Mustafa Shakur Traded for Robert Vaden

Filed under: Rockets, Thunder, NBA D-League, Rio Grande Valley Vipers, Tulsa 66ers

Last year, Mustafa Shakur was one of the top point guards in the NBA Development League as he averaged 19.2 points, 6.9 assists and 4.5 rebounds per game for the Tulsa 66ers before being called up by the Oklahoma City Thunder to end the season. Shakur was then signed by the New Orleans Hornets to a partially-guaranteed contract, but ended up as a training camp casualty and decided to re-join the D-League.

Despite being the 66ers' on-court leader last season, however, Tulsa has decided to trade Shakur to the Rio Grande Valley Vipers for the seventh overall pick in Monday night's D-League Draft -- a pick that became sweet-shooting Robert Vaden -- according to a source with knowledge of the trade.

Both the 66ers, owned by the Oklahoma City Thunder, and the Vipers, whose basketball operations are headed by the Houston Rockets, had ulterior motives to make the deal which pertain more to their NBA affiliates than the actual D-League squads put on the court.

 

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