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Recap: 2023-24 OKC Blue media day

Here’s a recap of the OKC Blue’s Media Day:

The OKC Blue held their 2023-24 media day on Thursday in preparation for the new season. The Oklahoma City Thunder’s G League affiliate recently kicked off their training camp.

The Blue’s season starts on Nov. 10. Head coach Kam Woods will enter his second consecutive season at the helm.

The three Thunder two-way players headline the Blue’s training camp roster: Keyontae Johnson, Lindy Waters III and Olivier Sarr. As in previous seasons, the Thunder will use the Blue to give their younger players extensive minutes.

Woods, Jaden Shackelford, Hunter Maldonado and Caleb McConnell spoke with the media during Thursday’s event.

Let’s recap what they said.

OKC Thunder waive Jaden Shackelford, Jahmi’us Ramsey

The Thunder continue to make roster moves.

After signing them earlier in the day, the Oklahoma City Thunder waived Jaden Shackelford and Jahmi’us Ramsey on Friday.

The Thunder briefly added them to their roster presumably to gain their G League rights and assign them to the OKC Blue, whose season starts on Nov. 10.

To make roster room, the Thunder waived Caleb McConnell and Adam Flager, who were signed on Thursday.

The Thunder made the same sign-and-immediately-waive moves on Hunter Maldonado and KJ Williams. Both players went undrafted after lengthy college careers and played for the Thunder in the summer league.

In Shackelford’s case, he’ll continue his G League career with the Blue. In 44 games last season, he averaged 13.8 points, 2.5 rebounds and 1.3 assists. The 22-year-old went undrafted in 2022 and subsequently signed with the Blue.

Ramsey has played in the G League since going undrafted in 2020. Last season with the Blue, he averaged 21.3 points, 3.5 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 1.1 steals.

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OKC Thunder sign Jaden Shackelford, Jahmi’us Ramsey; waive Caleb McConnell, Adam Flagler

The Thunder continue to collect the G League rights of several players.

The Oklahoma City Thunder announced another series of roster moves on Friday.

The Thunder announced they had waived Caleb McConnell and Adam Flagler a day after signing them. Both players went undrafted after lengthy college careers and played for the Thunder in summer league.

Immediately afterward, they announced the signings of Jaden Shackelford and Jahmi’us Ramsey.

None of these moves should be surprising to anybody who follows the Thunder. All these additions and releases are to give the Thunder the G League rights of these players, setting the stage for the Thunder to assign them to the OKC Blue.

The Thunder made the same sign-and-immediately-waive moves on Hunter Maldonado and KJ Williams. Both players went undrafted after lengthy college careers and played for the Thunder in summer league.

In Shackelford’s case, he’ll continue his G League career with the Blue. In 44 games last season, he averaged 13.8 points, 2.5 rebounds and 1.3 assists. The 22-year-old went undrafted in 2022 and subsequently signed with the Blue.

Ramsey has played in the G League since going undrafted in 2020. Last season with the Blue, he averaged 21.3 points, 3.5 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 1.1 steals.

Shackelford and Ramsey will likely get waived soon and be assigned to the Blue once again.

The Blue’s 2023-24 season is set to start on Nov. 10.

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OKC Thunder news: Abdul Gaddy signed, Jaden Shackelford waived

The Oklahoma City Thunder made a pair of roster moves on Monday.

The Oklahoma City Thunder made a pair of roster moves on Monday.

The Thunder waived Jaden Shackelford and signed Abdul Gaddy. The moves are likely designed to give the Thunder the G League rights to both players, enabling them to be placed on the G League’s OKC Blue roster when their season starts in November.

Shackelford signed with the Thunder on Saturday and appeared in one preseason game.

Gaddy appeared in two games with this year’s Thunder summer league team and spent two seasons (2018-20) with the Blue, with whom he played 87 games and averaged 10.7 points and 8 assists.

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OKC Thunder news: Jahmi’us Ramsey waived, Jaden Shackelford signed

The Thunder made a couple of minor roster moves on Saturday.

The Oklahoma City Thunder announced a pair of minor roster moves on Saturday.

The Thunder waived guard Jahmi’us Ramsey a day after signing him and signed guard Jaden Shackelford.

Both moves were likely made so the Thunder could gain the players’ G League rights. Oklahoma City will be able to assign them to the OKC Blue when the G League season begins in November.

Shackelford saw time in four games with the Thunder summer league team. In 33 games (32 starts) at Alabama last season, he averaged 16.6 points, 5.4 rebounds and 1.5 assists.

Shackelford will likely see limited action in preseason — if any at all.

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Alabama Basketball: 2022-2023 SEC schedule rotation

Alabama MBB 2022-2023 schedule rotations announced

The Alabama Men’s Basketball team has received their schedule rotation for the 2022-23 SEC season. The rotation will include nine games at Coleman Colosseum and nine games on the road. Some of the marquee matchups on the schedule are home and away’s with both Arkansas and Auburn as well as at Tennessee, and hosting both Florida and Kentucky.

The Tide finished the 2021-22 campaign going 9-9 in the conference, which was good for a sixth-place finish. They were then knocked out of the SEC tournament by Vanderbilt in the first round and lost in the first round of the NCAA tournament to Notre Dame. A disappointing end to what was a very promising season at one point.

The Tide does look to bounce back this year with a much deeper tournament run and more consistent play. [autotag]JD Davison[/autotag], [autotag]Jaden Shackelford[/autotag], [autotag]Keon Ellis[/autotag], and a few others are gone so the team we see in 2022 will be all new faces with the exception of [autotag]Jahvon Quinerly[/autotag].

Nate Oats and his squad have been recruiting incredibly well and the boys are ready for a massive 2022-23 campaign.

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Josh Robbins: The Wizards are scheduled …

Josh Robbins: The Wizards are scheduled to hold a group workout tomorrow for six players, all of them guards: Oklahoma’s Jordan Goldwire, Arkansas’ Chris Lykes, Kansas’ Remy Martin, Kansas State’s Mike McGuirl, Alabama’s Jaden Shackelford and Notre Dame’s Blake Wesley, the Wizards announced.

Alabama and Gonzaga meet again, but in Birmingham this time

Alabama and Gonzaga headlines top out of conference NCAAM games this year

Last year the sixteenth ranked Alabama Crimson Tide and [autotag]Nate Oats[/autotag] went out to the ‘Battle in Seattle’ to take on third ranked, and the title favorites, Gonzaga Bulldogs in their home state of Washington. Gonzaga was lead by likely first overall pick Chet Holmgren, however, that didn’t stop the Tide as they took down the Bulldogs 91-82 behind a massive [autotag]Jaden Shackelford[/autotag] performance.

The Dec. 4, 2021 meeting between the two programs was the first ever match-up, and came on the same day as [autotag]Nick Saban[/autotag] and company defeated the Georgia Bulldogs to win the SEC Championship. A day that will forever live in Alabama galore.

Now, Gonzaga will be traveling to Birmingham on Dec. 17 to take on the Tide in Alabama’s backyard. Gonzaga returns a large majority of their line up, and will likely be a top five team to start the season once again. Alabama will have a massive chance to gain a marquee win in their home state early on in the season.

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Alabama Basketball: Jaden Shackelford works out for LA Lakers

Los Angeles Lakers work out the former Alabama star!

Former Alabama guard [autotag]Jaden Shackelford[/autotag] worked out with the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday as he gets prepared for the 2022 NBA Draft.

Shackelford was a star for the Crimson Tide as he was a day-one starter as a true freshman and contributed immediately averaging 15 points a game. He declared after his junior year in which he was good for 16.6 points 1.5 assists 5.4 rebounds, and was a career 40% shooter from the field.

The Los Angeles Lakers have really struggled with guard playing during the past couple of years and they are doing their due diligence on the second team All-SEC guard. The Lakers have also struggled mightily behind the arc, and Shackelford would be an immediate solution to those woes.

The draft will take place on June 23 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

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