Basketball writing, scouting reports and salary cap analysis from the archive.
Yesterday, the Detroit Pistons waived 2008 second-round draft pick and flopper extraordinaire, Deron Washington . They had initially signed him back in August to be their 14th and last man, giving him a two-year minimum salary deal with $250,000 guaranteed in the first season. Yet after bringing in…
Simple question: Did the tough economic climate affect NBA team's spending plans as much as MSM scaremongers would have you believe? Not-so-simple answer: Kind of. This summer saw a team that could have had nearly eight figures of cap room opt not to use any of it. The…
Continuing the round-up of training camp invites. - Milwaukee played the training camp game in the spirit that it deserves.....briefly. They initially announced three signings; former Marquette point guard Domimic James , D-League big man Marcus Hubbard and former Temple guard Mark Tyndale , and they later…
Continuing the round-up of training camp invites. - Phoenix are going to run with 13 players, because they always run with 13 players. And they already had 13 players before training camp started, so the prospects of their signings were slim to none before they even started.…
Training camp. Love it. Ever since I grew up with a mild addiction to the Championship Manager series of computer games , I have nurtured a mild fascination for transactions in sports. I know it's not healthy, but I also know I'm not alone. It might be harsh…
Almost all of this year's NBA free agents crop has now been signed. Of the few that remain, most have already finalised which training camp they're going to, and training camp contracts have already begun to be signed. However, these are far from being the only players in…
For those who missed my Tweets on the subject, I wrote a guest post at the San Antonio Spurs blog 48 Minutes Of Hell , talking about the Spurs finances and Brian Cook and stuff like that. Please go and read it. Also, if you own a good…
It's been roughly two months since summer league started, and most of the players involved have been rehomed now. The following is a list of where everybody currently is, or where they might be going. This list gets a bit long, so if you want to just skip…
It's been roughly two months since summer league started, and most of the players involved have been rehomed now. The following is a list of where everybody currently is, or where they might be going. This list gets a bit long, so if you want to just skip…
It's been roughly two months since summer league started, and most of the players involved have been rehomed now. The following is a list of where everybody currently is, or where they might be going. This list gets a bit long, so if you want to just skip…
Here's a longer list of things that were not included in the original Creative Financing post, either because I forgot to include them, or (in one instance) because the sweet prince who called our hotline with the information had not yet come forward. Remember; all calls are anonymous…
If you Google the term "creative financing otis smith" , you'll find quite a few hits. It's long been a favoured phrase for Orlando Magic general manager Otis Smith, and his most famous usage of the phrase came in the run-up to the 2007 offseason . Smith used…
Former Bull Jay Williams plays again , for the first time in two and a half years. Former NBA point guard Jay Williams is aiming to relaunch his career through the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). Williams, the second overall pick by the Chicago Bulls in the 2002 NBA…
The South Korean basketball league [KBL] has some quirky rules. It's a relatively new league, only ten years in existence, that unashamedly focuses on Korean national players. Part of that means heavily restricting the amount of Big Foreign Americans™ that so heavily permeate all the other leagues around…
February 13th, 2008. Wednesday. Raining. The Dallas Mavericks are tootling along with a 34-17 record. They're pretty good, and perhaps they know it, because they're suddenly overwhelmed with the urge to do something drastic. A veteran team with only one good young player decides on a plan to…
- Darius Rice has left the immortally named Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants from the Phillipines, and is about to sign with Montegranaro in Italy. I think that translates as "Bread Mountain". I hope it does, anyway. - A previous blog post talked about how Ivan Radenovic had…
As you might presently yourself fully be aware of, one of the specialist areas that this website focuses on is on the life, times, careers and skillsets of players on the fringes of the NBA. (The other specialisms are; the NBA salaries and all the technical aspects that…
- Alade Aminu : I've not yet seen Aminu, to be honest with you. But his stats from last year go like this; 11.9 points, 8.0 rebounds and 1.8 blocks in 27 minutes per game. Solid. So is the 6'10 230lb size with a 7'3 wingspan. However, the…
- Antonio Anderson : Anderson was Tyreke Evans's ill-fitting backcourt team mate last season. Like Evans, Anderson is 6'6, athletic, and a good passer and playmaker for that height. Like Evans, he's not ideally suited for guarding the point and has no significant jump shot. But unlike Evans,…
All right! Only three weeks late! - James Augustine : Augustine was covered in the Bulls round-up from bloody ages ago . He played well for both teams and definitely re-established himself. But neither team has room for him next year. - Jimmy Baron : Jay…
- Paul Davis : Davis was waived by the Clippers to save some money, after being brought back for no obvious reason. Strangely, he didn't sign anywhere after that, but he did appear on Millionaire Matchmaker, where it was determined that he showed an "immature" attitude towards sex.…
- Robert Battle : Battle's great. Every time he takes contact, he yells. And considering that he nails himself to the basket at both ends and never leaves the paint, that happens quite a lot. Good times. Battle averaged 12.9 points, 8.8 rebounds and 2.0 blocks in the…
- Deji Akindele : By being in this list, Akindele shows himself to once again be on the fringes of the minds of NBA executives, somewhere where he's been for about five years now. Last year in Italy, Akindele averaged 11.1 points, 6.7 rebounds, 2.1 steals and 1.6…
- Kaspars Berzins : Kaspars is a tall Latvian, but he's not Andris Biedrins . He's a fine outside shooter for a seven-footer, but he's not Dirk Nowitzki . And he's a good athlete, but he's not Chris Andersen . Mainly, he's a tall jump shooter who avoids…
- Maurice Ager : The highlight of Maurice Ager's NBA career was when he cried on draft night after being taken at the very end of the first round. That was touching. Since then...not much. In three years with two teams, Ager has shot 33% from the field,…