Korean KBL Season 2010-2011

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Next season in the Korean Basketball League, the board and team representatives have agreed to place a quota on foreign players; thereby reducing foreign players or "imports" to one per team.

"I believe this will develop our local players more and hopefully better performance on the International competition" a KBL official told The Korea Times.

Take that Mobis Phoebus and KT&G Kites not so imposing now eh?

Now my LG Sakers faces the dilemma of who to retain. Chris Alexander or Greg Stevenson. 100% sure Warren Reginald will not be back.

 

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Since the KBL has an Import Quota, only a small handful will be able to actually play for the said teams on the KBL. But the quota does not bear any restriction of signing another Import for reserve due to injuries, thus be relegated to the Injury Replacements.

2010 KBL Tryout Registered Players (165 players)

Sec # First Name Last Name DOB Univ.
1 1 Alfred Aboya 85.01.02 UCLA
2 6 Jeff Adrien 86.02.10 Connecticut
3 7 Uka Agbai 81.05.07 Boston College
4 8 Dokun Akingbade 84.06.05 George Washington
5 15 Ramel Allen 79.06.05 Bridgeport
6 19 Serge Angounou 83.09.01 Arizona
7 24 Julius Ashby 82.09.16 Univ. of Colorado
8 30 Kyle Austin 88.10.18 UC Riverside
9 35 Alpha Bangura 80.02.04 St Johns Univ.
10 39 Ousmane Barro 84.12.07 Marquette
11 41 Nashid Beard 83.02.16 Lamar
12 43 Romel Beck 82.05.29 UNLV
13 46 Rashad Bell 82.09.23 Boston
14 48 Rodrigue Benson 84.10.10 Cal State-Berkeley
15 54 Odartey Blankson 82.03.12 UNLV
16 62 Drelke Bouldin 80.07.08 Fresno State NCAA
17 63 Ruben Boumtje 78.05.20 Georgetown
18 68 Torraye Braggs 76.03.15 Xavier
19 69 Micah Brand 80.10.18 Massachusetts
20 70 Craig Bradshaw 83.07.28 Winthrop
21 86 Robert Brown 80.02.17 Buffalo
22 88 Keith Brumbaugh 85.09.29 Hillsbourgh JC
23 89 John Bryant 87.06.13 Santa Clara
24 111 Dennis Carr 81.01.27 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ.
25 117 Marquin Chandler 82.03.11 San jose St.Univ.
26 123 Ivory Clark 85.06.01 Washington St. Univ.
27 124 Ramon Clemente 85.12.11 Wichita St.
28 125 Gyasi Cline-Heard 79.08.16 Penn St
29 129 Donald Cole 81.09.06 Sam Houston St
30 139 Duke Crews 88.01.20 Bowie St.
31 143 Roberts Cummings 81.08.31 UCLA
32 146 Joe Dabbert 81.06.16 Creighton
33 147 Chris Daniels 84.04.19 Texas A&M CC
34 148 Christopher Daniels 82.01.26 Georgia
35 150 Kendall Dartez 80.12.01 Vincennes Univ.
36 152 Bennet Davis 84.03.14 Northeastern Univ.
37 154 Bryan Davis 86.12.31 Texas A&M
38 157 James Davis 85.06.12 Lamar
39 163 Eric Dawson 84.07.07 Midwestern
40 168 Terence Dials 83.07.15 Ohio State Univ.
41 170 Anthony Dill 81.10.27 Texas St
42 173 Nigel Dixon 80.09.06 W.Kentucky
43 174 Jakim Donaldson 83.09.03 Edinboro
44 179 Casiem Drummond 88.02.10 Marist
45 182 Josh Duncan 86.05.12 Xavier
46 188 Gavin Edwards 88.01.15 Connecticut
47 189 J.K (Juan Khalif) Edwards 82.09.06 UNLV
48 192 Laurence Ekperigin 88.02.21 Le Moyne
49 203 Jaremy Evans 87.10.24 Western Kentucky
50 206 Callitus Eziukwu 85.07.03 Grand Valley St.
51 210 Noel Felix 81.10.04 Frensno St.
52 212 Anwar Ferguson 81.10.10 Houston Univ.
53 214 Michael Fey 83.05.29 UCLA
54 219 Jeff Foote 87.07.14 Cornell
55 221 Richard Ford 85.01.03 Washington
56 222 Tremaine Ford 86.12.11 Cal.St.Northridge
57 234 Rashaun Freeman 81.03.15 Massachusetts Univ.
58 236 Will Frisby 81.06.09 Miami
59 243 Otis George 82.05.07 Louisville
60 247 Jeff Gibbs 80.08.04 Otterbein
61 248 Johnnie Gilbert 81.03.08 Oklahoma
62 249 Devonne Giles 83.07.21 Texas Tech
63 256 Kentrell Gransberry 85.08.01 Univ. of South Florida
64 264 Nathan Green 75.07.19 Idaho State Univ.
65 265 Rodney Green 88.06.24 La Salle
66 266 Brian Greene 81.08.30 Colorado St.
67 275 Gary Hamilton 84.08.07 U of Miami
68 291 Dennis Harrison JR 79.05.07 Trennis Jones
69 298 Christopher Hayes 87.02.17 Univ. of Detroit Mercy
70 300 Aaron Haynes 81.04.01 Boise St.
71 301 Michael Haynes 81.03.15 Fordham Univ.
72 315 Herbert Hill 84.10.01 Providence
73 316 Lawrence Hill 87.08.16 Stanford
74 317 Kyle Hines 86.09.02 NC Greenboro
75 318 Robert Hines 84.01.06 St.Francis
76 321 Delonte Holland 82.03.02 De Paul
77 330 Marcus Hubbard 83.12.23 Angelo State Univ.
78 335 Ryan Humphrey 79.06.24 Notre Dame
79 340 Cedric Jackson 84.07.14 Troy St.
80 346 Gordon James 79.12.04 Bridgeport
81 350 Anthony Johnson 79.04.13 Louisiana Lafayett
82 351 Anthony Johnson 88.05.19 Faorfield
83 363 Johnathan Jones 79.01.09 Brat
84 365 Michael Jones 82.05.19 Sterling College
85 370 Jonathan Kale 85.10.18 Providence
86 386 Joe Krabbenhoft 87.03.24 Wisconsin
87 392 Dan Langhi 77.11.28 Vanderbilt
88 394 Reggie Larry 86.10.26 Boise St.
89 400 Terrence Leather 81.01.07 South Florida
90 402 Christopher Lee 85.01.09 Georgetown college
91 404 Gerald Lee 87.11.23 Old Dominion
92 407 Jai Lewis 83.02.13 George Mason
93 413 Nathan Linhart 86.11.14 AKRON
94 415 Donald Little 78.05.10 Cincinnati
95 418 Reo Logan 81.07.25 Adam Prossin
96 424 Kevin Lyde 80.09.13 Temple Univ.
97 425 Amal Maccaskill 73.10.28 Marquette
98 437 Ben McCauley 86.09.06 North Carolina St.
99 442 Glen McGowan 81.03.23 Pepperdine Univ.
100 443 Akida Mclain 86.03.18 Boston
101 444 Alex Mclean 85.10.20 Liberty
102 447 Antonio Meeking 81.08.24 Louisiana Tech
103 451 Jarred Merrill 81.12.05 Oklahoma Christian
104 452 Scott Merritt 82.01.03 Marquette Univ.
105 458 Charles Minlend 73.05.15 St.John's
106 469 Raymar Morgan 88.08.08 Michigan St.
107 481 Lee Nailon 75.02.22 TCU
108 484 Andrew Naymick 85.02.18 Michigan State Univ.
109 486 Rod Nealy 80.09.06 Houston Baptist Univ.
110 492 Justin Neuhaus 87.04.08 Colorado Christian
111 497 Pierre Niles 87.06.07 Memphis
112 498 Ray Nixon 84.09.10 Winsconsin Univ.
113 505 Dinma Odiakosa 85.12.01 Illinois St.
114 507 Andrew Ogilvy 88.06.17 Vanderbilt
115 513 Arinze Onuaku 87.07.13 Wyracuse
116 519 Kevin Owens 80.06.09 Monmouth Univ.
117 520 Larry Owens 83.01.08 Oral Roberts
118 524 Elijah Palmer 81.02.20 Duquense
119 531 Jeff Parmer 85.04.27 Florida
120 537 James Peters 81.05.24 UNLV
121 539 Marvin Phillips 83.12.28 Claflin
122 547 Shawn Redhage 81.01.21 Arizona St.
123 549 Jared Reiner 82.04.08 Iowa
124 553 Charles Rhodes 85.06.25 Mississippi St
125 556 Darius Rice 82.10.16 Miami
126 567 Michael Roll 87.03.30 UCLA
127 574 Omar Samhan 88.11.03 St. Mary CA
128 578 Marco Sanders 79.08.11 Point Park Univ.
129 584 Ernest Scott 82.08.28 Valdosta State Univ.
130 585 Kahiem Seawrignt 86.12.17 Univ. of Rhode Island
131 586 Sylvester Seay 85.07.29 Fresno St.
132 587 Daryan Selvy 79.01.26 Oklahoma Univ.
133 589 Ansu Sesay 76.01.29
134 595 Joseph Shipp 81.02.25 California
135 597 David Simon 82.08.09 IUPUI-Ft.Wayne
136 598 Anthony Simpson 87.03.21 Kent.St.
137 601 Stephen Sir 85.09.16 N.Arizona
138 607 Jabari Smith 77.02.12 L.S.U
139 618 Sean Sonderleiter 80.12.17 Univ. of Iowa
140 619 Michael Southall 82.03.29 Louisiana LaFayette
141 635 Derek Strinbling 82.11.16 Tennessee Tech
142 642 Chris Taft 85.03.10 Pittsburgh
143 645 Cyrus Tate 85.09.23 Iowa
144 648 Joseph Taylor 85.08.17 Wyoming
145 651 David Teague 83.06.04 Purdue Univ.
146 653 Douglas Thomas 83.09.20 Univ. of Iowa
147 660 Terrance Thomas 80.12.29 Baylor
148 662 Victor Thomas 79.02.19 La Salle
149 665 Deon Thompson 88.09.16 North Carolina
150 666 Garnett Thompson 80.07.17 Providence
151 667 Ronald Thompson 81.05.14 Morehouse College
152 676 Romeo Travis 84.12.10 Akron Univ.
153 681 Larry Turner 82.12.29 Tennessee
154 693 Jeff Varem 83.07.16 Washington St
155 697 Kyle Visser 85.10.19 Wake Forest
156 702 Samaki Walker 76.02.25 Louisville, Kentucky
157 709 Gordon Watt 86.03.20 Houston
158 713 Isaac Wells 85.08.18 Arkansas St.
159 721 Wendell White 84.09.03 UNLV
160 728 Gary Wilkinson 82.10.02 Utah St.
161 735 James Williams 79.06.25 Brown Mackie
162 754 Akeem Wright 84.11.01 Kansas St.
163 755 Ryan Wright 87.01.27 Oklahoma
164 761 Kenny Younger 77.10.21 Houston
165 762 Nick Zachery 79.05.09 UALR

Since Chris Alexander could be playing in Spain next season, LG Sakers will need another productive center as Baek In-Seon will not be sufficient to carry us even on the 1st round.

Possible candidates next season are:

Samaki Walker former Los Angeles Lakers
Ruben Boumtjie former Cleveland Cavaliers
Ryan Humphries former Roanoke Dazzle (NBDL)
Tony Battie former Orlando Magic (This is certainly wishful thinking as he never showed up in Las Vegas but is fast-tracking his application through mediums such as email and courier.

 

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Seven players have applied to enter the second Korean Basketball League (KBL) ethnic Korean draft, the league announced Wednesday.

The seven players will take part in a tryout and draft on Feb. 2 and 3. Teams will be looking for the next Moon Tae-young of the LG Sakers or Jun Tae-poong of the KCC Egis, who were taken in the first draft a year ago and have made an impact on the league this season.

Among the most highly-touted of the seven is 2.04-meter Joseph Fontenot, who was an all-state player in Maryland when he was in high school and went on to play at Connors State College, but has yet to play professionally.

“I want to be evaluated based on my abilities, not my experience,” the 21-year-old said

The Ulsan Mobis, Dongbu Promy, ET Land Elephants, SK Knights and Daegu Orions didn’t select a player in last year’s ethnic Korean draft and will be eligible to make a pick this year.

All have expressed interest in Fontenot, however, many believe Jarod Stevenson, the older brother of Moon Tae-young, is the best player available.

Stevenson wasn’t at the orientation session in Seoul Wednesday because he’s playing in Serbia’s top basketball league this year. Stevenson is bigger than his brother and he’s said to be more advanced as well; Moon is currently leading the KBL in points per game.

Stevenson has played in Russia, Spain and Greece but the knock on him is his age; he’ll be 36 when he plays his first game in the KBL.

Among the others who have entered the draft, Anthony Galloway is back again after not being selected last season. Park Wayne Cleveland, Andrew Estebo, Ronald Tinsley and Mark Warrington round out the list.

The weird part is, Stevenson could be the OLDEST ever to be picked on the draft. SK Knights need ceiling and they have a good chance to nabbing him.

 

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According to my LG Sakers insider and good friend, James Edrupt, Chris Alexander will be returning next season as LG signed him to a 1 year contract. But we lost Lee Hyeon Min due to round of duties and enlistment to the army. This is bad, we have no PG at the moment.

 

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Ulsan Mobis signs All-Star Guard Yang Dong-Geun

DongBu Promy signs former KBL League MVP (07-08) Kim Joo-Sung

Yang Dong-Geun is currently training with the South Korean NT for the Asian Games.

 

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Tony Battie had pulled out of negotiations with any KBL team as he was offered a contract by the Philadelphia 76ers.

 

[Khalid802]

Omar Samhan should also be removed from the list since he has already signed a contract with Zalgiris Kaunas (Lithuania) last week.

 

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The Daegu Orions have signed Center Otis George formerly of the NBDL Tulsa 66ers and Umana Reyer Venezia.

George will provide the rebounding on which the Orions badly needed. They finished at the bottom of the league with the record of 15-40. Last season, Herbert Hill and Jung-Hoon as well as Lee Dong-Jun played Center, as they were all small forwards at natural.

 

[the_black_planet2]

Aris just signed Bryant Dunston,MVP of the last KBL and champion.Guys anybody have seen this player?What can you tell about him??Thanks in advanve

 

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Bryant Dunston has a nice offensive game but his defensive capabilities are what stood out. Lead the KBL in shot-blocks at one point. He can guard fast forwards and able to stay on the perimeter.

 

[the_black_planet2]

Thank you very much my friend!At least you are saying what I wanted to hear.What do you think is he able to play on better level?What do you think of the Korean League competition level,compared for example with CBA,CBA has for sure better names for imports,so is KBL close to this level,especially concerning tall guys?

 

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Thank you very much my friend!At least you are saying what I wanted to hear.What do you think is he able to play on better level?What do you think of the Korean League competition level,compared for example with CBA,CBA has for sure better names for imports,so is KBL close to this level,especially concerning tall guys?

It will be a big challenge for Bryant Dunston to be playing for Aris and against better opposition. I believe that the CBA's level of play is better overall than that of the KBL as ex-CBA imports who did not play well on the CBA are considered star players on the KBL on which the KBL's level of play have stagnated due to over reliance on imports.

 

[sinobball2]

2010 KBL Import Draft Result

2010 KBL Import Draft Result

1st Round
1 Jasper Johnson Delta State
2 Chris Alexander Iowa State
3 Glen McGowan Pepperdine
4 David Simon IPFW
5 Herbert Hill Providence
6 Terrence Leather South Florida
7 Chris Daniels Texas A&M - Corpus Christi
8 Rod Benson Cal
9 Noel Felix Fresno State
10 Micah Brand Massachusetts

2nd round
11 Laurence Ekperegin LeMoyne
12 Aaron Haynes Boise State
13 Victor Thomas LaSalle
14 Eric Dawson Midwestern
15 Michael Haynes Fordham
16 Ousmane Barro Marquette
17 Gavin Edwards Connecticut
18 Otis George Louisville
19 Marcus Hubbard Angelo State
20 Charles Rhodes Mississippi State

I believe the 1-import rule won't take effect until 2011-2012. For the time being it's still 2 imports, playing a total of 1 import's minutes. Half-Koreans are not counted as imports.

 

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I believe the 1-import rule won't take effect until 2011-2012. For the time being it's still 2 imports, playing a total of 1 import's minutes. Half-Koreans are not counted as imports.

Thanks for the info, I checked with the local media and the decision on the Import Quota was not yet ratified due to administrative procedures. But it should take effect next season.

 

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Former University of Connecticut standout Gavin Edwards has signed a 1 year contract with Anyang KT&G Kites. Gavin Edwards played for the Phoenix Suns Summer League Squad on the NBA Summer League.

 

[mayfel2]

1st Round
1 Jasper Johnson Delta State
2 Chris Alexander Iowa State
3 Glen McGowan Pepperdine
4 David Simon IPFW
5 Herbert Hill Providence
6 Terrence Leather South Florida
7 Chris Daniels Texas A&M - Corpus Christi
8 Rod Benson Cal
9 Noel Felix Fresno State
10 Micah Brand Massachusetts

2nd round
11 Laurence Ekperegin LeMoyne
12 Aaron Haynes Boise State
13 Victor Thomas LaSalle
14 Eric Dawson Midwestern
15 Michael Haynes Fordham
16 Ousmane Barro Marquette
17 Gavin Edwards Connecticut
18 Otis George Louisville
19 Marcus Hubbard Angelo State
20 Charles Rhodes Mississippi State

I believe the 1-import rule won't take effect until 2011-2012. For the time being it's still 2 imports, playing a total of 1 import's minutes. Half-Koreans are not counted as imports.

Rod Nealy was not been drafted, this guy almost quit his duty with rain or shine in the quaterfinals but he played with sub par performance because his mind was in this kbl draft

 

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There are talks between the KBL and JBL about:

All-Star Game pitting KBL All-Stars vs. JBL All-Stars. It was in 2007 where the KBL and CBA held an All-Star Game exhibition where KBL All-stars vs. CBA All-Stars. The game was held in China.

Also, there could be another South-Korea / Japan Championship Series just like in 2008.

 

[reamily2]

how about kbl pitting against their daddy Pba all stars bothnin korea and Manila

positives

It will open the yes of Filipino audience bout Koran basketball
theres basketball outside phils and nba and for some euroleague for filipino fans

 

[CKR132]

how about kbl pitting against their daddy Pba all stars bothnin korea and Manila

positives

It will open the yes of Filipino audience bout Koran basketball
theres basketball outside phils and nba and for some euroleague for filipino fans

Sounds great.

I hope someday that the KBL and PBA will hold a championship series game between KBL champion vs PBA champion (Preferably Fiesta Cup Champs) or KBL All-Stars vs. PBA All-Stars.

With the influx of South Koreans on the Philippines as well as warm diplomatic ties by both government, I think it will happen someday.

The last time a KBL Team was on Manila I think was in 2008 where the Samsung SK Knights lead by former PBA Import Marquin Chandler had a series of exhibition games against PBA Teams.

At the moment, the KBL has strong ties with CBA and JBL. With the recent Korean Import Draft on Las Vegas and the Korean Development Basketball camp held recently in Seoul, the KBL and NBA have forged stronger ties.

 

[sinobball2]

There are talks between the KBL and JBL about:

All-Star Game pitting KBL All-Stars vs. JBL All-Stars. It was in 2007 where the KBL and CBA held an All-Star Game exhibition where KBL All-stars vs. CBA All-Stars. The game was held in China.

Also, there could be another South-Korea / Japan Championship Series just like in 2008.

1. KBL-CBA All-star games was held for many years not just in 2007 (too lazy to check). In every of these years there were 2 games, one in China and one in Korea.

2. The Korea/Japan Championship series was also held for many years not just in 2008 (too lazy to check). It was a preseason series between the previous KBL champion and the BJ-league (not JBL) champion. In every year there were also 2 games, one in Korea and one in Japan.