Basketball writing, scouting reports and salary cap analysis from the archive.
- Olden Polynice has retired, which is perhaps unsurprising given that he's nearly 45 years old, but it took him longer to do than you might think. After retiring, Polynice became a coach for an ABA team, but the job security of a position like that is about…
- Let's start this off with a bang; I have absolutely nothing to report on Wesley Person . Nothing whatsoever. - Continuing that sizzling opener, Brent Petway is in the D-League, averaging 10.5 points, 3.9 rebounds and 2.1 blocked shots a game for the Idaho Stampede .…
- Smush Parker started the season in the D-League, averaging 17.3 points, 4.5 rebounds, 7.5 assists and an almighty 5.1 turnovers per game for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers . He then went off to China, where he may have become literally the only American import whose numbers…
- Lukasz Obrzut was an insignificant player in the D-League last year, averaging 3.1 ppg and 2.4 rpg over 38 games with both the Bakersfield Jam and the Fort Wayne Mad Ants . Before that, he spent four insignificant years with Kentucky, never averaging more than 2.0 ppg…
- Juan Carlos Navarro is back with Barcelona, and he'll probably never leave again. He is technically still a restricted NBA free agent of the Memphis Grizzlies , but that's kind of meaningless, because he has no rhyme, reason, or (I assume) desire to leave Spain again. Navarro…
- Sergei Monia is into his third season with Dynamo Moscow, and has extended his contract so that he can stay there a bit longer. Then again, unless they start filling out that stadium a bit more, they might just run out of money. Monia (who seems to…
If it wasn't for the NBA Draft - that hotbed of prejudice that can see the entire prognosis of the NBA change in six short hours - then the trade deadline would be my favourite time of year. There's nothing like it; you cancel every event in your…
- Rich Melzer is currently unsigned, and played only three games last season for the German side Quackenbrueck, whose name also doubles as a duck's favourite breakfast. Having just turned 29, this doesn't seem like a particularly healthy direction for Melzer's career to be going towards. Then again,…
- Chris McCray is playing in Italy for a second-tier team called Rimini Crabs, which sounds like the most painful affliction that a man can have. McCray averages 13.8 points and 4.1 rebounds for them. - Taj McCullough is in the D-League, and started the year with the…
- Darrick Martin was waived by the Raptors midway through last season, and chose that moment to retire. Martin then stuck with the team anyway, in a sort of informal consultancy capacity. Maybe he consults with Will Solomon on how to take more shats. Martin recently has a…
- Erazem Lorbek's weird route to the NBA continues with CSKA Moscow. Lorbek is averaging 10.6 points and 4.7 rebounds in only 17 minutes per game in the Russian league, alongside 11.5 points and 5.4 rebounds in 21 mpg in the EuroLeague. Lorbek is shooting 46/65 combined from…
For some reason, whenever we get a EuroCup game screened over here (something that happens way more than the screening of NBA games), it almost always involves Dynamo Moscow. It's a bit annoying having to see the same old players out there time after time when there's so…
- Anthony Lever-Pedroza is playing for a team called Soles de Mexicali, in a country that you can probably guess. About two hours ago, I watched a FIBA basketball magazine show that bizarrely and unexpectedly featured clips from a Soles de Mexicali game. I didn't spot Anthony James…
Random thoughts from random game. - I like it when guards constantly push the ball, but Devan Downey took this to extremes. He played like a mentalist, with one of the weirder 33-point outings that I've ever seen. Downey went 6-15 from two-point range, 7-9 from three, and…
I have watched a game and a half of Ohio State's season in this past week, and I feel as though that makes me an expert on everything about them. - The half a game comes from the second half of the Buckeye's game versus Indiana on Saturday.…