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Theo Pinson is killing it in the G-League

Theo Pinson, finally free of the injury and inconsistency problems that plagued him in his first three years of college basketball, took his game to another level as a senior for Roy Williams, becoming a phenomenal playmaker, improved scorer and finisher, and the general jack-of-all trades that we all knew he could be but hadn’t really been yet. I wrote about it at the time, saying that he’d transformed from an energy guy into a bona fide star. And it was this revolution that earned him, almost immediately after going undrafted, a coveted two-way contract with the Brooklyn Nets, giving him a guaranteed year as a professional in the Nets’ G-League affiliate, the Long Island Nets, with the opportunity to spend up to 45 days in the season in Brooklyn.