The New Orleans Hornets announced today that they have signed guard Donald Sloan to a 10-day contract.
Sloan, a Texas A&M University product, appeared in five regular season games with the Atlanta Hawks this season before being released on January 27. Originally signed by Atlanta on December 9, 2011, Sloan averaged 1.2 points, 1.0 rebounds and 1.0 assists in 4.0 minutes of play with the Hawks.
The 6’3” guard has played five games (all starts) for the Erie Bayhawks of the NBA D-League this season, averaging 24.8 points, 8.4 assists and 5.2 rebounds in 40.9 minutes of play. Born in Shreveport, Sloan has appeared in 54 games (38 starts) in the D-League, with career averages of 12.0 points and 4.7 assists.
Sloan, who grew up in the Dallas area, was a first-team Big 12 Conference selection his senior season at Texas A&M, averaging 17.8 points.
17 responses to “Hornets Sign Donald Sloan”
I thought NBA teams could only sign players from the D-league teams that they are affiliated with. It is great that I was wrong. Sloan had the second-best PPG stat after guess who? Jeremy Lin. 🙂 Sloan was top-5 in Assists Per Game along with Eric Bledsoe, Jamaal Tinsley, Jeremy Lin and Walker Russell.
Very impressive stats over his 5-game stint with the BayHawks:
http://www.nba.com/dleague/playerfile/donald_sloan/game_by_game_stats.html
Excited to see how he’ll play for us. He might see more minutes for us than he did for the Hawks.
Sorry to see Squeaky leave however he unfortunately could not produce well at the NBA-level. Good luck to him.
Affiliation with dleague teams is mainly just a tool to develop young players who need court time but can’t get it in the league..
If we were to send Aminu, Henry, or someone like vazquez to the DL, then no team could touch them…
But any player not on a nba contract in the dl is fair game for any nba team…
He was waived by the Hawks. I do not understand why bringing a player who did not work. The Hornets are looking like a house of charity this season. Instead of dreaming of a new Jeremy Lin, the franchise should find an owner to finance the procurement of major players. It is very sad to see the Hornets become a guinea pig for the D-League players.
Jeremy Lin is getting that kind of attention because he’s doing it in NY. The Hornets have seen improvement from guys like Greivis Vasquez but you won’t see much of that on ESPN. Plus, remember that Jeremy Lin’s first team wasn’t NY. He just happens to have found the right situation for himself.
I’m telling you: Greivis Vasquez will be a special player one day.
Jeremy Lin failed as a Golden State Warrior. He played there all last year. He didn’t get called up and pan out immediately.
I bet GSW regret not picking him up.
I know how good and important he is, but I’d like to see Jack traded… to the Knicks for a bunch of young pieces and parts. Walker, Lin, Balkman, Harrelson, hopefully Fields. The Knicks would get the point they need, in his prime, who can play big minutes and probably light it up under D’antonys system. Jack will be able to play along side Davis, or come off the bench or whatever. If the Hornets can get young players to develop or flip or even strengthen the bench, then good. I just don’t see how clinging to Jack during rebuilding is better than getting younger and deeper. Part of my reasoning is that there are lots of solid combo guards out there, as opposed to size. Of course the Hornets would miss Jack in the short term, but his trade value seems to be high right now, and right now Hornets are only building towards the future.
Right now Jack is sidelined with an injury so I doubt the hornets can get anything of value with him now.
Speaking of Harrellson, I never understood why we traded him away on draft night. That’s a transaction that needs more scrutiny; there’s something odd about a league-owned team selling a draft pick that would have addressed a major offseason need to the biggest team in its largest market, where the league happens to be headquartered. If the league calls Dell Demps and “suggests” that he make a trade with the Knicks, how much latitude does he have to turn it down?
We sold the pick. We spent a similar amount of money as part of Ayon’s buyout. Demps said at the time that the money would be used for basketball purposes.
I hope so. Still going to cringe whenever I hear the terms “basketball reasons” or “basketball purposes” for the forseeable future.
If the league were trying to help out the Knicks, CP3 would be there, not Harrelson.
Perfect, man! Jarrett Jack is the best “trade” we have today. We Can get a pair of talented young people for him. Furthermore, would develop Vasquez in this season. He would be our starter PG. We have no hurry to win. And Jack is a player who only knows how to score. He doesn’t add anything to our team. JJ fits well with teams like the Knicks.
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gigem ags! hope to see him
oh yeah