Basketball writing, scouting reports and salary cap analysis from the archive.
Puerto Rican BSN team Gallitos de Isabella yesterday released big men Shaun Pruitt and Lee Benson for "problemas de conducta." The pair were released after Isabela's 86-76 to the Arecibo Captains on Wednesday night, a game in which Benson had 9 points and 18 rebounds, and Pruitt posted…
Excellent news. The only way you would not know that I am British is if you: a) have never been to this website before today, b) have been here before but understandably don't read any of the words I write, or c) know so little about vexillology that…
- Latrell Sprewell We'll start by confirming the obvious; Sprewell has not played since his Timberwolves days. If he had done, that would be one of the transactions you'd have heard about without needing my input. Since that time, Sprewell has made the news for four reasons; a…
- Brad Stricker Stricker played his first two college years with Texas A&M back in 1995-97. He averaged 4.4 points and 2.5 rebounds before transferring to Arizona State, but had sat only one semester of his required three at ASU before transferring again, this time to Georgia State.…
- Tommy Smith The last newsworthy thing that former Bulls forward Tommy Smith did was get arrested for kidnapping. Smith signed with Liaoning in China in November 2008, but played in only two games (totalling 2 points and 12 rebounds) before being released. A couple of months after…
- Marcus Slaughter Slaughter is in France, playing for Nancy. France is a good place to go if you're an athletic 6'8 power forward, and Slaughter is producing, averaging 13.3 points, 7.1 rebounds, 1.4 assists, 1.5 blocks and 1.5 steals in only 23 minutes per game. He is…
A previous post showed a tizzy featuring Charles Gaines and Du Feng in game two of this year's CBA Finals. What looked initially to be Gaines dropping Feng cold with a swift and well-placed right hand later emerged to be a flop of the highest order; after a…
- Sofoklis Schortsanitis Big Sofo has supposedly lost almost 150 pounds. This is good. The number is presumably exaggerated a bit, but whatever the amount he's lost really is, it's still good that he's lost it. He needed to. Last year, he was simply too fat play; allegedly…
- Marc Salyers After years of being a huge scorer, Marc Salyers has come back to Earth this year. Playing for Le Mans, Salyers is averaging 11.9 points, 4.4 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game in the French league, He's still pretty good, but in relative terms he's…
In game one of the 2010 NBA Playoff series between Chicago and Cleveland on Saturday night, Bulls point guard Derrick Rose shot 13-28 from the field, 0-2 from three-point range, and 2-2 from the foul line, for a total of 28 points on 28 shots. He added 10…
My bracket: My NCAA tournament bracket had more than a dollop of fail about it, so hopefully this one will be better that. I have incredibly few upsets scheduled, as you can see. And sorry to Portland fans for being the only sweep victims pencilled in; it's purely…
- Jason Richards Davidson guard Richards' first professional season was a washout. He joined the Miami Heat for training camp, but blew his knee out in practice and missed the entire year. In doing so, his contract became guaranteed. While there are no rules against a team releasing…
- Antywane Robinson Former Temple forward Antywane Robinson was in the NBA as recently as eighteen-ish months ago when he signed with the Sixers for training camp. He did not make the team - obviously, or else you would have heard about it - and moved to France…
Shavlik Randolph was initially going to be in this post, but he got signed by the Heat , and players currently in the NBA don't go on the list. So we'll replace him with a Spaniard. - Rafa Martinez 6'3 Spanish scoring guard Martinez is averaging 11.7…
- Pablo Prigioni Prigoni left Tau Vitoria this summer after six years there, and moved to Real Madrid as a part of Ettore Messina's complete makeover of the place. He averages 6.9 points and 3.4 assists per game in the ACB, alongside 7.0 points and 4.5 assists in…