Missouri Valley players who have played in the NBA

[tornado]

Here's some totals on all the players I know of who played in the MVC then played on an NBA team...SINCE 2000...plus a few others who are on the verge of doing so..
(only going back to 2000 since the MVC has been pretty stable as far as teams involved since then)

Bradley
Hersey Hawkins 14,470 pts in 983 games
Danny Granger 9,855 pts in 586 games
Anthony Parker 4,478 pts in 494 games
Patrick O'Bryant 186 pts in 90 games

Creighton
Kyle Korver 9,617 pts in 964 games
Anthony Tolliver 2,744 pts in 455 games
Rodney Buford 1,472 pts in 240 games
Doug McDermott 873 pts in 117 games

Evansville
Egidijus Mockevicius 0/0 but under contract for this season

Missouri State
Blake Ahearn 88 pts in 19 games

SIU
Troy Hudson 4,637 pts in 517 games
Chris Carr 1,988 pts in 298 games
Antonio Harvey (started his college career at SIU) 553 pts in 187 games

Wichita State
Maurice "Mo" Evans 3,747 pts in 562 games
Cleanthony Early 241 pts in 56 games
Toure Murry 146 pts in 56 games
Gal Mekel 79 pts in 35 games
Fred Van Vleet 0/0 but under contract this season
Ron Baker 0/0 but under contract this season


There were others who were signed to teams in the MVC but never played in the Valley (Grundy at BU, McDermott at UNI) but let me know if I missed anyone else who played in the NBA

[Da Coach]

Ashraf Amaya's last NBA game was in 1997

[tornado]

gotcha- he played professionally til 2004 but not NBA.. so strike one from the SIU list

[Stickboy46]

Here's some totals on all the players I know of who played in the MVC then played on an NBA team...SINCE 2000...plus a few others who are on the verge of doing so..
(only going back to 2000 since the MVC has been pretty stable as far as teams involved since then)

Bradley
Hersey Hawkins 14,470 pts in 983 games
Danny Granger 9,855 pts in 586 games
Anthony Parker 4,478 pts in 494 games
Patrick O'Bryant 186 pts in 90 games

Creighton
Kyle Korver 9,617 pts in 964 games
Anthony Tolliver 2,744 pts in 455 games
Rodney Buford 1,472 pts in 240 games
Doug McDermott 873 pts in 117 games

Evansville
Egidijus Mockevicius 0/0 but under contract for this season

Missouri State
Blake Ahearn 88 pts in 19 games

SIU
Troy Hudson 4,637 pts in 517 games
Chris Carr 1,988 pts in 298 games
Antonio Harvey (started his college career at SIU) 553 pts in 187 games

Wichita State
Maurice "Mo" Evans 3,747 pts in 562 games
Cleanthony Early 241 pts in 56 games
Toure Murry 146 pts in 56 games
Gal Mekel 79 pts in 35 games
Fred Van Vleet 0/0 but under contract this season
Ron Baker 0/0 but under contract this season


There were others who were signed to teams in the MVC but never played in the Valley (Grundy at BU, McDermott at UNI) but let me know if I missed anyone else who played in the NBA

Didn't Mock get cut today by the nets?

[tornado]

cut yesterday - LINK
but still under a guaranteed $100K salary so now he will have to decide if he wants to play in the D-League with hopes that a few Nets get hurt & he'll get a call-up..
Or - he may just get a nice deal in Lithuania and take that instead for the long term plan...

[Stickboy46]

BAKER UPDATE:
Read on a Knicks forum that they released Randle, Amundson, and Tokoto ... That is VERY good news for Baker.

"The Knicks have released Lou Amundson and JP Tokoto per ESPN sources"

"The Knicks have decided to release guard Chasson Randle, league sources told ESPN."

"Sources: Knicks waived guard Chasson Randle, plan more releases to clear likely roster spot for Ron Baker. Randle two weeks away in return."

[Da Coach]

After the final cuts announced this morning, Ron Baker has officially made the NY Knicks regular season roster.

The Toronto Raptors have not yet announced their final cuts, but Fred Van Fleet is virtually a lock to make the team's final roster, too.

[Da Coach]

Toronto just named Van Fleet to the 15th and final roster spot. So the MVC has 2 new players in the NBA

https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/789855853599858688

[tornado]

good job..
I wonder how many times two players from the same MVC team debuted on an NBA regular season roster at the same time (in the same season)...


I believe the answer is ....this
(mouse over to see)

Toure' Murry and Gal Mekel both debuted in the NBA in 2013-14
Chris Carr & Ashraf Amaya both did in 1995-96
Hersey Hawkins & Jim Les both did in 1988-89
David Thirdkill & Mitchell Anderson did in 1982-83
Barney Cable & Shellie McMillion both did in 1958-59
Larry Finch & Larry Kenon did in 1973-74

[tornado]

Fred Van Vleet still has not made his NBA debut...
last night the Raptors almost pulled an upset but lost to the Cavaliers 94-91
However, Fred did not play. He also did not play in their opener - a 109-91 win over Detroit

early predictions of the Warriors demise may have been premature- they snapped back and won last night despite 45 pts/17 rebs from Anthony Davis!
Durant had 30 pts/17 rebs

Lawrence Westbrook went for 51 last night in a 113-110 win over the Suns



Here's an interesting stat!
Ron Baker leads the Knicks in PER (Player Efficiency Rating) - at 27.3
He scored 5 pts in the final 7 minutes of their opener.
But another player who also got some blowout garbage time Mindaugas Kuzminskas, is right on his heels at 26.3


One other MVC guy Kyle Korver scored just 5 pts in his season opener, a 114-99 win over the Wizards
Anthony Tolliver has 8 pts in two games for the 1-1 Sacramento Kings.
Toure Murry was waived by the T-Wolves and is no longer on an NBA roster
The other ex-MVC guy, Doug McDermott had 5 pts in the Bulls opening night win over the Celtics

[Da Coach]

...

Lawrence Westbrook went for 51 last night in a 113-110 win over the Suns...

Lawrence Westbrook had 51 points last night on 17-44 shooting. He was only 2-10 from three. His shooting percentage was not very good, but he kept shooting. 44 shots! I don't know that I have ever seen a player take 44 shots in a game.
Even when Michael Jordan scored his career high of 69 points, he was 23 of 37 from the floor.
When Kevin Durant scored his career high of 54 points for the Thunder in 2014, he was 19 of 28 from the floor, 5 for 9 on threes (16 fewer shots than Westbrook!).

[Da Coach]

Ron Baker injures ankle in practice and is questionable for tonight's Knicks game against the Memphis Grizzlies-
Baker questionable for Saturday against Grizzlies

http://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/basketball/news/knicks-ron-baker-questionable-for-saturday/

One article jokingly claimed:
Knicks practice notes: Ron Baker injured his ankle, all hope is now lost

http://www.postingandtoasting.com/2016/10/28/13462788/knicks-practice-notes-ron-baker-injured-his-ankle-all-hope-is-now-lost

[LongTimeFan]

Lawrence Westbrook had 51 points last night on 17-44 shooting. He was only 2-10 from three. His shooting percentage was not very good, but he kept shooting. 44 shots! I don't know that I have ever seen a player take 44 shots in a game.
Even when Michael Jordan scored his career high of 69 points, he was 23 of 37 from the floor.
When Kevin Durant scored his career high of 54 points for the Thunder in 2014, he was 19 of 28 from the floor, 5 for 9 on threes (16 fewer shots than Westbrook!).

I wonder how many shots Wilt took in his 100 point game.

[Da Coach]

I wonder how many shots Wilt took in his 100 point game.

Wilt was 36 of 63 that game. That was a different era of NBA basketball (March 2, 1962), and Wilt was a totally unique player for that era.

Since 1983, there have been only 3 players who have taken more than 44 shots in a game. Kobe did it 4 times, Chris Webber and Michael Jordan did it once each.-

http://www.basketball-reference.com/leaders/fga_game.html

[LongTimeFan]

Told you I was old.

It was still interesting to see he and Russel battle each other.