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Cheikh up
PistonsNation takes a look at Cheikh Samb's progress with the Ft. Wayne Mad Ants.
Changes at Ft. Wayne
Sammy Mejia left the Mad Ants last week, and his former head coach Kent Davison has followed him out the door on Monday: The 57-year-old Davison has accepted the position of coach of the national team of Qatar, located in the Persian Gulf near Saudi Arabia and Iran. He will make a preliminary trip...
Cheikh’s triple-double
In his second game back with Ft. Wayne, Cheikh Samb messed around and got a triple-double: 12 points, 12 boards and 11 blocks. (hat-tip: Quick Darshan)
Samb and Mejia are coming and going
With his dental and passport issues fixed, Cheikh Samb is returning to Ft. Wayne ... Cheikh Samb, the 7-foot-1 center who was sent from the Detroit Pistons and played two games in Fort Wayne in mid-December before being sidelined with a broken jaw, is returning to the team. "We should have Cheikh...
Mad Ants happenings
Minor news, but interesting to me: Jeremy Richardson, the leading scorer for the Ft. Wayne Mad Ants (Pistons D-League affiliate), was recalled by the Memphis Grizzlies, who face the Pistons on Friday. Richardson had been averaging 28.5 points per game. In his absence last night, the Mad Ants...
All Samb wants for Christmas is his two front teeth
This was posted in the comments a couple of days ago (thanks, LanierFan), but I wanted to get it up here for everyone who missed it: although Cheikh Samb looked good in his first two games with the Mad Ants, he won't be playing again any time soon. From the Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel: Seconds after...
King of the Colony: An Interview With Mad Ants President Jeff Potter
Jeff Potter has gone viral. No kidding. Sure, he's recognizable in Fort Wayne, Indiana as the owner of the Mad Ants, but he's getting to be well known around ye old internets as well. He's on Deadspin. His team is the most recognizable in the D-League, despite being an expansion team last year....
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