A handful of NBA veterans have joined G League teams in advance of the start of the NBAGL’s 2021/22 season, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic (Twitter link).
As Charania reports, the Capital City Go-Go (Wizards) have added center Greg Monroe, the Mexico City Capitanes have added forward Gary Clark, and the Salt Lake City Stars (Jazz) have acquired swingman Carsen Edwards.
Monroe, 31, has nine years of NBA experience under his belt, but hasn’t played in the league since 2018/19, when he appeared in 43 total games for three teams. In 632 career NBA games, the former Georgetown star averaged 13.2 PPG and 8.3 RPG in 27.7 minutes per contest. He has spent time playing in Germany and Russia since 2019.
An undrafted free agent with three years of NBA experience from 2018-21, Clark appeared in 132 total games for four teams. He’s known more for his defense, having put up very modest offensive numbers (3.2 PPG on .346/.311/.889 shooting) in the NBA. Clark, who will turn 27 later this month, has previous G League experience with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers.
Edwards was the 33th overall pick out of Purdue in 2019 and spent his first two professional seasons with the Celtics, but didn’t emerge as a reliable rotation player, posting just 3.6 PPG on .372/.302/.750 shooting in 68 games (9.2 MPG). He was traded to Memphis and subsequently waived during the 2021 offseason.
The G League Ignite have also announced two veteran additions, confirming that center Kosta Koufos and former Jazz guard Kevin Murphy have come aboard. Amir Johnson and Pooh Jeter are among the other veterans on the team.
Greg Monroe ceased being an NBA player like 3 years ago. If Carson ever finds his shot, he will be 15th man
Only because the league panicked about the Warriors and decided to do away with anyone over 6’8″. I think he has a place as an Enes Kanter style offensive sub in spurts.
He’s as good as many of the bigs currently taking NBA paychecks.
Have you ever seen him play defense? No one has, either.
You can say the same about a lot of NBA players, Kanter for one… Okafor, KAT, MPJ, Bryant, Wagner, Kaminsky etc
@jbl The Warriors have 3 players on their roster over 6’8″. Kinda blows your whole theory.
Not when they were winning championships. The whole league went small-ball and ‘lumbering bigs’ were out of fashion.
Andrew Bogut? 7-0,260. Five more guys 6-9 or more, plus Dray. GSW beat the Cavs physically… the Cavs mostly handled the Splash brothers.
True though, the league went small with GSW as the role model, right or wrong. The reason, because the best guards did not want to bother with looking for the bigs. College teams were not looking inside as much either. And rim-protectors made perimeter defenders lazy.