Where Are They Now, 2010; Part 11

Calling it early; Miami will trade Dorell Wright along with New Orleans' 2010 second rounder to the Grizzlies in exchange for changing the protection on the Grizzlies 2012 secound rounder - already owed to the Heat from last year's Shaun Livingston deal - from top 55 to top 50. (That is to say, in exchange for as little as possible.)

That's a prediction, not a story, but it makes sense; Miami gets under the tax with this deal, and Memphis gains a free decent player and a 40's pick to replace their own, which is owed to the Lakers as a part of the Pau Gasol deal. It's the kind of deal a lot of teams have done lately, not least of all Memphis, who spent much of last year taking on either people's unwanted cap hits in exchange for future picks and cash. It's a solid way to do business, and, post-Iverson buyout, they can afford to do it again. Add this to my list of predicted trades, which previously featured one other; Hilton Armstrong to the Clippers, who's now gone to the Kings instead. Don't know why I was so hung up on it being the Clippers. Thought too much about TPE's and forgot about cap space.

Speaking of which, the salaries are updated.

Also, what I said earlier about Mikki Moore was wrong. Golden State does not pay him more now that they've waived him; for some reason, the rebate thing applies once a player has been paid more than the two year minimum, regardless of whether he's on the roster not. Thus, Golden State will still only pay $825,495 to Moore after all. Sorry. The confusion/misinformation stemmed from the case of Austin Croshere, who last season signed a one year minimum salary contract with Indiana (later claimed off waivers by Milwaukee) but who didn't make it beyond the guarantee date; Croshere got paid $543,026 by the Bucks for his two months of work, which was 73 days worth of the team or more year veteran's salary for that season ($1,262,275), but apparently that wouldn't have applied if his contract was guaranteed. This makes it even weirder than the Bucks waived him, since it cost them $543,026 for 73 days work and would have only cost $254,555 for another 97 more. But anyway.

Everything's Justin Frazier's fault, somehow.



- Derrick Byars

Byars is American, so he's obviously in the German league. He's with ALBA Berlin, yet he's averaging only 6.4 points and 2.0 rebounds in the German league, along with 5.7 points and 2.0 rebounds in the Eurocup, shooting only 26% from three point range in the Budnesliga and 33% in the Eurocup.

Nevertheless, Bulls fans still haven't stopped talking about him.



- Sergei Bykov

Dynamo Moscow lost all their good import players over the last year because they ran out of money. This means that Bykov - who last year was buried as the third point guard behind Hollis Price, Brian Chase and Jannero Pargo, and behind Travis Hansen at shooting guard - now gets to star. His numbers are up across the board, averaging 18.0 points, 2.6 rebounds and 2.9 assists per game in the Eurocup, in conjunction with 22.9/2.9/4.4 in the Russian Superleague. He leads the Superleague in points per game, and is third in assists per game as well. Yet Dynamo have only a 3-5 record anyway because they have no imports to support him with.



- Rashid Byrd

Rashid Byrd appears to be unsigned. I say "appears to be," because someone purporting to be his cousin said on this site's Facebook page that Rashid had been reacquired by the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, the D-League team with which he finished up last season. However, no source of D-League news seems to agree with her. So either it's a premonition, something that's going to happen soon, a misunderstanding, or a lie. The last one seems unlikely.

In lieu of Rashid Byrd news, here's a video of him and Ron Artest discussing life, women and condoms.



- Zarko Cabarkapa

Zarko Cabarkapa was out of the game for three years, from early 2006 to early 2009, due to the chronic injuries that hampered his NBA career. He reappeared last January with his former team, Buducnost in Montenegro, for whom he played four games. He totalled 25 minutes, 11 points, 5 rebounds and 7 fouls, before not playing again after February after having yet another surgery. Cabarkapa is now 28 years old, still unsigned and still recuperating, but he hasn't given up yet.



- Justin Cage

Cage is with Dexia Mons-Hainaut, a Belgian team not keen to admit that they're actually Belgian. The team has a 10 man rotation, and yet employs only one German; youth player Alexandre Libert. (Former Idaho State forward Jim Potter is into his fifteenth season in Belgium, so I guess he counts too.) Dexia recently lost their American head coach - Chris Finch - to the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the D-League, and replaced him with an Israeli head coach and a Dutch assistant. It's a very international affair, just as long as that nation is not Belgium.

On the year, Cage is averaging 7.6 points and 3.8 rebounds per game in the Belgian league, alongside 7.3 points and 2.5 rebounds in the Eurochallenge. He also totalled 10 points in his only Eurocup game of the year, but I watched that game, and he kind of sucked a bit. (Although his accidentally-banked-in three was kind of cool.) Indeed, the whole Dexia Mons-Hainaut team sucked in that game; after beating Valencia in the first leg by 15 points, all Dexia had to do was either win again, or lose by no more than 14 points. This should have been easy, even on the road, and Dexia actually led by double digits at one point. But then they pissed it all away in the second half, lost by 18, and were knocked out of the competition. Whoops.



- Nick Calathes

Calathes is playing for Panathinaikos, where his Greek passport helps the team bypass rules in non-Greek players. He played quite a lot to begin the year backing up Vassilis Spanoulis, but has seen less time since Sarunas Jasikevicius returned from injury. On the season, Calathes (or Kalathis to the Greeks) averages 6.2 points, 1.9 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game in the Greek league, along with 4.3 points, 2.0 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game in the Euroleague. Those numbers might not look too good, but as the third string point guard on one of the world's best and deepest teams, they're pretty solid.



- Pat Calathes

Nick's brother Pat is three years older and 8 times balder. Pat retains a strong hairline at the front, but the crown is starting to go and he's only in his mid 20's. I feel your pain, brother. Pat is also in Greece and playing for Maroussi, another Euroleague team. He is averaging 5.7 points and 2.5 rebounds per game in the Greek league, along with 2.8 points and 1.3 rebounds per game in the Euroleague.



- Earl Calloway

Calloway was announced as a signee of Khimki to start the summer, but apparently that was a lie. Instead, after doing fairly well for the New Orleans Hornets in summer league, he went to Spain and joined Cajasol Sevilla. Calloway is putting up his usual all-around numbers, averaging 10.2 points, 2.5 rebounds, 4.4 assists and 1.4 steals in 28 minutes per game, shooting 41% from the field and 40% from three point range.

Also on that team is Maurice Ager, who we've already covered in part 1. I thought you might like to know that he has raised his shooting percentage since part 1 was written, from 22% to 26%.



- Elden Campbell

I can't find Elden Campbell. And believe me, I've looked. It wouldn't be a surprise if the man named the "Big Easy" is taking it Big Easy in his 40's, but it'd also be useful to find something. So if you know something, phone in.



- Marcus Campbell

D-League veteran Campbell has gone back there, rejoining his last team, the Anaheim Arsenal, who are now known as the Springfield Armor. (Arse to Arm. Giggidy.) The Armor aren't good this year, sporting only a 3-14 record, and part of the reason for that is their lack of size. It's not Campbell's fault, as he averages 9.6 points and 6.8 rebounds in only 20 minutes of 10 games. But their other main centre option is former Tennessee big man Major Wingate, who manages to turn it over three times a game in only 28 minutes. Not easy to do when you're not a big man scorer.



- Nik Caner-Medley

Caner-Medley was with Calloway's team Cajasol Sevilla last season, but it didn't end well. Caner-Medley drunkenly punched a team mate in the face at the club's end of season party, and was kicked out, ne'er to return. He's gone back to Spain anyway, joining up with Estudiantes Madrid and averaging 11.3 points and 7.6 rebounds per game.

Also on that team is British prospect Dan Clark. Clark won his fame as a prospecy in NBA circles back in 2005, but he's never done much with is since, toiling on loan in the Spanish minor leagues while Estudiantes held onto his rights. However, this season marks the first time he's gotten regular ACB time, and he's doing rather well with it. In 10 games this year Clark is averaging 4.9 points, 2.0 rebounds and 0.9 assists per game, shooting 50% from the field and 50% from three point range. As a 21 year old in the ACB, that's not bad.



Finally.....

- Jason Capel

Capel was briefly a member of the Bobcats back in 2005, thanks in no small part to the fact that his dad Jeff was an assistant there at the time. Capel was only there for training camp, though, and did not make the team. Indeed, his career only lasted two more years total before Capel had to retired with chronic back problems aged only 26. He then rejoined the Bobcats as a radio announcer, later switching to becoming an announcer for ACC games, and then followed family tradition by becoming a coach. He is currently an assistant coach at Appalachian State.




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.

Summer league round-up: Los Angeles Clippers

View the Clippers summer league roster. It's frigging stacked.

- Sean Banks: Sean Banks was in the NBA once, believe it or not. It's a period of time easily forgotten, but it did happen - after declaring too early and going undrafted in the 2005 draft, the Hornets signed him as an undrafted free agent, and assigned him to the Tulsa 66ers. He was the sixth player ever to be assigned to the D-League, but he didn't do much there, averaging roughly 12/3. The Hornets waived him before his contract became guaranteed, and he never appeared in an NBA game. He hasn't made it back since. However, in the 2007.08 season, he averaged 21.7 points, 5.4 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game for the L.A. D-Fenders, which got him back into NBA contention, and he signed with the Raptors summer league team last year as a result. After that, he went to Turkey and played for Darussafaka, averaging 13.1 points and 5.1 rebounds. Banks would do himself a big favour if he either improved his jumpshot, or put it away; he shot 101 three pointers in 30 games last season, accounting for one in every three of his shot attempts, yet he hit only 21 of them.

More importantly, Banks is rumoured to be trying to become a British national. His father was born in England, and still lives here, which entitles Sean to a British passport. He may soon be one of us. If he is, expect me to get biased.

- Nik Caner-Medley: Caner-Medley spent last year in Spain, playing for Cajasol Sevilla in the ACB. He averaged 10.7 points and 8.0 rebounds in 25 minutes a game during domestic competition, but he still hasn't developed a great outside shot, shooting 23% from three point range on the year. More notably, Caner-Medley was kicked off of the team at the end of the year for getting into a drunken fight with a team mate at a party thrown by the team to celebrate their season. The team mate, Michel Diouf - who reports say came off worse - was also suspended but later reinstated. Considering that the Clippers other small forwards are the specialist Steve Novak, the past-it Ricky Davis and the frankly crap Al Thornton, I'd like to think that Caner-Medley had a chance. But he doesn't, really.

- Dionte Christmas: Temple graduate Christmas averaged 20 points per game on 46% shooting in his sophomore year, then 20ppg on 43% shooting in his junior year, and then 20ppg on 41% shooting in his senior year. If he'd done them the other way around, he might have been drafted. His turnovers also trended the same way, which isn't good, although his assist numbers also got better, which helps. Christmas might be able to carve himself a nice career as a catch and shoot specialist, but he'll first have to improve on his 35% three point percentage from last year.

- Eric Gordon: Way too good to be in summer league again. Way too good.

- Blake Griffin: Same. But I suppose everyone has to have at least one year.

- DeAndre Jordan: DeAndre Jordan sucks, and a lot of people don't seem to know it. A lot of the time, you hear about players who are just athleticism and no technique, but rarely is it more true at the NBA level than it is with DeAndre Jordan. Yet some people still think he's good for some bizarre reason. The evidence says otherwise; Jordan's PER of 14.1 is quite good, but his PER against is 23.5, his win share rating was 1.5, his Roland Rating -7.6, his +/- rating a mere -7.5. His FG% and eFG% are both a tidy 63%, but that's easy to do when 58% of your field goal attempts are dunks (almost all assisted) or tip ins - he shot 18% on jumpshots, and 38.5% from the free throw line. Even on the night that he put up 23 points, 12 rebounds and 4 blocked shots, he let his matchup Andrew Bynum score 42 and 15. For him to ever be a backup calibre NBA centre, his effort will have to roughly double, and his skills will have to improve about tenfold. If he doesn't, then the guaranteed contract that he has for next season might be the last one that he ever sees.

- Marcelus Kemp: Kemp played on the Lakers, but totalled only 13 points in 3 games. He spent last year in Italy, playing for Basket Livorno, a team fortuitously sponsored by a wicker basket making company. (Not really.) Kemp averaged 20.7 points and 4.9 rebounds on the season, but must have had a bad Christmas or something, because he only recorded 6 assists in the whole of 2009 (assistless in 10 of his last 11 games). He had 265 field goal attempts in that time as well. He's a one on one type of player, and apparently it shows. Nevertheless, if he wanted NBA attention, he seems to have gotten it.

- Kyle McAlarney: Kyle McAlarney's great. His offensive game is solely three pointers, from between 21 to 34 feet, and the limit of his point guard play is driving baseline every one in a while. He's a little shooting guard with a dynamite shooting stroke, and no other complimentary skills. He's awesome. He's going to be a brilliant player next year. Guaranteed. It just won't be at the very highest standards of basketball.

- Kevinn Pinkney: Pinkney is a fine scoring big man, particularly from the mid range game and within. It's annoying, then, to see him take more and more threes. Pinkney averaged 14.2 points and 7.2 rebounds for NGC Cantu last year, shooting 71% from both inside the arc and at the foul line. But he shot only 335 from three point range. Why, then, did he take two and a half three pointers per game? I don't know. But stop it, Kevinn. And Google your own name if you need to know how to spell it.

- Mike Taylor: Portland drafted Mike Taylor very late in the second round last year, then traded his rights to the Clippers for L.A's second rounder this year. That was quite a high price to pay, considering that the Clippers then proceeded to suck and the pick wound up being number 33 (which the Blazers then used on Dante Cunningham, another fringe Brit). Taylor showed some ability to score last year, although his defense is quite a way short and he's not going to become a pure point guard at any point (his turnover numbers are still huge). He should make the team again, given that the Clippers don't really have any alternatives to explore, but his contract is unguaranteed until the end of the month. And therefore, so are his chances.


Additionally, it was expected that Sofoklis Schortsanitis was going to join the team. He tried to, at least. But FIBA ruled that, because he was still under contract to Olympiakos, he wasn't allowed to play in summer league. This only appears to be a rule that applies to him, and not anyone else, so I must be missing something here. But that's the gist of it, at least.

It is obligatory that any mention of Sofoklis Schortsanitis is accompanied with a progress report on his weight. So, here goes.

The latest reports out of Greece state that Sofoklis has lost a staggering 105lbs since the start of last season, which is a huge amount to lose. Their target weight for him is 340, which he's damn nearly at, supposedly. Yet those reports also state that he now weighs 349 pounds.

You can do that math yourself. That's a formerly 454 pound man we're talking about. That's documentary worthy-big. It's unfathomble.

Those reports also claim that Sofoklis is down to 12% body fat, which seems like it can't be plausible when talking about a guy that size. But be honest, I kind of believe them. It's obviously impossible for a 6'8 350lb guy to be carrying around anything less than a crapload of excess fat, but I'm also willing to believe that the guy is chiselled underneath the wobbly bits. Watching several Olympiakos games last year, I never quite got used quite how spectacularly massive Sofo is. He would go up against players like Nikola Pekovic, giants amongst men, and yet he'd dwarf them all. He'd be shorter, and obviously fatter, but it's not just weight; the guy is freaking.....huge. I can't really explain it, really. There's a better way to explain it then this half hearted attempt I've just managed, but I don't know what it is. He's just magnetically massive. He's also pretty spritely for such a giant, pretty smart and highly skilled. He's an enigma.

But Sofoklis is still not going to be a factor at that weight. He's too big. And this weight cycle has been going on for at least six years. It's fun to be optimistic about how good he could be, but maybe we just shouldn't bother trying to be any more.

Where Are They Now, 2009; Part 9

- Zarko Cabarkapa has not been signed since being let go by the Golden State Warriors about 18 months ago, at the end of the 2006/07 season. Zarko had not played that whole season, either, meaning that his last professional basketball game came nearly three years ago in April 2006. The reason for this is injury, as Cabarkapa has battled chronic back complaints for all this time, if not from before then. However, there's a light at the end of the tunnel - Cabarkapa has recently begun workouts with his former team, Budućnost, hoping to get back into the game. He has not signed a contract with anyone, but it's a start.

- Justin Cage is playing for Belgacom Liege, a team that unsurprisingly play in Belgium. Belgacom Liege employ a very strict 8 man rotation (the roster outside of those 8 players have a total of 30 minutes played in 13 games), and only one of those 8 players is a Belgian. As an Arsenal fan, I kind of know how this feels. Cage averages 16.2 points and 4.2 rebounds a game, making himt he team's second leading scorer behind the man, the legend, Christopher Hill.

- Pat Calathes was not drafted, played on the summer league roster of all 30 teams, still didn't make it to training camp, and so he buggered off to Greece, having to temporarily postpone his plans to be the next Pat Garrity. For Marousi in Greece, Calathes is averaging 4.9 points and 2.5 rebounds, while shooting three pointers at a scintillating 22%.

- After being one of the best players in the D-League last year, Earl Calloway went in search of some slightly better money. Finding it with Cibona Zagreb, Calloway averages 11.9 points, 2.8 rebounds, 2.9 assists and 1.9 steals a game, but his court time might be about to be superceded by recent arrival Alan Anderson. (Calloway's backcourt partner, Davor Kus, is a Croatin international and the team's leading scorer. So he's not getting benched any time soon.)

- Marcus Campbell was one of the better big men in the D-League last year, but he left late in the season to play in Italy. Obviously a fan of tideless seas full of shit and piss, Campbell stayed near the Mediterranean and signed in the Spanish second division with Los Barrios, yet he was quickly released. Returning to the D-League once more, Campbell is currently averaging 10.7 points and 9.9 rebounds for his former and present team, The Arse.

- Nik Caner-Medley started the season with Upea Orlando in Italy, but the team went bankrupt before the season started. Whether this was due to Nik Caner-Medley, I couldn't say, but I doubt it. C-Med then moved to Cajasol Sevilla in Spain, where he averages 10.7 points, 8.5 rebounds and 1.1 assists, yet shooting only 11% from three point range. So his weakness is still there, then. (I quite like Nik Caner-Medley, having never watched a single moment of his college career. If he adds that jumpshot range, it's plausible that his career follows a path similar to that of James Singleton, someone else whose game I like. Maybe I have a thing for undrafted hustle players with sporadic mid range jumpshots. I'd like Louis Amundson too if he could just control his own hair-based urges.)

- Jason Capel is still retired, although his Wikipedia page doesn't seem to carry this information. In fact, it says the complete opposite. Nevertheless, as far as I can tell, though, he no longer broadcasts Charlotte Bobcats games on radio, like he did last year, having being usurped by Muggsy Bogues. He stil announces college games, though, and is an assistant coach for a high school team.

- Geno Carlisle seems to be having one more crack at the NBA, despite now being the wrong side of 30. Playing for The Arse (as does seemingly every player that this series has covered so far - even Malick Badiane just joined them), Carlisle averages 8.0 points and 1.8 rebounds.

- Alejandro Carmona is unsigned, after leaving his Mexican team in November.

- Pat Carroll recently changed teams, from the unsuccessful Spanish team Beirasar Rosalia to the more successful Spanish team of Tenerife Rural. Carroll averaged 13.7 points for Rosalia, and 15.5 points for Tenerife in his two games there so far.

- Finally, high scoring Jaycee "Cash Money" Carroll isn't letting a perceived lack of speed get him down, as he averages 17.8 points and 5.1 rebounds for the third placed Banca Tercas Teramo in Italy. That 17.8 points is good for fourth in the league. By the way, there is no particular reason why I just called him "Cash Money". It merely stems from a childish game that me and my friend played this weekend, in which we spent a good couple of hours watching football and thinking up really bad nicknames for all the players on show, before deciding that the nickname "Cash Money" works on pretty much everybody. The same applies to "Mad Dog" and "The Cat". This is how I live my life.

Summer signings, round 9

- Charlotte re-signed Ryan Hollins yesterday, in a move that, by itself, is fine. Hollins is a worthwhile prospect, and they're making only a small commitment to him. It's a move that can't really fail. But it does mean that, with Alexis Ajinca and Jermareo Davidson already under contract, Charlotte now has three centres who can run and jump and shit (well, I think we can all shit), but who don't have too many pre-requisite skills, and none of whom are ready for big time minutes. This seems like a weird priorities list.

- While we're on the subject of uninteresting Bobcat centres, their former (and perhaps future) training camp fodder Deji Akindele has signed with Scavolini in Italy. For fun, here's a Babelfish translation of the Italian press's coverage of Akindele's performances for the Toronto Raptors summer league team.

We have gone to analyze the figures of new pivot biancorosso the Deji Akindele. Along of the Spar Digging, in first left with the mesh of Toronto Raptors, it has left in quintet, and in the defeat against the Kings in 22 minuteren it has put to sign 13 heads, with 4 at 8 from 2, and 5 at 5 to the free ones, flavored from 7 bounces. In the challenge lost against Denver, in the 12 minuteren in Akindele field it has totaled 3 points, with 1 on 2 from 2, and 3 bounces. Against Philadelphia, the pivot nigeriano in 17 minuteren it has put 8 points, and recovered 7 bounces.

It is now my mission to accomodate "flavoured from 7 bounces" and "signed 13 heads" into day-to-day NBA verbiage.


- The Utah Jazz surprised all of us who cared by match Oklahoma City's offer sheet to C.J. Miles, despite it being for 4 years and about $15 million. Considering that they've barely used Miles in the three years that he's spent there, it seems like quite an investment in a bit-part. They'd better actually use him now. As for Oklahoma City, maybe they could spend the money a bit better now that they've had a reprieve.

- Golden State found their 15th man by signing Anthony Morrow out of whichever college Anthony Morrow last played for. Having watched Anthony Morrow in summer league, I can tell you that Anthony Morrow can shoot. This takes Golden State's "guards who can shoot" count up to a staggering two (the other being Marco Belinelli). Unfortunately, Anthony Morrow can't dribble, leaving Golden State's "players who can serve as the primary ball handler" count at 0. Something to work on there.

- Edin Bavcic, Sixers draft pick, has signed for the incorrigible Kepez Bid Antalya in Turkey. Can't even think of a cynical comment here.

- Nik Caner-Medley is about to sign with Pierrel Capo D'Orlando in Italy. Again, I can't think of a cynical comment here. I'm sorry, but we're having a heatwave over here, and on top of that, I have a migraine and can't see out of my right eye. You're lucky I'm even bothering. TheChrisDuhonLapdanceClub.com - the only NBA website to make you feel guilty about reading its content.

- Guillermo Diaz had an "NBA Escape" clause in his contract with Italian team Peps Elvo Juvecaserta, but since that didn't get exercised (and I can guess why), Diaz is going back there next season.

- An earlier blog post talked about how free agent guard Maurice Evans initially agreed to sign with the Golden State Warriors, before changing hismind after deciding that he wasn't getting enough money. The Warriors then looked elsewhere. But Evans got what he wanted on the end (if signing in Atlanta can ever be called that) - a 3 year, $7.5 millionish deal from the Hawks, where he can try and fail to replace Josh Childress. Everyone's a winner. But mainly Golden State.

- Mustafa Shakur has signed with Procul Haram in Poland, alongside the impossibly named Koko Archibong. Pape Sow recently left Prokom (which is the team's real name, not the web of 70's music-based deceit that I spun you earlier), which is a damn shame, because a bizarre number of Prokom games are on TV over here, and it's ALWAYS good to see Pape Sow. Mustafa Shakur.....not so much.

- The Sixers signed Royal Ivey, who TOTALLY helps their backcourt shooting woes. (Seriously, the worst shooting teeam in the NBA by a country mile goes and signs Royal Ivey? Royal Ivey????? That's a good plan, is it? Oh, and by the way, I'm going to contradict my own Royal Ivey player profile here, but Royal Ivey is NOT a good defensive player. If you don't believe me, feast your mince pies on this. Spectacularly bad.)

- Ryan Gomes re-signed with the Minnesota Timberwolves, who quietly have re-signed Gomes and Craig Smith for less than the cost of one DeSagana Diop. Well done them.

- Sasha Vujacic re-signed with the L.A. Lakers for some years and some million. I got nothing. Seriosly, it's a world of hurt in my head right now. How am I supposed to think up witticisms? All I can think of is the pain relieving qualities of a shotgun?

- Zabian Dowdell. Nancy. No. Gone. Google. Ow. Pain. Hot.

Bed.

Where Are They Now? Part 7

Derrick Byars is playing for Chorale de Roanne of the French league. He has also recently changed agents, which is something that was brought to my attention via email by a Mr (or Mrs) B.D. Byars. So thank you, whoever you are. And if you have any idea how much guaranteed money Derrick got to go to training camp with Philadelphia last year, and wish to share that with me too, that'd be good.

Will Bynum is playing for Maccabi Tel Aviv in Israel, where he was recently arrested and charged with a hit and run. Even more recently (Sunday), he was acquitted, after the judge ruled that his actions were the only reasonable ones that he could have taken in order to get away from the situation (Bynum and his car were being pelted by rocks by a large group of people who obviously didn't like him very much, and Bynum clipped one while speeding away). Strange times. Even stranger, none of the people doing the rock throwing got charged either.

Rashid Byrd, 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, has gone back to the oblivion from whence he came. He is playing for the mighty OC Gladiators of the ABA.

Zarko Cabarkapa has not played professionally since leaving Golden State. Whether this is due to apathy or injury, I could not say. But if I remember rightly, he had a problematic back complaint. So maybe it's that.

Justin Cage is playing for the Colorado 14ers in the D-League, and still isn't as good as his agent says he is. (What, by the way, is a 14er?)

Elden Campbell is long since retired, and was recently honoured as a "Clemson Legend".

Marcus Campbell is playing for Avellino in Italy after transferring from The Arse just this week.

Nik Caner-Medley is playing for Gran Canaria in Spain.

Jason Capel has quit playing professional basketball and is now a colour commentator. He's only 28, but apparently doctors told him to "shut it down". This story has movie potential. (That is to say, it has crap movie potential.)

Geno Carlisle's world tour of everywhere continues, and he is currently playing for Karisyaka in Turkey.

Bimbo Carmona is playing for Carolina in his native Puerto Rico, and still isn't someone that you've heard of. (Dammit, you should pour over summer league and training camp rosters some time. I do this often. Great fun. So many nobodies.)

Pat Carroll is playing for Alicante in Spain, and is also still entirely comparable to his brother Matt in every way. Except Matt has six years of guaranteed salary coming to him, and Pat is playing in Spain throwing lob passes to Martynas Andriuskevicius.