As the world's top professional basketball league, the NBA league has always been a hard-to-find and coveted competitive stage for a large number of basketball players. If it is not a young player with outstanding talent, the basketball player missed the draft to enter the league, then it is really very difficult to overtake through the hard work of the back, re-enter the NBA league, enter the NBA development league with a small salary to prove themselves, wait for the NBA opportunity is something that players will consider, although the possibility is very small, there are still many basketball players willing to bet for the basketball dream.
The basketball world may be the king or loser, and the talent and stage of basketball players are high and low, but a heart for excellence can impress fans on which platform. Who are the MVPs of the NBA Development League in the past decade, where have they gone after they left the Development League, and have they fulfilled their dreams for the NBA? In this article, I will review the list for reference.
11/12 Development League MVP: Justin Duntmon
Justin Duntmon is a 1985-born point guard, and although he has a fast personal speed, he has a basket, but his height of 183cm and his weight in his early 80s can easily become a defensive black hole in the NBA league, which is very demanding in the confrontation.
At the 2009 draft, Duntemon from the University of Washington lost. After that, he waited for an opportunity in the development league training, and in the development league in the 11-12 season, Duntmon, who played for the Austin Bulls, averaged 22.8 points, 5.5 assists and 3.7 rebounds per game, won the MVP individually, and led the team to win the development league championship that year.
In the same season, Duntemon signed 10-day short contracts with the Spurs and Raptors, playing only 6 games in the NBA, averaging 4.3 points and 1.7 assists per game. In the 12/13 season after leading the team to the development league championship, Duntemon signed a short contract with the Dallas Mavericks at the time, but made two appearances and no data, and then was eliminated by the NBA.
Before joining the Qingdao men's basketball team in the CBA League in 2014, he worked hard in Europe for a long time. In the 14/15 season, Duntemon averaged 30.4 points, 5.0 assists and 3.5 rebounds per game, leading the Qingdao men's basketball team to the semifinals of that year's playoffs.
The following 15/16 season, Duntemon moved to Sichuan Jinqiang, and as one of the three foreign aides, he still played well and helped the team win the championship. In the 16/17 season, Duntemon jumped to the Shandong men's basketball team, the performance was quite OK, probably the same as the 23 points and 4 assists level in the Sichuan period, after playing for half a season, he left the CBA, went to the Turkish league to develop, and disappeared from the vision of Chinese fans.
12/13 Development League MVP: Andrew Goodlock
Andrew Goodlock, a quarterback, born in 1988, was the No. 46 pick in the 2011 draft, and began his NBA career in Los Angeles, where he wore the No. 0 jersey in 41 games for the Lakers during the 11-13 biennium, averaging 4.3 points and 0.5 assists per game, shooting just 38.3 percent from the field, and was cut shortly after the start of the 12/13 season.
After being cut, Andrew Goodlock worked hard in the development league, averaging 21.4 points, 5.8 assists and 4.1 rebounds per game, and was signed back by the Lakers before the end of the development league, because Kobe Bryant was reimbursed for injury, and the Lakers vacated a position willing to try Goodlock again.
However, Goodlock still failed to gain a foothold in the NBA, and after 2013, he moved to The European Arena and played in Russia, Israel, Italy and other teams. Goodlock's strength is still good, and in the 17/18 season, Milan Olympia played a season in Serie A that averaged 15 points, 2.6 rebounds and 1.9 assists per game, and won the MVP of the Serie A finals that year.
The CBA league seems to be a good place for the MVP of the NBA Development League, in the 15/16 season and the 18/19 season, Goodlock has played in Xinjiang and Shandong, and in both seasons, it is about 23 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists, shooting more than 50% of the shooting rate, and 40% of the three-point shooting rate. However, Goodlock is a small foreign aid who plays reasonably, has limited offensive ability, and scores very well in the system, not an easy cut and breakup with the ball, and his performance in the CBA is not outstanding. Incidentally, in the 15/16 season, Goodlock returned to the NBA to join the Rockets and made two playoff appearances.
13/14 Development League MVP: Othius Jeffers
Born in 1985, Othius Jeffers was the loser of the 2008 draft. After losing the election, Ocius Jeffers played in Italy for a year, and then developed the two identities of league players and NBA short workers, and successively won short contracts with jazz, wizards, suns, spurs and Timberwolves.
In the 13/14 season, he averaged 20.9 points, 9.9 rebounds and 2.0 assists for the Iowa Energy in the development league, before taking a short contract with the Timberwolves, his last NBA contract. Between 2009 and 2014, he made a total of 37 appearances in the NBA, averaging 3.8 points and 2.5 rebounds per game.
14/15 Development League MVP: Tim Fraser
Born in 1990, Tim Fraser is a diminutive two-way defender who relies heavily on breakthroughs in attack. At the 2014 NBA Draft, Tim Fraser lost the selection and began his career in the NBDL League. In his first development league season, at the age of 24, he averaged 16 points, 9.5 assists and 7 rebounds per game, becoming the MVP and rookie of the development league.
After entering the NBA, Tim Fraser has been with the 76ers, Blazers, Pelicans, Wizards, Bucks, Pistons, Grizzlies, and has a full year-end salary contract, which is a good development league MVP, and the Pelican era has played briefly in the starting lineup. So far, he has made a total of 277 starts and 81 games in the NBA, contributing 5.0 points and 4.0 assists, and has the ability to barely enter the rotation in the NBA.
Incidentally, as many people in the NBA league triggered the epidemic prevention regulations to enter the suspension this year, the league forgave the situation of temporary workers entering and leaving, and Tim Fraser continued to be a member of the short-term army. This past December, magic gave him a short 10-day contract.
15/16 Development League MVP: Janel Stokes
In the 2014 draft, Giannell Stokes, who played as a big forward, was selected by the Jazz with the 35th pick in the second round, and was later traded to the Grizzlies to start his career, receiving the first two years of a three-year contract to protect the contract. During his rookie period, Stokes played three teams, the Grizzlies, the Heat, and the Nuggets, making a total of 28 appearances, contributing 2.4 points and 1.4 rebounds, before being eliminated by the NBA.
In terms of ball style, this benevolent brother belongs to the tears of the times, the positioning of the 203CM stout type four position, the uninfectable style of the ball out of the penalty area, and the tears of the times when the small ball era just got up. Even in the 15/16 season in the NBDL league to average 25+12 per game, he failed to return to the NBA and gain a foothold in the league, but the CBA stage gave him a springboard to go back.
In the 17/18 season, Stokes came to the CBA to develop, and in the season for the Zhejiang Golden Bulls, he averaged 25 points, 14 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game, winning the Heat's insecure contract (later cut) & the Grizzlies' two-way contract (also not staying). After confirming the end of the NBA, Stokes came to the CBA to play again, played in the 18/19 season in Xinjiang, averaged 25 points and 13 rebounds per game, a relatively stable performance, and then disappeared into the CBA league.
16/17 Development League MVP: Vander Bruy
Wingback Van der Blu, who has an unforgettable surname (Blue), was a 2013 draft winner who first played as a 10-day short-term player in the Celtics in the 13/14 season after a job search, and then disappeared early in the NBA league.
After some workouts, Bruns topped the development league MVP in the 16/17 season, and finally signed a partial guarantee contract with the Lakers, getting five appearances in the 17/18 season. Throughout his NBA career, he played 10 games, averaging 3 points and 1.2 assists per game, shooting a dismal 30.8 percent from the field, and was no one in the NBA after 2018.
17/18 Development League MVP: Lorenzo Brown
Born in 1990, Lorenzo Brown is an organization guard who played for the No. 52 show in 2013 and played for the 76ers, Timberwolves, Suns, Raptors, and last appeared in the NBA league in the 18/19 season.
During his NBA journey, Brown was sent down to the development league by the Raptors, and in the 17/18 season, he averaged 18.8 points, 9.0 assists, 5.2 rebounds and 1.8 steals per game to win the MVP, and then the contract was changed by the Raptors from two-way to partial protection. Throughout his NBA career, he made 103 appearances, contributed 2.8 points and 1.3 assists, and shot 36.4% from the field.
In the 16/17 season and the 18/19 season, Lorenzo Brown played in the Guangzhou men's basketball team and the Zhejiang men's basketball team, with a level of about 25 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists. At that time, Brown shot more than 50% of the overall shooting rate in the CBA, but the three-point performance was bad and the scoring explosive power was limited. After leaving the CBA, Brown went to the Turkish league to develop, and he can play a starter in a European team like Fenerbahce, and his strength is also OK.
18/19 Development League MVP: Chris Boucher
There is no doubt that over the past decade, Centre Forward Chris Boucher from Canada has been the most inspirational, successful and lucky development league MVP.
In the 2017 NBA Draft, Chris Boucher regretted his defeat, in large part because he was exposed to basketball too late and his basic skills were poor, but in fact, physical talent is definitely NBA level. In the last year of high school, Chris Boucher dropped out of school to work, because of his slender body and good physical fitness, he began to have the idea of playing wild ball, and finally got a recommendation from a nobleman to enter a preparatory school in Oregon, played college basketball for a year, and then signed up for the NBA draft.
After losing the game, the Golden State Warriors were the only NBA team to give Chris Boucher a chance. After working hard, Chris Boucher was lucky to stay on the Warriors roster for the 17/18 season. Throughout the season, he played only 1 game, but he was lucky enough to win the NBA championship with the team, and the rookie won the championship in the same year.
After being cut by the Warriors, the Raptors took over Boucher and asked him to develop the league to exercise well. In the 18/19 season, he averaged 27.2 points, 11.4 rebounds and 4.1 blocks per game in the Development League, earning MVP and DPOY before returning to the team as a rotation. As a marginal figure at the time, Boucher won the championship of the 18-19 season with the team after 28 appearances, and personally received a championship ring.
Luckily enough, the Raptors' second-in-command in the penalty area (Jr. & Ibaka) left behind, and Chris Boucher got many opportunities to play and continued to prove himself. Last season, Boucher averaged 13.6 points, 6.9 rebounds and 1.9 blocks per game. This season, because the Raptors signed the lottery show Barnes, Boucher's playing time dropped, but there was also an average of 8 points, 5 boards and 1 cap per game.
19/20 Development League MVP: Frank Mason
Seeing this, it is not difficult for fans to find that players who have won the development league MVP but cannot stand in the NBA are mostly small guards, relatively speaking, taking the flanks and interior lines of the development league MVP, it is easier to gain a short foothold in the NBA league, after all, the tool man attribute is stronger.
Coming to the 19/20 season, the development league MVP throne belongs to the 2017 No. 34 show, 183cm tall Frank Mason. In the NCAA era, Frank Mason averaged 21 points, 5 assists and 1.5 steals per game, shooting 46.5% from the field and 47% from three-point range, winning the Bob Cousy Award (the Best Point Guard award in the United States).
Waiting until the graduation of the senior year, this small man participated in the NBA draft, and this older rookie who attacked strong and weak fell to the second round before being selected, starting his career with the Kings, and then passing through the Bucks and Magic. In October of this year, he was laid off by the Los Angeles Lakers and is currently unemployed.
20/21 Development League MVP: Paul Reid
Born in 1999, Paul Reid is a crane tail level rookie in the 2020 Draft, with the bottom pick in the bottom 58 pick, playing for DePaul University in college, averaging 10 points and 7 rebounds per game, and is not famous.
After entering the NBA League, Paul Reid started from a low point, and at 206CM, he gradually showed the potential for the development of the modern small-ball interior line, playing 26 games last season, averaging 3.4 points and 2.4 rebounds per game, shooting 53.8% from the field. While playing in the NBA, the 76ers arranged for him to run on both sides, and he also averaged 22.8 points, 11.3 rebounds, 1.8 blocks and 1.9 steals per game in the development league, taking the Delaware Blues to the Finals.
This season, the 76ers have arranged for Reid to play the mobile center in the small-ball lineup, which is the team's no. 3 center, averaging 9.4 minutes per game, contributing 2.3 points and 2.4 rebounds, and shooting 47.6% from the field. Judging from the performance, his performance this season is average, and he may not have a chance to continue to develop in the NBA.