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