Townes makes NBA summer roster

Arkansas forward Darian Townes will get his shot at making an NBA roster next week with the Sacramento Kings.

Townes (6-10, 250) went undrafted in last week’s NBA draft but will get five chances starting July 12 to earn a roster spot with the Kings. Sacramento released its summer league roster Wednesday:

 2008 NBA SUMMER LEAGUE SACRAMENTO KINGS ROSTER
No. / Player / Pos. / Ht./ Wt./ From /Yrs. Pro
8 / Quincy Douby / G / 6-3 / 175 / Rutgers / 2
16 / Zabian Dowdell / G / 6-3 / 190 / Virginia Tech / R
0 / Patrick Ewing Jr. / F / 6-8 / 240 / Georgetown / R
43 / Noel Felix / F / 6-9 / 225 / Fresno State / 1 (SEA, 05-06)
31 / Spencer Hawes / C / 7-0 / 245 / Washington / 1
20 / Justin Hawkins / F / 6-7 / 204 / New Mexico State / R
24 / David Johnson / G / 5-10 / 170 / Napa CC / R
18 / Darnell Jones / G / 6-4 / 210 / Mesa College / R
25 / Marcus Malone / G / 6-5 / 215 / Houston / R
10 / Bo McCalebb / G / 6-0 / 180 / New Orleans / R
41 /Juan Palacios / F / 6-8 /245 / Louisville / R
35 / Patrick Sanders / F / 6-6 / 205 / UC Irvine / R
7 / Sean Singletary / G / 6-0 / 185 / Virginia / R
34 / Jason Thompson / F / 6-11 / 250 / Rider / R
40 / Darian Townes / F-C / 6-10 / 250 / Arkansas / R
30 / Matt Walsh / F / 6-6 / 190/ Florida / R
22 / Shelden Williams / F / 6-9 / 250 / Duke / 2

During his senior campaign, Townes set career highs in four categories at Arkansas. He averaged 12.1 points and 5.5 rebounds a game to go along with a 60.2 percent field goal percentage. He also scored in double digits in 15 of the last 16 games of the season.

The Kings summer roster will travel to UNLV on July 12 to start the summer league campaign. The squad will play five games in nine days and all the games will be available on NBA.com, according to Melody Gutierrez of the Sacramento Bee’s Kings Blog.

July 12: Kings vs. Raptors, 3 p.m. CDT - Available on webcast
July 15: Kings vs. Blazers, 9 p.m. CDT - Available on NBATV/webcast
July 16: Kings vs. Mavericks, 5 p.m. CDT - Available on NBATV/webcast
July 18: Kings vs. Warriors, 9 p.m. CDT - Available on NBATV/webcast
July 20: Kings vs. Rockets, 7:30 p.m. CDT - Available on webcast

Arkansas center Steven Hill was picked up last week by the Portland Trailblazers’ summer league team. Sonny Weems, drafted in the second round by the Bulls only to be traded to Denver, will also be participating in the summer league for the Nuggets.

We’ll get a schedule of games out to you soon.

– Brandon Marcello

Filed under: Arkansas Basketball by Brandon Marcello. Posted on: July 3, 2008 at 8:00 am