by Tim Povtak

Filed under: Magic, Trail Blazers

ORLANDO — Anthony Tolliver didn’t go to the NBA Development League this season to get paid. He went to get seen.

And it worked.

Tolliver, the power forward from Creighton, became the second D-League player this season to get called up to an NBA team, joining the injury-riddled Portland Trail Blazers this week.

Tolliver could have been making considerably more money if he taken that offer to play in China, or returned to the Turkish Basketball League, where he played for a part of last season.

Instead he went to Boise, Idaho to play with the D-League’s Idaho Stampede.