Dan Reed

Well, its been just over two weeks since our draft on November 5th, and exactly a week until our season tips off on "Basketball Black Friday", Friday November 27th.  But it feels like we're already in full swing -- all of our teams are very busy evaluating players in training camps, selling tickets to those last minute season ticket buyers, and planning for the first few home games of the season.

As another example of the flurry of activity around the league, we've already had our first Gatorade Call-Up of the season, as Chris Hunter of the Fort Wayne Mad Ants just got the call from the Golden State Warriors! Congrats to Chris, for whom this is well-deserved, as he's been very close for a while -- he was called up to the Knicks last year and had a great summer and training camp this week.  That now makes three straight years that we've had a player called up directly out of our training camp.

We also launched our new website this week -- doesn't it look much sleeker and cleaner?  We certainly thought so.  Besides updating the look and feel, we wanted to emphasize all of the great video we will capture this season, as well as all of the activity that we're seeing on our Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr and Flickr pages.  Even though our site's functionality will only continue to improve as we get farther into the season, please click around the site and if you think there's anything else we should consider doing, send me a comment below and we'll get right on it.  And if you're interested, you can start by checking out yours truly as I recount one of my favorite moments in NBA D-League history.  

Preseason games start tonight, and run all this weekend!  Click here for a list of this weekend's contests, and if you're near any of these arenas go check us out.