The NBA won't resume until Christmas, so players in the Development League have a chance to show their skills to basketball-hungry fans,Moncler outlet as well as scouts.
The players walk down the hallway to practice and see the pictures of Kobe Bryant,Moncler spaccio Pau Gasol and the rest of the Lakers.
They step onto the practice court and see the retired jerseys of Magic Johnson, Jerry West, James Worthy, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and the Lakers' other Hall of Famers. They also see championship banners hanging on the walls and the Lakers' championship trophies in an upstairs office window.
The setting has left many Los Angeles D-Fenders in awe and somewhat overwhelmed — despite the fact they are pro basketball players and,Sito moncler at the moment, the only active pro hoops team in town while the new NBA labor deal awaits a ratification vote by players and owners. The NBA probably will begin its season on Christmas Day.
The D-Fenders, part of the NBA's Development League,Moncler giubbotti are owned by the Buss family and are playing their home games this season on the Lakers' practice court at the Toyota Sports Center in El Segundo.
For D-Fender guard Franklin Session, the atmosphere is even more surreal because he went to Jordan High.
"Sometimes I see myself staring at the walls and not even focused on what I need to focus on. It's so crazy," Session said. The 6-foot-2 guard played for Cal State Los Angeles last season, averaging 13.1 points a game. "I'm from Watts, so … for me to even be on this floor is like outstanding. I couldn't picture this in a million years."
Because of the NBA lockout, no player selected in the June NBA draft or anyone who played in the NBA last season was eligible to be on a D-League roster to start the season. As a result, the D-Fenders are a ragtag team of hopefuls, all trying to play their way into the NBA or attract interest from an overseas team.
The D-Fenders (2-1) won their home opener Monday over the Reno Bighorns.
To draw fans to the 24 D-Fenders home games, the Buss family is offering various Lakers incentives, including a chance to buy two tickets to a Lakers game every month and get a first crack at Lakers individual playoff tickets. A courtside D-Fenders season ticket costs $1,800. The El Segundo facility holds 365 seats and the game Monday was a sellout.
Plenty of NBA scouts are expected to attend the D-Fenders games.
It will give the players a chance to shine, as it will D-Fenders Coach Eric Musselman, 47, formerly a head coach in the NBA for three seasons with the Golden State Warriors and the Sacramento Kings.
"We've talked over and over how this is an advantage for them that they've never had before in the D-League like they will now," Musselman said. "They're going to be on the biggest stage that they've ever been on."
D-Fenders guard Jamaal Tinsley has been on the big stage before.
He played seven seasons with the Indiana Pacers and 38 games during the 2009-10 season with the Memphis Grizzlies, averaging 9.8 points and 6.6 assists during his career. Last season Tinsley kept working out, waiting for a call from an NBA team that never came.
"That's my goal, is to get back to the NBA," Tinsley said. "Right now, I'm an L.A. D-Fender and I thank them for giving me this opportunity. I'm here to win games for the D-Fenders and hopefully win a championship. If I get called up, I get called up."
Call-ups do happen. Last season 20 D-Leaguers played for NBA teams.
And it means a big pay jump. Salaries for D-League players range from $13,000 to $25,500, compared with the NBA minimum pay of about $473,000 for a full season.
Tinsley, at 33, is the oldest player on the D-Fenders, and Session, at 22, is the youngest. Others include Brandon Costner, a 6-9, 230-pound forward/center, who played in the D-League last season for Utah, and 6-6 guard Elijah Millsap, younger brother of Utah Jazz power forward Paul Millsap.
Musselman said those attending the games will see a D-Fenders team with players who give maximum effort because "they are fighting for survival."
"We want to try and be the best team in the D-League," he said. "And we also want to have more call-ups than any team."
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Digital Living Room Discussion Hits Home at Streaming Media West
LOS ANGELES — As consumers increasingly have more options with which to engage their content of choice, the concept of the “digital living room,” Belstaff Jacket or the “connected living room,” is becoming the norm, panelists at the Streaming Media West conference said Nov. 8.
Paul Sweeting, principal with Concurrent Media Strategies, highlighted three distinct ways the digital living room is being addressed: a device-centric view, wherein a particular Internet-connected device is the hub of the living room; a content-centric view, wherein users take content they normally would consume in the living room (movies, TV shows, video games)Belstaff Blouson and migrate it onto other types of screens, aside from the television; and a service-centric view, which sees the main challenge as bringing new types of interactive services into the living room.
“The question has always surrounded long-form Internet-delivered videos and how do you get free TV,” said Jason Spivak, SVP of worldwide digital distribution with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. “… Clearly now with the game consoles, connected televisions, connected Blu-ray players, that’s been solved.”
Russ Schafer, senior director with Yahoo Connected TV, Belstaff said the platform is in 10 million homes, after launching 36 months ago, and is projected to be in 16 million homes by early 2012.
“We added support in January … that enabled tablets to connect as well,” he said. “So no matter what device a consumer chooses, they can experience the content and actually push content back and forth within the device. For us, it’s whatever happens to be the next technology that emerges device-wise, we want to enable that as well.”
Chris Young, CEO of Digital Broadcasting Group, on the other hand, offered insight from the perspective of a content provider.
“We’re very much screen agnostic,” he said. “So we’re providing content that can be consumed by consumers however they want Belstaff Outlet. If it’s on a tablet, on a connected TV, on the Internet, it’s our responsibility to deliver across that.”
DBG produced a show “The Confession,” which aired in March on Hulu, starring Kiefer Sutherland as a New York hit man and John Hurt as a priest. The program, Young said, introduced a new trend.
“The idea there was to prove that the digital living room had arrived and that broadcast-quality programming with ‘A’ production value, ‘A’ talent could originate online, and reverse its way back to TV,” Young said. “That’s what we’ve done.”
Jeff Shultz, SVP of business development with Clicker.com, said ultimately the success of the digital living room lies in “robust” business models.
“We can figure out the perfect device, and we can figure out the means of getting content into the living room, and engaging with it in different ways and discovering content that was previously unavailable, but only robust business models — which exist today in the form of multichannel programming offerings — are getting mainstream content to consumers,” he said.
“Technology has gotten to the point now where I think we’re really close to delivering on the compelling digital living room experience, but there has to be a business model to support the delivery of content,” Shultz added.
Paul Sweeting, principal with Concurrent Media Strategies, highlighted three distinct ways the digital living room is being addressed: a device-centric view, wherein a particular Internet-connected device is the hub of the living room; a content-centric view, wherein users take content they normally would consume in the living room (movies, TV shows, video games)Belstaff Blouson and migrate it onto other types of screens, aside from the television; and a service-centric view, which sees the main challenge as bringing new types of interactive services into the living room.
“The question has always surrounded long-form Internet-delivered videos and how do you get free TV,” said Jason Spivak, SVP of worldwide digital distribution with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. “… Clearly now with the game consoles, connected televisions, connected Blu-ray players, that’s been solved.”
Russ Schafer, senior director with Yahoo Connected TV, Belstaff said the platform is in 10 million homes, after launching 36 months ago, and is projected to be in 16 million homes by early 2012.
“We added support in January … that enabled tablets to connect as well,” he said. “So no matter what device a consumer chooses, they can experience the content and actually push content back and forth within the device. For us, it’s whatever happens to be the next technology that emerges device-wise, we want to enable that as well.”
Chris Young, CEO of Digital Broadcasting Group, on the other hand, offered insight from the perspective of a content provider.
“We’re very much screen agnostic,” he said. “So we’re providing content that can be consumed by consumers however they want Belstaff Outlet. If it’s on a tablet, on a connected TV, on the Internet, it’s our responsibility to deliver across that.”
DBG produced a show “The Confession,” which aired in March on Hulu, starring Kiefer Sutherland as a New York hit man and John Hurt as a priest. The program, Young said, introduced a new trend.
“The idea there was to prove that the digital living room had arrived and that broadcast-quality programming with ‘A’ production value, ‘A’ talent could originate online, and reverse its way back to TV,” Young said. “That’s what we’ve done.”
Jeff Shultz, SVP of business development with Clicker.com, said ultimately the success of the digital living room lies in “robust” business models.
“We can figure out the perfect device, and we can figure out the means of getting content into the living room, and engaging with it in different ways and discovering content that was previously unavailable, but only robust business models — which exist today in the form of multichannel programming offerings — are getting mainstream content to consumers,” he said.
“Technology has gotten to the point now where I think we’re really close to delivering on the compelling digital living room experience, but there has to be a business model to support the delivery of content,” Shultz added.
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