The NBA’s relationship with the D-League continues to grow, and this season a total of 19 NBA teams have one-to-one affiliations with D-League clubs. Those NBA organizations without their own affiliates were required to assign players to D-League clubs associated with other NBA franchises. D-League teams could volunteer to take on the assigned players, and if no volunteers emerged, the players were assigned at random.
This significant change from the 2014/15 season came about after the Pacers purchased the Fort Wayne Mad Ants and turned them into their one-to-one partner for the 2015/16 campaign. Other NBA teams have interest in following suit in the years ahead, and the NBA’s ultimate goal for the D-League is for all 30 NBA franchises to have their own D-League squads. You can view the complete list of D-League affiliates here.
We at Hoops Rumors will be recapping the D-League-related activity for the 2015/16 campaign for each team, and we’ll continue onward with the the Boston Celtics, whose D-League affiliate is the Maine Red Claws:
The Celtics made 39 assignments for the 2015/16 campaign, sending five different players to the D-League for a total of 127 days. Listed below are all the assignments and recalls made by Boston for the 2015/16 campaign:
- November 3rd: Assigned Jordan Mickey (1st) — Recalled November 5th
- November 3rd: Assigned James Young (1st) — Recalled November 5th
- November 8th: Assigned Jordan Mickey (2nd) — Recalled November 11th
- November 8th: Assigned James Young (2nd) — Recalled November 9th
- November 11th: Assigned James Young (3rd) — Recalled November 11th
- November 12th: Assigned Jordan Mickey (3rd) — Recalled November 15th
- November 12th: Assigned James Young (4th) — Recalled November 15th
- November 14th: Assigned Terry Rozier (1st) — Recalled November 15th
- November 19th: Assigned James Young (5th) — Recalled November 21st
- November 19th: Assigned Jordan Mickey (4th) — Recalled November 25th
- November 19th: Assigned Terry Rozier (2nd) — Recalled November 21st
- November 27th: Assigned Jordan Mickey (5th) — Recalled December 9th
- December 4th: Assigned James Young (6th) — Recalled December 4th
- December 10th: Assigned Jordan Mickey (6th) — Recalled December 14th
- December 17th: Assigned Jordan Mickey (7th) — Recalled December 20th
- December 19th: Assigned Terry Rozier (3rd) — Recalled December 20th
- December 28th: Assigned Jordan Mickey (8th) — Recalled December 30th
- December 31st: Assigned Terry Rozier (4th) — Recalled January 1st
- December 31st: Assigned Jordan Mickey (9th) — Recalled January 13th
- December 31st: Assigned R.J. Hunter (1st) — Recalled January 1st
- January 2nd: Assigned Terry Rozier (5th) — Recalled January 13th
- January 15th: Assigned Jordan Mickey (10th) — Recalled January 18th
- January 15th: Assigned Terry Rozier (6th) — Recalled January 24th
- January 16th: Assigned R.J. Hunter (2nd) — Recalled January 24th
- January 23rd: Assigned James Young (7th) — Recalled January 24th
- February 25th: Assigned James Young (8th) — Recalled February 29th
- March 3rd: Assigned R.J. Hunter (3rd) — Recalled March 3rd
- March 4th: Assigned R.J. Hunter (4th) — Recalled March 7th
- March 8th: Assigned James Young (9th) — Recalled March 9th.
- March 10th: Assigned Jordan Mickey (11th) — Recalled March 11th.
- March 10th: Assigned James Young (10th) — Recalled March 13th
- March 10th: Assigned Coty Clarke (1st) — Recalled March 11th
- March 13th: Assigned Jordan Mickey (12th) — Recalled March 14th
- March 23rd: Assigned Coty Clarke (2nd) — Recalled March 26th
- March 23rd: Assigned James Young (11th) — Recalled March 26th
- March 30th: Assigned James Young (12th) — Recalled April 6th
- April 5th: Assigned Jordan Mickey (13th) — Recalled April 6th
- April 7th: Assigned James Young (13th) — Recalled April 8th
- April 7th: Assigned Jordan Mickey (14th) — Recalled April 8th
Here is how the Celtics’ players performed while on assignment to the D-League this season:
- Coty Clarke: The small forward appeared in a total of 44 games for the Red Claws on the year, a number that includes his outings prior to being inked by Boston. Clarke averaged 16.3 points, 7.5 rebounds and 2.6 assists to accompany a shooting line of .513/.406/.792.
- R.J. Hunter: The shooting guard appeared in eight games for Maine and averaged 13.8 points, 4.4 rebounds and 3.3 assists in 30.8 minutes per contest. His slash line was .359/.296/.741.
- Jordan Mickey: The power forward made 23 appearances for the Red Claws and averaged 17.4 points, 10.3 rebounds and 4.4 blocks in 33.4 minutes per contest. His shooting line was .531/.350/.745.
- Terry Rozier: The rookie point guard appeared in 14 games for Maine and averaged 19.4 points, 6.4 rebounds, 8.0 assists and 1.9 steals in 33.7 minutes per night. Rozier’s shooting line was .393/.338/.776.
- James Young: The swingman appeared in 14 games, notching averages of 15.3 points, 6.1 rebounds and 1.9 assists in 28.3 minutes per outing. His slash line was .409/.350/.814.