NBDL

For a guy coming out the NBDL, it's a great situation.

Nick Young gets a new hairstyle, Flip Saunders focused on making playoff run Michael Lee 2011

Solution: Have the rookies play the NBDL All-Star team for you older readers, this is the current version of the CBA which Isiah Thomas gently guided in to a death spiral culminating in bankruptcy.

Reinventing All-Star Weekend Lee Friedman 2011

Notes: Before the game, the Celtics sent rookie F Bill Walker down to Utah in the NBDL.

USATODAY.com 2008

From the relatively weak Class of 2005, still nearly half of the top 25 have departed for the NBA — or NBDL, as the case may be — and even from the Class of 2006, seven of the top 25 never advanced to their sophomore seasons.

Beasley tops in stellar freshman class, but now what? 2008

Notes: The Thunder sent D.J. White, who has missed the entire season after surgery to remove a growth from his jaw, to its NBDL affiliate in Tulsa after he was cleared by team doctors. ...

USATODAY.com 2008

Players drafted in the second round aren't given guaranteed contracts, and a lot of these summer-league players end up on foreign teams or the NBDL (the NBA's version of the minor leagues).

Meet the NBA's Non-LeBron 2010

Rookie D.J. White did not play in his first game back with the Thunder after being recalled from the NBDL.

USATODAY.com 2008

The various ailments caused the Jazz to call up Morris Almond and Kyrylo Fresenko from the NBDL just to make sure they had enough healthy bodies. ...

USATODAY.com 2007

Harris (ankle) and Stackhouse (hamstring) were inactive, and Ager is in the NBDL.

USATODAY.com 2007

Notes: The Mavs did make one player move Wednesday, recalling rookie forward Nick Fazekas from the NBDL.

USATODAY.com 2007