Basketball writing, scouting reports and salary cap analysis from the archive.
- 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…
- 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…