Men's Basketball Atlantic 10 Conference

A-10 Sends Nine Former Players to NBA Summer Leagues

NEWPORT NEWS, Va.--Nine former Atlantic 10 men’s basketball standouts are participating in the 2015 NBA Summer Leagues. Five of the nine are players who completed their college careers this past year.

The following is a list of former A-10 student-athletes who are on NBA Summer League rosters:

Player

School

Pro Team

Tyler Kalinoski

Davidson

Miami Heat

Chris Johnson

Dayton

Utah Jazz

Jordan Sibert

Dayton

Orlando Magic (Blue Team)

Cady Lalanne

Massachusetts

San Antonio Spurs

Justin Harper

Richmond

Detroit Pistons

Yousou Ndoye

SBU

Orlando Magic (White Team)

Troy Daniels

VCU

Charlotte Hornets

Treveon Graham

VCU

San Antonio Spurs

Juvonte Reddic

VCU

Brooklyn Nets

The NBA is holding three 2015 summer leagues throughout July in Orlando, Utah and Las Vegas. The Orlando league began play this past weekend and the Utah league begins Monday. The Las Vegas league, starts July 10. Many of the teams for the Las Vegas league have not finalized their roster, leaving the possibility that more former A-10 student-athletes may be invited to play.

Kalinoski, who was also named the Atlantic 10 Player of the Year and to the NABC All-District squad, led the Wildcats to the 2015 A-10 Regular Season Crown and their first-ever at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. A senior from Overland Park, Kan., the 6-4 shooting guard scored in double figures 28 times, hit the 20-point plateau nine times and poured in a career-high 32 points on 12-of-14 shooting, including 8 3-pointers in Davidson's win at Duquesne.

Johnson, a Columbus, Ohio, native who has been on the rosters of the Boston Celtics and the Memphis Grizzlies, played in 138 games during his Flyer career, the most in Dayton basketball history. He scored 1,467 points, 21st in UD history, including averaging a career-high 12.4 points per game in 2011-12. Johnson is the only college basketball player in the last 20 years to have 1,400 points, 800 rebounds, 300 offensive rebounds and 200 three-pointers while shooting at least 80 percent from the line.

A First Team All-Atlantic 10 performer, Sibert had two of the top six single-season marks for 3-point field goals made in Flyer basketball history.  Even though he played just two seasons at Dayton, he ended his career seventh in career treys made (163) for the Flyers. Sibert, a native of Cincinnati, was a vital cog in UD earning five NCAA tournament wins in the last two years.  The Princeton High School product was also named First Team NABC All-District 4 and selected to the Puerto Rico Tip-Off All-Tournament Team.

Lalanne was selected by the Spurs in the second round as the 55th pick. The Orlando native was a first team All-USBWA District I and third team All-Atlantic 10 selection in 2014-15 after he led the team with 11.6 points, 9.5 rebounds, 1.9 blocks and a 55.2 field goal percentage. The 6-foot-10, 250-pound big man completed his career at UMass 35th all-time in scoring with 1,107 points, sixth in rebounds with 881, fifth in blocks with 197 and sixth in shooting pct. with 55.3.

This is Harper’s second-consecutive stint with the Pistons summer league team. Last summer, he played in four games, averaging 12.8 points in 22.0 minutes per contest. Drafted in the second round of the 2011 NBA Draft, he has played professionally in the NBA D-League and overseas. A native of Richmond, Va., Harper was an All-Atlantic 10 first team selection in his senior season, guiding the Spiders to the NCAA Tournament in 2009-10 and the Sweet 16 in 2010-11.

Ndoye enjoyed a productive senior season at SBU, earning Atlantic 10 All-Conference third team as well as the All-Defensive team honors. He was one of two A-10 players to average a double-double, finishing at 11.8 points and 10.1 rebounds per game. The seven-foot native of Dakar, Senegal, ranked second in the A-10 in both rebounding and blocked shots (2.6 per game). Ndoye's 302 rebounds ranks eighth on St. Bonaventure's single-season rebounding list

A Roanoke, Va. native, Daniels had a record-breaking senior season at VCU in which he knocked down 124 3-pointers, the highest single season total in school history and the third highest in Atlantic 10 history. He finished with 251 treys in his career, which ranks second-most in program history. He has played for the Houston Rockets and Charlotte Hornets.

Graham was the Most Outstanding Player during VCU's run to the 2015 Atlantic 10 Championship. He led the Rams in scoring (16.2 ppg) and rebounding (7.1 rpg) this past season and is the only player in school history with over 1,800 points, 800 rebounds and 200 3-pointers. The Temple Hills, Md. native helped lead the Rams to their fifth consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance and first-ever Atlantic 10 Championship.

Reddic spent this past year playing in the top Italian League, where he played for VL Pesaro and Granarolo Bologna. In total, the Winston-Salem, N.C. native played in 33 games, averaging 7.8 ppg and 4.7 rpg in just under 18 minutes per game. He remains the only player in VCU history to rank in the top-20 in scoring (15th – 1,438 points) and top-10 in rebounds (3rd – 895), blocks (6th – 123) and steals (8th – 160). His 28 double-doubles ranks third on VCU's all-time list.