NBA alum Vander Blue has signed a new deal to play for Club Atletico Peñarol in Uruguay, per Dario Skerletic of Sportando. Most recently, Blue played with Mexican club Libertadores de Queretaro, where he averaged 21.7 PPG, 3.7 APG and 1.8 SPG during the team’s 2021/22 season.
The 6’4″ shooting guard out of Marquette, 29, logged parts of three seasons in the NBA for the Celtics and Lakers, playing a total of 10 NBA games, including one start, and ultimately averaging 13.4 MPG. He last saw league action for five games during the 2017/18 NBA season with Los Angeles.
There’s more from around the basketball world:
- After leaving Napoli Basket last month, former NBA guard Jeremy Pargo has signed a new G League deal and will join the Windy City Bulls, tweets JD Shaw of Hoops Rumors. Pargo, a Chicago native, played with the Grizzlies, Cavaliers, Sixers and Warriors during three NBA seasons. The 35-year-old combo guard holds NBA averages of 4.8 PPG, 1.8 APG and 1.0 RPG across 86 contests.
- As a recent guest on The Colin Cowherd Podcast, Sixers GM Daryl Morey shared some bold concepts for changing the NBA regular season’s schedule and playoffs structure (hat tip to Ryan Glasspiegel of the New York Post). Morey proposed cutting the league’s current 82-game regular season schedule to 58 contests. “Every team plays every [other] team two times,” he said. “The playoffs, I 100 percent agree, shorter is better… I would have it one-and-done,” Morey said, suggesting that every postseason round be reduced from seven games to a single contest. “There’s a reason everyone tunes into every game at huge ratings in the NFL. It is literally one-and-done.”
- Six prospects from the NBAGL club the G League Ignite, point guard Scoot Henderson, wing Dyson Daniels, shooting guard Jaden Hardy, and forward MarJon Beauchamp, plus big men Michael Foster Jr. and Fanbo Zeng, participated in the festivities for the NBA’s 2022 All-Star Weekend. Jeremy Woo of Sports Illustrated evaluated the Ignite players during a recent two-game stint prior to the weekend, five of whom (Henderson being the lone exception) could be selected for the NBA draft this year. Woo indicates that Henderson, Daniels, Hardy and Beauchamp all appear likely to be first-round picks.
Horrible idea from Morey. The best-of format turns the game into a real chess match – fascinating for a fan. A team can have a bad game/injury but it’s the counter-moves that make a series truly compelling.
I agree on the shorter regular season… Maaaybe the first round of the playoffs could be a best of five – sometimes tedious having to watch the Wizards and other bottom feeders play four games vs a top seed.
Yeah that seals it Morey is a f******* idiot! Less games is less revenue thats why it will never happen. Bo1 is just the worst idea ever.
Never thought there’d be an NBA team in my hometown of Walnut freaking Creek!
I drive by where the Ignite practices all the time and would really love to be able to actually see them play. C’mon NBA!
58 game RS is what 4 months, right?
1 & done for 4 rounds is like 7-10 days, right?
I must really hope Morey is implying they will play 2 seasons per year, otherwise those guys will be paid absolute fortunes for 4 months of the year with nothing to do for 8… I must admit I can’t remember the last time I heard such a horrible idea, I mean is just sooo bad that I don’t have words to define it, truly horrendous!!!
I could see a 72 game season. Play each team in your conference 3 times, and everyone in the other conference twice. But the playoffs need to stay how they are.