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Lester Hudson Set to Join Maine Red Claws, Rival D-League Teams Pee Their Pants

Dear Lester, I hope you're excited to meet that guys son.

Lester Hudson's going to be joining the Red Claws, according to the Boston Herald's "Celtic's Insider" Blog:

Doc Rivers said moments ago that  Lester Hudson will be making a trip to the D-League in the near future. The coach still likes the point guard very much, but the rookie has played just 49 minutes for the Celtics entering tonight's game against his hometown Grizzlies.

"We're going to send him down pretty soon to the NBDL for a week or so to get him some games, because I don't like our young guys going these long stretches without playing games. And then we're going to bring him back. I think that will help him."

Last night, the D-League's Twitter account held a contest for a free t-shirt for whoever could answer the following question:

What NBA D-League team has the most players with NBA experience? Can you name them? 1st correct answer today (Dec 14) gets a free shirt

The RU Twitter account quickly responded as such (P.S. They've yet to contact us about a free t-shirt unless they hit up Jon L and he's holding out on me):

@nbadleague Maine. Billy Thomas, Will Blalock, Billy Walker, Alexis Ajinca, Trey Gilder, Noel Felix and Mario West.

Anyway, back to the story at hand.  That's seven freakin' players on their (NBA expanded) 12 man roster with D-League experience.  Provided that they don't swap Billy Walker for Lester Hudson, eight of their 12 players will have NBA experience.  That's a lot.  And they're already 5-1.  Yikes.

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This Red Claws team is going to end up looking like the D-League version of the '86 Celtics....

but without a Larry Bird lookalike.

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by Aisander D on Dec 15, 2025 11:26 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

Just got the press release

Bill Walker will be staying in Maine. Make it eight!

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by Jon L on Dec 15, 2025 1:49 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

I thought you could only suit up 2 assignees at a time. Or is that 2 per NBA team?

by ZinErie on Dec 15, 2025 8:18 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Maximum of two per team

Three total. So as the roster currently stands, if the Bobcats wanted to assign Gerald Henderson they’d have to recall Ajinca.

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by Jon L on Dec 15, 2025 9:36 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Not necessarily

But that’d make the most sense.
They could, if they wanted, send him down and make Maine decide which 3 are going to be active.

by Scott Schroeder on Dec 15, 2025 10:42 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs


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