Basketball writing, scouting reports and salary cap analysis from the archive.
(originally published elsewhere) A few days ago, Darnell Mayberry broke the story that Oklahoma City Thunder draft pick Josh Huestis might spend next year in the D-League , collecting a mere $25,000 or so salary, rather than sign in the NBA. This would be groundbreaking, not as the…
At the end of the July Moratorium each year, the league sends out a memo containing all of the findings from the audit it conducted during it. That audit is what the moratorium period is for - the moratorium is one long end-of-season book-keep in which it crunches…
Further to this , this and most recently this . In the last update, I explained how Tim Duncan had had his contract modified, but Zach Randolph had not. And yet what I could not explain was why Tim Duncan had had his contract modified, but Zach Randolph…
This post is essentially the conclusion to a post from nearly two years ago , dated July 22nd 2012. That post was itself a follow-up to this post , published three days prior. The two posts combined to document an issue, or was at the time a potential…
(originally published elsewhere) Cleveland committed their future to Kyrie Irving. They picked him first overall, gave him all the reins, and gave him all the plaudits. And yet now there are reports that they do not want to give him a maximum contract extension . Whether or not…