Maine Red Claws
| Maine Red Claws | ||
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| founding | 2009 | |
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Maine Red Claws since 2009 |
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| Stadion | Portland Exposition Building | |
| Location | Portland , Maine | |
| Club colors | Green, white, red, black | |
| league | NBA G-League | |
| Head coach | Scott Morrison | |
| owner | Maine Basketball, LLC | |
| Championships | no | |
| Conference title | no | |
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The Maine Red Claws are an American basketball team based in Portland , Maine and playing in the NBA G-League . They were the farming team of the Charlotte Hornets , Philadelphia 76ers, and Boston Celtics before being assigned to the Boston Celtics alone in 2012.
The team exists because the G-League continued to spread to Portland, Maine . On July 21, 2009, Austin Ainge became the team's first coach. There was a choice to choose the name of the team. Red Claws won ahead of Beacons , Crushers , Destroyers , Swarm and Traps .
For the first three years of the franchise's history , they failed to reach the championship play-offs . In the 2012/13 season, under their new coach Mike Taylor , who had previously worked in Germany for a long time, succeeded for the first time in the play-offs, in which they were eliminated in the first round.
Well-known former players
Web links
- NBA Development League: Maine Red Claws - Home on the websites of the NBA (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mike Lowe: Red Claws, Celtics make their partnership official. (No longer available online.) Portland Press Herald, March 10, 2010, archived from the original on June 30, 2012 ; accessed on April 12, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ NBA Development League Expands to Portland, Maine. (No longer available online.) Maine Red Claws, Feb. 25, 2009, archived from the original on Nov. 6, 2012 ; accessed on April 12, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Ainge to coach Red Claws. (No longer available online.) Portland Press Herald, March 17, 2010, archived from the original July 14, 2012 ; accessed on April 12, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
