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Clay Bennett is still a tool.
I like that the NBA has given sponsorship rights to its "Call-ups"
http://www.nba.com/dleague/tulsa/tulsa_okc_080731.html
NEW YORK, July 31, 2008 – The National Basketball Association announced today that the Professional Basketball Club, LLC, owner of the Oklahoma City NBA franchise, has reached an agreement in principle to purchase the Tulsa 66ers of the NBA Development League from Southwest Basketball, LLC. Oklahoma City becomes the third NBA team to purchase an NBA D-League affiliate, joining the Los Angeles Lakers (L.A. D-Fenders) and the San Antonio Spurs (Austin Toros) as sole owners of their affiliates.
“As owners of the Tulsa 66ers, we will be able to oversee the team's business operations and provide a valuable developmental vehicle for some of our young players,” said Clay Bennett, chairman of Professional Basketball Club, LLC. “We have received tremendous support from Tulsa for our NBA team in Oklahoma City and we are excited to be a part of the NBA D-League in the Tulsa area. It’s going to be a great partnership.”
Oklahoma City will oversee all aspects of the organization, including implementing the offensive and defensive systems the 66ers run in practices and games, and hiring all business and basketball staff. Oklahoma City will also have exclusive rights to assign its players with one or two years of NBA experience to the 66ers. The 66ers will play their home games in the new SpiritBank Event Center in Bixby, OK.
“As the third NBA team in as many years to purchase its own NBA D-League team, Oklahoma City and Clay Bennett are demonstrating the value the NBA D-League is creating for fans and NBA teams alike," said NBA D-League President Dan Reed. “Fans and families in Tulsa will enjoy the affordable, NBA-caliber entertainment experience resulting from the deep integration with a nearby NBA team, while Oklahoma City will benefit greatly from the ability to closely manage its top prospects’ development with the 66ers.”
The 66ers saw meaningful contributions from NBA-assigned players Nick Fazekas (Dallas Mavericks) and Ramon Sessions (Milwaukee Bucks) last season. Following his time with the 66ers, Sessions became the first player with NBA D-League experience to earn an NBA monthly award when he was named April's T-Mobile Eastern Conference Rookie of the Month. Head coach Joey Meyer, who is the winningest coach in NBA D-League history with 175 regular season wins, guided the 66ers to a 26-24 record during the 2007-08 season.
Prior to moving to Tulsa, the 66ers were known as the Asheville Al ude, one of the founding NBA D-League teams which began play in 2001. As the Al ude, the club won NBA D-League Championships in 2004 and 2005.
“We are excited to have an exclusive affiliation with our NBA D-League team in Tulsa. It provides a unique and valuable opportunity to have consistency and synergy in how we develop some of our young players, coaches, and staff,” said Sam Presti, general manager for the Oklahoma City NBA team. “Its close proximity will also provide us great convenience and flexibility.”
The acquisition of the 66ers by the Professional Basketball Club, LLC signals another success on the heels of the three-year old NBA/D-League assignment system. Since the inception of the NBA/D-League assignment system prior to the 2005-06 season, NBA teams have assigned 84 players a total of 130 times, including 19 NBA teams assigning 31 players to D-League rosters during the 2007-08 season.
Additionally, 30 percent of the 2007 NBA Draft class has spent time in the NBA D-League, including first round selections, Daequan Cook (21st overall), Morris Almond (25th overall), Aaron Brooks (26th overall) and Alando Tucker (29th overall), who were assigned to their respective team’s D-League affiliate, while a total of 18 players earned Gatorade Call-ups from 11 NBA teams last year.
Clay Bennett is still a tool.
I like that the NBA has given sponsorship rights to its "Call-ups"
uuummm cool?
Excellent. SW Basketball did a fair job starting its teams out, and specifically made a nice arena deal in Tulsa. The standard of basketball operations for D-League teams has raised dramatically in the past couple of years, however, and they just aren't keeping up. The difference between the SW Basketball Toros and the Spurs' Toros is night and day, and I can't really defend the former organization's cheapness anymore after they went the last month in Albuquerque without a trainer. With any luck, Phoenix will buy the Thunderbirds and Sacramento will buy the Reno franchise and that will be it.
The only negative coming out of this is that one D-League team is going to have three NBA affiliates with all the extra roster chaos that could entail.
I wish Phoenix would buy an affililate. I bet Colangelo would have done it by now.
Poor Tulsa. They have such penis envy and now the get to be the development team for the OKC team.
I've been to both places.
Tulsa > OKC.
I heard they decided to buy the drillers instead
Sure, if only for the gay night life.
I think you're right. I also think Oklahoma State University suffers from Big 12 penis envy. Probably even jealous of Baylor.
I have a feeling CaptMike would prefer that one of his team's basketball players killed another one and buried his body outside Stillwater. This way he wouldn't have to defend his program full of drug offenders, alcoholics, sweat hogs (Sean Sutton), headbutters (Mario Boggan), or simple assault and battery assailants (Marcus Dove). A couple of murders would definitely get the program on the national map again. Maybe Tulsa can sign Gerald Green after he's cut from the Mavs this year. He was a former OSU commit, after all.
Tulsa is too culturally deficient to have an Eskimo Joe's. It doesn't get any better than Stillwater nightlife.
Bricktown is ing lame.
You would know. So would Henry Iba... huge .
Tulsa has "gay nightlife" in the same way that Austin has "gay nightlife."
Seriously, Tulsa is the only tolerable place in that state.
So Mike is both an idiot and a phobe? That's tough nut to swallow... but I don't need to tell him that.
"They don't take kindly to qweehs 'round these parts."
That could be Oklahoma's "Don't Mess with Texas."
"They took 'r' jobs!"
Seriously, Mike, do you even work anymore? You haven't posted on this site in a while, so I figured you finally found your local library and split time on the single computer that has dial-up.
I believe it's an old Dell Optiplex. Nice machines.
That's a good point. And a great slogan. It's better than the current state flag, which has Mike Gundy fellating T. Boone Pickens in the middle of downtown Tulsa.
Mike Gundy IS A MAN! He can take it!
We had those like 6 years ago in College Station. But the city has such a huge gay nightlife that who has time to keep up with technology changes?
"If anybody hasn't read this post,” Gundy began as he opened SpursTalk.com, "I think this is worth reading. Three-fourths of this is inaccurate. It's fiction. And this post embarrasses me to be involved with the State of Oklahoma."
"I'm 40. Come after me! [with your ]"
Bennett said the NBA team will pay $2.25 million for the D-League franchise.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3513373
I'm assuming a lot of that purchase price is taking over a good deal of SW Basketball's debt -- maybe for more than one team.
Wow, you know if I didn't post on this website ronnie wouldn't have 2/3s of his posts.
And the Suns still wouldn't have a ring.
I'll give you about 1/4 on that, Mike. You do bring out the best in me.
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