUT LED TO A BUCKET BY THE EAST,

  • AND NOW THEY'RE IN FULL CONTROL.

  • JIMMER HAD IT KNOCKED AWAY. THEY CAN PLAY SOLID D, RICK.

  • THERE IS A DIFFERENCE IN THE SHOT CLOCK WHERE THE TIMEOUT

  • CAN ADVANCE. SO NO REASON TO FOUL FOR THE

  • WEST. VANDER BLUE, NOT A REASON TO

  • FOUL. >> SO VANDER BLUE TAGS

  • KILPATRICK WHO IS LAUGHING AS HE HEADS BACK TO THE

  • FREE-THROW LINE. >> I KNOW HE JUST MISSED A

  • TECHNICAL. BUT NO REASON FOR THEM TO FOUL

  • IF THEY GET THAT STOP. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH TIME

  • TO TIMEOUT AND ADVANCE THE BALL.

  • >> KILPATRICK, THAT FREE THROW ATTEMPT WAS HIS ONLY ONE

  • OF THE GAME. HE'S GOT 11 POINTS IN 18

  • MINUTES, AND WHOA. THAT WAS CLOSE.

  • A FRIENDLY ROLL HERE IN TORONTO.

  • >> VERY FRIENDLY ROOM. HE GOT ONE OF THOSE WHITE

  • PLAINS, WEST CHESTER ROLLS. THAT'S WHERE HE'S FROM, AND I

  • KNOW PEOPLE ARE WATCHING BACK AT HOME.

  • >> KILPATRICK LEADING SCORER IN THE DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE HERE

  • AT THE ALL-STAR BREAK. AT 26.5 POINTS PER GAME.

  • BIG ONE RIGHT HERE, AND HE GOT IT.

  • FOUR-POINT LEAD FOR THE EAST. 10.6.

  • IT'S GOING TO BE TOUGH FOR THE WEST AT THIS POINT.

  • HERE'S TO HOLAWAY, CUT OFF, TRYING TO DRIVE.

  • AND THE BUCKET IS GOODBYE LEDO.

  • THEY'VE GOT TO FOUL. AND THEY DO.

  • THEY GET JIMMER FREDETTE AT 2.4.

  • >> IS IT JIMMER CLOSING IN ON THE RECORD?

  • >> HE'S TIED IT. SO IF HE HITS ONE OF THESE

  • FREE THROWS HE HAS THE D-LEAGUE ALL-STAR GAME RECORD

  • FOR MOST POINTS SCORES. AND A PRETTY OBVIOUS CHOICE

  • FOR. >> MVP.

  • >> BUT IT'S NOT SURPRISING THAT HE'S THE LEADING SCORER

  • IN THIS GAME. HE CAME IN WITH THAT

  • REPUTATION. THIS GAME IS TAILOR-MADE FOR

  • HIS STYLE OF PLAY, AND HE TOOK ADVANTAGE OF IT.

  • >> THERE IT IS, A DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE ALL-STAR

  • GAME SCORING RECORD, 34 POINTS FOR JIMMER FREDETTE.

  • >> IT LOOKED LIKE IT WAS A 34 EASY POINTS.

  • NOW 35. JUST POURING IN OFF HIS HAND.

  • MOST IMPORTANTLY A FOUR-POINT LEAD FOR THE EAST.

  • WITH TWO SECONDS LEFT. AND HE WILL LAUNCH, AND THAT

  • IS IT. THE EASTERN CONFERENCE

  • ALL-STARS HAVE WON THE 10TH ANNUAL DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE

  • ALL-STAR GAME PRESENTED BY CUPEL HO TIRE.

  • JIMMER FREDETTE, 35 POINTS ON 13 OF 19 FROM THE FIELD.

  • AND WHEN WE RETURN HERE TO THE RICOH COLISEUM IN TORONTO ON

  • ALL-STAR WEEKEND, IT WILL BE THE MVP PRESENTATION, DON'T GO

  • ANYWHERE. >> ALL RIGHT, JIMMER, I'VE

  • GOT TO ASK YOU, YOU DROPPED 35 POINTS AND YOU DID A WONDERFUL

  • JOB. SIMPLE QUESTION.

  • HOW DOES IT FEEL TO GET THAT MVP?

  • >> YOU KNOW, IT'S AN HONOR JUST TO BE HERE AT THE

  • ALL-STAR GAME WITH SUCH GREAT PLAYERS.

  • WE WORK SO HARD DURING THE SEASON, AND IT'S EXCITING TO

  • BE OUT HERE AND JUST BEING ABLE TO PLAY IS DEFINITELY AN

  • HONOR, SO I'M APPRECIATIVE OF IT.

  • AND CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF MY TEAMMATES OUT HERE.

  • >> LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, TORONTO, JIMMER DESERVES A

  • NICE ROUND OF APPLAUSE. GIVE IT UP FOR YOUR MVP.

  • HOLD THAT THING UP NICE AND HIGH.

  • CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU. >> IT IS A SURPRISE TO NO

  • ONE, JIMMER FREDETTE NAMED D-LEAGUE ALL-STAR GAME MVP.

  • THE GENERAL MARKETING MANAGER OF CUPEL HO TIRE USA

  • PRESENTING THE TROPHY. AND JARED GREENBERG MOMENTS

  • AGO CAUGHT UP WITH MVP JIMMER FREDETTE.

  • >> YEAH, WE'RE LIVE HERE WITH THE MVP.

  • NOT JUST THE MOST VALUABLE PLAYER PERFORMANCE, BUT A

  • RECORD SETTING DAY HERE. A35 POINTS, THE MOST WE'VE

  • EVER SEEN IN A D-LEAGUE ALL-STAR GAME.

  • AND IT DIDN'T SEEM LIKE IT WAS FORCED COMING OUT OF YOU.

  • >> OH, I WAS JUST TAKING WHAT THE DEFENSE GIVES US.

  • IT'S AN ALL-STARS GAME. IT WAS FUN TO BE ABLE TO GO

  • OUT THERE AND PLAY WITH TEAMMATES AND THEY WERE

  • LOOKING FOR ME. MADE A COUPLE SHOTS IN THE

  • BEGINNING, AND IT KIND OF GOT ME GOING.

  • THEY WERE LOOKING FOR ME, AND I WAS FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO MAKE

  • SOME SHOTS TONIGHT. IT WAS A LOT OF FUN TO BE OUT

  • HERE WITH THESE GUYS. >> FOR YOU WITH THE AMOUNT

  • OF NBA EXPERIENCE THAT YOU HAVE, CAN YOU STILL PUT IN

  • PERSPECTIVE WHAT A DAY LIKE THIS CAN DO FOR YOU TO GET YOU

  • BACK THERE? >> IT CAN DO WONDERS.

  • YOU NEVER KNOW WHO IS WATCHING AND WHO IS OUT IN THE STANDS

  • ON ANY SINGLE NIGHT ON A D-LEAGUE EVENT.

  • THERE ARE OBVIOUSLY LOTS OF NBA TEAMS OUT THERE WATCHING,

  • AND YOU'VE GOT TO BE ABLE TO PERFORM EVERY NIGHT AND GIVE

  • IT YOUR BEST, GIVE IT YOUR ALL AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS IN THE

  • END. >> IS THERE ONE OR TWO KEY

  • THINGS THAT YOU'VE BEEN HEARING FROM TEAMS THAT THEY

  • WANT TO SEE FROM YOU THAT YOU TRY AND PUT ON DISPLAY IN A

  • GAME LIKE THIS? >> I CAN TRY TO GO OUT THERE

  • AND BE EFFICIENT, SHOOT THE BALL WELL.

  • TEAMS ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR A GUY TO COME OFF THE BENCH AND

  • SCORE THE BASKETBALL. I FEEL LIKE I CAN PROVIDE THAT

  • FOR A TEAM. SO JUST TRYING TO BE AS

  • EFFICIENT AS I CAN. WORK AS HARD AS I CAN, AND

  • JUST FIGHT OUT THERE. THEY WANT TO SEE FIGHT.

  • >> WHAT DO YOU EXPECT OUT OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE SEASON

  • FROM YOURSELF AND DO YOU THINK IT'S A POSSIBILITY YOU'LL BE

  • BACK IN THE NBA BEFORE THE YEAR'S DONE?

  • >> YOU NEVER KNOW. YOU KNOW? YOU JUST TRY TO GO

  • OUT THERE AND PLAY, AND YOU CAN'T, SOMETIMES YOU CAN'T

  • CONTROL EVERYTHING OUT THERE. YOU CAN CONTROL HOW YOU PLAY

  • AND YOUR ATTITUDE, AND IF YOU'RE HAPPY OR NOT, SO THOSE

  • ARE THE THING THAT'S I'M TRYING TO CONTROL RIGHT NOW,

  • AND HOPEFULLY I'LL GET ANOTHER SHOT AT SOME POINT.

  • BUT YOU CAN'T DWELL ON IT. YOU'VE GOT TO GO OUT THERE,

  • WORK EVERY NIGHT AND GET BETTER, AND

  • THE REST WILL TAKE CARE OF ITSELF.

  • >> IF HISTORY MEANS ANYTHING, THE GUY WHO WINS

  • THIS TROPHY IN PAST YEARS USUALLY MAKE IT'S BACK TO THE

  • NBA RELATIVELY QUICKLY. CONGRATULATIONS ON THIS, AND

  • WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU WHEREVER YOU'RE PLAYING IN THE

  • COMING MONTHS. >> APPRECIATE IT.

  • THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >> THAT'S JIMMER FREDETTE,

  • GUYS. 35 POINTS, THE NEW RECORD, THE

  • MOST VALUABLE PLAYER FOR THE 2016 D-LEAGUE ALL-STAR GAME.

  • FASTSCRIPTS BY ASAP SPORTS JARED AND JIMMER, THANK

  • YOU VERY MUCH. EAST BEATS WEST.

  • 128-124. SIX IN DOUBLE FIGURES FOR THE

  • EAST LED BY JIMMER'S 35. SEVEN IN DOUBLE FIGURES FOR

  • THE WEST, LED BY VANDER BLUE WITH 17.

  • IT WAS A CLASSIC AT RICOH COLISEUM.

  • THE 10TH ANNUAL D-LEAGUE

  • ALL-STAR

  • GAME

  • IS IN THE BOOKS. WE'RE COMING BACK

  • TO TALK ABOUT ALL-STAR WEEKEND IN

  • TORONTO.

  • FASTSCRIPTS BY ASAP SPORTS

>> WE WELCOME YOU TO THE 10TH ANNUAL NBA DEVELOPMENT

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