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Friday, 8 January 2010

Where Are They Now, 2010; Part 9

- Michael Bramos

After going undrafted out of Miami Ohio, Bramos played for the Pistons in summer league, and played pretty well. He then used his Greek heritage and Greek passport to go to Greece, where he is signed with Peristeri. Unfortunately, his first professional season is not going well. Bramos averages only 5.1 points, 1.7 rebounds, 1.1 assists and 2.7 fouls in 21 minutes per game, shooting 34% from the field. As was documented here, Peristeri have had some turnover with their imports this year, and it doesn't help that those documented two haven't played well either. But more on that later.



- J.R. Bremer

Earl is in Russia this year, played for Samara. He's averaging 11.8 points, 5.8 and 3.1 rebounds per game in the Russian league, alongside 4.8 points, 6.3 rebounds and 3.3 rebounds per game in the EuroChallenge. However, he hasn't brought his jumpshot with him to Russia; Bremer is shooting only 30% from three in the Russian league, and only 12% in the EuroChallenge, which explains his very low scoring output there. Did you realise it was 7 years ago that he was a starter for the Celtics? Me neither. Makes a man feel old.

J.R. Bremer fact: J.R. Bremer has a Bosnian passport. Is he actually Bosnian? No. Does he have any Bosnian heritage? No. Has he ever been there before? Actually, yes; Bremer played in Sarajevo for three months in early 2007, and won the Bosnian regular season title. Apparently that was enough.

For a longer list of player's nationalities, including the weird ones, visit this page.



- Jamison Brewer

After two years out of the game, Brewer has returned to play professionally in Brazil. As far as I can tell, Brewer has played 1 game for his team Pinheiros, totalling 30 minutes, 17 points, 4 rebounds, 1 assist, 0 tocos, 0 enterradas and 2 errors. I'm guessing those latter three mean steals, blocks and turnovers. God bless Google translate.

If Jamison Brewer, Jamison Brewer's agent, Jamison Brewer's representatives or Jamison Brewer's family members are reading this, please contact me by email, because someone wants me to help them return some personal artefacts to him.



- Tierre Brown

Tierre Brown is unsigned, and last played in January when he was playing for the Anaheim Arsenal. Brown was averaging 15.8 points, 5.2 assists and 3.7 turnovers per game for Anaheim, shooting 53% from the field and 20% from three point range, before The Arse waived him due to injury. He hasn't been heard from since.



- P.J. Brown

P.J. Brown is retired. Properly, this time.

P.J. Brown fact: P.J. Brown finished ahead of Kobe Bryant in the MVP voting in the 2004-05 season. That was the season that Kobe Bryant shared a backcourt with Tierre Brown. Kobe averaged 28/6/6 that year and didn't receive a single MVP vote; no one felt he was one of the most five valuable players in the league that year. Yet someone felt that P.J. Brown and Shawn Marion were. All right.



- Kedrick Brown

Brown was out of the game for the best part of three years between 2004 and 2007, but spent the last two years before this one in the D-League with the Anaheim Arsenal. Last year he averaged 17.9 points, 6.7 rebounds and 2.7 assists, and this year he's moved to Turkey to play for Bornova. He is averaging 16.9 points, 5.8 rebounds, 2.8 steals, 1.5 steals and 0.7 blocks per game, shooting 62% from two point range, 63% from the free throw line, and 29% from three point range. For some reason he's known as Albert Brown over there.



- Damone Brown

Like Tierre Brown, Damone Brown was in the D-League last year, but is not anywhere now. He started the season with the Reno Bighorns, the first player ever acquired by the expansion franchise, and averaged 15.8 points and 7.3 rebounds in 29 games for the team. However, he was released by the team in February after being arrested and charged with money laundering, after a safety deposit box that he was leasing was found to be being used to stash the proceeds of a local drug lord. Here's some kind of official document about his arrest. As I can find no evidence either way that he was acquitted, convicted, or anything of that nature, then I will assume that the case is still ongoing until proven otherwise.

Brown has not signed anywhere after being released, and while he did attend the Korean Basketball League's pre-draft camp in Vegas in the summer, he was not drafted by any Korean team.



- Denham Brown

Like T-Air and Damone above, Denham played in the D-League last season. He started the year with the Dakota Wizards but didn't do brilliantly, averaging 12.9 points, 3.8 rebounds and 2.8 assists in 31 minutes per game, but scoring only 103 points on 98 shots. He was then waived due to injury and reappeared three months later with the Iowa Energy, where he did a bit better, averaging 14.6 points and 4.9 rebounds in 30 minutes per game. He has not signed anywhere this season until this point, but this week he travelled to Venezuela to sign with a team called Marinos. The Venezuelan league does not start for another two months, however.



- Dee Brown

Brown is in Italy and he's having a strong year. On the season he is averaging 18.0 points, 4.9 assists, 2.7 rebounds and 1.6 steals in 30.4 minutes per game, for an Air Avellino team with a 7-5 record. Avellino tried out someone called Jimmy Bartolotta this October, a graduate of MIT who play in NCAA's Divison 3. This isn't related to Dee Brown, really, but it would have made an interesting story had it worked out. I can't think of anyone else who went from Division 3 straight to SerieA. Very very very few go from Divison 3 to the NBA, either.



- Elton Brown

Brown didn't have a good year last year. After tearing up the D-League in 2007-08, Brown signed with the Chicago Bulls for 2008 training camp, but then performed something awful in preseason and was released. (Not that it would have mattered; Darius Washington had an awesome preseason, yet he was waived too in favour of Michael Ruffin, who had missed all preseason with an ankle injury and who never played for the team.) Brown then went to Maccabi Tel-Aviv, yet he fell victim to the same regime change as Esteban Batista did, and barely played for the team. Things perked up at the end of the season when Brown joined up with Brose Baskets Bamberg in Germany, and he's still there, averaging 9.1 points and 5.6 rebounds this season.

Count The Germans; Two. In an eleven man rotation.



- Andre Brown

Andre Brown is in China, playing for the Zhejiang Wanma Cyclones. This season he is averaging the gaudy numbers of 28.5 points, 8.8 rebounds, 4.8 assists, 2.5 steals and 0.1 blocks in 33 minutes per game, shooting 49% from the field, 46% from three point range and 89% from the foul line.

Those numbers are about as un-Andre Brown as you can get. Those are the numbers of an elite small forward, and Andre Brown is a power forward. He's athletic, no doubt, but he's never been a shooter. Brown is athletic, no doubt, but he's never made a three pointer before this season. Not in the D-League, not in the NBA, not in Italy, not in Turkey, not in the Adriatic league, nor in college. And now suddenly he's 13-28 from there in 8 games.

Even more impressive is the foul shooting; historically, Brown has been a pretty freaking terrible free throw shooter. He never shot more than 55% in college, shoots 50% from there for his NBA career, is shooting 51% from there in his D-League career, shot 55% from there in Turkey last season, shot 40% from there in the Philippines in 2005....etc. Yet this season in China, he's sudden;y shooting 61-68. His free throw stats game by game read like this;

9-9
3-4
7-8
9-10
8-8
5-8
9-9
11-12

That couldn't be much more jarringly different to the rest of his professional career. Nor could the steals count (Brown has 21 in his 30 game D-League career, 14 in his 75 game D-League career, and grabbed all of 12 in Turkey last year, yet we're now expected to believe that he can grab 20 in 8 Chinese games) or the assists (36 all time in the D-League, 11 in the NBA, 7 in his senior season at DePaul, 14 his junior year, 16 in Turkey, etc). Somehow, we're supposed to buy that Brown has gone from an offensively inclined yet terribly bad shooting rebounding power forward, into a do-it-all small forward superstar, in less than the length of a domestic pig's gestation period.

There's only one conclusion to draw here; it's not actually Andre Brown, and someone's pulled the old bait and switch on an unknowing Zhejiang. Has to be. Either that, or Andre Brown just corrected all his flaws in one offseason aged 28 years old. This is pretty dumbfounding stuff.



- Keith Brumbaugh

Brumbaugh is spending a second season in the D-League. For the Sioux Falls Skyforce, he is averaging 14.9 points, 4.9 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.6 steals in 31 minutes per game, shooting 45% from the field and 32% from three point range. However, he's also turning it over 3.1 times a game in that time, and is still far from the finished article. The D-League is designed for players with potential that aren't the finished article, but Brumbaugh's window will shut soon if he's not careful, as he's already 24 years old. You can't have potential forever.




And now for the fail.

In searching for all that information, I found something I wish I had never found. One of the above mentioned players has a video of themselves online, walking around a room bragging about their genitalia, and then presenting said genitalia (in a excited state) to the camera lens. What makes it worse is that the player in question is wearing nothing but longjohns and a fishing hat.

I'm not going to republish the video, because this isn't TMZ. I'm telling you about it purely because a problem shared is a problem halved, and watching that video was truly problematic. But it's not material fit for this website. I would quite like to be thought of as a serious news source and intelligent analyst with a mild sense of humour, and not as a basketball version of perezhilton.com. This whole website is designed to be my CV, intending to prove the following facts to onlooking NBA people;

a) I am really, really, really, really really really reallyreallyreally ridiculously passionate about basketball.

b) This obsession has manifested itself into a finite understanding of the CBA and an expansive knowledge of several thousand basketball players around the club, particularly everyone relevant to the NBA landscape.

Because that's the dream job, really. To do what I do here, now, for a living; to be the guy in the back of the front office who knows a bit about everybody and will happily work 75 hour weeks doing the dirty work. That's what I want; that's why I do all this. It's all interspersed with pictures of funny moustaches and bad wordplay gags and things like that, but that's just to make it easier on the eye. The knowledge is what really matters, as is my desire to be taken seriously. [This would be a bad moment for you to stifle a giggle.] And the only way to do that is to commit fully to this website.

It is for that reason why Mr X's alarming moment of self-indulgence will not be reproduced here. I don't want the notoriety. Not THAT kind of notoriety, anyway.

However, the discovery of the video is still important, because it's pretty reckless of the player. Seriously. Think it through. I'm sitting here in my bedroom in rural middle class England, and without intending to, I've seen your penis. If I can do it by mistake, then anyone can. And if anyone can, that's could possibly have some serious repercussions on your basketball career. The video was clearly filmed with comic intent for the select viewing of your friends, but the internet is one big community whether we want it to be or not, and your control over who sees what is pretty minimal. This was proven by the fact that I found it, and all I was looking for was some interesting trivia. The video of you manipulating yourself in a fishing hat could possibly have absolutely no effect on your potential career, but it also may be hugely detrimental. Why take the chance? I'm not taking a chance on my future career by putting it here, and you shouldn't take a chance on your future career by putting your business online. We both stand to gain nothing but a cheap laugh. And cheap laughs are never worth it.

So, please. No more penises and fishing hats.

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Wednesday, 28 January 2009

Where Are They Now, 2009; Part 21

- I was first alerted to the presence of Blake Griffin about 18 months ago, when an Oklahoman resident told me he was brilliant. Apparently this has become a widely held opinion, as Griffin is the unanimous number 1 pick on both of the draft websites that I could be arsed to look at. (I really ought to start following the draft more, you know. But it's hard. I can't watch the games. And that, to me, is an important part of knowing about someone. Oh well.) Griffin averages huge numbers of 22.2 points and 13.8 rebounds for Oklahoma, despite being only 19 years old, and his PER is a staggering 38.1. And that's....a lot.

- Rashard Griffith is in Romania. Where else? In his second season with Asesoft Ploiesti, a team that currently lead the Romanian league with a 14-2 record, Griffith averages 10.2 points, 6.7 rebounds and 1.2 assists, but those numbers dropped to only 5.0 points and 4.3 rebounds in EuroChallenge play. So, just to confirm, Rashard Griffith's NBA window is shut, and has been for about 7 years. Other players on the Ploiesti team that you may have heard of include Carl Krauser (former Pittsburgh standout who I seem to recall had a tryout with the Pacers once, although I can't be sure of this) and Tyson Wheeler (who tried out for every team at some point, and who signed very briefly with the Nuggets back in the last millennium).

- Anthony Grundy is playing for Panellinios in Greece, where he is actually doing some passing. Grundy averages 10.7 points, 2.4 rebounds and 3.7 assists in Eurocup play, along with 16.0 points, 2.8 rebounds and 4.3 assists in the Greek league, playing the point guard to Brad Newley's shooting guard. Grundy is about to turn 30, however, which lowers the curtain on any more NBA opportunities.

- Dan Grunfeld has had a weird yet productive month. Earlier this month he received Romanian citizenship, because his father Ernie was born there. This new found passportian wealth has allowed him to travel with much greater ease around the European leagues, and instantly he signed with C.B. Valladolid in the Spanish second division (the LEB Gold), shooting 1-4 in 6 minutes on his debut.

- Tom Gugliotta is out of the limelight, presumably dining out off of the successful internet start-up company search engine that shares his name. (This is a Google joke, by the way. Give it the laughter it deserves.)

- Marcus Haislip is getting better. Stumbling out of the NBA due to his unrelenting rawness a few years ago, Haislip is into his second season with Unicaja Malaga, a good Spanish team. Haislip averages a team high 15.8 points as an inside/outside scoring forward, along with 5.0 rebounds. Wait, did someone say MALAGA?!?! That's where I went on holiday! Sort of! That sounds like an excuse to see my holiday photos again!


Never gets old.


- Mike Hall plays for the middle of the road Italian team, Armani Jeans Milano, a team that are sponsored by a jeans company. See if you can guess which. Hall averages 10.9 points and 7.1 rebounds in the Italian league, while playing mostly at small forward (I think), but those numbers drop to only 7.7 points and 4.0 rebounds in the Euroleague. Hall has shot a combined 97 three pointers and only 40 free throws, so this would suggest that he's still working on those much needed perimeter skills.

- Yotam Halperin is signed with Olympiakos in Greece. On a very deep team, Halperin averages 7.9 points, 2.3 rebounds and 1.8 assists in the Greek league, alongside 8.6 points, 1.7 rebounds and 1.2 assists in the Euroleague. Halperin is a combined 44-63 from two point range (70%), 23-54 from three point range (43%), and 39-45 from the free throw line (87%). For the points per shot fans amongst us, that's 196 points on 117 shots, a startling 1.68 points per shot average. I like this guy already. Absofreakinglutely.

- Adam Haluska is signed with Hapoel Jerusalem, the Israeli league leaders but has played all of 1 game, scoring 5 points.

- Darvin Ham gave it one last shot last season, signing a training camp contract with the Mavericks. He failed to win a spot, so he upped sticks, went to the D-League, did OK, then retired and became an assistant coach for his final team, International Rescue, alongside former Timberwolves centre Dean Garrett. By the way, there were a lot of commas in that, the previous sentence. For that, and also for that previous sentence, and for this one, and for every time I've ever done this, I am, truly, sorry. You didn't come here to read a Virginia Woolf novel.

- Finally, an update on two players that we've already had, but whose circumstances have changed. Esteban Batista, recently waived by Maccabi TelA-viv, has gone back to South America, signing with Libertad Sunchales in Argentina after deciding that Russia was too cold for him. And journeyman point guard Dee Brown has signed in Maccabi to replace him, sort of, indirectly, maybe, not really. These transactions, and other fun and relevant ones, can be found on the worldwide transactions page.

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Thursday, 8 January 2009

Where Are They Now, 2009; Part 8

A lot of people are called Brown, I've noticed. How fascinating.

- Dee Brown started the year with the Wizards, but was then waived when it emerged that he wasn't much god, nor was he the answer to Washington's pretty severe outside shooting problems. He then went to a Suns mini-camp, where he beat out Eddie Gill, Damon Stoudamire, Darrell Armstrong, Walker Russell and Troy Hudson to win Phoenix's mandatory 13th roster spot. He's since had his arse waived again this week, due to the mandatory contract guarantee date of January 10th. The Suns, seemingly, are going to do what they so love doing - keeping the bare minimum of players at all times, going to 12 as and when they can, to avoid paying out as little money as possible. This from the team that traded away Rudy Fernandez and Rajon Rondo just to save money, and who then gave Goran Dragic more than either of them. Even the Jason Richardson trade saved them money, It kind of makes you squirm, doesn't it?

- I've been literally inundated with one request for news on Never Gonna Keep Me Down Elton Brown. Oddly, that request comes from soneone who already knows the answer. But, sod it, let's play along anyway. After spending the preseason with the Chicago Bulls, and having trouble getting a shot away without it being blocked by a defender and/or the rim, Elton went to Israeli powerhouse Maccabi Tel-Aviv, hoping to be good again. However, Elton appeared in only one game, scoring two points with two rebounds, before it was announced in late December that Maccabi were releasing him, supposedly because they were disappointed with his conditioning. Whether he has actually left yet, I'm not sure, but he's not playing with the team, and any remaining chance of some dramatic turnaround with the team is going to be made even less likely once Marcus Fizer makes his return from long term injury lay-off, which will happen in the near future. So, the D-League it is then.

- Andre Brown started the season with the Charlotte Bobcats, after surprisingly making the team out of training camp. (Their quest for a big man started with Brown, then included Linton Johnson, saw a brief sojourn with Dwayne Jones, and eventually they settled on Juwan Howard. Somewhere in that cycle, they waived Jermareo Davidson. In case you didn't know, Larry Brown now coaches the Charlotte Bobcats.) Waived soon afterwards, Andre Brown now plays in the D-League with the Austin "Danger" Toros, thereby guaranteeing himself a contract from the San Antonio Spurs at some point. Brown averages 16.1 points and 10.0 rebounds whilst remaining the worst free throw shooter alive today.

- Eric Daniel Brunson is still the director of men's basketball operations at the University of Virginia, where he presumably extolls the virtues of being all heart.

- Rodney Buford is currently unsigned, which, in a sense, isn't a bad thing. I think he's found the solution to his endless suspensions. If he's not under contract, he can't be suspended for smoking weed, can he? That's genius Rodney, that is.

- Pat Burke is playing with Prokom in Poland, where he averages 11.2 points and 6.1 rebounds a game. He also just had a 20 rebound performance in the Euroleague, which is nigh on impossible to do, but which will guarantee him work for a while.

- Antonio Burks is no longer suspended, after being forced to sit out all of last season after walking out on a team that wasn't paying him. Seemed like an unfair suspension when so simplified, but, whatever. Burks signed a few days ago with Slupsk in Poland, if only for the name alone, and he has not played a game for them yet.

- Kevin Burleson is unsigned, and not even the Bobcats want him right now.

- Steve Burtt Jr is playing in Israel, where he averages 21.0 points and 3.4 rebounds for a team called Ashkelon. Fun Steve Burtt Fact, If Fun Is The Right Word For It: Steve Burtt Jr returned from his Christmas trip back to America a day late, after his mother forbade him from returning to the country until living arrangements were made for him in the middle of the country, out of the way of all that current Gaza shindig. Nasty business, that.

- I have no idea where Jackie Butler is. None whatsoever. The Rockets waived him last preseason, after only accepting him as pennance for getting Luis Scola for free. He then sat out the whole of last season. Butler was then supposed to join the Charlotte Bobcats for summer league, but didn't, and he hasn't been signed anywhere this season either. Keith Glass, if you're reading this, then let me know. And Keith Glass, if you're not reading this, I'm going to go back and re-write the review I gave your book. (Also note, re: the Bobcats summer league team - how stacked was that lineup? How the hell did it go 2-3?)

- Jamar Butler signed with Eldo Caserta in Italy, but left after only two games after disagreements with the coach, and has not played since. It's been said that he'll sign in Turkey, and it's been said that he'll sign in Germany, but at the time of writing he hasn't signed with either.

- Derrick Byars is with the Jam in the D-League, where he averages 16.8 points, 4.5 rebounds and 2.3 assists.

- Finally, fabled basketball vagabond Rashid Byrd is also in the D-League, where he averages 4.3 points and 3.4 rebounds. His free throw shooting percentage (44.4%) is higher than his field goal percentage (39.3%). It's also enough to make him a better free throw shooter than Andre Brown.

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Wednesday, 23 July 2008

Joey Dorsey loses a game that he wasn't in



Down one in the closing stages of a summer league game, new Wizards guard Dee Brown fouls Uruguay's finest, the insatiable Gustavo Barrera, sending him to the line. Barrera hits both foul shots, putting Houston up by 3.

Rockets forward Joey Dorsey - watching the game from the sidelines due to an ankle injury - briefly breaks away from his spontaneous "Who Can Wear The Worst Stripey Polo Shirt" competition with Rafer Alston, and decides to say something. The ref decides to T him up, demonstrating the elaborate technical foul calling technique that NBA scouts want to see from potenital refs. Dorsey sulks. Nick Young hits the technical free throw, and the Wizards have the ball, down two.

Andray Blatche, who has battled bravely against the desire to pass for a number of years now, throws up a tub of wank three pointer. It misses, but Brown tips it back in, and the game goes to overtime. The Wizards go on to win, and the Rockets don't. Joey Dorsey loses not only a game he wasn't in, but also the polo shirt competition, as he has no answer for Rafer's daring usage of deep red and sky blue on an otherwise predominantly white top.

(Also notice - Vladimir Veremeenko. Hooray! If these games are downloadable anywhere, then I need to know. Can't do streams, though.)


Here's what I know about Joey Dorsey - he's an idiot. Someone once told me that he's the next Ben Wallace, which re-affirms my belief on this. (And no, I'm not at all bitter about the spectacularly unsuccessful Ben Wallace signing and the collateral damage that it caused. Nope. Not at all. Totally over it.) Admittedly I don't know much about Joey Dorsey - when he made headlines for "announcing" that his college team mate Derrick Rose was not going to be drafted number 1 by Chicago in a hilarious wind-up that everyone found hilarious, it took me two weeks to find out that Joey Dorsey was a player, and not an opportunist reporter. But still. I know he's a bit of an idiot. Wikipedia agrees.

During the 2007 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, Dorsey famously called Ohio State center Greg Oden "overrated as a big man," said that Oden "might be as good as Joey Dorsey," and called himself Goliath and Oden the "the little man." Dorsey also predicted a 20 rebound game for himself. The Buckeyes defeated the Tigers by a score of 92-76 and Dorsey finished with zero points and just four rebounds. In fact, Dorsey was so overmatched during the game that he was not able to even attempt a field goal in the 19 minutes he was on the court. As terrible as he was on the offensive end, he was as bad or worse on the defensive end. Dorsey's defensive duty was to guard Oden. Oden shot 7 for 8 from the field for 17 points and also grabbed 9 rebounds.

And now this.

The evidenced is really piling up. Joey Dorsey = a mouthy git. A bit like Stephen Jackson.

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Monday, 7 April 2008

Where Are They Now? Part 6 (The Browns)

T-Air Brown is playing for Varese of the Italian league, and avergaing about 11 points and 3 assists. I was going to include statistics for everybody before I realised that I couldn't bothered, so there's Tierre's as a compromise of sorts.

Kedrick Brown, who was waived by the Sixers in February 2005 and who hadn't taken a basketball job since, is finally back playing, in the D-League, for The Arse (Anaheim Arsenal). Where he was in the mean time is unclear, but, depending on who you believe, he wasn't an alcoholic.

Perennial training camp hopeful Damone Brown has made his way to the Dutch league, playing for the Eiffel Towers Den Bosch. Why they are thus named is not immediately clear, but with this stint in Holland, Damone Brown has now officially played "everywhere". Even Utah. So well done him.

Denham Brown is playing for Tisettanta Cantu in the Italian league.

Dee Brown is playing for Galatasaray in Turkey, as mentioned before.

"Never Gonna Keep Me Down" Elton Brown is being firmly kept down by Hapoel Holon of the Israeli league.

Bobby Brown - no music career jokes please, because they aren't funny - is playing for ALBA Berlin, who are in Berlin. Which is in Spain. Seriously.

Rick Brunson is "Director Of Men's Basketball Operations" at the University of Virginia. What he does with the women's basketball team is anybody's guess.

Rodney Buford is playing for Azovmash in the Ukraine, after recently coming off of his fifth career suspension for waccy baccy smoking, this latest suspension three months in length. Time to re-think your lifestyle choices maybe, Rodney.

Pat Burke is playing for Kihmsky Moscow in the Russian League.

Antonio Burks was playing in the basketball Mecca that is the Bulgarian league, until November. Then he got suspended by FIBA for a year. Apparently his decision to walk out on his previous team - Red Star Belgrade - was deemed unlawful. Not knowing most of the facts of the case, I'm tempted to support Burks's decision to do so since the team hadn't paid him for a month. But, hey ho, what do I know. Unjust punishments for the win!

Kevin Burleson is playing for Mersin Buyuksehir Belediyesi in Turkey.

Jackie Butler hasn't been heard from since Houston waived him this October. But the chances are that some people will still tell you that he's a future starting centre in the NBA.



In answer to someone's question of "are you really going to go through the entire alphabet, 12 at a time?", the answer is yes.

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Wednesday, 1 August 2007

Remaining FA's that don't suck too much

Most of the meaty bits of this year's free agency crop have already been dealt with. But some residual pap still remains, and some teams still need to plug some holes.

So, for the record, here's the best of what is left out there.

(Note: players that have signed in leagues other than the NBA are not listed, nor are people that weren't on an NBA roster to end last year - click this bugger right here for a very long free agents list. Also not listed are people that have agreed to sign somewhere but who have not done it yet - see this page for that kind of stuff.)


Point guards:

Charlie Bell (restricted), Earl Boykins, Gary Payton, Keith McLeod, Andre Barrett (restricted), Donell Taylor (restricted), Jeff McInnis, Jannero Pargo, Royal Ivey, Mike Wilks, Darrick Martin, Dee Brown (restricted), Junior Harrington, Randy Livingston, Brevin Knight


Shooting guards:

Eddie Jones, Jarvis Hayes, DerMarr Johnson, Derek Anderson, Aleksander Pavlovic (restricted), Dahntay Jones, Alan Anderson, Rawle Marshall, C.J. Miles (restricted), Devin Brown, Roger Mason, Hassan Adams


Small forwards:

Ruben Patterson, Mickael Pietrus (restricted), James Posey, Jumaine Jones, Josh Powell, Jalen Rose, James Singleton, Linton Johnson , Ime Udoka, Matt Barnes, Aaron McKie (really old), Mike Hall (restricted), James White


Power forwards:

Melvin Ely, Austin Croshere, Corliss Williamson, Chris Webber, Marc Jackson, Michael Sweetney, Malik Allen, Zarko Cabarkapa, Stanislav Medvedenko, Danny Fortson, Andray Blatche (restricted), Alan Henderson, Lawrence Roberts, Uros Slokar, Pape Sow, Alexander Johnson, Cliff Robinson


Centres (spelt correctly):

P.J. Brown, Brian Skinner, Vitaly Potapenko, Michael Olowokandi, Anderson Varejao (restricted), Calvin Booth , Michael Ruffin, Martynas Andriuskevicius, Jake Tsakalidis, Earl Barron (restricted), Rafael Araujo, Dwayne Jones, Esteban Batista, Scot Pollard, Jamal Sampson, Pat Burke , Bo Outlaw, Dikembe Mutombo, Kelvin Cato, Kevin Willis

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