Veteran guard Bryce Cotton, the top player in Australia’s National Basketball League, isn’t planning a return to the NBA. The Perth Wildcats have reached a contract extension agreement with the three-time NBL MVP, Sportando’s Dario Skerletic reports. Cotton, 29, averaged 22.7 PPG and 4.8 APG last season. He played a total of 23 games for Utah, Phoenix and Memphis from 2014-16.
We have more from around the basketball world:
- How would last year’s draft look if it were held now? The Athletic’s Sam Vecenie explores that topic, ranking those players on how they performed this year, whether they can improve upon their weaknesses and how they figure to grow and mature. The top five, in order, would be Cade Cunningham, Rookie of the Year Scottie Barnes, Evan Mobley, Jalen Green and Franz Wagner, Vecenie says.
- The NBA has sent memo to teams informing them that agency Pro Days will only be permitted during two windows — the week of the NBA Combine from May 16-21 and in Southern California from May 25-27, Jonathan Givony of ESPN tweets.
- The NBA G League Elite Camp will have workouts May 16-17 in Chicago and the Combine will run workouts from May 18-20, Adam Zagoria tweets.
Bryce Cotton vs UNC in what was probably his final college game = incredible performance… guy is a born scorer
As someone who watches Cotton regularly in Australia. Nothings changed. He gets buckets at will and is the best player in the league.
Would love for more good/decent college players to come to the NBL after they are done. Can carve out a really good career down here and get treated like a celebrity
Redraft
According to Chad Ford and John Hollinger
Jalen Green is 8th
Good stats but no win
Rockets
Pistons
Magic
More playing time = good stats
Where is the win?
Pretty awesome that all of the top5 picks from this past draft (Cade, JGreen, Evan, Scottie & Suggs) were all teammates on Team USA’s gold medal winning team at the FIBA U19 World Cup a few yrs ago. What a ridiculously strong squad that was. Possibly the strongest jr squad Team USA has ever had… I’m hype to see who gets picked to be on their U18 team in a couple weeks