Basketball writing, scouting reports and salary cap analysis from the archive.
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…
- Kenny Anderson Anderson has not played since the 2005-06 season. His NBA career ended the year before, when he split the 2004/05 season between the Hawks and the Clippers , and after being waived by L.A. in March 2005, a ten-month wait ensued. Anderson then joined legendary…
- Akin Akingbala Akingbala came out of nowhere to be a decent rebounder and defender for Clemson in his senior season, and was a training camp invite of the Celtics in 2006 as a result. After that he went to the D-League for a bit, and has spent…
The Where Are They Now series of posts started out by accident, yet they've become the most enjoyable part of the website. They seem to be fun for you to read, and they're definitely fun for me to write, so now that Christmas time has passed and new…
I have only 48 things to say about this deal. 1) As his profile suggests , I have long regarded Peter Fehse as a yardstick for a person's NBA knowledge. If a fan knows who Peter Fehse is, they are hardcore and deserve your respect. Short story short,…
The D-League has bagged itself some more former NBA talent. In five of the last six years, Iowa centre Jared Reiner has appeared in an NBA training camp. In 2004 it was the Bulls ; in 2005 it was both the Clippers and the Suns ; in 2006…
As always, Chinese Basketball Association transactions are extremely hard to verify. There is no English language version of the CBA's website, and crude Google translations aren't really that helpful. Tryouts are often reported as signings, signings often aren't reported at all, and lots of things go unreported. From…
I like to think that I keep my ear pretty close to the ground. If you're going to know about such perfectly useless things as Kevin Burleson signing in Romania, then you kind of have to. Yet I had absolutely no idea that the Knicks were considering signing…
Continuing the whereabouts round-ups of all recent NBA drafts, this is the fifth installment of the series. The non-canonical first four: 1994 , 1995 , 1996 , 1997 . As always, this is really long. Feel free to skip bits. First round - 1st pick: Chris Webber…
Last Christmas Eve, the Houston Rockets traded Steve Francis and a 2009 second-round pick to the Memphis Grizzlies in exchange for a conditional 2011 second-round pick. I remember this trade specifically because I totally called it. The deal was made to help Houston dodge the luxury tax. And…
The following real quote is a real quote: As soon as I heard that Bakersfield had a team, I was hoping I could play for them." - Robert Swift Swift played high school basketball in Bakersfield, hence this desire, and he got his wish when he was allocated…
As mentioned in the 1997 NBA Draft Where Are They Now Round-up Recap Thing , IG Strasbourg are a French team that's not doing very well. They're currently joint-15th in the 16-team French ProA league with a 2-7 record and a three-game losing streak. They're currently in the…
John Edwards spent two years in the NBA. He signed as an undrafted free agent out of Kent State with the Pacers in 2004, played spot minutes in 25 games, and the Hawks signed him to a two-year, $2.08 million contract in the summer of 2005. After one…
Last year, former Kansas State forward Cartier Martin started out in the D-League before earning an early call-up to the Charlotte Bobcats . He didn't play a whole lot, and when he did it's mainly because Larry Brown was using him as a defensive specialist (including occasionally guarding…
Slovenian international swingman Domen Lorbek has signed back in his native country with Helios on a one-month contract. Until last week, Lorbek was with Cajasol Sevilla in Spain's ACB, averaging only 2.9 points in eight games. He signed there only on a two-month contract and it was not…
Despite a solid 3-2 start to the season, Greek A1 team Peristeri Athens announced that they were releasing former Illinois big man and Golden State Warriors camp invite Shaun Pruitt , as well as Rhode Island forward Will Daniels , to be replaced by Utah natives Spencer Nelson…
Last year, we focused at length on the joy that is the Chinese Basketball Association. It's a quirky beast; the standard of China's own domestic players is poor in the grand scheme of things, with the exception of the occasional halfway-decent (or truly fantastic ) big man. Knowing…
Continuing the whereabouts round-ups of all recent NBA drafts, this is the fourth instalment of the series. The first three: 1994 1995 1996 As always, if the player in question is still in the NBA, I'll probably write some rant that in some way relates to them in…
For no reason other than an itching craving to scratch my own Where Are They Now itch - I can't really start the 2009 series of posts until all leagues are underway, which will be about another six weeks - I have decided to revisit the whereabouts of…
The NBA's luxury tax first came into existence in 2001, the year in which the league's new escrow system debuted. The escrow system, in layman's terms, is a system that withholds a certain amount of player's salaries and puts it into a separate account until the end of…
At the start of the month, over the course of three posts united by the overused theme of Alec Baldwin's monologue from Glengarry Glen Ross, I attempted to analyse and predict the training camp rosters of every team in the NBA. For the hell of it, here's the…