Daniel Ruffin to play for San Antonio Spurs Summer League team

[SFP]

If for some reason he does not make their NBA team the Spurs have a great reputation with their development team. He would also be practicing up against Parker which will only make him better. I guess the next news will be Cellus making a team.

[BU ICEMAN]

Tolliver and Tatum are on the Spurs' summer league team as well. That's a great statement for the Valley right there! Perhaps the best-run NBA team has 3 former Valley members on their summer-league roster--that says something about the quality of players the Valley develops.

I don't find it a coincidence that it's the Spurs that have all these guys on their roster. The Spurs do one heckuva job as an organization of evaluating talent; they've been really successful with their foreign players, I don't see why it should be any different with guys that might be overlooked outta college.

[ser_solace]

It would appear that NBATV, which I didn't even know I had, broadcasts at least some of these games as there's one between Clippers and Mavs on right now. Channel 514 on Comcast in P-town.

Here's the schedule on-line:

http://www.nba.com/summerleague2008/vsl_tvschedule08.html

I think all games are available webcasted on nba.com. Potentially, we might get to see Ruff play tomorrow night when the Spurs play the Grizzlies @ 10:30 p.m. eastern.

[ser_solace]

If for some reason he does not make their NBA team the Spurs have a great reputation with their development team. He would also be practicing up against Parker which will only make him better. I guess the next news will be Cellus making a team.

Would Cellus go this route though? He's done the summer league thing, and the development team probably doesn't pay as much as his euro team (not sure).

I assume if Cellus makes it to a NBA team, he'd want to just get picked-up as a free agent or something out of the Euro leagues like Anthony Parker. And that may not happen until a few more years. Anthony Parker was a superstar in Europe before getting re-signed to a NBA team.

[Braves4Life]

Here's the schedule on-line:

http://www.nba.com/summerleague2008/vsl_tvschedule08.html

I think all games are available webcasted on nba.com. Potentially, we might get to see Ruff play tomorrow night when the Spurs play the Grizzlies @ 10:30 p.m. eastern.

This game will probably be available here: http://www.channelsurfing.net/

[Da Coach]

Reminder-
The San Antonio Spurs summer league team with Daniel Ruffin, Jamaal Tatum, and Anthony Tolliver plays their first game tonight at 10:30 Eastern (9:30 Central) against the Memphis Grizzlies team.

http://nba.com/summerleague2008/team/index.jsp?team=spurs

The Grizzlies have already played 3 games and they are 2-1 with OJ Mayo leading them in scoring--

http://nba.com/summerleague2008/team/index.jsp?team=grizzlies

It will probably be a tough game for the Spurs team to start with, but I would like to see Jamaal Tatum shut down OJ Mayo, while Ruffin, Roger Powell, and Tolliver go for double figures.

[Braves4Life]

Reminder-
The San Antonio Spurs summer league team with Daniel Ruffin, Jamaal Tatum, and Anthony Tolliver plays their first game tonight at 10:30 Eastern (9:30 Central) against the Memphis Grizzlies team.

http://nba.com/summerleague2008/team/index.jsp?team=spurs

The Grizzlies have already played 3 games and they are 2-1 with OJ Mayo leading them in scoring--

http://nba.com/summerleague2008/team/index.jsp?team=grizzlies

It will probably be a tough game for the Spurs team to start with, but I would like to see Jamaal Tatum shut down OJ Mayo, while Ruffin, Roger Powell, and Tolliver go for double figures.

This has now been posted as being on here: http://www.channelsurfing.net/

[thefish7]

According to the Spurs' summer roster DRuff must have transferred to Air Force after his senior season.

[Braves4Life]

According to the Spurs' summer roster DRuff must have transferred to Air Force after his senior season.

Maybe this was done for disciplinary reasons

[Da Coach]

They have another player named Tim Whitworth listed as being from Bradley. Either their staff is a little mixed up, or we had a player I don't remember-

http://nba.com/summerleague2008/team/index.jsp?team=spurs

[ph]

They have another player named Tim Whitworth listed as being from Bradley. Either their staff is a little mixed up, or we had a player I don't remember-
http://nba.com/summerleague2008/team...jsp?team=spurs

He played football for Bradley before going pro in basketball

[Da Coach]

Actually, Tim Whitworth played at Drexel and graduated in 2004 and has been playing in Europe since then.

Most of the players schools are screwed up on that roster. Dan Nwaelele, who is listed as being from Furman, is really from Air Force. Aleks Maric was from Nebraska, not Arkansas, and others are incorrect, too.

[mike radigan]

You guys are all wrong. The Austin Spurs would never make such a mistake.

[sam hannam]

Dan Ruffin was released by the Spurs last Saturday. He is running his basketball camp at Central this week. Says that he will probably play in Europe next year. He would like to play with his brother A.J. Guyton.

[Da Coach]

Some bad news-- the San Antonio Spurs released Daniel over the weekend. He is back in Peoria this week and next working on his "M.A.D. Skillz" summer basketball camp at Peoria Central with A.J. Guyton and Marcellus Sommerville, and looking to catch on with a pro team in Europe.

edit- looks like Sam beat me to this report.