The Dakota Wizards have re-acquired forward Edwin Ubiles.
Ubiles (6-6, 205, Siena) returns to Dakota after earning his first-career Call-Up with the Washington Wizards. He scored 10 points on 4-of- 8 shooting and grabbed 2 rebounds in 18 minutes on March 24 against the Atlanta Hawks. In four games with Washington, Ubiles averaged 3.5 points and 2.5 rebounds in 13.0 minutes.
April 2012 Basketball Wiretap
The Maine Red Claws have acquired guard Corey Stokes and forward Joe Trapani from the Available Player Pool.
Trapani, 23, holds an Italian passport and played for Novipiu Casale Monferrato (Italy-SerieA, starting five), Scavolini Siviglia Pesaro (Italy-SerieA, starting five) and MarcoPoloShop.it Forli (Italy-Lega2) this season. In 10 games with MarcoPoloShop.it, the 6-8 forward averaged 5.1 rebounds per game while adding 9 blocked shots and 10 steals.
Stokes, 24, played for BBC Bayreuth (Germany-1.Bundesliga), appearing in 18 games and averaging 6.1 points and 1.9 rebounds before leaving due to injury in January.
T.J. Ford will join the Austin Toros of the D-League as a volunteer coach.
"I'll look at it from another perspective," said Ford. "I'm really starting at the bottom. I'm not sure where I'm headed. But I'm headed in the right direction."
Ford ended his NBA career due to chronic injuries in early March.
The Maine Red Claws have acquired guard/forward Cedric Bozeman from the Available Player Pool.
Bozeman, 29, most recently played for the Reno Bighorns, appearing in 15 games in an injury-shortened season and averaging 12.2 points, 5.5 assists and 4.9 rebounds in 33.3 minutes per game.
The New Jersey Nets have signed free agent guard Jerry Smith from the D-League’s Springfield Armor to a 10-day contract.
Smith, who is the Nets’ fifth D-League call-up to sign with the team this season, has played 32 games with the Armor in 2011-12. He is averaging 19.1 points, 4.8 rebounds and 1.5 steals in 35 minutes per game.
The Austin Toros acquired guard Lester Hudson.
Hudson has NBA experience having played with Memphis, Boston, and Washington; as well as D-League stints with Dakota and Maine.
The Fort Wayne Mad Ants have acquired Stephen Graham. To make room on the roster the team has waived Kevin Coble.
Graham, a 6’6” 215 lbs guard out of Oklahoma State, has six years of NBA experience. Last season he played in 56 games for the New Jersey Nets where he averaged 3.5 points and 2.2 rebounds per game.
The Los Angeles D-Fenders have acquired Kareem Rush from the available player pool.
Rush was selected in the first round of the 2002 NBA Draft (20th overall) by the Raptors before his rights were acquired by the Lakers in a draft day deal. A seven-year NBA veteran, Rush has appeared in 346 career games (78 starts) for the Lakers, Bobcats, Pacers, 76ers and Clippers, averaging 6.4 points (35.8 3FG%), 1.7 rebounds and 1.0 assists in 17.2 minutes.
The Bakersfield Jam have re-acquired center Brian Butch.
Brian Butch returns to Bakersfield after participating in the New Orleans Hornets training camp. Butch averaged 19.8 points and 12.5 rebounds in 4 games with the Jam this season, recording three double-doubles.
He sat out last season due to a leg injury he suffered at the 2010 NBA Summer League.
Antoine Wright has entered the D-League player pool.
Wright played 13 games for Asefa Estudiantes in Spain this season and was last in the NBA during the 10-11 season with Sacramento.
Wright averaged 10.9 points on 29.1% shooting for Asefa Estudiantes.
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