Anonymous
Years ago

Players who played NBA after playing NBL

In honour of Mitch Creek signing a short term deal, I thought I'd make a thread list that we can talk about NBL to NBA guys.

Some will have bigger attachment to NBL than others, some might have only played a handful of games in the NBA, but for the purposes of this thread I'm trying to list them all.

James Ennis (Perth)
Terrance Ferguson (Adelaide)
Jordan McRae (Melbourne)
Torrey Craig (Cairns/Brisbane)
Mitch Creek (Adelaide)
Andre Ingram (Perth)
Andrew Gaze (Melbourne)
Ricky Grace (Perth)
Mark Bradtke (Melbourne)
Shane Heal (Sydney)
Patty Mills (Melbourne)

Any others? Help me out.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Luc Longley (not to be confused with Luuuuc even-Longerly)

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Anonymous
Years ago

Doug Overton (Illawarra)
Rick Brunson (Adelaide)

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Zodiac
Years ago

Stephen Jackson (Sydney)

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Anonymous
Years ago

Former King Marcus Thornton signed a 10 Day contract with the Cavs last year but I don't think he saw any court time.

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AussiePride
Years ago

Joe Ingles

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Jebron Lames
Years ago

Ray Owes (Geelong)
Donald Whiteside (Hobart Devils)

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AussiePride
Years ago

David Stockton

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Anonymous
Years ago

Snoopy Graham played SBL before playing for Atlanta

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AussiePride
Years ago

Nathan Jawai
David Andersen

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Hogwash
Years ago

Nathan Jawai
David Andersen

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Hogwash
Years ago

Must have typed just after Aussie Pride lol.

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AussiePride
Years ago

That must have been close.

Andrew Gaze
Chris Anstey

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Hogwash
Years ago

Kirk Penney ?

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Hogwash
Years ago

Chris Jent.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Who's next
Aussies in the G league but Isaac Humphries has played a game in the NBA
So whos next to go to the G league?
my guess
Todd blanchfield

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Zodiac
Years ago

Humphries has never played in the NBA.

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Anonymous
Years ago

i forgot the word not thankyou

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Anonymous
Years ago

"i forgot the word not thankyou"

Thanks for not clearing that up.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Did Luc Longley ever play NBL?

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Hogwash
Years ago

Longley played 2 games in 1986

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Anonymous
Years ago

Paul Rogers

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Wendy Byrd
Years ago

Did Rogers play NBA? He got drafted but I don't remember him playing.

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Zodiac
Years ago

Rogers didn't. He was signed by Toronto during the 98-99 season but never got in a game.

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Anonymous
Years ago

OK, thanks for your contributions guys. Here's the comprehensive list after adding the others mentioned in this thread:

Luc Longley (Perth)
Donald Whiteside (Hobart Devils)
Doug Overton (Illawarra)
Ray Owes (Geelong)
Chris Jent (North Melbourne)
Andrew Gaze (Melbourne)
Ricky Grace (Perth)
Mark Bradtke (Melbourne)
Shane Heal (Sydney)
Chris Anstey (SE Melbourne)
Rick Brunson (Adelaide)
Stephen Jackson (Sydney)
Nathan Jawai (Cairns)
David Andersen (Wollongong)
Patty Mills (Melbourne)
Joe Ingles (South Dragons)
James Ennis (Perth)
David Stockton (NZ)
Terrance Ferguson (Adelaide)
Jordan McRae (Melbourne)
Torrey Craig (Cairns/Brisbane)
Andre Ingram (Perth)
Mitch Creek (Adelaide)

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Anonymous
Years ago

Mills played during the lock out so isn't on this list

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Anonymous
Years ago

Diamon Simpson was also signed by Houston and suited but was DNP - CD

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Hogwash
Years ago

Good old Ingram a career G Leaguer who got 2 games of NBL and 2 games of NBA.

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Anonymous
Years ago

"Mills played during the lock out so isn't on this list "

He wasn't under NBA contract at the time, from memory. Went from Melbourne, then to China and then got signed by NBA.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Did Scooter Barry (who played for the Magic) go on to play NBA?

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Melvin Corpuscle
Years ago

Didn't jon barry have a short stint here around the same time as Stephen jackson and scooter barry? I can't find it online, maybe a preseason then cut ...

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Zodiac
Years ago

That was Drew Barry with Sydney and he played in the NBA again after that too.

Scooter never played in the NBA though.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Ahh, Drew Barry. Good memory.

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Anonymous
Years ago

of course Luke Schenscher did it backwards and played for 2 NBA teams before playing NBL

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Hogwash
Years ago

Bairstow also went the same way as Schenscher.
Don't let Jick tell you otherwise Bairstow was only third best Aussie to play for Chicago after Longley and Anstey.

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PeterJohn
Years ago

Anon - the reference to Mills and the lockout was pointing out that he played NBA before NBL, so doesn't belong on this list.

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Anonymous
Years ago

@Peter John, not too concerned that Patty played NBA before NBL. Some guys make NBA but then don't manage to get back so you could still say that Mills used the NBL as a stepping stone back to the NBA.

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