Earlier today, the Indiana Pacers made their purchase of NBA Developmental League franchise Fort Wayne Mad Ants official, allowing all 19 teams in the lower league to have 1-to-1 affiliations with a professional club, as illustrated in the tweet from the official D-League account below.
If you’re capable of quick math, you’ll notice that 19 is 11 teams short of the number of teams in the NBA — 30; with the Indy-Fort Wayne partnership on paper, those 11 teams, including the Los Angeles Clippers, are now without a D-League partnership, as Fort Wayne Mad Ants were partnered with the NBA teams without 1-to-1 affiliates.