Basketball writing, scouting reports and salary cap analysis from the archive.
od invented the internet so that we could feel more closely acquainted to professional athletes. It's the reason they have online chats, it's the reason they have their own websites, it's the reason we try and become their Facebook friends, and it's the reason that their team contractually…
This will be the last instalment for this season of this series of posts, one which has gone on forever and seen more than a couple of jokes be repeated. It has come to its rightful end, ending as it does with the human conversation killer, Eurelijus Zukauskas.…
- Donell Williams is a training camp signing of the Clippers in 2007 who hasn't done anything of note before or since. A 28-year-old 6'3 guard, Williams spent his first two collegiate years at West Los Angeles Community College, before transferring to Fayetteville State for his final two…
The following people are all called Williams. - Ajani Williams hasn't played anywhere since scoring one point in two preseason games for the Atlanta Hawks in 2005. Probably not even Hawks fans remember this. That's how insignificant Williams's impact on the NBA landscape was. (No offence intended…
- Robert Whaley barely played in the D-League last year, averaging 4.0 points and 2.7 rebounds per game for the L.A. D-Fenders , and he has not signed anywhere this season. He also barely played in 2006/07, spending his time between the ABA, the Dominican Republic and Iran.…
- Charlie Ward retired in 2004, and briefly became an assistant coach with the Rockets . However, he left that gig, and has instead found a place and a job that caters to his three biggest passions in life; basketball, American football, and Christianity. Ward is now the…
I don't know how to tell you this; there's also only about three of these Where Are They Now posts left before we reach the human terminus that is Eurelijius Zukauskas . And I've already played my joker with the (simply astonishing) Ejike Ugboaja story. And I'm not…
- Larry Turner is signed with the powerhouse Vermont Frost Heaves in the even more powerhouse Premier Basketball League. Averages don't appear to an option, but here's a recent boxscore . Would you be able to look at that box score and pick out Larry Turner, of all…
- Lucas Tischer was recently waived by his Israeli team, Altshuler Saham Galil Gilboa, presumably for poor performance. Tischer averaged a stonking 3.6 points, 2.3 fouls and 2.1 rebounds in the Israeli league - Anthony Tolliver bounced back and forth between the NBA and the D-League this…
- Jamaal Tatum was the strange beneficiary of a training camp contract by the Portland Trail Blazers this summer, but unsurprisingly lost out on the 15th roster spot (which, surprisingly, Shavlik Randolph won). Tatum promptly returned to his D-League team of last season, the Idaho Stampede , for…
- Vlade Divac is currently trying to become President of the Serbian Olympic Committee. Never thought I'd say that about anybody, but there it is. - Nigel Dixon was in China to start the season, but left in the new year. Dixon averaged 26.3 points and 9.8 rebounds…
- D.J. Strawberry is with Fortitudo Bologna, the same team as GMAC Bologna, but not the same team as La Fortezza Bologna. Can't stress that enough. Strawberry averages 14.7 points, 2.7 rebounds and 1.5 assists in EuroCup play, alongside 13.8 points, 3.5 rebounds and 1.2 assists in the…
- Tiago Splitter is into his sixth season with Tau Vitoria, averaging 16.1 points, 5.8 rebounds and 1.1 blocks per game in the Spanish league, alongside 15.5 points, 5.5 rebounds and 1.8 blocks in the Spanish league. Splitter recently missed a couple of weeks with a torn muscle…
The following post will make you hate the word Smith. - Charles Smith is with everyone's favourite delicatessen, Efes Pilsen, where he averages 14.7 points in the Turkish league and 12.0 points in the EuroLeague. - Donta Smith is in Australia, which sort of has a…
- Chester "Tre" Simmons is signed with Maccabi Tel-Aviv, but is not in the rotation, averaging only 9.7 minutes and 4 points per game in the Israeli league with several DNP's thrown in. Simmons was also this week reportedly involved in a fight in (and outside) a nightclub…
- Renaldas Seibutis is part of a deep Iurbentia Bilbao team, averaging 10.7 points and 1.6 rebounds in the EuroCup, alongside 6.6 points and 1.7 rebounds in the Spanish league. - Now is the time to refamiliarise yourself with Warriors great, Mladen Sekularac . Mladen was drafted in…
- Jamal Sampson started the year in China (woop!), but unfortunately his averages were rather normal. Sampson averaged 10.7 points and 10.7 rebounds for the DongGuan New Century Leopards, before being replaced in early February by Cory Underwood , the team clearly realising that if Olumide Oyedije can…
I suppose I ought really ask - are you enjoying these? Really? I'd like some feedback on this. I mean, even if you don't enjoy them I'm doing them anyway, because despite how tedious it can get trying to find new and exciting ways to list someone's rebounding…
The results [result] are [is] in - one person likes these lists, no one said they didn't, and everyone else absconded. That's good enough for me, and the risk of alienating folks is minimal given that I seemingly have a readership of about 12 people, so here's a…
- For Orlando fans wondering how Milovan Rakovic is doing, here's some numbers; for Spartak St Petersburg in Russia (not Florida), Rakovic is averaging 7.2 points, 2.1 rebounds and 2.4 fouls through 16 games in the Russian league. But as underwhelming as those numbers are - particularly those…
- Olden Polynice has retired, which is perhaps unsurprising given that he's nearly 45 years old, but it took him longer to do than you might think. After retiring, Polynice became a coach for an ABA team, but the job security of a position like that is about…
- Let's start this off with a bang; I have absolutely nothing to report on Wesley Person . Nothing whatsoever. - Continuing that sizzling opener, Brent Petway is in the D-League, averaging 10.5 points, 3.9 rebounds and 2.1 blocked shots a game for the Idaho Stampede .…
- Smush Parker started the season in the D-League, averaging 17.3 points, 4.5 rebounds, 7.5 assists and an almighty 5.1 turnovers per game for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers . He then went off to China, where he may have become literally the only American import whose numbers…
- Lukasz Obrzut was an insignificant player in the D-League last year, averaging 3.1 ppg and 2.4 rpg over 38 games with both the Bakersfield Jam and the Fort Wayne Mad Ants . Before that, he spent four insignificant years with Kentucky, never averaging more than 2.0 ppg…
- Juan Carlos Navarro is back with Barcelona, and he'll probably never leave again. He is technically still a restricted NBA free agent of the Memphis Grizzlies , but that's kind of meaningless, because he has no rhyme, reason, or (I assume) desire to leave Spain again. Navarro…