A little less than one year ago Villanova combo guard Scottie Reynolds was a projected first-round pick in the 2009 NBA Draft with a bright future ahead of him.
But after returning for an All-American senior season, Reynolds is currently unemployed and is the first AP All-American to go undrafted since the 1976 NBA-ABA merger.
The Phoenix [...]

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Earl Clark, Taylor Griffin and a pair of yet-to-be-determined Phoenix Suns draft picks will get some extra work in this summer in the annual NBA Summer League in Las Vegas.
The players will take to Sin City for a five-game set amongst a slate of 58 games featuring 22 teams. The University of Nevada-Las Vegas is [...]

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As has been previously discussed, Summer League went OK for the Suns, although the guys they hope to be contributors next year struggled with inconsistency even against the dreck they were competing against.
Earl Clark showed some flashes, showed some mental lapses and overall put up a pretty mediocre 11.3 and 7.0 considering his competition.
RaptorsBlog.com took [...]

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Summer league is a time for basketball unknowns to battle for a roster spot, and NBA pine-riders to prove they can still fill it up. Rarely does a team go into a summer league with four or five roster players who all have the potential to play major minutes during the upcoming season; this year [...]

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We’ve heard all summer long about how great 2008 draft picks Robin Lopez and Goran Dragic have looked while working out at US Airways Center.
Thus far in Summer League we’ve gotten the same old Lopez and Dragic we’re so accustomed to seeing from players plagued by that brutal ‘I’ word: inconsistency.
You might have thought Fropez [...]

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After a Suns-like offensive output in game one of the Las Vegas Summer League, the Summer Suns left much to be desired in a sloppy game two filled with turnovers and foul calls and without much semblance of rhythm or flow.
The Suns were awful from the field, but the continuous stoppages in play did not [...]

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