Where Are They Now, 2010; Part 12

- Brian Butch

After going undrafted despite working out for basically every NBA team at some point (and going to summer league with the Memphis Grizzlies, where he barely played), Butch split his first professional season between Spain, China and Germany. He spent most of it in Germany, averaging 10.6 points and 5.5 rebounds per game for Noerdlingen, and this summer he signed in Greece for Ilysiakos. In three games, Butch put up 42 points and 16 rebounds in only 49 minutes, with 10 three pointers, and led the team in points and rebounds despite not playing half the game. But Ilysiakos released him anyway for reasons I'm too lazy to Google, and Butch has returned to America and joined the D-League. For the Bakersfield Jam - a team who announced they were folding after last season yet who seem to have found a stay of execution from somewhere - Butch averages 17.1 points, 8.5 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 1.1 blocks in 31 minutes per game. He'd play more if it wasn't for the 4 fouls per game.

Here is Brian Butch scantily clad in the scanty cladding of a woman.





- Geno Carlisle

Despite being far older than the age of player that the league was really designed for, ex-NBA player Carlisle spent last year in the D-League playing for the Anaheim Arsenal. He played only a month for the team, averaging 8.9 ppg in 18 games, before being waived last January due to injury. He has been unsigned ever since. It's not entirely unprecedented for Carlisle to be out of the game for a year, as he did the same between early 2007 and early 2008 as well. But since he turns 34 this year and was last heard of being waived due to injury, it doesn't bode well.



- Alejandro Carmona

Carmona appears to have established a rhythm method, playing in his native Puerto Rico during the summer months and in Mexico during the winter. Since it's currently the winter - for me, at least; God knows what it's like over there - Carmona is in Mexico playing for Fuerza Regia Monterrey. He is averaging 17.2 points and 0.7 assists per game in the LNBP, but hasn't been entirely consistent in doing so; his scoring outputs in his last 7 games before Christmas read 11, 8, 2, 43, 40, 12 and 14.

Carmona was a member of the Pistons training camp roster in 2005 after strong showings with the Puerto Rican national team. This is why you aare to be interested in him.



- Jaycee Carroll

Carroll is in Spain, moving from Italy, where he spent last year with Bancas Teramo. He is playing for Gran Canaria and averaging 17.9 points per game, good enough for third in the ACB. Considering that the ACB is the second strongest basketball league in the world, and that those points per game rank even higher than luminaries such as Juan Carlos Navarro, that is no mean feat.

He totalled 18 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists in a Eurocup game from last month that I'm about to watch. This could well bias me for life.



- Pat Carroll

Much like Carlisle did last year, Carroll has decided to spend this year in the D-League, despite kicking 30's door down. Carroll has played and started in all 22 games for the Iowa Energy this season, and is averaging 9.7 points and 3.0 rebounds on the season, shooting 44% from the field and 36% from three point range.

Pat Carroll does not appear on the first page of Google results for his own name. People who do appear in a search for Pat Carroll include an actress from The Little Mermaid, an online running coach, a fitness specialist, a respiratory therapist and the original Cinderella sountrack. But no Pat Carroll the basketball player. Tough break, man.



- Josh Carter

Ex-Texas A&M wingman went undrafted this summer, and couldn't get an NBA contract even after a summer league gig with the Suns. Subsequently, he moved to Germany to play with EWE Baskets Oldenburg, a team that was in the Euroleague this season. Oldenburg were one of the worst teams in the Euroleague this season (no offence), and were knocked out in the group stage with a 1-9 record (joint worst with Orleans), but the Euroleague is still the Euroleague and so Carter's gig has some pedigree. Carter didn't play especially well in the Euroleague, averaging 7.8 points and 2.5 rebounds on 35% shooting, but he's doing a little better in the German league where he averages 9.3 points and 2.3 rebounds in 21 minutes per game, shooting 44% from the field and 41% from three point range.



- Maurice Carter

Reports that Maurice Carter came out of a three and a half year basketball hiatus last year to play for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the D-League last January were greatly exaggerated. They were actually more than exaggerated; they were wrong. That was a different Maurice Carter. The Maurice Carter we're referring to here - the former LSU graduate, minor league veteran, and fleeting member of both the L.A. Lakers and Nawlins Hornets - has not played since 2005. I have no other information on that.



- Russell Carter

Notre Dame Carter hasn't been a hugely successful pro career so far. His first year was spent mostly in the Italian second division, and last year he averaged only 8.6 points and 3.3 rebounds in the French league. Interspersed in there have been a few stops in the D-League, and it is there where Carter finds himself right now as a member of the Austin Toros. However, that too isn't going very well; in 15 games with the team Carter is averaging only 5.9 points and 2.5 rebounds per game, shooting 38% from the field, 19% from three point range and 55% from the foul line, with a 1:3 assist/turnover ratio (not 3:1). He started the year as a starter for the team, but now is out of the rotation, and has not played since January 8th.



- Warren Carter

Carter spent most of his summer months with the Knicks, joining up with them for summer league and doing well enough to earn a training camp spot. After being waived, Carter went to Greece, where he signed with Ilysiakos as Brian Butch's replacement. It all ties in nicely. Carter is averaging 12.3 points and 6.9 rebounds on the season, highlighted by a 17 point 14 rebound performance in which he also shot 5 threes. Only hit one, though.

Warren Carter is Josh Carter's older brother. I didn't know this until just now. It all ties in even more nicely now.



- Sam Cassell

Sam Cassell is currently an assistant coach with the Washington Wizards. This is far from the smoothest way a man could start a coaching career.



- Steve Castleberry

Rider product Castleberry is spending his second season with Podebrady in the Czech Republic. SPOILER ALERT: Of the 1,400 or so players covered by this website, only 2 are currently playing in the Czech Republic, the other being former Ohio State swingman Ron Lewis. Castleberry's numbers are up across the board from last year, and on the season he is averaging 13.6 points, 9.0 rebounds, 1.0 steals and 1.1 blocks, shooting 62% from both the field and the foul line.

Steve Castleberry used to be a member of the Philadelphia 76ers. The above photo proves it. I wonder if they let him keep his jersey.

He has a Twitter, but it's set to private. What don't you want us to know about you, Steve Castleberry?



Finally.....

- Kelvin Cato

Kelvin Cato is absent with leave, last playing with the New York Knicks in the 2006/07 season and avoiding being heard from since. Although the one piece of post-2007 Kelvin Cato that the internet DOES provide is that apparently he sweats heavily at bad moments.



As always, if you want to keep tracks of the transaction of these players without having to wait until every January, use the transaction indexes for all three of the NBA, the D-League and the world at large. Every relevant transaction is in there. Even the Taiwanese ones.

Where Are They Now, 2009; Part 13

- Carlos Delfino is still with Khimky in Russia, despite the rumours of a return to the Raptors ramping up a bit after Toronto dumped Hassan Adams off to the Clippers a fortnight ago. However, while these rumours may not be unfounded, they sure are illogical. Let me tell you why the Raptors dumped Hassan Adams - they dumped Hassan Adams because Brian Colangelo gave Adams a guaranteed contract in July, something which Hassan then used as an excuse to not work very hard, showing up fat and unable to do the one thing that he's quite good at - running around off the ball. Additionally, Hassan Adams is not very good, which in hindsight was another reason not to give him that guaranteed contract. However, because Colangelo did, he brought the team so close to the tax threshold ($1,107 beneath it, to be exact) that the team could only carry 13 players in order to stay under it. When their big man injury situation got so bad that they had to sign somebody (Jake Voskuhl), the Raptors had to shift a contract in order to get underneath the threshold again. Adams was the logical choice - he was the final man on the bench, filled no team needs, had an appropriately sized yet easily moveable, and should never have been on the team in the first place. So the Raptors gave the Clippers some money as an incentive for taking on Hassan's dead weight cap number. THAT'S why the Raptors moved Hassan Adams. It wasn't a precursor to some move for Carlos bloody Delfino.

Let me ask you something - when you're so staunchly obliged to stay under the luxury tax that you can't even sign the irrelevant Jake Voskuhl without having to make corresponding roster moves to free up the money, while carrying the league minimum players all season in a bid to save further money, are you really going to throw a few million at a backup wing player, who just played his supposed career season with you and who still wasn't very good, chucking like Berry and somehow managing to shoot slightly less than his piss poor career average of 40% shooting? No, no you aren't. No matter how desperate you are for a short term fix,, Carlos Delfino isn't it. He's especially not it when obtaining him means roundly buggering your extremely delicate salary situation. And so that's why the Raptors won't be signing Carlos Delfino this season. Or if they do, they're dumb.

(By the way, Delfino averages 11.4 points and 4.1 rebounds in Russian league play. It's all good information.)

- Tony Delk retired from professional basketball in November 2007. This retirement lasted a mere manner of months, as he quickly unretired to join a team in Puerto Rico. Three games later, Delk retired again, and is now a "technical advisor" to that same Puerto Rican team, the Gigantes of Carolina. I assume that this means he mends the Jumbotron every now and then, and plays lots of Minesweeper.

- Derrick Dial is currently in the D-League with the Tulsa 66ers, which isn't really the place for 33 year old journeyman. Nevertheless, Dial is there, and he averages 11.3 points, 4.1 rebounds, 3.9 assists and 38% shooting, as the sixth man on a Tulsa team that averages 21.3 turnovers a game. And that's a lot of turnovers.

- Dimitris Diamantidis is in his fifth season with Panathinaikos, averaging 10.4 points, 4.9 rebounds and 3.6 assists in Euroleague play.

[Did I really just say "chucking like Berry"? Jesus. You'd better go. I wouldn't read me either.]

- Guillermo Diaz averages 17.6 points and 2.0 assists for Eldo Caserta, the Italian team that Jamar Butler also just joined. The 2.0 assists is a team high (tied with Butler, although Butler has played only three games), so there's clearly not a lot of passing from the Eldo backcourt there. Although that's probably not that surprising, coming from a backcourt featuring Guillermo Diaz, Horace Jenkins and Shan Foster.

- Dan Dickau is unsigned, and still trying to add to his healthy old list of NBA Teams That Dan Dickau Has Belonged To For At Least 8 Minutes - the Lakers are supposedly interested in him.

- Kaniel Dickens is in the Italian second division. He was in the first division, but his team - Napoli - went bankrupt, and so Kaniel had to look elsewhere. For Cimberio Varese, playing alongside Randolph Childress, Dickens averages 14.3 points and 7.1 rebounds, both team highs. While writing Kaniel's name just now, I noticed that an anagram of it happened to be "Dick Linesnake", which might just be the best name for a male porn star that I've ever heard. That, or he's an Anchorman character. Good times.

- Michael Dickerson's random comeback didn't last very long. Signing with the Cavaliers for training camp, after five and a half years out of the game, Dickerson faced impossible odds to make the team, and didn't overcome them. After being waived, Dickerson went back where he came from - to India, on a voyage of "spiritual discovery". Alrighty.

- Alain Digbeu - some old French git whsoe rights the Hawks still own - started the season with Kavala/Panorama in Greece (a team that seemingly couldn't decide which name to use), but left earlier this month. Whether he jumped or whether he was pushed, I couldn't say, but the 7.1 points per game on 36% shooting probably made him livewithoutable.

- And finally, an update on two players that have already been mentioned, but whose circumstances have since changed. Justin Frazier has signed with the San Antonio Spurs on a ten day contract, although what the Spurs think they'll see in those ten days that Austin hasn't shown over the last 12 years is a bit baffling. And, after describing at reasonable length how former Lakers guard Maurice Carter was seemingly out of basketball, he has just this week gotten back into it, as he was acquired by the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the D-League.

Spooky coincidence? Maybe. But I'd like to think that I'm responsible for him getting employment. I'm not, but I like to think it anyway.

Where Are They Now, 2009; Part 10

- Maurice Carter's last sighting was back in 2005, when he averaged 14.5 points and 5.5 rebounds for the Indiana Pacers' summer league team. He was only 28 at that time, having played in the NBA only the season before, and yet he hasn't played anywhere since. I don't know why this is. If you do, let me know. Carter also apparently owns a piece of the Mississippi Hardhats WBA franchise, a team whose website sorely needs updating, and who might not even exist any more. But, if they do, VIP tickets to a Mississippi Hardhats game are only ten dollars! Nice! Buy early to avoid disappointment!

- Russell Carter is playing for Gravelines in France, a team whose name loses its magic when pronounced in a French accent. Playing alongside former seminal NBA starlet Dan McClintock, Carter has appeared in all of 2 games for Grave Lines, totalling 17 minutes, 0 points and 5 rebounds, which isn't much in a month.

- Steve Castleberry is in the mighty Czech Republic league, where he averages 11.1 points and 6.3 rebounds for the even mightier Karma Basket Podebrady. Steve Castleberry was not good in college, has only played in weak leagues such as the USBL and the Dominican Republic since turning pro, and hasn't exactly shined in any of them. Why, therefore, does he garner all this attention on this website, one that is designed with a specific focus for current and fringe NBA players? Well, it's because the Philadelphia 76ers signed him for training camp in 2005. I don't know why they did this, yet because of that, I'm now morally obligated to follow the life and times of Officer Steve Castleberry. Bad times.

- Kelvin Cato is still unsigned, and probably always will be. If any team out there is rueing not signing Dikembe Mutombo, and thinks they might want to sign Kelvin Cato instead.....don't.

- Lion-O Chalmers is playing for Surgut in Russia, where he is averaging a highly applaudable 22.1 points (comfortably first in the league) and 4.9 assists (fourth). Fun Lionel Chalmers fact - Lionel Chalmers is the cousin of current Minnesota Timberwolves forward Craig Smith. I'd make a list of players that are cousins of other players, but it would take one hundred million years to complete.

- "Ca$h Money" Brian Chase averages 13.2 points, 3.4 rebounds and 3.1 assists for Le Mans, another French team whose name is less fun when pronounced properly. Chase's teammates include former World Wrestling Entertainment Champion and Gonzaga forward J.P. Batista, as well as former Sacramento King forward David Bluthenthal, who average 9.0 and 10.1 points respectively.

- Calbert Cheaney has been out of the game for bloody ages, and is now something of a Mr Miyagi type.

- Eric Chenowith is unsigned. After joining the Hornets for training camp last season, Chenowith then went to the D-League, where he did precisely nothing. He then signed with a Korean team this year, but left during preseason, and he has not been signed since. For a few years, his NBA window has been open, albeit only slightly. But now, I think it's firmly shut.

- Josh Childress is playing for Olympiakos, as well you know. It's also going rather well for him, as he averages a team leading 15.6 points, good for fourth in the league, as well as 3.7 rebounds. Childress is also shooting 76% on his two point shots, which is almost Josh Childress-like.

- Doug Christie could be doing roughly anything right now.

- Adam Chubb will literally never leave Germany. Thus season, on the first year of a two year contract with Jessica Alba's Berlin team, Chubb is averaging 8.1 points amd 3.6 rebounds.

- Finally, Sam Clancy finally signed a contract for this season, joining CSK VSS Samara in Russia earlier this month. In his first game for the team, Clancy went 0-4. Good times.

Where Are They Now? Part 8

Maurice Carter - who is someone that you've probably never heard of, who had a very brief NBA career with the Hawks and Lakers, and who Charlotte then selected in the expansion draft for no real reason - appears to no longer have a basketball career, having not played since the end of the 2005 season. It's a bit bizarre given that he's only 31, but so be it.

Russell Carter is playing for the Tulsa 66ers of the D-League, which leaves me with a similar question to the Colorado one - what's a 66er?

Officer Steve Castleberry, another one of the greatest all time Random Training Camp Signings Of Seven Footers Who Happen To Play In A Gym Next To An NBA Team And Who Get Signed To Keep The Numbers Up after a very brief stint with the Sixers back in 2005, is playing for the Yakima Sun Kings of the CBA.

Kelvin Cato has not played professionally since leaving the Knicks at the end of last year.

Lionel Chalmers is playing for Benetton Treviso in Italy, along with lots of other people that you've heard of, including Mario Austin.

Brian Chase is playing for Besiktas in Turkey, keely awaiting Pat Riley's next phone call.

Calbert Cheaney gave up the NBA thing a while ago, and is now a keen supporter of Barack Obama, keen enough to organise a basketball tournament with him.

Eric Chenowith is playing for the Idaho Stampede of the D-League, as some staunch supporters still hold out hope that he's going to make the NBA beyond a training camp. As he hurtles towards 30, it looks less and less likely.

Doug Christie appears to have retired and has set up a record label.

Adam Chubb, former Bobcat for about a week, is playing for the Artland Dragons Quackenbrueck in Germany, which is a pretty amazing team name.

Sam Clancy is playing for Le Mans in France.

Keon Clark has watched it all go a bit south. His trial is currently adjourned.