The 2010 NBA Development League expansion draft was the fifth

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of the

National Basketball Association Development League The NBA G League, or simply the G League, is the National Basketball Association's (NBA) official minor league basketball organization. The league was known as the National Basketball Development League (NBDL) from 2001 to 2005, and the NBA Dev ...

(NBADL). The draft was held on August 31, 2010, so that the newly founded

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could acquire players for the upcoming 2010–11 season. All 14 of the available players in the draft pool came from the 2009–10

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roster, who had to place their team on hiatus for 2010–11. The Legends were allowed to claim the rights to 10 of Los Angeles' 14 players. Besides the dispersal of the D-Fenders' roster, Texas was also able to draft local talent from the greater

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area. Two of the players that the Legends chose had previously been named NBA D-League All-Stars: Joe Crawford and Diamon Simpson. Crawford had also been an NBA Draft selection back in

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for the Los Angeles Lakers. The four Los Angeles D-Fenders that were ''not'' selected by the Legends out of the pool of 14 were Lawrence McKenzie (G), Ray Reese (F), Rodney Webb (F) and Horace Wormely (G).

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