Nick Nurse has led the Iowa Energy to the NBA D-League playoffs for the past three seasons -- and even has his team playing in the Finals this season -- so it shouldn't be a huge surprise that the Energy have promoted Nate Bjorkgren to Associate Head Coach to show that the team is committed to the excellent assistant just in case Nurse is called up by the NBA after this season.

Eric Musselman and Kevin Young got into a bit of a confrontation on Saturday night prior to halftime of the Utah Flash game versus the Reno Bighorns.

Well, I'm not sure if that entire team is still friends with each other, but thanks to the recent New Mexico Thunderbirds local player tryout I am able to confirm that Thunderbirds head coach Darvin Ham is still friends with fellow frontcourt teammate Rasheed Wallace.

Remember back in early July when everyone was completely surprised that the Utah Flash had decided not to retain Brad Jones? Well, it turns out that it wasn't a terrible change for Jones because today he was named the head coach of the Austin Toros - long thought to be one of the model franchises of the NBA Development League.

Danny Ferry was recently named the general manager of the Austin Toros - but what does it mean?

The Frisco Legends will probably be the team I pay the closest attention to for this upcoming season. I'm intrigued in seeing how Mavericks GM Donnie Nelson handles assignments to the team he owns, I'm interested in seeing the Legends' front office consisting of Del Harris and Spud Webb do what front offices and, oh yeah, the coaching staff is led by Basketball Hall of Fame Nancy Lieberman.

Examining the news that Austin Toros coach Quin Snyder will join the Philadelphia 76ers staff to focus on player development.