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Lakers: D-Fenders beat Cav’s Affiliate as Vander Blue scores 40 points in nail-biter

Both teams played with NBA rookies; Lakers Ivica Zubac for the D-Fenders and Kay Felder for the Cavs. Felder finished the game scoring 27 points, making seven rebounds and five assists, Zubac scored 20 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, another double-double.

Coming into the game, Josh Magette ranked seventh in the league in assists, Vander Blue ranked fourth in the league in points per game, and David Nwaba third in the league in field goal percentage (65.2).

After Ivica played in Saturday night’s game, he became the tenth player in NBA history to play in both an NBA and an NBA D-League game.