Basketball writing, scouting reports and salary cap analysis from the archive.
The Chinese Basketball Association and its compelling protagonists have a particular level of focus on this website, for the simple reason that they're awesome. Any league that saw Olumide Oyedeji average nearly 20/20 can peak the interest of any of us. Fringe NBA players like playing in China;…
- Alex Garcia Brazilian guard Garcia has toured the world over the years, including a couple of stints in the NBA. He is now back in his native Brazil, playing for Universo/BRB Brasilia, a team seemingly sponsored by a l33t speak manufacturer. Brazilian league statistics are hard to…
- Luis Flores Domincan Republic native Flores has moved to the coldest climate of his career. Playing for Samara in Russia, Flores is averaging 13.8 points, 4.2 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game in the Russian Superleague, alongside 19.5/4.5/1.9 in the EuroChallenge. His backcourt teammate is Bosnian national…
- Joel Freeland Despite coming from the unpleasant town of Aldershot, Joel Freeland has turned into a fine player. Still in Spain, Freeland has moved from Gran Canaria to Unicaja Malaga, lured by the promise of EuroLeague ball. Freeland is averaging 9.9 points and 5.0 rebounds in 19…
In the last week, more than 10% of the NBA was rehomed. 17 teams conspired to make 13 trades, and 43 players in the league were traded (along with one that isn't in it ). A possible 14 draft picks changed hands, too, along with enough cash to…
In order to spice things up a bit, the next few players will be addressed by anagram only. - Mend Arse Form Desmon Farmer is in the D-League, trying to find one more NBA call-up from somewhere. In 29 games for the Reno Bighorns, Farmer is averaging…
Chris Ellis , featured in the last update, has moved from the Ukraine to Romania. Here's a couple of updates on people already covered; 1) Keon Clark has continued his weekly reviews in front of a drug court....or rather, he hasn't. At his January 27th hearing, Clark turned…
There follows a long list of cheesy and/or television commercials featuring NBA players. Some of which are quite good. Less talk, more cheesy commercials. 1) Tyler Hansbrough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqC44EIqGcw&ab_channel=BartSmith 2) Kevin Willis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3CBM_ZCL5E&ab_channel=judasvince 3) Vince Carter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG55wpX0qB0&ab_channel=judasvince 4) Doug Christie, Alvin Williams and Reggie Slater. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcjMsRWa048&ab_channel=judasvince 5) Chris Andersen…
- Byron Eaton Eaton went undrafted out of Oklahoma State because he didn't have NBA talent. He joined the D-League and was assigned to the Tulsa 66ers, but he played in only 2 games, totalling 1 point, 1 assists and 5 turnovers. Tulsa then released him in December.…
- Dion Dowell Dowell is signed in Israel, putting up numbers quite impressively similar to those of his senior season in college. He's playing for Altshuler Saham Galil Gilboa - a team that really needs to settle upon one name only - and is averaging 9.6 points, 4.8…
It's days like yesterday that remind me of why I spent a good three weeks of my life making the anagram feature. Greg Oden's anagram is "engorged," and by Jove did that turn out to be fitting . In amongst the two hundred and seventy jillion jokes made…
When I came in from bowling last night, many messages awaited me asking me for my views on the news that Devin Brown had joined the Bulls . You know how sometimes you get an irrational like for a fringe NBA player, a staunch loyalty that reaches far…
Am I the only person who thinks that Danilo Gallinari , when he's spiked his hair up, looks a bit like Butthead? Probably. - T.J. Cummings Cummings was drafted by the Idaho Stampede in the fourth round of this year's D-League Draft, but was released before the…
This one might be shorter than the last one. One final note on Keon Clark : despite what I said earlier about Clark's mandatory weekly court appearances being "almost universally described as good", Clark failed a drug test as recently as late November. So maybe it's not all…
- Lionel Chalmers Chalmers is signed in the Russian Superleague, or what's left of it. Russian basketball, like all Eastern European teams, has had a bit of a financial crisis this year, and the Superleague has only 9 teams left in it. Nevertheless, they're nine pretty good teams,…
- 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…
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 second-rounder - already owed to the Heat from last year's Shaun Livingston deal - from top 55 to top 50. (That…
- Rick Brunson The last time we checked in on Eric Daniel Brunson, he was the director of men's basketball operations at the University of Virginia. He's moved now, however. After Virginia head coach Dave Leitao resigned last April, Brunson took over the head coaching role until his…
- 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…
Drew Gooden was neither waived nor traded this week. Therefore, for all that fuss about his 'novel' contract , nothing actually happened with it. Now, he's just a plain old expiring. - Curtis Borchardt Borchardt left Spain for the French league this summer, but he did so…
Gilbert Arenas was suspended indefinitely today, where "indefinitely" is implied to mean "for the rest of the season at least." I don't really have an opinion on that, apart from to state the obvious. Which I won't do. But here's one thing to note; the financial repercussions of…
The Jazz signed Sundiata Gaines today. They needed an extra guard, and Sundiata was one of the best the D-League has to offer. For the Idaho Stampede this year, he was averaging 23.9 points, 6.9 assists, 4.7 rebounds and 2.3 steals, and no matter how much those numbers…
I was going to write a separate post to describe ways that the Hornets can avoid the luxury tax without trading away David West or anyone important, but I've decided that I won't. Here's a shorthand version: 1) On trade deadline day, trade Hilton Armstrong and $1.1 million…
For what it's worth, the Marko Jaric buyout was completed very quietly on Christmas Eve, and he's now a fully fledged member of Real Madrid. He put up 12/8/5 on debut, playing 41 minutes. In a 40 minute game. Not bad. (There was overtime.) - Brandon Armstrong…