Former Rockets guard Michael Frazier has signed with the Illawara Hawks of Australia’s National Basketball League, the team announced in a press release. Frazier will serve as an injury replacement for another former NBA player, George King.
Frazier, 28, went undrafted out of Florida in 2015 and spent several seasons in the G League, plus one in Italy, before getting an opportunity to make his NBA debut in 2020 for Houston. He appeared in 13 games during the 2019/20 season as a Rocket, then returned to the G League before spending last season in Australia with the Perth Wildcats.
Having seen Frazier play for Perth last season, Illawara Hawks head coach Jacob Jackomas believes his team is getting a quality player: “He is a willing defender with great size and strength, and be it at the 3-point line or getting downhill and attacking the basket, we feel like he will make an immediate impact on the group.”
Here are a few more odds and ends from around the basketball world:
- The Kings, Trail Blazers, and Pacers look like some of the under-the-radar winners of the 2022 offseason, writes ESPN’s Bobby Marks (subscription required). Marks also highlights Magic big man Bol Bol, Bucks guard Jevon Carter, and Suns wing Damion Lee as some of the best value signings of the summer.
- Jonathan Wasserman of Bleacher Report has updated his 2023 mock draft, projecting all 58 picks and providing analysis for each one. Next year’s draft will only be 58 picks instead of 60 because the Sixers and Bulls have forfeited their second-rounders due to free agency gun-jumping violations.
- Sam Vecenie of The Athletic ranks this season’s top 15 rookie performers to date, with Magic forward Paolo Banchero and Pacers guard Bennedict Mathurin leading the way. The only second-round pick to crack the top 15 is Raptors big man Christian Koloko, who was selected 33rd overall but ranks eighth on Vecenie’s list.
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This draft is interesting. Lots of talent but not very clear what the order is yet outside the top 2 or 3. Huge cluster afterwards that still needs to sort itself out.
Every nba draft is extremely interesting to me, & equally so tbh. But yea LOTS of talent in this class. Obv very early in the process. I’m hype to see guys like Cam Whitmore, Nick Smith & Dariq Whitehead show that they deserve to be in that top 3 as well. But everyone that fw basketball should def get familiar with Anthony Black tho.. link to m.youtube.com
He’s good. Plays a lot like Tre Mann/LaMelo Ball/Cade Cunningham.
He reminds me so much of pre-injury Shaun Livingston. I see a lot of Cade in his game too tho
I also see a lot of Justin Preston in his game as well, and Preston has been very underwhelming so far.
This mock draft has 3 Duke players in the First Round. This is not a very good Duke team. They struggled mightily against an Oregon State team that won 3 games last year.
This must be your 1st yr watching basketball
What happens if the Detroit Pistons get the 2nd pick in the draft???
Do you draft Scoot and move Cade Cunningham (can’t shoot) to SG???
Do you trade down???
I’m pretty sure I had em taking Whitmore at 2. But Scoot can play with Cade, Jaden Ivey, KPJ, Jalen Green or anybody.
He reminds me so much of pre-injury Shaun Livingston. I see a lot of Cade in his game too tho