Ed Davis on D-League: 'I Never Want to Go Back Down There Again'

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The Toronto Raptors assigned lottery pick Ed Davis to the Erie BayHawks for a rehab and conditioning stint last week, but after just two games, he had plenty of opinions about his time in the NBA Development League.

"One, I never want to go back down there again,'' Davis told The National Post of his time in Erie, Pa. "It's a struggle down there. It's rough. I had a five-, six-hour bus ride to Fort Wayne. It's really a struggle. You get in the mindset that you just really want to work hard and not go back down there.''

Davis did work hard in his quick stint with the BayHawks, averaging 10.0 points, 5.0 rebounds and 3.0 blocks in 17.5 minutes of action, but his time off from the court seems to have been what stuck with him the most.

"I was in Erie for two or three days, and I was at the Sheraton,'' Davis said of his living arrangements. "Then we practiced at the (Cleveland Cavaliers') facility and then we went to Fort Wayne and we were in sort of like a motel-type thing. It was a bad hotel, or a motel or whatever. It was a struggle in Fort Wayne. It was cold out there. There weren't many places we could eat. I'm just happy to be back here.''

 

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Source: http://nba.fanhouse.com/2010/12/02/ed-davis-on-d-league-i-never-want-to-go-back-down-there-again/

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