Although premise is tongue in cheek, writer giving the league some props.  Apologies if old news. Here's a section from the article with link to follow:

Players need time to learn to play together, develop chemistry. D-Leaguer Cartier Martin was starting to blend in well but had to be cut loose after two 10-day contracts.

What to do? The Warriors should call up an entire D-League team. Sign all five starters to back-to-back 10-day contracts. Instant cohesive starting five for 20 games.

Bring up the Iowa Energy; they have the best record in the D-League, and well-balanced scoring, so apparently they pass the ball around.

Some stickler will point out that roster rules won't permit such a wholesale call-up, but they should. Otherwise, the Warriors will continue to have a playground pickup-team look, with two or three new faces on the court every game.

Karl latest 10-day guy with level 10 grit

As a multiple year Iowa Energy ticket holder, I've followed RU to keep tabs on the goings of the D-League, its players and fans.  Although a loyal reader, I never had a desire to post until tonight.  As your resident player blogger Mike Gansey can attest to, and depending on your opinion, something classic went down in the 2/6/10 Iowa Energy vs Erie BayHawks game.  It was "Semi-Pro-esque" and therefore, the reason for a long post.

To start off, there was an announce crowd of 8,368 for this game.  The large crowd was due in part to Ames High playing before the game against Sioux City North.  They have the #1 recruit in the nation, Harrison Barnes (signed with N.C.) and are undefeated and #1 in the state.  I'm sure other reasons for the crowd was that it was a Saturday and the severity of this winter in Iowa has a lot of people looking for things to do to keep their sanity.

The game wasn't all that hot.  Iowa was up thirty towards the end of the third quarter.  Usually, with a lead that large and the cessation of beer sales, there would be a lot of people in attendance leaving, however, the Energy had a promotion going on:  if the Energy scored 90 points the crowed received a free coupon for BK fries.  If they scored 100 the crowd got a coupon for a free Whopper.

At the start of the 4th quarter the score was 79-49 and a free Whopper was imminent for the fans, correct?  Not so fast my fellow D-League fans.  Either Erie was going to try to win a moral victory by denying the fans a free Whopper or the Energy had a horrible forth quarter, but, here's how it went down:

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