We take the same and start once more ! The poster for the G League final is known and it will be… the same as last season. The Rio Grande Valley Vipers will face the Delaware Blue Coats in a best-of-three series. Act I Wednesday night, who’s going to miss this? Everyone.
While we wonder if Dallas will play the play-in tournament, if OKC will hold out and if the Knicks will be able to face the Cavs, there exists, in a very distant universe, the small world of the G League. And that night, in general or almost general anonymity, the conference finals.
To the east, the Delaware Blue Coats (team affiliated with the Sixers) compost their ticket for the final by beating the Long Island Nets 108-94 (you guessed the affiliation). Led by Jaden Springer who signs a very fat double-double (21 points, 16 rebounds) and by a Mac McClung at 16 units, the Blue Coats chain a third straight final in the G League. After losing the first in 2020-21 to the Lakeland Magic, they will find the defending Rio Grande Valley Vipers for the second straight season.
In the West the meeting was tighter and the Vipers of the Grand Rio Valley (team affiliated with the Rockets) struggled well once morest the Sioux Falls Skyforce (team affiliated with the Heat). Thanks to a fiery fourth quarter (+10), the Vipers win at the finish 110-105 thanks to their duo Ty-Ty Washington Jr. / Jarret Culver, who will ultimately combine 55 points (26 and 29 points). The Vipers will therefore have the opportunity to defend their title in a remake of last year’s final.
See you (or not) on Wednesday evening to follow Game 1 of the G League finals which will be played in the best of three matches! Note that the Frenchman Sekou Doumbouya is playing this season with the Blue Coats and will therefore play a final this week, but also note that he almost never plays and that he will therefore not really play a final this week. In short, see you (or not) on Wednesday evening to follow Game 1 of the G League finals which will be played in the best of three matches, that makes it rehearsals.
