Dewayne Dedmon has bounced back and forth between the Santa Cruz Warriors and Golden State.
Dewayne Dedmon started the Santa Cruz Warriors Basketball season with three goals: dominate on rebounds, make easy shots and ultimately leave to get called up to Golden State Team in Oakland—although he added on Media Day that he likes the “nice city” of Santa Cruz. (Dewayne, stop. We’re blushing.)
The season just started, and the 7-foot center—whose hand is probably large enough to hold the entire Weekly staff—has already accomplished of all three of his goals.
After dominating in two pre-season games, where he averaged 13.5 points, 12 rebounds and 27.5 minutes, Dedmon got called up Nov. 18 to Golden State along with Ognjen Kuzmic and Nemanja Nedovic, after Golden State backup center Jermaine O’Neal bruised his knee.
But the next day, all three gentlemen got assigned to practice with the Santa Cruz Warriors, and we thought we had finally won our man Double-D (we made up that nickname just now, and it probably won’t stick) back. But as it turned out, Dedmon was only hanging out with his old team because they were in Oakland for the night. The painful yo-yoing of our hearts continued the day after Santa Cruz Warriors spokesperson Matt De Nesnera announced that Dedmon was being recalled to Golden State for a Nov. 20 game.
That made Kevin Kotzur the tallest healthy person on the Santa Cruz team at 6 feet nine inches. “We’re hoping to get more size at some point,” Santa Cruz Warriors GM Kirk Lacob said after the team’s 121-102 win over the Austin Toros. “Losing Dewayne when we did and not having other guys back on the court yet certainly wasn’t ideal, but the guys held it down tonight, and we’re really proud of them.”
The story wasn’t over yet. Dedmon, who didn’t start playing basketball until his high school senior year, scored one point and didn’t get any rebounds over five minutes in four games. He and Nedovic got reassigned to Santa Cruz before last Sunday’s game, a 117-103 Santa Cruz win before leaving again. Monday morning they got recalled to Golden State for the third time. Say it ain’t so, Lacob clan!
