http://www.nba.com/nuggets/news/hodge_dleague_020706.html

bummer, but at least he might get to play more than 12 seconds a game

2/7/2006 10:09:17 PM

that's too bad, but the nuggets suck like the chargers...nc state not going to favorable teams

2/7/2006 10:14:10 PM

damn homie, at state he was the man homie

2/7/2006 10:22:22 PM

grundy is 2nd in the league in scoring average (to will bynum)

2/7/2006 10:26:39 PM

HODGE AND GRUNDY TOGETHER AGAIN.


This is sad. Hope he didn't blow all that money!

2/7/2006 10:34:26 PM

hate to say I told ya so....

2/7/2006 10:39:10 PM

stfu fag

2/7/2006 10:52:07 PM

He has plenty of time to make it in the big show.

2/7/2006 10:53:11 PM

It's not as if teams stop paying their players when they are assigned to the NBDL.

This was inevitable, as the Nuggets have 6.02 x 10^23 SGs/swingmen on their roster, and his summer surgery didn't help earn PT.

2/7/2006 11:04:21 PM

Quote :

"HODGE AND GRUNDY TOGETHER AGAIN. This is sad. Hope he didn't blow all that money!"

this is not sad, he is not getting any fucking burn, everyone knew he was a project

he needs playing time, earlier in the season all the reports were that he was asking to play down, his money will still be the same and hopefully next year this time he has some experience and starts to get some minutes and confidence in the big league!

2/7/2006 11:05:36 PM

Why do people act like going to a development league in basketball is a career death wish, when it's par for the course in baseball and hockey?

2/7/2006 11:10:58 PM

People who normally are sent there never make it out!

2/7/2006 11:12:21 PM

but there are several that have, so its not the end of the world. if he shines, he'll make it out.

2/7/2006 11:14:09 PM

"make it out"

damn, i think you guys are all wrong, he is a first round pick, he does not have to "make it out", he is "out" they are just sending him down to actually get some playing time, he will be on the roster next year

nobody has any problem with Ladd going back and forth for the Canes, they are just trying to get the kid reps and shifts

same situation here, but damn, you people ask as if he is an unsigned free agent trying to scrap it out a la Josh Powell for a roster spot

2/7/2006 11:26:18 PM

he obviously has a leg up on most people in the nbadl because he was the 20th draft pick. but the difference here between the ladd/cane situation is that i believe nba teams are only allowed to demote a player to the developmental league twice and thats it. its not quite as free as hockey. you cant just move someone down for a week here and there. the situation can end up being a lot more permanent than hockey.

but you're right, "make it out" wasnt the best phrase because he's not really as "in" as a lot of those guys, like grundy.

2/7/2006 11:34:51 PM

pretty sure hodge signed a three year deal worth right around 3 mil, is this correct?

2/7/2006 11:36:32 PM

yo it's all good

dude is still making bank and for real, that's all that really matters in the NBA

2/7/2006 11:38:34 PM

What the hell kind of development league is it if you can only move someone down twice?

BTW, the new NHL regulations require any player with more than three years of NHL experience (and some other criteria sets as well) to be waived on the way down and the way back up to the AHL/ECHL.

2/7/2006 11:48:25 PM

twas just a matter of time

2/7/2006 11:54:34 PM

and everyone said that shavlik couldn't play in the pro's

2/8/2006 12:52:33 AM

hodge actually asked to be sentdown to get some pt a couple of weeks ago, but the team did not oblige. now they finally did,big deal, he will be back in the league before you know it

2/8/2006 3:40:59 AM

Shav is almost kinda like Duke's Willie Parker

2/8/2006 10:04:39 AM

Could be worse... could be EA Sports All-Stars... I wonder how much they make anyway.

2/8/2006 12:00:48 PM

I thought Hodge was "the man"

2/8/2006 1:08:25 PM

^Please stop posting.

[Edited on February 8, 2006 at 1:09 PM. Reason : ]

2/8/2006 1:09:00 PM

Quote :

"damn, i think you guys are all wrong, he is a first round pick, he does not have to "make it out", he is "out" they are just sending him down to actually get some playing time, he will be on the roster next year nobody has any problem with Ladd going back and forth for the Canes, they are just trying to get the kid reps and shifts"

Hockey is VERY different from the NBA as far as minor league affiliations go.

2/8/2006 1:09:31 PM

^^ You are the only person in sports talk that doesnt know shit about sports.

So you are denying that he was "the man"? Thats fucked up, thought you were a big State fan. Guess not

[Edited on February 8, 2006 at 1:12 PM. Reason : d]

2/8/2006 1:11:43 PM

I really hope you didn't graduate from this institution.

2/8/2006 1:14:06 PM

Quote :

"Hockey is VERY different from the NBA as far as minor league affiliations go."

god damn.....thanks for providing me with this info that I was clearly lacking

I was just making a parallel, and showing that going down for PT for young pro athletes is not that bad of a thing

it is clear by the tone of this early thread that many on here thought Hodge had been dismissed from the team, contract restructured, demoted, etc. and I was just trying to point out that the kid has been ASKING to go down for some time now because he feels he can better himself with playing time.

The only difference between the hockey minors and the NBDL is the stigma attached to it, in the future I am sure that the NBA would love for the NBDL to become profitable, and have fan bases, and provide a place for the young talent in the league to cut their teeth, but right now it carries a journeyman stigma to it, and that should not be the case, especially with a guy like hodge who could CLEARLY benefit from some playing time, travel/game experience, and some time in the gym.

2/8/2006 2:42:08 PM

i thought it was just the NBDL

2/8/2006 2:49:30 PM

you thought right.

2/8/2006 3:44:08 PM

Quote :

"The only difference between the hockey minors and the NBDL is the stigma attached to it, in the future I am sure that the NBA would love for the NBDL to become profitable, and have fan bases, and provide a place for the young talent in the league to cut their teeth, but right now it carries a journeyman stigma to it, and that should not be the case, especially with a guy like hodge who could CLEARLY benefit from some playing time, travel/game experience, and some time in the gym."

well that and the limitation on how much a player can move back and forth. in hockey, if someone's having a bad stretch, you send em down to work out the kinks. cant do that in the nba. well i guess you can but its far less of an option.

2/8/2006 6:01:53 PM

fyi grundy and the dazzle visit the toros and hodge this weekend (fri/sat i think)...if anybody is in tejas they could go hit up the austin convention center (which is where the austin rodeo and austin rollerderby is also held).

2/8/2006 10:29:53 PM

http://www.nba.com/dleague/games/20060210/AUSTUL/livestats.html

lives stats of the game. looks like he is riding the pine in this one too!

2/10/2006 8:16:35 PM

the game just started and neither team has made any subsitutions

[Edited on February 10, 2006 at 8:34 PM. Reason : in the game now]

[Edited on February 10, 2006 at 8:35 PM. Reason : WITH THE SLAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

2/10/2006 8:24:37 PM

3-5, 6 points in 8 minutes of play so far.

2/10/2006 8:54:12 PM

where are you watching this?

2/10/2006 8:55:25 PM

i clicked the listen live link in the page you posted.

http://broadband.nba.com/cc/playa.php?content=audio&url=http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia-live/nba/9815/20_nba-tulsa_audio_051115.asx&include=audio_default_include.html&video=undefined

2/10/2006 8:56:51 PM

Go, Hodge!

2/10/2006 9:30:33 PM

(4:01) [AUS 63-57] Hodge Layup Shot: Made (8 PTS)


he needs to get 20, quick

2/10/2006 9:40:05 PM

10

2/10/2006 9:46:27 PM

missed a layup

2/10/2006 9:48:05 PM

haha, hes hodging the ball. already has more shot attempts than anyone else.

2/10/2006 9:49:27 PM

(10:48) [AUS 71-63] Hodge Free Throw 2 of 2 (12 PTS)
(10:48) [AUS 70-63] Hodge Free Throw 1 of 2 (11 PTS)


woot


17 points now

19, 9 in the 4th.



[Edited on February 10, 2006 at 10:12 PM. Reason : ]

2/10/2006 9:56:22 PM

17

2/10/2006 10:11:01 PM

20!

21

[Edited on February 10, 2006 at 10:24 PM. Reason : ]

2/10/2006 10:19:11 PM

gg 21 pts at the final

2/10/2006 10:27:08 PM

Nice first game.

2/10/2006 10:32:55 PM

dizzam. wonder how long he had to practice. he just told everyone on the team to move over.

2/10/2006 10:39:42 PM

I thought Hodge was the man

2/10/2006 10:41:08 PM