After playing a total of 8 games last season between the Phoenix Suns and Memphis Grizzlies, Bryce Cotton will join the Atlanta Hawks for NBA Summer League to be held July 8th through the 18th in Las Vegas. Cotton also played 6 games in the NBA D-League for the Austin Toros and 9 games in the CBA for the Xinjiang Flying Tigers last season.
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Less than two weeks after re-joining the Austin Spurs of the NBA D-League, Bryce Cotton is reportedly heading overseas to China. The news of Cotton going overseas was first reported by Dennis Silva of the Monitor News. A subsequent report comes via Chris Reichert of Upside & Motor, a D-League blog. Reichert is the one who has indicated a source informed him that Cotton will take his talents to China and will sign with Xinjiang of the Chinese Basketball Association. Another former Friar Marshon Brooks is currently second in scoring (34.6 points/game) playing with Jiangsu and the CBA is where God Shammgod was playing prior to returning to Providence to complete his undergraduate degree. A 2013 article by OneWorldSports.com list Shammgod among the top 5 imports in CBA history.
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Bryce Cotton is back in the NBA D-League after a stint with the NBA’s Phoenix Suns. The Austin Spurs put out a release to indicate that the former Providence guard will return to the team and wear number 7. Cotton was the third NBA D-League call up of the 2015-16 season. He was with the Suns for two 10-day contracts before being waived ahead of the league’s contract guarantee deadline. Cotton was with the Suns for a total of 24 games between November 25th and January 6th. He played in 3 total games with Phoenix, averaging 11 minutes/game and 1.3 points/game.
Cotton will join Austin as the team heads to California for games on Thursday and Saturday. Ironically, the team the Spurs will face on Thursday is the Bakersfield Jam. The Jam is the affiliate team of the Phoenix Suns. Cotton’s call up just before Thanksgiving was due to the Suns’ injury issues at the guard position, but he was waived because his contract would have become fully guaranteed for the remainder of the season if he was still on the roster on January 7th.
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Marc Stein of ESPN reported on Twitter Wednesday afternoon that the Phoenix Suns were calling former Friar Bryce Cotton up from the NBA D-League. The Tucson, AZ native will have some extra things to be thankful for this year on Thanksgiving. Cotton went undrafted after a very productive career at Providence. He was signed to a partially guaranteed contract by the San Antonio Spurs and ultimately ended up with the Spurs’ D-League affiliate in Austin, TX. Cotton’s wife just moved from Rhode Island to Austin for an internship while she pursues her law degree.
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With his initial 10-day contract set to expire at midnight on March 6th a report from Sportando indicates that the Utah Jazz will re-up Cotton for a second 10-day contract. Cotton only played in 1 game with the Jazz during the first 10 days and that was in a blowout win over Denver. In total he amassed 3 points, 2 rebounds, 1 assists and 1 steal in 6.9 minutes.
With Cotton signing his second 10-day deal the Jazz will have to sign him for the rest of the season if they want to keep him beyond this deal. Worst case scenario Cotton gets another 10 days practicing with an NBA club and another $29,843.
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Marc Stein of ESPN is reporting that Bryce Cotton and the Utah Jazz are working on a 10-day contract to call Cotton up from the NBA D-League. Cotton has been playing with the Austin Spurs, an affiliate team of the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs. Cotton signed a partially-guaranteed 2-year contract with the Spurs after going undrafted in the 2015 NBA Draft and was then waived following training camp and assigned to Austin as an affiliate player.
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The NBA dream will continue for Bryce Cotton as Tuesday he signed with the Austin Spurs (formerly the Austin Toros until October 15, 2014) of the National Basketball Development League. The Toros are a direct affiliate of the San Antonio Spurs who waived Cotton on October 23rd. As I wrote in the article on October 23rd, having the $50,000 in the bank from the partially guaranteed deal he signed with the San Antonio Spurs following the NBA Draft will help to supplement what will be a very low salary this season in the NBDL.
With the injury at the backup point guard position of Patty Mills who will be sidelined until possibly February, Cotton may have a chance at a 10 day call up now and then with the “maintenance” program that head coach Greg Popovich deploys for his veteran players. Any call ups to the NBA also mean a salary bump for the period of time he is on the official NBA roster. Another positive for Cotton is that the Austin Spurs run the same exact offense as the San Antonio Spurs so he will be able to receive plenty of reps and playing time in the system he would be called upon to run with the NBA team. His coach in Austin will be North Providence native Ken McDonald As Adam Finkelstein pointed out in his article for Cox Hub earlier this week, timing may also have played a role in this decision as many of the top European leagues start weeks before the NBA so any player opting to attend an NBA training camp limits his potential earnings that year abroad.
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