Reunion in Saskatchewan for NBA G League player-coach duo, Harkless and Abney

WATCH: Competing together in the NBA G League with the Ontario Clippers, guard Elijah Harkless and coach Larry Abney have reunited in the CEBL for their first season together with the Saskatchewan Rattlers .already has a contender for highlight of the year with a violent dunk in the dying seconds of the third quarter last Thursday against the Vancouver Bandits.“Fareed our university guy has been telling me, ‘I ain’t never seen you dunk,'” said Harkless.

While his shooting has struggled with a touch of inconsistency, according to Rattlers head coach Larry Abney, Harkless has been counted on as a key member of the offence for a Saskatchewan team eager to return to the playoffs this summer. “I feel very comfortable,” said Harkless. “He knows exactly what is talking about, I know he puts work in each and every night. I know that dude doesn’t sleep and he wants to put Saskatchewan on top of the map, he wants to put them on top of the CEBL and just show all the hard work he puts in every single night. We’re happy to go out there and play for him.”John Tavares is fighting an $8M CRA tax bill.

“It’s part of the reason I brought him up here,” said Abney. “Even him being young, his growth and what he has in his future is going to be really, really, really good.”A third Ontario Clippers player in Bryson Williams is expected to join Saskatchewan later this summer, which would complete a trio of Rattlers alongside Harkless and Abney with baked in chemistry.

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